Thrustmaster MDS with 8'' screems doable??? with a msi laptop attached to a 55''tv
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I have an msi laptop attached to a 55inch vizio tv. I recently bought 2 mfd panels from thrustmaster, and I was thinking of putting down $300 to buy 2 8inch screens to go with them. I just wanted to make sure that would work with my setup, since I already have my laptop attached to a 55inch tv. Would this work so that I can have my radars right at my finger tips?
Also, anyway to add the DED?
Thanks.
Check my set up Scotters,
https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?26628-YAME64-suite&p=416428&viewfull=1#post416428
Pikachu
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Pikachu, what kind of touchscreen monitor are you using? And what is the purpose of that monitor on the left side, just for maps?
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To be clear you do not need a touch screen to operate your TM mfd`s or display exported instruments and other displays such as RWR. Naturally a touch screen is essential for Helios.
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Small tiny question.
I believe u have on that laptop a second port or third to connect those two ore one monitor?
Might consider usb monitor solution?sent from my mi5 using Tapatalk
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Stevie,
Where can I purchase the your basic set up?
PikaIf you’re on ViperPits, “Pegasus” sells replica cockpit parts…very accurate replicas - he’s located in Germany; be prepared to make a sizable investment…
http://www.viperpits.org/smf/index.php/board,94.0.html
What you see in my picture is a combination of his structure/electronics and real F-16 parts - the larger instruments are real aircraft parts which I will either modify or integrate directly. The MFD bezels are Thrustmaster with 7" LCDs from Chinatobby (my Ebay link) - I drive those using USB 3.0 to VGA adapters.
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Anyone else have any ideas on a good 24 inch touchscreen monitor that will work attached to my laptop which is already attached to the 55 ich screen t.v.? Windows 10.
Stevie, I have no idea what those lcd panels are that you linked too. Anything like that makes me nervous. I will just go for now with the two mfds on my desk until I get a new 24 inch touch screen ion a few months or maybe sooner. Between buying thrustmaster pedals, then attaching my hotas to my chair, then just buying two mfds, and now just buying on ebay a usb cougar hotas that I always wanted, I have been going a bit nuts. The last thing will be the touch screen, and then that’s it!
LCD panels from Chinatobby are REAL easy to use…if you’re building a setup you can interface them using USB to VGA adapters (I use USB 3.0 ones from StarTech). If you want to do separate, individual displays these are THE ticket for it.
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AV8R’s glass cockpit using a 55" curved 4K SUHD HDTV and 7" LCDs behind Cougar MFDs.
Doable is dependent upon the hardware. For what I have, I wouldn’t recommend running this display configuration less than a 3.4 Ghz or better i7 CPU and 4GB NVIDIA 970 or better GPU. The problem with laptops are they generally are not good gaming platforms nor are upgradable or have a high end GPU
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Hi Ice and other members:
I need some help. About a month ago I suffered the dreaded blue screen of death. Tried everything to get my system to boot again with no joy. I got frustrated and decided on a re-build with a new SSD and HHD along with an upgrade to Win 10 Pro from 8.1. I didn’t backup before the crash, so I had to reload all my apps and peripherals from scratch. From the start I had issues getting BMS 4.33.1 and incrementals 2 and 3 to launch (CTD at every turn). Cloud9, Ironman and, other members came back with suggestions to get me back in the pit. However, before my rebuild fix, BMS was working fine with Helios extractions using Ice’s and Gadroc’s profiles as well as BMS’ embedded MFD, RWR and, DED extractions. My renewed Helios profiles are operational but, now I can’t get the BMS Cockpit Display Extraction to work. Do you guys have any advice on a fix. By the way: I’ve downloaded Yame64 and plan to give it a shot, but would like to solve the BMS extraction problem before I proceed.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Mike.
Sys Specs: Win 10 Pro [64], MSI Game Pro MOBO, i7 CPU, 32GB Memory, 2 (x) ASUS Nvidia 970 GPU’s w/ SLI bridge, WD 500Gb SSD, WD 2Tb SATA HHD, Toshiba 2Tb SATA HHD, Samsung 23" Curved Mon, ASUS 19" Touchscreen Mon, MIMO USB 7" Touchsreen Mon, Samsung Galaxy Tab A Android, TM Cougar TQS w/ TUSBA, TM Warthog SSC, TM Rudder, TM MFD’s, Track IRv5, Gametrix Jetseat, Corsair Head Phones.
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AV8R’s glass cockpit using a 55" curved 4K SUHD HDTV and 7" LCDs behind Cougar MFDs.
Doable is dependent upon the hardware. For what I have, I wouldn’t recommend running this display configuration less than a 3.4 Ghz or better i7 CPU and 4GB NVIDIA 970 or better GPU. The problem with laptops are they generally are not good gaming platforms nor are upgradable or have a high end GPU
Where did you get that sweet sweet ICP?
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Hi AV8R:
I like your setup. Particularly your ICP. Quick question. Where can I get one. It would be great addon to my modest pit presented below.Sys Specs: Win 10 Pro [64], MSI Game Pro MOBO, i7 CPU, 32GB Memory, 2 (x) ASUS Nvidia 970 GPU’s w/ SLI bridge, WD 500Gb SSD, WD 2Tb SATA HHD, Toshiba 2Tb SATA HHD, Samsung 23" Curved Mon, ASUS 19" Touchscreen Mon, MIMO USB 7" Touchsreen Mon, TM Cougar TQS w/ TUSBA, TM Warthog SSC, TM Rudder, TM MFD’s, Track IRv5, Air Force Game Seat, Gametrix Jetseat, Corsair Head Phones.
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I think the ICP is from Viperpits member…
mikemadmax: Sorry to hear about your troubles. I take it you can now install BMS 4.33.3 properly? Remember: You don’t have to install U1, then U2, then U3. You can download all 3 files, update your installer with U2 and U3, and install the whole thing once, straight to U3. If you are having CTDs just installing BMS, I would say you still have a problem with your system somewhere and you would be best served to find that issue first and resolve it before going further.
As for cockpit display extraction, you don’t need that now. Just use YAME and it’ll do everything for you. If you use Weepop’s profile, he even has a YAME loadout you can use which makes setup easier. Good luck!!
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AV8R: That’s a sweet setup!! Can you take pics of the sim in action?? Really interested in the in-cockpit view.
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i am using a 3D printed ICP by a member both here and ViperPits.org by the name REDNECK. Actually I built my own out of real Viper parts but use Rednecks because it’s smaller on my desktop. (Redneck on left, AV8R on right)
Cockpit is almost 1:1 in size comparison to TM Cougar MFDs
Even that “other” sim looks great
And still works fine for movies off NetFlix
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Just bumping my pic request… and how far are you from that screen??
@-Ice:AV8R: That’s a sweet setup!! Can you take pics of the sim in action?? Really interested in the in-cockpit view.
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ICE,
The picture of the mfd and icp side by side comparison is an in game shot. If youre thinking a selfie kind of pic, cant help you there. Heres another with me flying DCS WW2 Bf109 with the Whog with KG13 stick grip. The controllers are about 6" from the hdtv display screen, and I sit arms length from the screen. Tbe 55" 4K Samsung SUHD HDTV resolution is so good and HD LED structure so tight, i dont see the individual LED structures at arms length. High res monitors and SUHD HDTVs are getting close in usability at close range. The advantage of 4k HDTVs are their size over monitors dollar for dollar. Curved displays are amazing in their claority. For aging eyes, 55" helps alot in reading mfds and gauges, and making visual talleys
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The picture of the mfd and icp side by side comparison is an in game shot.
Sorry, not the MFD and ICP, but the whole setup (MFD, ICP and monitor) displaying your default BMS 3D pit view… Thanks!!
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Thanks for getting back to me Ice.
In a brief update, I’m up and running with U1 installed along with U2 & U3 added on. Cloud9’s advice that I include the dx9display file in my Users/config file made it happen. C9 also suggested that I add “-Mono -window”
to the end of my BMS Launcher.exe path. However, when I launch BMS, an “X-log” dump is windowed right behind the TOMO scrren. If I remove the Mono -window extension from the path, I’m back to a CTD situation. I have to agree that maybe its a system problem. After reviewing a few Benchmark Sims threads looking for a fix, I’m beginning to think it has something to do with my Displaylink software/drivers that shipped with my Samsung and Mimo USB touchscreen monitors. I’m still searching for a work around. I’ll let you know how it goes.By the way, thanks for the heads up on YAME - rather than busting my butt trying to get my MFD’s rendered using BMS’ embedded Cockpit Display Extraction tool. I’ve also got Weepop’s profile, so I’ll start tinkering with YAME in the next few days. I’ll give a shout out when its soup. I’m also going to look into getting AV8R’s ICP. Its a really cool piece of hardware.
Again, thanks for all your help.
Mike
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i am using a 3D printed ICP by a member both here and ViperPits.org by the name REDNECK. Actually I built my own out of real Viper parts but use Rednecks because it’s smaller on my desktop. (Redneck on left, AV8R on right)
Absolutely amazing. I like yours better to be honest. Do the guys often share 3D printer plans over at Viperpits.org?
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i am using a 3D printed ICP by a member both here and ViperPits.org by the name REDNECK. Actually I built my own out of real Viper parts but use Rednecks because it’s smaller on my desktop. (Redneck on left, AV8R on right)
Cockpit is almost 1:1 in size comparison to TM Cougar MFDs
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y133/AV8R_/1stVFW/E4B5F790-449D-42D9-B05B-A47493753981_zpsxqjeygq4.jpgEven that “other” sim looks great
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y133/AV8R_/1stVFW/D6D5C145-D4A0-4DC7-A407-085F463F7767_zps9qhdlxnm.jpgAnd still works fine for movies off NetFlix
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y133/AV8R_/1stVFW/F1B2EB18-4C66-4BF9-97F2-FD74CC23E66D_zpssvohsawi.jpgLooks good, but IMO the MFD LCDs are too small. It’d drive me mad seeing the gap. I think I’ll look for 8" LCDs.
8" 4:3 is 6.4"(16cm)x4.8"(12cm), which is too big (MFD inside dimension is 10.8x10.8cm), but I’d rather that than a gap. 8" will likely be too big to slot behind using the standard supports, but I’m sure I could modify the plastic supports.
The external dimensions of the MFDs are 14cmx14cm, meaning there’s be a small 1.9cm overhang of the screen. Have the overhang out towards the middle between the two MFDs and you’ve got a nice vertical space for VVI and AOA Shame it would cost £150 to get them
Actually, at £36, these look good?!
- 8"
- 1024 x 768 4:3
- HDMI