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Title: Video adapter
Post by: jackpilot on December 30, 2012, 07:22:52 AM
Just curious about this:
http://ca.startech.com/AV/USB-Video-Adapters/USB-VGA-External-Multi-Monitor-Video-Adapter~USB2VGAE2 (http://ca.startech.com/AV/USB-Video-Adapters/USB-VGA-External-Multi-Monitor-Video-Adapter~USB2VGAE2)

Could it help in a full size sim
jack
Title: Re: Video adapter
Post by: Maurice on December 30, 2012, 08:50:27 AM
Yes, if you like to see slide shows  ;D

Maurice
Title: Re: Video adapter
Post by: fsaviator on December 30, 2012, 09:45:46 AM
Jack, I have one similar...  no use at all in the cockpit.  It can't really do much of anything.
Title: Re: Video adapter
Post by: Joe Lavery on December 30, 2012, 10:26:46 AM
I think the 16MB of RAM on board gives us a clue, particularly when most of us are running video cards with 2 or 3 Gigabytes.  ;)
Title: Re: Video adapter
Post by: stinger on December 30, 2012, 10:41:52 AM
i brought one from that well known auction site just before xmas haven't tried it yet but i'm hoping i can use it to connect the vga side to my fds cdu? as its still sealed in the box and i could return it does anyone think it would be okay for this application? after all its only to display writing not hard graphic applications? any advice appreciated before i open the box! :D i was going to buy a cheap graphics card and install that but didn't want to open my pc up as i'm not that good with computers :huh: thanks norman.
Title: Re: Video adapter
Post by: Sam Llorca on December 30, 2012, 11:09:24 AM
I have a couple of them, not good at all for cockpit use!
Title: Re: Video adapter
Post by: nicd on December 30, 2012, 01:27:39 PM
Ah yes.. but have you tried the USB 3 variety? The one from Targus gives you USB3 speed, dual outputs (HDMI, DVI or VGA) and it intelligently uses your GPU to do it's rendering.

Haven't tried it in full multi-window use yet, but across 3 (2 outs from the adaptor and 1 from PC) it worked just fine.
Title: Re: Video adapter
Post by: iwik on December 30, 2012, 02:41:53 PM
Review here

http://www.everythingusb.com/targus-usb-3.0-dual-video-adapter-21477.html (http://www.everythingusb.com/targus-usb-3.0-dual-video-adapter-21477.html)
Les
Title: Re: Video adapter
Post by: rprather on December 30, 2012, 03:43:26 PM
I picked up two of these about a year ago and remember being very unsatisfied. I don't remember exactly what the problem was, but I remember the units being essentially useless. I believe they were USB 2.0.

I went with Dual Head 2 Go and was very pleased.