What to do with 2 screens?

[Baenki]

So since my old screen is pretty much but not yet completely broken I am going to order a new 24'' Full HD screen and want to use the old 17'' 1440*900 as a secondary.

So I want to ask the community. Do you use a second screen and what for (in KSP)?

I know there has been a mod to show the map view on a second screen and another mod that showed flight data. I forgot the names and don't know if they are still supported.

Help?

[magnemoe]

Only real use is to read this forum during long burns as far as I know.

[SkyRender]

I generally keep whatever info I might need open on my second monitor. And X-Chat, but that's just because I happen to be one of those old-school sorts who mostly chats with his friends over IRC.

[leopardenthusiast]

My central screen, which is 1920x1080, displays KSP in fullscreen. My right screen, which is 1680x1050, displays music controls, any chats I have open, and a Firefox window with a lot of screenshots and threads that I haven't bothered to close.

[electronicfox]

My primary screen has KSP (Or on rare occasions, the work I should be doing instead of KSP), the secondary screen has reference material, research, music controls and chats.

[Baenki]

Ok, but are there any information or planning mods optimised for use on a second screen?

I would like to have something like a command center with additional info, real time data or maps. Or external planning program.

Edited January 10, 2015 by Baenki

[PTNLemay]

I use a 40-inch TV as my monitor. It feels plenty roomy. The only down-side is the idiotic visual pre-sets and filters which you can't really turn off (Sony's video engineers were smoking some good stuff when they designed the default settings for this thing).

The only way I would like a multi-monitor setup is under the following conditions

1) Bring back the more square aspect ratios like 3:4, ultra-letter box is not fun. Even 16:10 is hard to find, these days it's all 16:9 or wider.

2) Make the screens cheaper. You can find a decent TN screen here and there, but it's still 230$ x3, so you end up paying near 700$... a LOT more if you want G-sync, 120FPS or IPS displays. And yeah, I said x3 and not just 2 because most games play terribly with just 2 screens, so you need at least 3 (which costs too much, so I stick to 1 screen).

3) Shrink the bezels, otherwise it just feels like you took a big screen and stuck lines of black tape onto it.

I remember having more issues, but I can't recall them at the moment. But yeah, fix those and I'd be all over multi-monitor gaming. It feels easier to just wait for Occulus Rift to arrive and have near-360-degree gameplay.

[Slam_Jones]

When I was running dual-monitors, I would usually just have a game running in the bigger one (borderless windowed if available) and put Firefox and iTunes on the other monitor.

[Starhawk]

A mod that showed flight data or a map view on a second screen would be wonderful!

I took a quick look around but didn't find any like that.

[jmbailey2000]

Played around with this for a while in .2x.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/24594-0-25-%282014-10-12%29-Telemachus-%E2%80%93-Telemetry-and-Flight-Control-in-the-Web-Browser?p=302775&viewfull=1#post302775

[Starhawk]

Played around with this for a while in .2x.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/24594-0-25-%282014-10-12%29-Telemachus-%E2%80%93-Telemetry-and-Flight-Control-in-the-Web-Browser?p=302775&viewfull=1#post302775

Looks interesting. What did you think of it?

[cantab]

Yeah, Telemachus is pretty neat. One or two of the streamers use it to let viewers see the telemetry.

[Whirligig Girl]

I use it for watching videos most of the time, but whenever I stream I use it to keep an eye on the twitch chat.

[jmbailey2000]

It was okay. Nothing fancy and if I remember correctly, became boring after a while. But, it did what it said it did and worked.

[katateochi]

I always now play in a full size window so it works better with dual screens. KSP in one, browser with forum, transfer calc tools and crap in other.

Just to see if my computer could hack it I once tried running two copies of KSP at the same time (and used Jebretary to sync craft between them), so I was able to launch a craft on one screen and then while launching it carry on editing it on the other screen. That was mostly just confusing and caused my computer pain, but I do wish KSP would support dual screen setups. Something like being able to be in flight mode on one screen and have map mode plus any mod window clutter on the second screen. In the editors dual screen would be nice too, either have different craft views (ie side on, front on, top down) or a whole screen of space for the part lists.

[Engineer of Stuff]

There is Json Kerman and KInstruments.

[Baenki]

Wow. Some interestimg stuff suggested here. I'm going to try some of it.

[tg626]

Json looks interesting, but it's .25

I use it to run chrome usually, either checking forums, doing calculations, getting data (DeltaV chart for example), etc.

[Freshmeat]

I was really happy with Telemachus as well, especially the map function. But as others noted, it is not updated. Otherwise, I do not use it for much, esp. since KSP minimize on loosing focus.

[Baenki]

Some time ago i read that someone was trying to synchronize open source NASA mission control software with KSP.

I can not find the thread anymore.

Does someone know about that experiment and how it worked out?

If it worked it seems to be awesome for second screen use.