1.1 and Multiple Monitors

[RichMac]

Does anyone here know if KSP 1.1 will be multi-monitor friendly?

It would be really nice 

[numerobis]

Not likely. Unity is not multi-monitor friendly at all yet.

[Choctofliatrio2.0]

I can't even get KSP to fill the whole screen, so I doubt it XD

[AlextheBodacious]

17 minutes ago, Choctofliatrio2.0 said:

I can't even get KSP to fill the whole screen

Have you been in the settings page, ever, at all?

[Choctofliatrio2.0]

1 hour ago, AlextheBodacious said:

Have you been in the settings page, ever, at all?

Yeah, but you see, I'm an idiot, so I couldn't figure it out

[AlextheBodacious]

1 hour ago, Choctofliatrio2.0 said:

Yeah, but you see, I'm an idiot, so I couldn't figure it out

The ends justify the means, so as long as it ends up good...

[1greywind]

Well, I simple use 21x9 display. It is almost as good as two standard 16x9 monitors - you have panoramic view and lots of space for interface (KER, alarm clock, transfer calculator, etc).

[hellblazer]

14 minutes ago, 1greywind said:

Well, I simple use 21x9 display. It is almost as good as two standard 16x9 monitors - you have panoramic view and lots of space for interface (KER, alarm clock, transfer calculator, etc).

Ultrawide (21:9) is great but only if you get the 3440 x 1440 monitor. Text is blurry if you buy the 1080 one. I recently bought the Samsung Curved Monitor SE790C 34". Expensive but worth every penny. (told the gf it was for video editing but really it was for KSP)

[1greywind]

1 minute ago, hellblazer said:

Ultrawide (21:9) is great but only if you get the 3440 x 1440 monitor. Text is blurry if you buy the 1080 one. I recently bought the Samsung Curved Monitor SE790C 34". Expensive but worth every penny. (told the gf it was for video editing but really it was for KSP)

I have 29" 21x9 Dell monitor on workstation and 34" Samsung curved 21x9 on my home PC - both are sharp and yes -  worth every penny  Best price/quality in comparation with traditional large 16x9. And yes, main reason was to play KSP, but watching movies is also great

[RichMac]

39 minutes ago, 1greywind said:

Well, I simple use 21x9 display. It is almost as good as two standard 16x9 monitors - you have panoramic view and lots of space for interface (KER, alarm clock, transfer calculator, etc).

I have an LG 29" 21x9 monitor. I'm just greedy and would love to have more real estate to drop my displays. I would think that it would get kind of claustrophobic if I didn't have the ultra-wide display.

[Bubbadevlin]

Multi monitor stuff could be useful, however i have not seen anything about it come up, so it is most likely a no.

I would however love to see KSP have a stretch to screen option, in windowed mode. I personally hate full screen mode in anything, and I just cant find the right aspect ratio in windowed for my monitor   

[BloodDusk]

4 hours ago, hellblazer said:

Ultrawide (21:9) is great but only if you get the 3440 x 1440 monitor. Text is blurry if you buy the 1080 one. I recently bought the Samsung Curved Monitor SE790C 34". Expensive but worth every penny. (told the gf it was for video editing but really it was for KSP)

Adjust the UI size in settings.cfg.

[NoMrBond]

16 hours ago, numerobis said:

Not likely. Unity is not multi-monitor friendly at all yet.

Unity 5.3 added multi-monitor support

1.1 is based on 5.2.4 though so not initially, but if Squad bumps Unity versions it's a possibility later

Edited February 14, 2016 by NoMrBond

[BloodDusk]

7 minutes ago, NoMrBond said:

Unity 5.3 added multi-monitor support

1.1 is based on 5.2.4 though so not initially, but if Squad bumps Unity versions it's a possibility later

Having multi monitor support in your game engine doesn't magically give your game multi monitor support.

[NoMrBond]

Just now, BloodDusk said:

Having multi monitor support in your game engine doesn't magically give your game multi monitor support.

That's why I said it's a possibility, not a certainty?

[Wallygator]

Multi-monitor is not the issue.  It's having the ability to pop out various windows and have them float rather than be in the same window as the flight.

Give me this.

[frango9000]

meanwhile Stand Alone Map View - Multi monitor KSP [1.0.5][Plugin] does a good job...

[Randox]

As a thought, if you have an AMD card, try setting up an eyefinity display in the AMD Radeon Settings (right click desktop to find it). Eyefinity allows you to set up multiple screens as if they are one larger screen, which bypasses the need for software support. Nvidia may have a similar feature, I don't know.

[cerelac]

On 2/14/2016 at 7:12 AM, frango9000 said:

meanwhile Stand Alone Map View - Multi monitor KSP [1.0.5][Plugin] does a good job...

is this mod compatible to 1.1?

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

On 2/13/2016 at 7:42 PM, Choctofliatrio2.0 said:

I can't even get KSP to fill the whole screen, so I doubt it XD

Here's a tip:

Go here: http://www.whatismyscreenresolution.com/

Open the settings.cfg with a text editor file under KSP_win/

In that file, there are two lines, "SCREEN_RESOLUTION_WIDTH = 1280" and "SCREEN_RESOLUTION_HEIGHT = 1024" (the numbers are for my screen.)  We'll be changing these lines' values.

Put the first number in the above link where the ???? is here: "SCREEN_RESOLUTION_WIDTH = ????" and the second number at the link where the ???? is here: "SCREEN_RESOLUTION_HEIGHT ="

That way you can make KSP work with any screen!

[NWKermin]

I also wish for multi-monitor displays, but in the meantime you can at least run it full-screen on one monitor and leave your second monitor free to do other things - browse the internet.  To make this work, you need to set a launch option of -nopopupwindow and disable full-screen view in the graphics settings.  If you run with full-screen setting, the KSP window disappears when you switch to another task.  Running windowed with - nopopupwindow option, the KSP window continues to run as if full-screen when you switch tasks. It also allows you to set the window size to your max setting without the Windows taskbar constantly popping to the foreground.  This took me a while to figure out, so I thought I'd pass on this tip.

[Raideur Ng]

You cant run KSP on two monitors, you need the second one to have your Biome Map, your engine performance comparison chart, your delta V calculator, (and a regular calculator, for that matter) and the KSP forum up to report bugs and post about how your SSTO flips like a pancake.