vride1 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 I'm a complete newbie here so please bear with me. I just purchased 3 screens in order to run with my FS2004, hopefully left & right view, and center view, with the laptop screen for instruments. I also purchased the VGA splitter that you can see in the picture. I connected everything together, but the 3 screens all show the same picture, and I can't create a new view and drag it to just one screen, like I originally planned. The laptop only says there are two displays, it's own, and one monitor- it treats the 3 as though there was only one (Like I can see the cursor on all 3 screens at the same time, etc) What am I missing here!?! Please help! Laptop specs: Dell Latitude E4310, i3 4GB Intel HD graphics 32-bit the laptop on the right has nothing to do with the setup- just letting you know! Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSkorna Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 I'm a complete newbie here so please bear with me. I just purchased 3 screens in order to run with my FS2004, hopefully left & right view, and center view, with the laptop screen for instruments. I also purchased the VGA splitter that you can see in the picture. I connected everything together, but the 3 screens all show the same picture, and I can't create a new view and drag it to just one screen, like I originally planned. The laptop only says there are two displays, it's own, and one monitor- it treats the 3 as though there was only one (Like I can see the cursor on all 3 screens at the same time, etc) What am I missing here!?! Please help! [ATTACH=CONFIG]176109[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]176110[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]176111[/ATTACH] Laptop specs: Dell Latitude E4310, i3 4GB Intel HD graphics 32-bit the laptop on the right has nothing to do with the setup- just letting you know! Thanks again! You are not going to get what you want with your current hardware. The laptop has only 1 video output and that is what the VGA splitter is doing, splitting that one signal. You'll need a desktop with a video card that has 2 video outputs and a DoubleHead2Go box. http://www.air-source.us/images/sigs/000219_195_jimskorna.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 The issue is probably the splitter. Those are usually meant to take one video signal and display the same image on multiple screens (think multiple TVs in a bar showing the same game). They aren't meant to give you three individual screens. What you need is something like the Matrox TripleHead2Go. http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/digital/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vride1 Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 Is there possibly a cheaper solution? Just a thought- would the splitter work with a dualhead2go, so that the middle screen would show the same screen as the laptop, then the dualhead2go would show on the other two screens? Not sure, as I'd still have to use the splitter because my laptop has only one VGA port... The only reason I ask is that triplehead2go on ebay is $200-$300, whereas a dualhead2go is as cheap as $40. But I still want a 3-screen setup, not nessesarily the laptop screen but certainly the 3 screens as seen in the picture. Thanks for all help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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