Is it possible to run PM software on only a 'few' computers?

[Sean Nixon]

Stef

Is that your own personal rig, or an Engravity demo one?

[Suggy]

Thanks, Stef, for your reply.

I am intrigued about your comments about the CDU/RMCDU runing on one computer.
I have two MCDUs from FDS but I always thought that it would not be possible to run on them on the same computer since the interface card is no more than a keyboard. A keypress on one MCDU would automatically become a keypress on the second MCDU.

Are your CDUs completely diffferent in their design to the ones that I own?

Regards,
Darren

[dnoize]

Stef

Is that your own personal rig, or an Engravity demo one?

a bit of both




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[dnoize]

I am intrigued about your comments about the CDU/RMCDU runing on one computer.
I have two MCDUs from FDS but I always thought that it would not be possible to run on them on the same computer since the interface card is no more than a keyboard. A keypress on one MCDU would automatically become a keypress on the second MCDU.

Are your CDUs completely diffferent in their design to the ones that I own?

Yes they are. My CDU's do not act as keyboards. They communicate directly to the PM cdu software. It does not act as a keyboard, and pressing keys will not make characters show up in Word or Notepad.

Also the LCD gets its data through the USB, so no TV-out/VGA is needed on the computer.

The comm port is assigned in the cdu.ini in pm.

My CDU's show up as virtual comm ports in the ports list in the device manager. 2 cdu's will be assigned 2 different comm ports on the computer.

so for example in the cdu.ini i enter "engravity cdu = 2"
and for the cdu.ini of the RCDU i enter "engravity cdu = 4"

and this way i can run both cdu's on one computer without causing them to conflict.

In flightdecksoftware, the cdu's can also be assigned an individual comm port, thus allowing both cdu's to work on one computer. Dont know about sim-avionics.

Stef



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[Suggy]

Thanks, Stef.
Darren

[oal331]

Captains PFD/ND, F/O PFD/ND, Upper eicas, lower eicas and dual cdu's on one pc with a Q6600 processor and 2 GFX cards with 2 outputs eachs driving the 4 TFT's.

We had one instance of PM running in expanded mode (F6), that was driving all pfd/nd's and both eicas screens. swapping of the du's worked flawlessly using the DU switches in expanded mode.

Hello Stef,

please, is it possible to give us your PC's specs in detail? Which motherboard?, ram? VGAs, etc?

regards

Eddie

[dnoize]

I was talking about the engravity demo pc. Not mine.

Q6600
Asus striker mobo
2 gig ram
vga im not sure but i believe 2 times a Gforce 9 series, using all 4 outputs.
Would have to check about the GFX cards to be sure. (im pretty sure they are 9 series and not 8 series)


Stef

[oal331]

Stef, thanks for your information.

It's very nice to have a good Pc, running all these together!!

Regards

Eddie