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Waxer · 09-24-2009, 01:50 AM

I'm in the live testing phase of my project (in-between my step-daughter's wedding LOL).

I've had excellent results with the MSI/Vista touchscreen system, with 3 MIMO touchscreens connected. It boots every time, and calibrates every time, and the four instances of TB that I have running in Client mode work flawlessly with each other, and the Server gets 100% of the keypresses. W00T!

I've had off-and-on success with the Compaq Presario/XP laptop with 2 MIMO touchscreens connected. The MIMOs only randomly enable. Lots of plugging and replugging, and half the time I can only get one (not both) to calibrate. I can't figure out why. Sometimes, when I boot, only 1 MIMO will power on. Other times, they both power on, but only one will calibrate. The last time I flew, they all worked fine; go figure.

That flight was a dream, though. Looking out the HUD/3D view on my 32", at the front panel on the 18", and the auxiliary panels either side, the "E" panel (the one between the knees in Flacon) below, and panels B and G on either side of the chair. Six touchscreens working and animating.

I'm still getting sub-standard frame rates with Falcon Guages. I don't know why; I'm going to experiment with reassigning processor affinities (it's a quad-core) and see if that makes any difference, although I suspect it's a graphics card/USB pipeline issue, so I'm also going to give F4Glass a whirl, since it's CPU driven and I have 4 cores; that might be the solution.

I tell you --- sitting in a "glass cockpit" is awesome; hope I can work the rest of the bugs out.

Cheers,
Waxer

09-24-2009, 01:50 AM	#8 (permalink)
Waxer Addict Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Northern California Posts: 17	Another brief (this time :-) ) progress report I'm in the live testing phase of my project (in-between my step-daughter's wedding LOL). I've had excellent results with the MSI/Vista touchscreen system, with 3 MIMO touchscreens connected. It boots every time, and calibrates every time, and the four instances of TB that I have running in Client mode work flawlessly with each other, and the Server gets 100% of the keypresses. W00T! I've had off-and-on success with the Compaq Presario/XP laptop with 2 MIMO touchscreens connected. The MIMOs only randomly enable. Lots of plugging and replugging, and half the time I can only get one (not both) to calibrate. I can't figure out why. Sometimes, when I boot, only 1 MIMO will power on. Other times, they both power on, but only one will calibrate. The last time I flew, they all worked fine; go figure. That flight was a dream, though. Looking out the HUD/3D view on my 32", at the front panel on the 18", and the auxiliary panels either side, the "E" panel (the one between the knees in Flacon) below, and panels B and G on either side of the chair. Six touchscreens working and animating. I'm still getting sub-standard frame rates with Falcon Guages. I don't know why; I'm going to experiment with reassigning processor affinities (it's a quad-core) and see if that makes any difference, although I suspect it's a graphics card/USB pipeline issue, so I'm also going to give F4Glass a whirl, since it's CPU driven and I have 4 cores; that might be the solution. I tell you --- sitting in a "glass cockpit" is awesome; hope I can work the rest of the bugs out. Cheers, Waxer