Multi Touchscreen Setup:Windows 10/11 - 3 minute tutorial

[@nancyahsmuhs2303]

Bless you! I have been trying to get 2 touch screen monitors to work with one PC off and on for nearly 2 years. Finally YOU had the answer! Thank you so very much!

[@rbarlow]

Glad I could help!

[@GibsonCRG]

Inspired by your own setup I got the touch screens a while back...and had to wrassle this configuration 'gator myself, but I promise you're saving a bunch of future enthusiasts a lot of trial and tribulations 🙂 Thanks for this concise guide!

[@pauld.9856]

Every time I have to reset the touch function of my screens and have to look for it, I think this time I'll remember it. But every time I have to resort to such useful tutorials. 😄

[@rbarlow]

You may be starting your computer without all your monitors attached and powered. In that case Windows will say to itself what happened the monitors are not all there and re-initialze your monitors. If it sees them all on startup it should stay set from session to session.

[@pauld.9856]

@@rbarlow That's true, I always have the main screen on, 2 touchscreens not always. But I think it has been saved a few times. Yesterday I did the 24/2 update and they were both off. I'll definitely keep an eye on it. Thx for reply.

[@bleonardyou]

Russ: Many of your videos have been a godsend to this neophyte flight simmer. This one is especially timely since I’m getting ready to get my first separate touchscreen monitor. I’ve been using Air Manager on my touchscreen laptop. One thing that I’ve never seen addressed in the physical hookup of multiple monitors. I’d appreciate a video on physically attaching everything, including types of ports and the use of the Pluggable (another great video) versus a USB hub. That would relieve a lot of my anxiety going forward. Thanks for the knowledge you spread.

[@rbarlow]

I recently did a video on setting up multiple touchscreen monitors. I think if you take a look at that you will have what you need to set up a working system. You will just need a video connection to the computer and the separate USB connection to carry the touch signals. It’s not that complicated, but the video addresses the part that trips most people are if you have more questions feel free to ask.

[@jefftivo13]

So simple and direct. Exactly what was needed

[@blackjack6259]

Short and simple tutorial Russ. Perfect! Keep up the great work! I also enjoyed seeing you and hearing your honest feedback in the YawVR video.

[@OmuraXD]

just connected my nice mini touchscreen for a custom HUD, wondered why it didn't work! This saved a lot of troubleshooting, thank you :)

[@stevexplane11johnson87]

Good little tutorial Russ. I’ve learned a lot watching your videos Thanks

[@KirkRoyster]

Finally, your video showed me how to get to the calibrate option for touch. Thanks so much.

[@rbarlow]

Glad it helped

[@Infidel66]

Thanks, I had no idea that it was so simple. I am now enjoying my two 15,6" touchscreens ;-)

[@Skinny-me]

Thank You Russ for all your great & valuable videos helping us getting the most out of controlling and immersion improving our flight sim experience! David.

[@norajean2754]

Thank you so much! That was quick, painless, understandable & effective.

[@ivorevans1795]

Many thanks Russ. Might be that my touch screens are too old (ebay purchases) but when I go through that process it hasn't worked. They do work as touch screens if I set them to Primary so the touch is working. I will try again though. Appreciate how informative your explanations are!

[@thiagogita]

Russ, you are my hero :=) Quick and direct to the point. Thank you very much.

[@flightsimdeskuk]

You have a gift for teaching. Well done

[@rodpierson4444]

Precise and to the point … thank you Russ

[@DavidStills-p3u]

Thanks for your channel, wondered if you have any current recs on 15.6 touchscreens?

[@UrbanAnywhere]

Wow, sweet and straight to the point and IT WORKS!!! Thanks so much.

[@Burxat]

Thanks! Super useful, straight to the point and clear explanation!

[@markjones5815]

This thing had me totally stumped !! Your video ended six hours of hell for me! Thank you, thank you thank you!

[@ragidyymann5109]

Love your channel

[@FashionablyUnemployed]

Thank you so much! This was extremely helpful and straight forward!

[@shadetreehomesim]

One quick note on the “Tablet PC Settings”…it’s not always there. I had a 3 TV (55 inch) setup running two 15.6 inch touchscreens via USB to HDMI. Windows would randomly “lose” the tablet PC setup shortcut…so I had to dig to find the actual shortcut (that you can cut and paste) to put it in yourself. I can’t tell you how frustrating that was

[@liveevents5922]

You are brilliant! Thank you!

[@garyrasso6149]

Great tutorial. Hope to see you at Osh ‘23.

[@slownewsday1485]

Hi Russ. Great video as always. I was wondering, as I was reviewing some of your earlier videos of you testing your five screen sim setup with the modest computer you had at the time you were testing. Were you able to get your sim to operate nicely using just one computer or are you still using two? And if you were to update your modest pc you had at the time of your testing and were to upgrade your computer to a modest pc of 2023 standards like a Intel 13xxx cpu and a gpu 4000 series, would they be advanced enough to get you by on a one pc flight sim system? Or would you still be using two computers? Have things changed? And the question applies to either X-Plane 12 or MS Flight Sim 2020 flight sim software. Thanks. Take care.

[@benh2134]

Hi Russ. I have enjoyed viewing your videos and find them full of great info. I have been out of aviation for over a decade now and am moving back that direction hopefully as a career. I plan on using a sim to help get back into the saddle, particularly with IFR flying. I plan to use 1 main monitor and 2 - 15.6 touchscreens. My question for you is which flight sim would yiu recommend for my purpose - msfs or Xplane? Thanx again. Ben

[@rj2para]

❤ Thank you having just that issue

[@lassinakouyate7212]

Hi Dear ! Thank you for your awesome videos ! I would like to know how can i get some GA panels which will fit with 2 touchscreen monitors having right and left side panels views of aircraft panels. All the pay version of Air manager are made for only one screen (left side). I would like must realistic with right side views also. Will you please help ?

[@chrischaffee1316]

Russ, thanks for another well explained and detailed video. I'm currently building a flight sim for C172, using right and left dash panels created by those great guys at Altimeter Motives running Air Manager 4 on a 24" HD monitor for the left side, and on the right side, panel mounted GNS 530 on top of comms, AP and transponders by Propwash Simulations, all displayed on 3 - 55" 4k monitors driven by a RTX 4090. Realism is everything...my question to you, good sir, is how did you make the shade - hood on top of your panel? Or could you make a recommendation on materials to use? Many thanks again, Russ!!

[@Jack-he5zp]

Great video. Much appreciated. 😀👍

[@johnpanik7511]

Hey Russ, thanks for the info. Question… what size monitors are in this video. You seem to get a lot on them.

[@rbarlow]

15.6”

[@shryuken2105]

I was so excited to possibly have found an answer to this issue, but unfortunately i don't get anything when I type "calibrate". 😢 2:12

[@muhammadHAIKALismail]

This used to work for me. Now, i get the occasional bug where my PC seemingly 'forgets' my settings. The PC was not put to sleep/hibernate and is active throughout. Tapping on screen 2 will suddenly give me responses on screen 1 instead. Even as i try to fix it in the calibration screen, tapping on screen 2 only gives me touch responses on screen 1. The only fix I have at the moment is to restart the whole PC, knowing at the back of my head that it is going to happen again within the next hour. This is really not an ideal fix for me as this is a work computer setup that requires me to stay live with both my touchscreens working. Any idea what I can do to rectify this?

[@zoltanpuskas876]

Thank you !

[@SerhiiDrozdov]

Thank you. It was a question in my head!!! Now it’s clear)

[@kolian_mc]

Easy and brilliant explanation)))

[@Thawadioo]

thank you ❤

[@97zx9rninja]

What touch screens do you use/recommend.?

[@rvchef3]

Russ, just about to build and setup a home cockpit for GA and 737's. Which size of touchscreens would you recommend? 2 - 15.6" or a 27? Or other size? TIA

[@rbarlow]

Larger is better if you can keep your yoke in a good position

[@rvchef3]

Appreciated sir

[@MeteorMarv]

Great video! But my system resets the calibration after every reboot. Did you ever had such a problem?

[@rbarlow]

I suspect your second monitor may be set as the main monitor is not being sensed when things boot up so your computer makes the one it senses the main monitor screwing up multi monitor. Try swapping the main monitor designation in display settings. Also be sure to leave your monitors attached between sessions and have then powered at boot up.

[@ADHDan_]

Thank you sir!

[@whtfsh765]

Is a touch screen grid something you can buy or does this come with some monitors? I never knew this was possible. Thanks.

[@rbarlow]

It is also called a digitizer and it is one of several methods to track finger touches on a screen. Your smart phone has one mounted on the display too. Older versions used infrared beams, that your finger interrupted, and both X and Y directions to determine where the finger was touching the screen. you can buy these frames and mount them on any monitor. Newer versions use capacitive touch where there is a series of very fine electrical conductors in a glass screen as senses the presence of the finger. Many of these support multiple fingers at the same time called multitouch.

[@KPickford-wh7tl]

How are you setting up 5 monitors on a pc with only 4 video ports? I have been wanting to do this but can't figure out how to do that and be able to pop out and drag the avionics into air manager on the two touch screens.

[@rbarlow]

Check out this idea. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIvJq2Wnnth9apI As for the pop outs are you using XP12 or MSFS? Either way it is easy.

[@KPickford-wh7tl]

Perfect Thank you so much. Currently running msfs on 3 55in with i9 12700k and a rtx 3080ti. So I think it should be able to handle it fairly decently.

[@jpr7365]

Hi Russ, in MSFS I cannot get the GNS 430 and 530 to pop out. I have the standard version and it's in the Pilaetus and Cap 10 planes. I have the avionics power on but the magnifying pop out icon doesn't show when I hover over with the mouse. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong or if you know that the standard edition MSFS don't let you pop out the GNS?

[@Djeez2]

You have to press and hold the Right Alt key (to the right of the spacebar), often labeled AltGr on your keyboard. It should work also in the standard edition.

[@jpr7365]

@@Djeez2 Yes I do that but it still doesn't work. The G1000 pops out fine though.

[@davidopperman7414]

I cannot get both to work. Search only brings up Calibrate display color, not Calibrate the screen for touch input. Help! (Win 11)

[@davidopperman7414]

Got it figured out.

[@rbarlow]

Windows is not seeing your monitor as a touch monitor. I suspect your monitor’s usb gor touch is not connecting. You cannot use the use for the video signal at the same time. Use hdmi for video and connect usb for touch. You may also need power too as the usb cannot power the monitor when using usb for touch.

[@Tatanka-k8w]

I am running 3 55" screens plus two 15" screens for popouts with Air Manager on MSFS. I lose 15 FPS when I popout the two G1000 screens. The two 15" screens are connected to the computer by a USB to HDMI adapter. I am using a 4090 graphics card and an I9-14900 CPU. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem?

[@Im_TheSaint]

Honest to god, an amazing video. This couldn't have been a better and more consise explanation of the issue. Do you have engineering background :D

[@rbarlow]

Yes I have a BS Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from The Ohio State University … I told my kids don’t argue , I’m a Rocket Scientist😀

[@alexandrsh2428]

Thank you a lot, you saved my day!

[@dimitriaerden1024]

Can’t thank you enough. You solved a nagging problem.

[@DalXe.]

is there a way to save the setting after a pc restart?

[@rbarlow]

As long as you leave the monitors all connected between sessions it will remember the setup

[@Hugocraft]

Next quick tip video is how to setup prebuilt knobster versus diy Knobster then demo it.

[@jonathanweston2448]

Sadly, as many times as I have tried…. I just cannot get the two Hannspree Ht161HNB screens to work as two seperate touch screens at all in windows 11. Thanks for your efforts though.

[@rbarlow]

They should unless they have a defect. Will they each work separately as touch screens? Will one work as a touchscreen when both are connected? Do they both show up as USB devices in Device Manager? What happens when you run the calibration as shown in the video?

[@onecharliemike6022]

Nice

[@VJDARKO]

It didn't work for me. There is no option to calibrate screens.

[@alanhezekiah7555]

@alanhezekiah7555 • 2 min ago Does Air Manager create a separate panel for each touch screen, or a single panel, parts of which is simply dragged over to the second screen? Thanks, Alan

[@augustofabriziofigueroapar5504]

Thanks!

[@poppadragon2006]

Thank you!