Moving the laptop screen over to a larger size monitor

[Brianw59]

Hello,
New subscriber here. I just got the gold pkg. I'm trying to grab the laptop screen view and slide it over to a larger size monitor for better larger viewing, but I can't do it, and I can't find any options to do this. I'm locked onto the laptop. Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Brianw

 

[johnwhelan]

Which laptop model?

Thanks John

 

[Forester1]

Are you plugging the larger monitor into an HDMI port on the laptop?

 

[Brianw59]

Are you plugging the larger monitor into an HDMI port on the laptop?

The larger monitor is plugged into the HDMI port on a Taurus docking station and the dock is plugged into the laptop.

 

[Brianw59]

Which laptop model?

Thanks John

The laptop is a Acer Aspire 5 HD 1080.

 

[Brianw59]

The Acer specs seem to handle the sim albeit a little slow......

 

[Brianw59]

Forester1 and John,
Thanks for responding. I found in the start menu a selection called "show launch window" and clicked on it and the laptop screen jumped over to the larger monitor. I can tell this sim is going to have a very steep learning curve!

 

[johnwhelan]

The laptop is a Acer Aspire 5 HD 1080.

Integrated graphics 3d score around 2,700 https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php normally 10,000 is considered reasonable for Trainz and these days most desktop users run with a score of 15,000 or more. Soset the performance sliders back down. Middleton for laptops https://www.jatws.org/johnw/middleton.7z contains most assets, should run fine. You may find many high detailed layouts a bit too demanding. Use content manager, open, preview to get an idea of how many polys the model has and if it has LOD, avoid the higher poly assets.

Have fun

Cheerio John

 

[afe_uy]

From what I can see, only one 515 has an RTX 2050 (A515-58GM) with 4GB of dedicated memory, the rest use Intel Iris or Intel UHD Graphics. All support 1920x1080 (FHD). The 2050 should be equivalent to a 1650 Ti.
They have 16GB of RAM, some shared with the integrated graphics, and one with 32GB.
They have HDMI 2.1 (up to 4K), so I would connect the monitor directly to the laptop without using the Taurus dock. It should work, frame rate is another matter.

 

[JCitron]

On the launcher, click on Trainz settings.
On the first tab, the General tab, you will see your display game resolution.
Uncheck full-screen.

You can now move the game to your external display.

You may want to scroll through the resolution choices and pick the one for your external display to do this, you'll have to click on Full-screen to scroll the list. This may give you some better performance due to refresh being better than the internal display.

 

[johnwhelan]

From what I can see, only one 515 has an RTX 2050 (A515-58GM) with 4GB of dedicated memory, the rest use Intel Iris or Intel UHD Graphics. All support 1920x1080 (FHD). The 2050 should be equivalent to a 1650 Ti.
They have 16GB of RAM, some shared with the integrated graphics, and one with 32GB.
They have HDMI 2.1 (up to 4K), so I would connect the monitor directly to the laptop without using the Taurus dock. It should work, frame rate is another matter.

Missed that version of the laptop, you could try windows task manager, bottom bar right click, second icon down performance, the GPU should show what it is.

Cheerio John