Maximum amount of monitors that can be connected simultaneously?

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Thanks for the detailed response.

Sometimes there does not have to be a specific use case, sometimes it might just be "Can it be done?". Also, who said the hardware is not already available ? Obviously though, asking on the manufacturers forum as a first step obviously is easier than setting it up just to see if it works. If you would have said "not possible", then it would be a waste of time to do the setup in the first place.

Originally Posted by AlbanRampon

I will obviously be less inclined to spend my personal free time on this as I focus my time on helping people.

Sorry, since this appears to be the official DisplayLink forum and you seem to have an official DisplayLink employee account, it makes one assume you do this during your work time, not during your free time.

Anyway, isn't this topic interesting enough to be discussed?

It's also not the first time people have brought up this topic here. There were a few threads on this in the past as well (none of them went into a lot of length though).

Besides, as already mentioned, the DisplayLink knowledge base does not seem to have an article on it.

Originally Posted by AlbanRampon

We showed 3x Dell D6000 and 3x Targus docks to drive 6x4Kp60 [...] That's more than everyone I've met at CES needed today.

"Today" means 2017? In 2018 apparently it already was four docks and eight displays: https://youtu.be/XrUydBu35-s

Originally Posted by AlbanRampon

Hello,
We still specify 6. DisplayLink never guaranteed 14. Plugable demonstrated it, probably because most think that more than 4 displays are impossible, they didn't specify it. If it can do 14, then it can do 6 comfortably was probably their reasoning.

But then why did they write:

Originally Posted by https://plugable.com/2014/03/10/attaching-14-monitors-on-windows-8-1-with-usb-2-0/

[...] DisplayLink technology and the driver limit until now has been 6 USB attached monitors. Now, with the DisplayLink 7.5 M1 driver (and higher) and our Plugable USB graphics adapters and docks, this limit has been removed. 14 monitors via DisplayLink plus one to two additional via on-board PCIe graphics is the new limit. [...]

?

What was changed in DisplayLink Software 7.5M1?

The 7.5M1 readme does no longer seem to be available, but the 7.5M2 readme is available but does not seem to mention anything specific in having raised the limit:

http://assets.displaylink.com/live/d...ease-notes.txt

Originally Posted by AlbanRampon

Also can you tell what desktop resolution you're looking at

As much as possible. That's what this thread is about, to learn about the DisplayLink monitor/resolution/daisychain limits. As already hinted at above, let's assume procuring the hardware would not be a limit .

Originally Posted by AlbanRampon

with what platform?

MS Windows. But it would be interesting to know if there are different limits to what can be achieved with the MS Windows DisplayLink driver vs. the Linux DisplayLink driver.