Is there such a thing as an Inverse-KVM Switch? Damned Sim-racers

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Hi there, New to the forums but have enjoyed L1 Techs since its inception. Howwver, with all the talk of KVM’s and similar hardware recently, I have pondered the titular question, especially as I arguably have a need for such a device.
I suppose my need is that I need to find a way to swap-over primary and secondary monitors from my desk to my Sim-rig, without the manual process of having to unplug and plug in the respective devices. I could leave them all plugged in, but ive had odd bugs with some games rendering on the wrong monitors, so i’d rather see if theres a hardware solution that may suit me.

For clarity, i know next to nothing about this realm of things, so please offer any advice in a kid-glove form. :rofl:

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I’ve used a setup similar to what you describe, I had good success using displayfisuon profiles to switch between groups of monitors. That’s a software solution, though.

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that is just an HDMI or DisplyPort switch. warning though, if you are needing to do more than 1 input at the same time they get expensive quickly and head into the realm of professional studio gear.

you could get multiple single display switches and stack them, though i do not know if that would be convenient.

also, crappy switches are known to add delay. This doesnt matter to most people, Sim Racers are not most people though.

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HDMI matrix switch.
Leave all of the usb active all the time.
Or
Microsoft multipoint server.
One computer with 8 heads. Each gets a usb hub and one or more display outputs.

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If all monitors are HDMI, you got a broad selection of splitters and matrix-switchers to pick from.

For Displayport, it gets difficult.

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Appreciate al the responses so far.
I assumed it was something Relatively simple, such as a DP/HDMI switcher, but i presumed it was best to check on the forum.

Preferably, It would be a DP1.4 switcher, as i very much like having frame-sync stuff on both my desk and Sim-rig gaming sessions. Blame iRacing & other devs for not doing their “homework”. :joy:

With regards to USB, the only devices i would probably have plugged into said switcher would be a basic Keyboard & mouse, as iRacing specifically really dislikes controllers being moved to different ports and things, resulting in having to remap all the inputs again and again and again and…

Anyway. i suppose i best do some homework of my own. Appreciate all the help to date.