DisplayLink Software

As the only component of the DisplayLink solution that resides on your computer, DisplayLink software plays a key part in making USB graphics devices possible. It has to work transparently so that your USB monitor appears the same as your DVI monitor to the operating system and all your applications. It has to manage all of the display rendering which would normally be done by a dedicated GPU while sharing the CPU with everything else you are doing at that point in time. It has to adapt both to the computer on which it is running as well as to the use you are making of it. To do all of this, the DisplayLink software has been developed to have the following features:

  • Great Performance: The display drivers are performance-optimized to enable the high-resolution digital quality graphics you need to drive today’s LCD displays.
  • Seamless OS Integration: Allows a user to see and treat a DisplayLink device the same as any other display device connected to his/her computer.
  • Compression Technology: Raw display data must be compressed down to fit over USB but needs to maintain a high image quality.
  • Adaptable: Every computer is different, and the DisplayLink software always makes the most of what is available on any given system at any given time.
  • Interactive: Our software ensures that your DisplayLink device is responsive to all your mouse and keyboard inputs at all times.
  • Easy to Use and Configure: You want complete control over how your DisplayLink device is configured, so we’ve made the most common parameters (location, extend/clone, rotation) easily accessible in our user-friendly GUI.