Has Anyone Gotten 2 Monitors to Work with FS9 or FSX?

[newsiimmer]

If so, please tell me how. Thanks

[Quilljar]

Yes many people have got two and three monitors to work just by following
the instructions in windows and in FS9 and FSX. I cannot remember the ways
but it must have been very simple for me to have done it!
You need a video card with two outlets of course, and/or the Matrox Dual
head 2 go, or Triple head 2 go
Remember to choose the correct monitor size within FS Hardware Options.
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Yrs Quilly (Winchester UK)

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[Don]

Ditto here, my video card has dual dvi outputs, so I just use those to my
two LCD monitors. If you have a dual output, and a Nvidia card, the drivers
for the Nvidia have a simple set up wizard to do this.
I use the second monitor, for dragging my open menu items to, that I like to
keep displayed, like atc, radio stack, and gps, leaving my main monitor for
the cockpit display, in FSX.
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Post by Quilljar
Yes many people have got two and three monitors to work just by following
the instructions in windows and in FS9 and FSX. I cannot remember the ways
but it must have been very simple for me to have done it!
You need a video card with two outlets of course, and/or the Matrox Dual
head 2 go, or Triple head 2 go
Remember to choose the correct monitor size within FS Hardware Options.
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Yrs Quilly (Winchester UK)

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If so, please tell me how. Thanks
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First and foremost you would have to be in window mode and not in
full screen mode. Second of all make sure you have enough processing
power and graphics power to render multiple windows.

Head over to views and click on new view. You can move the small
window to the other monitor and then stretch it to size.


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[p.b]

Post by newsiimmer
If so, please tell me how. Thanks

I work with 3 screens on 3 cards.
One big fast card for the main screen and 2 low cards for 2 small screens
with nav maps and radar.

pieter
the dutch

[newsiimmer]

Thanks everyone, but how do you set up the views and stretch them to the
other
monitor? I want to see the left and right side views but I don't know which
assignments/settings I should use. Please help.
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Post by newsiimmer
If so, please tell me how. Thanks

I work with 3 screens on 3 cards.
One big fast card for the main screen and 2 low cards for 2 small screens
with nav maps and radar.
pieter
the dutch

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Open the view window from the menu (View) and then right click on the
window. There should be an "Undock Window" entry. Select it and the
window now has a border around it and can be moved anywhere. If you
save the flight it will save it with the windows in position.

Post by newsiimmer
Thanks everyone, but how do you set up the views and stretch them to the
other
monitor? I want to see the left and right side views but I don't know which
assignments/settings I should use. Please help.

[newsiimmer]

Thanks everyone, but how do you set up the views and stretch them to the
other
monitor? I want to see the left and right side views of cockpit,etc but I
don't know which
assignments/settings I should use. Please help.
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Post by newsiimmer
If so, please tell me how. Thanks

I work with 3 screens on 3 cards.
One big fast card for the main screen and 2 low cards for 2 small screens
with nav maps and radar.
pieter
the dutch

[At Where]

Sounds like you are trying to make a single ultra wide view out of two
monitors. FSX doesn't seem to SPAN monitors like windoze desktop
display setup can so you cannot "stretch" them. You can only have
view windows in one monitor or the other. You can simulate it to a
certain extent though by setting up two views manually to get the
effect that you desire.

Set your monitor resolutions first.

To do this in FSX go to the setup screen for display options -
SETTINGS - DISPLAY SETTINGS - CUSTOMIZE from the main FSX screen.

There, on the left side, in "Device-specific options" if FSX
recognizes both of your monitors you will see a dropdown box for
DEVICE: that allows you to set resolution for each of your monitors
independently.

When you start a flight, both monitors will then have capability to
display, but the things you are used to seeing will begin only in the
primary monitor. For anything that you want to have displayed in the
other monitor you will have to create and size a new view window and
then drag them over to that monitor.

Bear in mind that dual display takes a LOT of video and processor
horsepower so you will very likely suffer a lot of display quality
loss to get the additional monitor.

Also, since you can only manipulate view slewing in one window at a
time, you will only be able to view slew half of your view - the
active view window to "look around".

To simulate your ultra wide view, set up two virtual cockpit view
windows -one on each monitor and then use the "eyepoint adjust"
options to move the viewpoint position for each and then "slew view"
options to set the angles where you want them.

This is a HUGE pain to do, and as far as I know, there is no means to
save the positions of the windows once you have them where you want
them. (There may be something you can do in the setting files for the
aircraft) A little research on google or altavista may yield a way to
save the settings.

Thanks everyone, but how do you set up the views and stretch themto the
other
monitor? I want to see the left and right side views of cockpit,etc but I
don't know which
assignments/settings I should use. Please help.

[cj]

Of course you can span two or three monitors in FSX. I have been doing that
ever since it came out. you need the right video card and then go to the
desktop -properties and select the full width 2048 or whatever.In my own
case 3840...you get a great lifelike view too.


quilly

[newsiimmer]

cj: You answer FSX. I have FS9 and Nvidia 6200 Geforce 256 MB. Will it work
for me? How to span it step by step? I'm new to this so please everyone be
patient with me.Thanks
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Post by cj
Of course you can span two or three monitors in FSX. I have been doing
that ever since it came out. you need the right video card and then go to
the desktop -properties and select the full width 2048 or whatever.In my
own case 3840...you get a great lifelike view too.
quilly

[Quilljar]

I think you have all the information you need now. The thing is to
experiment a bit and see what happens. We all had to do that to begin with.
Good luck, and let us know how you got on. If you have further problems
after trying a few things, come back here and ask. After that, you will be
telling the next lot how it's done...
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Yrs Quilly (Winchester UK)

Post by newsiimmer
cj: You answer FSX. I have FS9 and Nvidia 6200 Geforce 256 MB. Will it
work for me? How to span it step by step? I'm new to this so please
everyone be patient with me.Thanks
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Post by cj
Of course you can span two or three monitors in FSX. I have been doing
that ever since it came out. you need the right video card and then go to
the desktop -properties and select the full width 2048 or whatever.In my
own case 3840...you get a great lifelike view too.
quilly

[At Where]

If he did have everything he needed, he probably wouldn't be asking
for details.

Anyhow. The other poster got me to thinking about it some more and I
realized he might be correct. Maybe.

I fly in fullscreen, not windows desktop windowed mode. It might be
possible, if you have the regular windows desktop spanned. Fly in
window mode vs fullscreen and stretch a single window across both
monitors like you might do other apps. I do it all the time for other
apps like excel and paint shop pro, but not for FSX.

For fullscreen mode in FSX, my setup doesn't like spanning. I'll have
to run the experiment in wondow mode and see how that works.

I have dual Dell 24" flatscreen monitors. One is turned 90deg
(vertical / portrait / "tall screen") and the other is normal
(horizontal / landscape / "widescreen")
Resolutions are 1920x1200 and 1200x1920 on a Radeon 3870x2 1gb card.

Post by Quilljar
I think you have all the information you need now. The thing is to
experiment a bit and see what happens. We all had to do that to begin with.
Good luck, and let us know how you got on. If you have further problems
after trying a few things, come back here and ask. After that, you will be
telling the next lot how it's done...

[s***@googlemail.com]

I have a question - not really similar but along the same lines and I
was wondering if anyone has experienced the same issues.

I had a pentium 4 2.4ghz with 768 ram and a dual 256mb ati 9600
radeon.

When i wanted to utilise both monitors i would first come out of full
screen mode (alt + ent) then undock the features (gps, throttle quad
etc) move them to the 2nd display then alt + ent again to go back into
full screen mode. worked a treat

fs9 btw.

now i have quad core 2.4ghz q6600, 4gb ram and a 768 nvidia geforce
8800 gtx. i can for the life of me not get the 2nd display working in
full screen mode. when i try the above the screens flicker then just
go black.

i have to exit full screen mode again to get the display back.

Is there loss of performance using windowed mode? I don't know why
really but i prefer full screen.

any ideas?

I am sure i have read other users using multiple monitors but i
presume they use window'd mode???

aaaarrrrggggghhhhh

:-)

[unknown]

Post by newsiimmer
If so, please tell me how. Thanks

How about 6 monitors, a small NTSC display and a projector? Dual
nVidia 7950s and a 6600 with an S-Video output. Granted, 2 of the
monitors are using splitters, but we ARE driving 5 discreet video
sources. All of this on an Intel dual QuadCore machine with 4G RAM.

We've got some wierd artifacts that pop up on the out the window view
from time to time, but we think those are video driver issues or bus
timing issues.

[newsiimmer]

Thanks everyone. I'll give it a shot and let you know. BTW, sorry for
cross-posting.
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Post by newsiimmer
If so, please tell me how. Thanks

How about 6 monitors, a small NTSC display and a projector? Dual
nVidia 7950s and a 6600 with an S-Video output. Granted, 2 of the
monitors are using splitters, but we ARE driving 5 discreet video
sources. All of this on an Intel dual QuadCore machine with 4G RAM.
We've got some wierd artifacts that pop up on the out the window view
from time to time, but we think those are video driver issues or bus
timing issues.

[Brett I. Holcomb]

No problem with cross-posting when done correctly - moderate number of
newsgroups. It's multi-posting you dont' want to do. With
cross-posting an answer in one group is propagated to the others so
one answer covers all the groups and if you're not monitoring the
group an answer is posted in you still see the answer.. With
mullti-posting each is a separate post and hence requires a separate
answer.

Post by newsiimmer
Thanks everyone. I'll give it a shot and let you know. BTW, sorry for
cross-posting.

[newsiimmer]

Thanks everyone but I'm still a flight dummy and can't understand what you
mean by undocking since the window won't go over to the second monitor so I
can span it. What do I do now?
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Post by Brett I. Holcomb
No problem with cross-posting when done correctly - moderate number of
newsgroups. It's multi-posting you dont' want to do. With
cross-posting an answer in one group is propagated to the others so
one answer covers all the groups and if you're not monitoring the
group an answer is posted in you still see the answer.. With
mullti-posting each is a separate post and hence requires a separate
answer.

Post by newsiimmer
Thanks everyone. I'll give it a shot and let you know. BTW, sorry for
cross-posting.

[Vernon Balbert]

On 3/3/2008 7:24 PM, newsiimmer went clickity clack on the keyboard and

Post by newsiimmer
Thanks everyone but I'm still a flight dummy and can't understand what you
mean by undocking since the window won't go over to the second monitor so I
can span it. What do I do now?

Right-click on the panel you want to move over to the second monitor and
select Undock. It will grow a window border and you can just grab it
and move it to the other monitor.

[newsiimmer]

Thanks everyone.
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Post by Vernon Balbert
On 3/3/2008 7:24 PM, newsiimmer went clickity clack on the keyboard and

Post by newsiimmer
Thanks everyone but I'm still a flight dummy and can't understand what
you mean by undocking since the window won't go over to the second
monitor so I can span it. What do I do now?

Right-click on the panel you want to move over to the second monitor and
select Undock. It will grow a window border and you can just grab it and
move it to the other monitor.
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