Simulator with 3-minotr support?

[Gary G]

Thanks for your response.
I appreciate that you took the time to respond.

3-monitor cards can be had more easily than you think.
Who said anything about "new".
There are many second-hand locations, including Ebay, where you can get a good deal
on a pretty decent 3-monitor card.

In fact, although it's not below $100, I recently ordered a surplus Matrox 3-something card
that is fairly new, 3 monitor output plus an S-Video output for $119.
Not bad, eh?

Anyways - thanks for your response.
I'll have to look more into MS 2004 - it says multi-monitor support, but
it's not clear if it supports 3 and what can be displayed.
Sometimes it's non-3D kneeboard or other stuff.
I want 2 side scenery displays!

Regards,

Gary

[chris priest]

Gary G wrote:
> Thanks for your response.
> I appreciate that you took the time to respond.
>
> 3-monitor cards can be had more easily than you think.
> Who said anything about "new".
> There are many second-hand locations, including Ebay, where you can get a good deal
> on a pretty decent 3-monitor card.
>
> In fact, although it's not below $100, I recently ordered a surplus Matrox 3-something card
> that is fairly new, 3 monitor output plus an S-Video output for $119.
> Not bad, eh?
>
> Anyways - thanks for your response.
> I'll have to look more into MS 2004 - it says multi-monitor support, but
> it's not clear if it supports 3 and what can be displayed.
> Sometimes it's non-3D kneeboard or other stuff.
> I want 2 side scenery displays!
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary
>
>

There is new technology by NVIDIA that allows you to hook multiple GPUs
together so instead of running 3 monitors off three monitors, you can
run 3 monitors off 3 (or more) video cards. This way there will be no
power loss from the ultra high resolution of three displays. It would be
expensive, but awesome as heck.

link: http://www.nvidia.com/page/sli.html

[Cockpit Colin]

I did this with (2 screens on) FS2002 a couple of years ago. Off memory it
was a little triky to resize the views and place them where I wanted them,
but the biggest issue (at the time) was the hit on performance - 25 fps on
one screen -v- around 5 fps with 2 monitors going - although obviously
things have improved a lot since then.

Food for thought - many video cards these days have 2 outputs - the usual 15
pin mini-din and another (digital?) output - which you can convert to a 2nd
15 pin mini-din with a cheap adaptor (we do this all the time). For a 3rd
monitor consider using any old PCI based card and use it just for the
instruments?

[Gary G]

Good idea - thanks for the info!