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

"newsiimmer" wrote in message
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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

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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"newsiimmer" wrote in message
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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

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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"p.b" wrote in message
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"newsiimmer" wrote in message
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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

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.


On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 12:03:35 -0500, "newsiimmer"
wrote:

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.

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

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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"cj" wrote in message
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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

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)


"newsiimmer" wrote in message
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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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"cj" wrote in message
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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

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.


On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 16:43:43 -0000, "Quilljar" wrote:

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...