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31/10/2005, 1:51 PM Lev Joined on 12/10/2005 Posts 7 FS2004 on multiple monitors Hi Getting recently involved with FS2004, i started to wonder - is there a possibility to have more then one monitor attached to your computer and therefore rather then having forward view only, also display forward-left and forward-right views too. After all, the whole experience of using FS should become far more enjoyable and may be it will be easier to use view from the windows as reference points. There is a vague mentioning of multi-screen support in FS documentation. Search on the internet didn't really yield any results either. But may be someone here have seen it done or knows links to the resources describing what is involved (on top of buying two more monitors)? Thank you    Report

03/11/2005, 2:09 PM Stuart McKechnie Joined on 15/11/2005 Posts 6 RE: FS2004 on multiple monitors Hi, It is fairly easy to use multiple monitors in FS9.  First of all you will need additional graphics cards or a card that is capable of supporting more than one monitor (such as the Matrox Parhelia cards http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/parhelia/home.cfm).  If you go for separate additional cards then you may need to use PCI cards as your existing AGP or PCI Express slot will probably be used for your existing Graphics card. From there it is simply a case of configuring the setup of multiple monitors in Windows (right click on your desktop, select Properties or Control Panel, Display.  Then configure the physical layout of the monitors in Setting dialogue box). Now when you run FS in windowed mode you can drag other views/panels across the extended desktop onto your other monitors - here is a good link on the MS FS website: http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulator/fs2004_multimonitor.asp If you have a spare laptop and a local network (wireless or otherwise) then a cheap and cheerful solution might be to use MaxiVista (http://www.maxivista.com - free trial available) which is a small server/client programme that emulates multiple monitors on additional laptops/pcs.  There is a small frame rate hit using this software as you would expect. Hope that helps! Thanks, Stuart      Report

03/11/2005, 9:44 PM Lev Joined on 12/10/2005 Posts 7 RE: FS2004 on multiple monitors Hi Stuart Thanks for great reply. I will try installing couple more cards into the PC and see how it works. I will try to post something back when it works. Thank you    Report

04/11/2005, 10:35 AM Stuart McKechnie Joined on 15/11/2005 Posts 6 RE: FS2004 on multiple monitors Hi Levan, Glad I could help - good luck! Will be happy to hear how you get on. Thanks, Stuart    Report

28/12/2005, 8:09 AM Palwing Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 87 Re: RE: FS2004 on multiple monitors Tried this a few years back. (click on the link) So it works but I think I would have had a better result if all the monitors were the same size. http://freespace.virgin.net/pal.wing/gashstuff/Pals%20home%20sim%20600.jpg It would be interesting to use 3 overlapping projectors with edge feathering. However, that would be quite expensive and frustrating to set up.      Report

28/12/2005, 10:09 PM Palwing Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 87 Re: RE: FS2004 on multiple monitors Now had another go with 3 monitors the same size and resolution... click here to see the result: http://freespace.virgin.net/pal.wing/gashstuff/Sim%20Pic%201.jpg    Report

01/05/2006, 11:20 AM billyh42 Joined on 18/09/2005 Posts 6 Re: RE: FS2004 on multiple monitors Hi I notice that in the photo of the three monitor setup, all the monitor displays are in "windowed" mode, i.e. you can see the title bars in the screens. I have seen quite a few multiple monitor setups before and all the individual monitors have been in "full screen" mode, which is obviously preferable (and also looks much more "professional"). Does anyone know how to do this? Billy    Report

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