Re: RE: FS2004 on multiple monitors

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FS2004 on multiple monitors

Lev 31/10/2005, 1:51 PM

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

RE: FS2004 on multiple monitors

Stuart McKechnie 03/11/2005, 2:09 PM

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

RE: FS2004 on multiple monitors

Lev 03/11/2005, 9:44 PM

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

RE: FS2004 on multiple monitors

Stuart McKechnie 04/11/2005, 10:35 AM

Hi Levan,

Glad I could help - good luck!

Will be happy to hear how you get on.

Thanks,

Stuart

Re: RE: FS2004 on multiple monitors

Palwing 28/12/2005, 8:09 AM

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.

Re: RE: FS2004 on multiple monitors

Palwing 28/12/2005, 10:09 PM

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

Re: RE: FS2004 on multiple monitors

billyh42 01/05/2006, 11:20 AM
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