Will Microsoft Flight Simulator support multiple monitors?

Anonymous
2020-08-16T12:13:19+00:00

Will Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 support multiple monitors?

For example, one monitor for instruments, another for front view, one for left, and one for right?

This is opposed to one view being spread over two monitors.

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Anonymous
2020-08-19T15:40:46+00:00

You can span the display using Nvidia's Surround, which is part of the Nvidia control panel. 

There is something similar to this if you are using an AMD video card.

At present, FS2020 DOES NOT allow you to open new additional windows for separate instruments, views, etc., like it did in FSX.

Hopefully Microsoft will address this in the future, and make this benefit available, ... although I doubt it, because the software is designed to mainly run under an XBOX single window environment (using either a PC as in XBOX Beta for PC or on an XBOX console.)

I'm currently running FS2020 using three screens with a resolution of 5760 x 1200, and FS2020 runs fine across these three monitors which are in Nvidia's Surround (so it looks like one big, very wide screen monitor.) And this works great, EXCEPT it would be nice to be able to open up another window for just the instruments, like I could do under FSX. 

One of the trade-offs, of going with the much, much, much more advanced FS2020 software.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-08-24T17:40:27+00:00

    If you use Nvidia cards, you can enable Nvidia surround. Once you set that up, make that your primary display. Start MSflight sim, and you'll be able to use a resolution, for instance, I have 2 60'' 4k TV's. I entered 3840x2160, and it spanned across both screens. One issue you'll have is the bezel will get in the way, so it's best to use 3 monitors, if possible.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-08-24T14:22:59+00:00

    Yes, you can. In cockpit view, press right alt and hover over the instruments. The ones allowed to do that will show a magnifying glass. You can click and it will appear on a new window that you can drag wherever you want.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-08-22T21:06:00+00:00

    Actually one monitor has the higher resolution but it takes the lowest resolution monitor and applies that to all.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-08-22T21:04:06+00:00

    Correct.

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