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
    2020-09-24T02:57:08+00:00

    I downloaded the demo version of XP11 and will try to set it up with the 3 monitors I use for the windscreen view and my other two monitors for instruments. Will that be possible to do? I should move over to the XP forums to discuss this further.

    Don Whyte

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-09-18T15:20:35+00:00

    Yes I was lucky that I bought it under the X-Box subscription for $1 and 5.99/month thereafter. I figured that would be a cheap way to test out if it worked the way I wanted it to or if it was all marketing hype. So I cancelled the subscription after the first month and will wait to see whether Asobo gets its act together.

    Don W.

    As we’ve been seeing in this forum there is a very long list of fixes and enhancements required to make this a real flight sim experience.  Many of them are very complex.  It remains to be seen if Asobo will tackle these, and if so, which ones.  If they are going to drag this process out over years they will really discourage serious users from using this product or sticking with it after dipping in.  One discouraging sign is that their ‘Known Issues’ list does not contain many or even any of the issues we’ve been pointing out. So  I agree that taking a step back for months/years is appropriate.  I’m enjoying being back with XP11 and my Orbx TrueEarth scenery.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-09-18T14:53:46+00:00

    Yes I was lucky that I bought it under the X-Box subscription for $1 and 5.99/month thereafter. I figured that would be a cheap way to test out if it worked the way I wanted it to or if it was all marketing hype. So I cancelled the subscription after the first month and will wait to see whether Asobo gets its act together.

    Don W.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-09-17T20:10:22+00:00

    Thanks BitTron.  Sounds like you have a great setup.  This is a detail about XP11 config that could be helpful.  Play with Grapphics Field of View parameter, especially if you use TrackIR.  

    Three 4k monitors in surround mode - that will definitely push that RTX card.  You may need a 3080!  I’d love to hear  how that works, but this focus on XP11 probably belongs in that forum.

    Wow, thanks for that information and for the excellent tips and advice.

    I did want a realistic type of simulator, since I am a RL pilot as well. 

    Over the years, I probably have purchased close to $2,000 worth of add-ons for FSX, including very good HD scenery, etc., but let's face it, as a sim, FSX is definitely showing its age. Like everyone else, I was greatly disappointed by FS2020. (But it does have nice graphics though! LOL)

    One of the general attributes that I do like about XP11.5, from my research so far, is the development engine itself, as far as how it utilizes more modern computer equipment, and the future potential of using multi-cores and multi-threaded PCs. This is important for me, because I'm using a high performance PC now, ... a brand new Asus x570-E Mobo with a new Ryzen 9 3950x CPU and a RTX 2080 Ti graphics card, so naturally, I want a high performance sim as well. 

    I have read various comments from across the internet about XP11 being a steep learning curve, (but then again so its actual RL flying in itself) and that XP11 is a real pain to setup and config properly, especially if you are using multiple monitors (which I am.) 

    However, since I'm using three 4K monitors in Nvidia Surround mode, I like your idea of using a Track IR. I might just try that out.

    Anyway, thanks for the tips and suggestions, and yes, I'll probably be giving XP11.5 a tryout. Hopefully that will satisfy my needs for a higher-end performance sim!

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