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
    2020-09-16T19:01:27+00:00

    Dear Don,

    Thank you, I will try that as soon a possible.

    Dan

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-09-16T18:17:13+00:00

    Sorry Dan, the instruction should be press and hold the right Alt key,  then hover the mouse pointer over the instrument display you want to have pop out. Click the mouse and the instrument should pop out in a new window. You can move it to another monitor if desired. Unfortunately at this time it seems the resulting window is view only, ie. you can't click on it to interact with the instrument.

    Try it on glass panel displays, I think it should work on the analog instruments too.

    I uninstalled MS2020 as too much is missing from the sim for cockpit builders so this is from memory. Hope I've got it right. I'm going to continue to watch as Asobo roll out updates.

    Good luck

    Don

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-09-16T15:21:05+00:00

    Pressing Alt-G while hovering over the PFD or Garmin display will pop out the display into another window which can be moved to another monitor. Although you can't adjust the display's controls. So really quite useless.

    Dear Don,

    I have not been able to get ALT-G to work as you described.

    In which plane does this work?

    I have only tried the Cessna Citation Longitude so far.

    Initially, when I pressed the ALT-G, it toggled the Landing Gear.

    I checked the Keyboard Bindings, and G was assigned to Landing Gear, not ALT-G, but ALT-G in the Patch 1 version (1.7.14.0) of MSFS accepted ALT-G as toggle landing gear.

    I did a search for ALT-G and it was not assigned to any function?

    Any advice that you could give would be helpful.

    Thank you.

    Dan Keaton

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-09-15T21:28:08+00:00

    Pressing Alt-G while hovering over the PFD or Garmin display will pop out the display into another window which can be moved to another monitor. Although you can't adjust the display's controls. So really quite useless.

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