Will Microsoft Flight Simulator support multiple monitors?

I have found a very useful way to use multiple monitors, provided they are in a specific configuration.

I am the original poster of this thread.

You can set up two monitors, in an over and under configuration.

by this, I mean that you will have an upper monitor and a lower monitor.

In my current configuration, I am using three monitors.

The top one is 65 inches and is located on a table in front of where I sit. 

Just in front of my Yoke, is a 24" monitor on an adjustable height stand. This allows me, from my seat, to have an eye view where the bottom of the top monitor and the top of the bottom monitor view is relatively seamless.

I am going to be very detailed in this post, in order to help as many people as possible. If you already know how to make these adjustments, please just skim through the detailed explanations, which I will put in parentheses ( ).

It is important to rearrange your displays, in Windows, so that it knows the arrangement of your monitors so that you can seamlessly move the cursor from one monitor to another.

(Right-Click on your Desktop (if necessary minimize your windows so you can right-click on the Desktop). Then Click on Display Settings.

Then you will see Arrange Your Displays. Click on the representation of your displays, and then move them to the correct orientations.

Also, Click on each Display, then scroll down and adjust the Display Resolution to your desired settings. For many monitors, you will want to select the native resolution of the display. For 4K monitors, you could select 3840 x 2160, or choose 1920 x 1080 for faster frame rates, depending on your graphics card.)

So here is the technique to make both of these monitors work as one:

Move the MSFS main window to the top monitor and have it fill the screen.

(To do this, if the MSFS window is on the bottom display, press the Square next to the X on the top right of the window. Then click on the top white border and drag it to your top monitor. Then click on the square again to ensure that the MSFS fills the top monitor display area.)

Now, here is the trick that I found to get two monitors to work as one, and I have found this to be very helpful.

Click on the Square to the left of the X at the top right. Now the window can be moved and adjusted.

Now position your cursor at the very bottom of this window on the top monitor until you see and Up/Down Arrow, then click on the UP/Down Arrow, and drag the bottom onto the lower monitor, and continue dragging until most of the lower monitor is filled with the MSFS Window.

You will notice, that MSFS window on the top monitor has not been stretched, instead, you now see more of the cockpit instruments.

You may experiment with different views.

In one of my custom views, I have the Throttle area of the Cessna Citation Longitude on my upper monitor, and the lower monitor has the Engine and APU controls.

In another custom view, I have the Pilots Forward View out the windshield and the Flight Director/Autopilot panel, PFD and MFD in the lower monitor.

While this Over and Under Setup works great for me, I still wish I could have a dedicated monitor for the Pilot's Left Window View.

While a Two Monitor setup, as described above is very nice, I actually have a third monitor which I put the Checklist and NavLog Windows. This is better for me as it keeps my cockpit view uncluttered.

I have not found a way to undock the ATC Window, I wish I could move it to my third monitor. So I just minimize this window when I do not need it.

I hope this helps.

Dan Keaton

yep I went back to XP11.  airplanes respond better and it is a more realistic flight simulation. Microsoft should change the name to FAG2020 ( flight arcade game) instead of FS2020

Nvidia surround is useless the distortion on the side screens is horrible! Never had an issue with XP11, such a let down for a new sim!

At the combined resolution of 11,520 x 2,160, it would actually be pushing 24,883,200 resolution pixels altogether, if you are using 3 monitors set at 4K resolutions.

And THAT's a heck of a lot of pixels for any modern CPU and GPU card to be pushing.

But regardless of the hardware side of it, the application itself needs to be able to support that high of a resolution, and I do not believe that FS2020 is capable of that, in terms of I don't think that high of a video resolution option is available, but I could be wrong about that, as I haven't actually checked to see what's the highest resolution supported by FS2020.

I'm just running three 1920 x 1200 monitors at a combined resolution of 5,760 x 1200 (which is 6.912 million resolution pixels) and its running fine.

But I still wish that FS2020 had the ability to open separate, new windows, that could be moved to additional monitors.