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
    2020-09-06T23:59:45+00:00

    XP11 usually sets the default resolution to whatever the OS/GPU is set to. However not sure if XP11 has enough fingers and toes to count 11k pixels.  In my experience with XP11 even if it can its likely to choke like a python eating a pig and FPS will be on the wrong side of zero.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-09-06T20:04:48+00:00

    If you are running 3 4K monitors at 11520x2160, I didn't think that the new FS2020 program could handle that large of a resolution? I didn't think there was a setting for that in the program's video setup section, but maybe I'm wrong? 

    In any event, that's a heck of a lot of pixels for ANY computer to be pushing (even on an RTX 2080 card) and the software application has to be written to be able to support that high of a resolution amount, and I didn't think FS2020 could support that?

    HOWEVER, I do agree that without having the ability to setup separate monitors with separate views, is a MAJOR DRAWBACK to using the new FS2020 program, for those of us that have multiple monitors or used multiple monitors in FSX.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-09-06T19:58:37+00:00

    First off, whatever application, game or software you are using, it must support whatever resolution that you have setup.

    Using NVidia's Surround setup, you will get a little bit of distortion or stretching on each end or side monitors, put its usually minimal.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-09-06T05:05:23+00:00

    It would if it was a parameter under user control, which it doesnt appear to be with this sim.

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