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
    2020-10-03T04:29:42+00:00

    What (or who) is DCS?

    Don Whyte

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-10-02T18:03:14+00:00

    Thanks Dan for the post. In the interview I see MSFS are saying a proper multiple monitor setup requires each monitor to be rendered individually rather than just stretching one view across 2 or 3 monitors. That's a good sign.

    Don Whyte

    Yes!

    Another good sign was when they stated that stretching the image to fit multiple monitors does not work well.

    Respectfully,

    Dan Keaton

    yes!  This reminds me that I need to go back to XP11 and reconfigure for three separate monitors instead of the NVIDIA surround stretching thing.  I don't think that DCS support that unfortunately.  Glad to see that MS sees this as important as well as early work on VR.  

    Speaking of that I made the mistake of flying with XP11 and VR for three hours over the Olympic Peninsula  in Washington the other day, woke up the next morning and could not get out of bed for the entire day.  Still feeling the effects three days later.  Positional Vertigo.  OMG.  Read that 30 minutes max at a time is it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-10-02T17:35:38+00:00

    Thanks Dan for the post. In the interview I see MSFS are saying a proper multiple monitor setup requires each monitor to be rendered individually rather than just stretching one view across 2 or 3 monitors. That's a good sign.

    Don Whyte

    Yes!

    Another good sign was when they stated that stretching the image to fit multiple monitors does not work well.

    Respectfully,

    Dan Keaton

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-10-02T17:08:17+00:00

    Thanks Dan for the post. In the interview I see MSFS are saying a proper multiple monitor setup requires each monitor to be rendered individually rather than just stretching one view across 2 or 3 monitors. That's a good sign.

    Don Whyte

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