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.

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Gaming

Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.

0 comments
Answer accepted by question author
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.

Was this answer helpful?

70+ people found this answer helpful.
0 comments

134 additional answers

Sort by: Oldest
Most helpful Newest Oldest
  1. Anonymous
    2020-12-25T23:25:48+00:00

    Oh no... I purchased the 2020 version assuming it allows multiple screens for different instruments as this feature was part of the old flight simulator. Seems as it doesn't. So it is worse than the old version?!

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments
  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-26T00:47:00+00:00

    I'm not sure I'd use the phrase "worse than the old version" myself.  The graphics are stunning across the globe.  I'm not a proficient enough FS pilot to determine if the flight models are actually better, but I understand they used way-more complex modeling to make flying more realistic.  That being said, you are right, the old version had good multi-monitor support.  I read somewhere they are aiming to add that later in 2021.

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments
  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-09T14:40:25+00:00

    How do you open new views in FSX for use in separate monitors? I can open instrument views and drag to another monitor but I don’t seem to be able to open a new view (i.e. side view) When I right click on the screen it pulls up the View menu but there is no option to “add view”. I’ve seen this in a You Tube video with FSX Steam but it isn’t on mine.

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments
  4. Anonymous
    2021-03-09T21:08:12+00:00

    Click on the menu at the top of FSX, for views, and select 'New View'. The will open another window with a few. If you want to move that window to another monitor, just right click on that window, and select "Undock Window'. This will then allow you to move that window to another monitor.

    SO, by doing this, you can, for example, have one new view window opened and undocked on your left monitor for looking out the left side of your aircraft, and then have you center monitor as your main FSX monitor looking straight ahead, and then open a second undocked window and move that to your right monitor, and then you'll have a view looking out the right side of your aircraft.

    OR you can use multiple undocked windows to display all kinds of instruments separately. And view supported by FSX can be toggled through and set on any additional, undocked open window.

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments