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
    2021-03-09T22:32:35+00:00

    My problem is that I can’t find a menu with “New View” in it. I also don’t have a menu at the top of FSX. It seemed like I did in a previous version possible but I am unable to access it now. I am using FSX Deluxe Edition if that matters. In Free Flight, if I right click on the screen I have access to a menu that includes:

    Cockpit

    Outside

    Tower

    Runway

    Aircraft

    Air traffic

    There are sub menus for each of those options but there is no “New View”. Is this the menu you see that has “New View”?

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-10T19:12:19+00:00

    Its been awhile since I last used FSX, (as I'm not using FS2020 - but really miss a lot of the great features of FSX that unfortunately are sadly still missing from FS2020) but I think that the reason you are not seeing the Menu ribbon across the top of the screen within FSX is because you are running in 'Full Screen' mode. You need to run FSX in Windowed mode.

    To change from running FSX from Full Screen to Windowed mode, you need to try ALT & Enter (or CTRL & Enter - I can't remember off hand which one it is - i.e. ALT or CTRL but I think its ALT) which will toggle you out of the Full Screen mode. Then when you move your cursor towards the top of the window, the pull down menu should appear. And in settings, you can change it so that the pull down menu ribbon is always on at the top of the screen.

    Then once you have the top pull down menu displayed, there should be an option under Views for 'New Window View'.

    And if this still doesn't appear, then I would probably consider re-installing your FSX.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-10T23:45:42+00:00

    That worked! Alt-Enter showed the top menu, New View appeared as an option and I was able to drag the new view to a different monitor. My next question is how to change the view. The new view I opened, undocked and moved to a different monitor still has the same view as the original window. I tried panning the view right using the same joystick activity that allows me to change the main view but no joy. Any tips?

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-03-10T23:54:25+00:00

    Belay that last post, I found out that putting it in virtual cockpit view allowed me to change the view.

    Next question. All of that goes away when FSX shuts down. Is there a way to have it remember the configuration when it loads?

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