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
    2020-08-20T15:51:14+00:00

    The only thing I did was go into my Nvidia video card by right clicking on my mouse going into setting and there is a button that auto make your 3 monitors into one big one, and the cool thing is when I uncheck it my monitors go back to normal but when I start Sim it remembers the setting and the Res. Never crashed looks great. I will try to get more detail settings and photo of setting.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-08-20T16:02:11+00:00

    Thanks in advance for any help. One tip... there's an NVidia shortcut [ctrl][alt][S] to switch to Surround.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-08-20T16:28:53+00:00

    Hello BitTron,

    I was using Nvidia Control Panel for my monitors but the view was extremely stretched out and distorted, almost unusable. Do you have any experience or tips to for this. I am currently using two Samsung LC32F391 32" 1080p Curved LED Monitors, so I don't know if those specs have anything to do with it. https://www.bjs.com/product/samsung-lc32f391-32-1080p-curved-led-monitor/3000000000001700249

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-08-20T16:35:02+00:00

    I just talked to a friend who has a AMD video card RX580 he just right clicked and went to settings and clicked eyefinity and made 3 monitors into one and has no problem running it, It set everything up.

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