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
    2020-09-17T05:43:25+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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  2. Anonymous
    2020-09-17T02:01:08+00:00

    Sorry Dan, the instruction should be press and hold the right Alt key,  then hover the mouse pointer over the instrument display you want to have pop out. Click the mouse and the instrument should pop out in a new window. You can move it to another monitor if desired. Unfortunately at this time it seems the resulting window is view only, ie. you can't click on it to interact with the instrument.

    Try it on glass panel displays, I think it should work on the analog instruments too.

    I uninstalled MS2020 as too much is missing from the sim for cockpit builders so this is from memory. Hope I've got it right. I'm going to continue to watch as Asobo roll out updates.

    Good luck

    Don

    Dear Don,

    Thank you very much, your advice works.

    I tested your procedure in the Cessna Citation Longitude.

    I found it interesting in that if you Hold Right-Alt, then mouse click on an instrument, such as the PFD or MFD, then it creates a new window with the selected content (PFD or MFD) inside. Then if you do the same for another instrument, it adds the new instrument to the same window. This is as opposed to creating a new window for each instrument.

    So far, I have found three instruments that one can pop out in this manner, the PFD, the MFD, and the backup instrument (the small screen up above.

    I performed these tests using the Patch 2 Version, Build 1.8.3.0.

    I am very pleased that Microsoft-Asobo came out with the new patch which has significant improvements.  

    I am very patient, and I expect at some later date we will be able to have undockable windows.

    At this time, I would like to be able to undock the ATC window and the NAVLOG, as I want to be able to move them out of my main window. At this time, when I click on the Resize Icon, the Square next to the X, the windows disappear on my current computer.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-09-16T19:01:27+00:00

    Dear Don,

    Thank you, I will try that as soon a possible.

    Dan

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-09-16T18:17:13+00:00

    Sorry Dan, the instruction should be press and hold the right Alt key,  then hover the mouse pointer over the instrument display you want to have pop out. Click the mouse and the instrument should pop out in a new window. You can move it to another monitor if desired. Unfortunately at this time it seems the resulting window is view only, ie. you can't click on it to interact with the instrument.

    Try it on glass panel displays, I think it should work on the analog instruments too.

    I uninstalled MS2020 as too much is missing from the sim for cockpit builders so this is from memory. Hope I've got it right. I'm going to continue to watch as Asobo roll out updates.

    Good luck

    Don

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