Multiple monitors

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I've often read of people using multiple graphic cards in their pcs.Now i'm thinking seriously about it and have some questions:when you install more than 1 vid card, how does FS behave?I mean: is it possible, and is it standard, to have multiple views on different monitors?Say i have a radeon 8500 and a 7500 both dual display.The 8500 agp and the 7500 pci.Is it possible with the only FS to use the 2 monitors on the 8500 as eternal views, and the other two on the 7500 as internal/instrument views?If so, how is it done?What configurations does this need?

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Yep, its possible, but it will perform like a pig....You'll get frame rates in the 7-9 range if you are lucky...Dave

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So why do i read of many people with even 4 vid cards?The ones i mentioned above are great vid cards, and if i have up to 20fps with resonable detail (around 3/4 of the max) with a gf2mx, with a radeon 8500 (and a friend of mine who has it confirms) everything should run smoothly and even at higher detail.This friend who has the radeon (on a Tbird XP 1800 or something) says it always keep at least 30fps with everything maxedout.Now why this setup, which people indeed use, shouldn't work?

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Multiple monitors only work well for Flight Sim on a single PC if you only have one monitor displaying a 3D Outside view.Although the video card does alot of work, Flight Sim is VERY processor intensive as well and even the most powerfull PCs can't render more than 1 3D Window on Flight Sim.Anyone running multiple monitors from a single PC uses the extra monitors for 2D displays only - panels, add-on moving maps etc...I have 3 cards/monitors on my PC, 1 does the outside view and the other 2 run custom panels.People running 3D views on multiple monitors use a network of PC's. Each PC runs a single 3D view and are linked together using a network and a freeware application called WideVieW.PaulEGJJ

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I meant using only a single external view and some other internal ones.Since you use that setup: where do you find not-so-old pci vid-cards?And what cards are you using?I've tried the Dreamfleet 737 on my machine...Too often it drops under 15fps in the internal view :(The PSS 744 runs very smoothly instead...I was thinking about using a payware product in a complex setup...But the dreamfleet seems too power-pretending...

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I got my PCI video cards from my local computer shop. They were about

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I don't like VC so it's out for me ;)So you say that something like an old ATI Savage or anything else ablo to draw a windows would do it?Something i'm still wondering about is:when i have multiple cards, and i open fs, how do i set it up to display cockipt in one window and external view in another?

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>So you say that something like an old ATI Savage or anything >else ablo to draw a windows would do it? Yes, because it's only displaying 2D displays. The only thing you have to worry about is making sure you have drivers for the operating system you are using. The older cards might not have Windows XP drivers for example. Also multiple monitors are only supported on Windows98 SE or later. >when i have multiple cards, and i open fs, how do i set it >up to display cockipt in one window and external view in >another? Asuming you've set-up windows to use both monitors and to extend the desktop over them, configuring flight sim is easy:When FS first starts it'll be on your primary monitor like usual. To get the aircraft panel on the second monitor you right-click on it and select 'undock' from the popup menu. This puts the panel in it's own window. You can then move and size this like any other window. You just drag this over to the second monitor.After you've set this up once you'll need to save your flight and make it the default flight.PaulEGJJ

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Thank you for all your help, gonna try this!