Hi all...I wonder if someone can help me. Previously I had 2 monitors ( 1 for gauges 1 for outside view) running from 1-dual input GEForce card. The FPS was great on outside view. I recently changed one monitor to a flat panel LCD Dell for the gauges. For some reason the FPS are real slow and when I'm flying the outside view is jerky and not smooth now.My question is:1) Did the Dell monitor change my memory needs on PC and this is what is effecting my FPS?2) Should I be setting the monitors to some special resolutions so I can get FPS up ?3) Or should I simply mess around with the FS2004 features to get my outside view nice and smooth ? (I would imagine I would have to reduce alot of features?)My PC is a 2.4 P4 with 750 Ram and 128 GEForce video card.Many thanks for your suggestions....JB

It shouldnt have affected your framerate unless, for some reason, the LCD monitor has a different resolution and refresh rate than the CRT you're using. Try setting up the monitors on the SAME resolution (1024x768 on both instead of 1024x768 on LCD and 1280x1024 on the CRT and get the refresh rates nearly the same). This may not work either, but something funny is definately going on. An LCD monitor looks the same as a CRT to your computer with the exception that when the computer sees the LCD, it has to adjust a few settings (color and brightness) to the picture.Any other ideas out there?Good luck.

Check if 3d harware acceleration is enabled for the outside view monitorDont know your adapter, but may be the harware acceleration can be enabled only for the outside view monitor and disabled for gauges display --thats helps alsow

Tks Yoss and Aaron:I'll try your suggestions. Do you know how I can check if 3D acceleration is enabled on on each monitor ? I have Win XP Professional. Many thanks..JB

HiThe best way to do that is controll panel-display-setting -advanced-troubleshoot--this way u can adjust acceleration on each display independantlyanother way is to run dxdiag and then displays --u will not be able to treat both displays acceleration independanly thereAh and very important--when you undocking the panel on the second monitor be shure that displays not overlaping each otherEven minor overlaping will couse dramatic fps impact hope that helps