I want to set up two monitors on one computer, on one graphics card. I get a bit of a FPS hit though when I do it this way.I was wondering if it would be better buying a second cheap graphics card to plug the second monitor into to view other instrument panels (FMC, overhead etc. - no external views).Would there be any significant problems in having two graphics cards in one system with two monitors.The setup I would like is fast AGP card for primary monitor (main panel and view), and cheap PCI card for secondary monitor (for other panel views).Thanks for any help-Phil

On my system (which BTW is an antique to begine with) I hav a 4X AGP GForce MX440 for the main card then I found an older PCI card that has outputs for 2 monitors. I run the main FS screen on the 19" monitor connected to the 440 card and have 2 15" monitors connected to the old PCI card. As for frame rates, I have most over my sliders somewhere in the mid region and as long as I don't put any outside views up on the two 15" monitors, the frame rates do not change enough to register.The one anomoly to this is, if I put the ATC communications box up on the secondary monitors, the thing will slow to a crawl instantly. No other sub panels, gauges, radios, FSNavigator etc. cause this to happen.The dual monitor card came with a box of old cards I bough at an auction a couple of years back. There were a total of 6 of these cards in the box but they had no documentation with them. I found a Savage driver on driverdownloads.com that get them to work under 98SE and once I upgraded to XP, windows amazingly got it to work without needing additional driver support. (Microsoft finally got it right)

>Would there be any significant problems in having two graphics>cards in one system with two monitors.>>The setup I would like is fast AGP card for primary monitor>(main panel and view), and cheap PCI card for secondary>monitor (for other panel views).>>Thanks for any help>>-PhilPhil,I currently run 4 monitors off one PC for flight simulation. I have 1 AGP card that drives 1 19" monitor for the 3d outside view. I then have 2 PCI cards, each with dual heads, used to display 2 19" monitors side by side (for the left/right half of the main instrumnet panel) and a 3rd 17 monitor located below the other two which displays the FMC and Throttle quad side by side. I can toggle the entire overhead or comm panel for temporary use.Yes - there is a frame rate hit - something like 8 FPS when I compare just the outside view on AGP vs all views.Key point - you must reduce h/w acceleration for the PCI cards to prevent stuttering. The setting can be found on the Troubleshooting tab of the Displays Control Panel.If you have any questions - send me email: [email protected]