What is the best way to setup FS2004 with four monitors?Three 19" Dell for outside views (span mode, 3840x1024) and One 22" Dell for 2d panel view/FSNavigator...My System:Motherboard - Asus P5N32-SLI SE DeluxeCPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 @ 2.67 GhzVideo - XFX GeForce 7900 GX Extreme @ 256MB x2 not in SLIRAM - Kingston KVR667D2N5 @ 4GBPower - OCZ GameXStream 600 WattsHard Disk - Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA 300GBHard Disk - Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA 160GBWindows XP Home SP2I can use all four monitors now, 22" for 2d panel, others for web,FSNavigator,panels, etc, but I want to set this up for having full outside views and 2d panel view,, but not virtual panel. I've seen some pictures of a similar setup using three outside views and two for 2d panel/panels/FSNavigator, but there was no link to the user.thanks in advance,tommie c

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/jimcooper1/Grob1.JPGI have configured this in lots of different waysemail: [email protected]

This is pretty much the standard if you want views. If you want to display a lot of different guages, it really doesnt matter.http://eecherrors.homestead.com/monitor3.jpg

That's a great setup! Since I'm in the process of building one just like yours, I'd sure appreciate knowing how you do the configuration.For example, are you using two dual head vcards? Track IR or separate views? etc..Jim Harnes

Just to make the picture count up to three...http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1039/146985...c207a2512_o.jpgThese setups use a Matrox TripleHead2Go for three monitors on one output. I run the 24" off the second output - both from a single 8800GTX

So if I had 2 ATI Radeon 1950 cards each with dual output in the same PC then I could run 4 monitors off each output? Is this better than running the matrox triplehead on one output?many thanks

Magic Man, I too and trying to decide what monitors to buy to make a 3 monitor set-up. I fly almost all of the time on 2-d panels, and view them on one Viesonic, 22'' (4:3 ratio)CRT monitor. The problem I'm having is, now you can only buy 4:3 ratio monitors 19" or smaller. I would LIKE to build a 3 monitor set with monitors 24" or 26", but the ONLY ones that I can find are ther WIDESCREEN versions (16:9 ratio).What do you see on Flight Sim 2004 when you put a 2-d panal on a WIDE SCREEN Monitor? Is it streached across the full screen in a horizonal direction, or do you get a 4:3 ratio panel with two black/gray vertical bars on each side like when I watch a 4:3 ratio movie on my 16:9 ratio HD TV?What if I used my 22" Viewsonic CRT monitor(4:3) in the CENTER and two Wide Screen monitors 16:9 for the LEFT/RIGHT views that had the same vertical dimention that my 22" 4:3 ViewSonic had? Would that give me the 3 views, left, center,right that I want, in 2-D? I have never seen Flight Sim 2004 on a WIDE SCREEN monitor. What does it look like. Thanks jerrycwo4

2d panels will get stretched but because they are bitmaps you can resize them to the correct ratio but they then wont fill the width of the screen correctly.

>So if I had 2 ATI Radeon 1950 cards each with dual output in>the same PC then I could run 4 monitors off each output? Is>this better than running the matrox triplehead on one output?Well, you could run 4 monitors in total. The Matrox is better (easier) to span a single view across 3 monitors and only requires a single graphics card. The Matrox is limited to 3840x1024 which is fine if you're runnng 1280x1024 monitors. It really depends what size monitors, whether they are widescreen and wha you want to display will determine whether 2 cards is better tha a TH2Go solution.RegardsJim

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Magic Man- see my pics below in the thread- "to people that use 3 monitors --" re filling the screen after resizing a 2D panel on a wide monitor.Alex Reid