Hi all,I currently use FSX, with a 22" widescreen monitor, with a resolution of 1680x1050.I am considering upgrading to a 30" monitor that uses a resolution of 1900x1200....... but I don't want to sacrifice too much in the way of performance (frame rates) in FSX.Can anyone who has done a similar upgrade, tell me the likely performance impact on moving from 1680x1050 resolution, to something like 1900x1200 ?If it's relevent; with my current resolution I tend to use AA set at 8x, and AF set at 8X (using nHancer).Thanks for any advice!David.________________________________________________Greetings from the far north of Sweden! (But I'm not Swedish and don't speak it too well)

Hi DavidI have a 24.5inch screen with a native screen resolution of 1920x1200 so either you have it wrong or the 30inch screen you are looking at is of very low quality as a 30inch screen should be 2560x1600.From 1680x1050 to 1920x1200 there will be minimal framerate hit. From 1680x1050 to 2560x1600 is a BIG jump and you will need a GTX275/GTX285 or similar, preferably with near on 2GB RAM if you want to use respectable AA and AF. With this much RAM on the gpu it is pretty much imperative that you are on a 64bit OS.

Thanks Konrad.The monitor I am looking at is definately a 1900x1200; this resolution comes with monitors in a range of sizes, (up to 30" as far as I can see), but I appreciate what you're saying; it's the native resolution for a 24" monitor, so anything larger will have a lower effective quality of resolution.I don't have the juice to run 2560x1600 yet unfortunately, so 1900 (or 1920) x 1200 is as high as I can go.Do you think it would be advisable to go with a monitor of 24" rather than 30", to get the higher effective resolution ?Thanks,David.________________________________________________Greetings from the far north of Sweden! (But I'm not Swedish and don't speak it too well)

have you thought about using a LCD TV?1,920 x 1,080 resolution TVshttp://www.computeralliance.com.au/parts.aspx?qryPart=10003

If You have enough space on desk, consider another 22''monitor and matrox TH2Go. But it will require powerful CPU and GPU.

Hi all,I currently use FSX, with a 22" widescreen monitor, with a resolution of 1680x1050.I am considering upgrading to a 30" monitor that uses a resolution of 1900x1200....... but I don't want to sacrifice too much in the way of performance (frame rates) in FSX.Can anyone who has done a similar upgrade, tell me the likely performance impact on moving from 1680x1050 resolution, to something like 1900x1200 ?If it's relevent; with my current resolution I tend to use AA set at 8x, and AF set at 8X (using nHancer).Thanks for any advice!David.________________________________________________Greetings from the far north of Sweden! (But I'm not Swedish and don't speak it too well)

For what its worth, I have a 37"1080p here and a 42" Westinghouse 1080p at another location (move the CPU to each place) and it is GREAT!!, just installed FSX and with the GEX,REX,UT2, FEX, this makes the whole thing very realistic, I am still messing with the settings, but the bigger, the better for sure!!! B42L8

If You have enough space on desk, consider another 22''monitor and matrox TH2Go. But it will require powerful CPU and GPU.

Thanks, but I'm moving away from a TH2GO digital set up (3x19" mons) to a single display because of (i) space issues, and (ii) some areas I found unsatisfactory with TH2GO, such as stretching of the image, when zoomed out a lot (which is my preference).Thanks for the other suggestions - will take a look.

the biggest issue i have with TH2Go and using 3D glasses is that the monitor divider spoils the actual realism, so i think a single very large high resolution monitor is the way to go.

Hi,Most important on what ever you choose, do the home work, read up on reiews.Things to watch out for like that many "affordable" displays are in fact 6bit dithered instead of full 8bit and will use fancy names for "color enhancment" the poor result will be noticed especial in night flying where color banding will show up.If you can't afford a good one, then wait until you can. A bad display is still bad no matter how big it is.

I have HP's 30 inch display (HP LP3065c) and have been VERY pleased with it. I bought it at Costco 2 years ago for a reasonable price and have never looked back. Looking at "Completed Items" in eBay, it looks like they sell for about $650-$900 on eBay. Well worth $650, that's for sure! I think I paid ~$800-$900 for it new at Costco.Good Luck,

Here I have 2 Llyama Prolite 26" monitors.With the use of the Matrox DualHead2Go box I have one wide desktop.I fly FSX with a resolution of 3360 x 1050 and only use the VC and icw spotplane views.Also I use the VRI Headtrack and I have the instruments onscreen at about 80% of their real size which is very cool.In the past I had a self built 747 cockpit ( real size ) with 2 projectors for the outside views, but this is giving me almost the same pleasure.