Keep plugging- the result is worth it!!!!Alex Reid

Progress! It's not perfect but boy does it feel good! :(Approaching runway 4R at Nice, France with departing aircraft at the threshold. The bezels are very wide and the horizon on the right fwd view looks a bit wonky in the photo. It is better than that from where I fly the plane. New 17 inch LCDs en route should make a good difference. Alex, I wonder how you manage your screenies??? That evening approach you posted somewhere looked superb. John

Progress! It's not perfect but boy does it feel good! :(Approaching runway 4R at Nice, France with departing aircraft at the threshold. The bezels are very wide and the horizon on the right fwd view looks a bit wonky in the photo. It is better than that from where I fly the plane. New 17 inch LCDs en route should make a good difference. Alex, I wonder how you manage your screenies??? That evening approach you posted somewhere looked superb. John

John- you now go to the head of the class- those shots are beautiful! Proof that panning and zooming are passe. As the song says- "How are you going to keep them down on the farm, once they have seen Paris ?"Here is a trick to narrow your bezel separation. You can place the outer LCD bezels in front of a portion of the middle CRT frame. As long as the (projected) surfaces of the monitors intersect at their side edges you are in business. That's how I'm setup and it reduces separation as though all three monitors were LCDs.When you do reduce the separation like this, don't forget to also reduce Panel Cfg Z value accordingly.---------------Here is your final exam! Go to an airport and taxi/slew to where there is a building in middle view that is wider than your bezel separaration and perhaps an inch or two in height. Using a piece of paper, place light pencil marks to represent the width of the building. Now slew the plane so the building straddles the bezel separation and part of it appears on both monitors. Using the paper as a measure, is the building width still about the same as the pencil marks on the paper? And is the building height approx same on both monitors?If you answer Yes, you are now fully qualified as a multi monitor guru !!!! If No, try a few more adjustments! And once you are happy, Zoom and Z are same for all your planes!----------------Here is my method for screenshots-Key Print Screen to take the pic, then via (screen bottom) Windows Task Bar-Start, go to Paint. Click Edit/Paste. You now see your shot- scan/drag sideways to inspect and if ok, click on File/Save As/JPEG/Type a title and then Save. Your pic should now be in Windows/MyPictures. But it will be in high resolution, not acceptable to AVSIM.To reduce it for uploading to AVSIM, see my posting in Hangar Chat forum- "Photo Resizing for AVSIM Rules" by January, Oct. 15/09.When I'm flying around if it looks interesting, Pause, perhaps change time of day or fly for a few more seconds to get a good angle- then hit Print Screen.Pics when the plane is banking are a bit tricky because the bezels are deleted in the screenie- thus undoing all your efforts to correct for them in the first place!! Some times in this situation I will use a bit of Zoom Out on one monitor to adjust the side edges to be aligned when the bezels are deleted in the screenshot.----------------So there you have all I've discovered about multi mons! This all started about 1998 when Micro Wings magazine (now defunct) showed an artist's rendering of future sim possibilities- there was a colour drawing of dual and even triple monitors doing just what you and I have been discussing. I was hooked right then!In 2000, Micro Wings hosted their bi-annual conference in Seattle and amongst many displays, Matrox showed off multi mons/multi views using their G400 video card. Now I was thoroughly hooked!! However what Matrox hadn't figured out then was how to integrate the views to offset bezel separation- and those were the days of CRTS with wide frames. When I got home, I ordered a new 'puter with a G400 and I was off to dual monitors. A few weeks later a friend showed up with an ancient S1 video card which enabled a third monitor. I could now nicely display a single view and lots of popups- but multi views crushed the computer. Finally a new PC in 2004 with 2 GeForce FX 5200 cards solved the hardware problem and since then it's been one long, voyage of discovery!! Now with birthday 78 looming, I wouldn't have missed it for the world! I just feel sorry for the simmers who are still stuck with panning and zooming!Cheers Alex ReidDreamFleet Baron 58 over Whistler BC- site of the 2010 Winter Olympics