Could anybody tell me how I go about setting up an additional monitor to my 24" dell that I recently purchased. My wife gave me a 19" LG LCD Flatron monitor and I have it mounted to the left of my 24" monitor. I have a 8800GT graphics card with 2 DVI inputs and I'm wondering if I should plug the 19" monitor's DVI cord into the additional DVI that I have on the back of my 8800 GT Video card. After I plug that in....assuming that that's the correct setup, how do I get just a LEFT VIEW or 45 Degree view from the cockpit. I would want to use the 24" monitor as the main cockpit view and the 19" monitor for my 45 Degree left hand view. Is this possible, and if so, how do you go about doing it? One other thing: My 24" dell is a wide screen 1920X1080 and the 19" LCD is not. I think it is 1260X1080 or something......Is it possible to have a left cockpit view?Regards,jack

Could anybody tell me how I go about setting up an additional monitor to my 24" dell that I recently purchased. My wife gave me a 19" LG LCD Flatron monitor and I have it mounted to the left of my 24" monitor. I have a 8800GT graphics card with 2 DVI inputs and I'm wondering if I should plug the 19" monitor's DVI cord into the additional DVI that I have on the back of my 8800 GT Video card. After I plug that in....assuming that that's the correct setup, how do I get just a LEFT VIEW or 45 Degree view from the cockpit. I would want to use the 24" monitor as the main cockpit view and the 19" monitor for my 45 Degree left hand view. Is this possible, and if so, how do you go about doing it? One other thing: My 24" dell is a wide screen 1920X1080 and the 19" LCD is not. I think it is 1260X1080 or something......Is it possible to have a left cockpit view?Regards,jack

Jack- Whether you can satisfactorily mix wide and ordinary 4:3 monitors is an interesting question. Probably so but there might be some difficulty in combining FS Views on each. But worth a try!I have no expertise in the various mon to card cable connections- but what you are proposing sounds right. After connecting, you will need to set up Windows for the multi monitors. Go to Control Panel/Display/Settings and you should see something like this pic- except only two monitor outlines. Drag the the outlines so they represent the actual monitor positions. You can move these outlines to all sorts of physical arrangements. Click on each outline and below set resolution for it. This is where I'm unsure of what happens when you mix two different resolutions.Be sure to click "Extend my Windows Desktop onto this monitor" for your secondary #2 monitor. (and #3 etc for more mons!)You will now have to reboot for these settings to become effective. You should now be able to drag the mouse cursor from far left- across all monitors to extreme right- just one very wide desktop! To create a new view, Key [ (square left bracket) which opens a mini view fwd on your main screen. Undock this by right clicking to open a dropdown, then drag the undocked mini view onto the other monitor. Drag the edges of this new view to resize it to your needs- probably full width but perhaps only partly full height. You might wish to place some undocked panel popups below. (We are talking 2D panel NOT Virtual!)Click on the new view - With Num Lock ON- key Control plus Num KB 7 to set that view to View Left Fwd. (Or Num 9 for View RFwd)That should get you going. For a detailed discussion on setting up multi mons, see in this same forum, a thread titled "Mixing Video Cards" started by Bonanza Pilot July 28 2009.For a bit of "tutorial" again in this forum, see "Large LCD TV vs Triple Monitor" started by "dabesq" Oct 5 2009. scroll to Post #13 and follow to the end.Hope this helps. Let us know how you make out with mixed Wide and 4:3 monitors.Merry Christmas Alex Reid

Don,Thanks so much for sharing your information on how to setup an additional monitor. I will try this when I get some time on my hands and let you know how things are going. I appreciate you getting back to me.Have a Merry Christmas.Regards,jack

Don,I was able to get my opening picture on the left monitor and I restarted my computer to save the settings. I'm not too sure what you mean by: To create a new view hit the [ key opening a mini view fwd on your main screen etc. What I would like to do is to create a left fwd view out of the cockpit of the PMDG MD-11 if that is possible. Should I be opening FSX and going into the 'view' section on top menu and making the fwd right view settings there or should I follow your Key [ square left bracket opening a mini view fwd on the main screen etc. I'm a little confused. Can you help me out here.As always, thanks for your help & support.Regards,jack

Don,I was able to get my opening picture on the left monitor and I restarted my computer to save the settings. I'm not too sure what you mean by: To create a new view hit the [ key opening a mini view fwd on your main screen etc. What I would like to do is to create a left fwd view out of the cockpit of the PMDG MD-11 if that is possible. Should I be opening FSX and going into the 'view' section on top menu and making the fwd right view settings there or should I follow your Key [ square left bracket opening a mini view fwd on the main screen etc. I'm a little confused. Can you help me out here.As always, thanks for your help & support.Regards,jack

Sorry- assumed you had FS9- I have no experience with FSX. But Yes: try creating a new view via [ key. I think that should also work in FSX. Assuming you then see a mini view popup- follow instructions as I described.( VIEWS in the FS9 upper Menu does not create a second view in FS9- it is done via [ keystroke.)Any FSX folks out there to help?????????????Alex Reid

Alex,I think I solved the problem with FSX.

Alex, Sorry I got your first name wrong....I think I solved the problem with FSX. What I did was followed your instructions up to a point. I did the following to get the left fwd view onto the left monitor: Key the [ keystoke with the numbers lock ON, then key the number 9 keypad and at the same time turn the numbers lock OFF. This will freeze your left forward outside view onto the main screen. Then all you have to do is drag it to the left monitor and resize to fit your main cockpit view.It doesn't seem to mind that the main screen is a 24inch Dell Wide screen versus a 19inch LG regular monitor. I'm running 1920X1080 on the main screen and 1280X1020 on the LG monitor.Thanks again Don for the great insight into multiple monitor viewing. I don't think I could ever go back to a one monitor system no matter how big the single monitor was.Regards again and have a joyous Christmas.Jack :)

Alex,Your going to love this one. I can't seem to get this monitor setup to work on my FS9 PMDG software however, it works perfectly on FSX. Really strange....I would love to have it work with FS9 because I do a lot of flying with the 737NG and the 747. Got any ideas as to what could be wrong. I enabled both monitors per your instructions and rebooted, but I can't seem to drag the fwd side view to monitor 2? Really strange, because I can drag it in FSX with no problem......Regards,jack

Alex,Your going to love this one. I can't seem to get this monitor setup to work on my FS9 PMDG software however, it works perfectly on FSX. Really strange....I would love to have it work with FS9 because I do a lot of flying with the 737NG and the 747. Got any ideas as to what could be wrong. I enabled both monitors per your instructions and rebooted, but I can't seem to drag the fwd side view to monitor 2? Really strange, because I can drag it in FSX with no problem......Regards,jack

Jack- (Away for Christmas- didn't see your post 'til now.) PMDG FS9 737/747 both work fine with me. Can you move the mouse cursor smoothly across both screens as if they were one wide screen?After creating the mini view with [ keystroke- have you undocked that view? Once it is undocked you should be able to grab it (click/hold on the top edge of its Title Bar with the cursor) and drag it to the other monitor for resizing and setting correct view via numeric keyboard.Alex ReidKSFO Quiet Two Departure at dawn (PMDG FS9 747)