I have an PIII 800 G4 128 mb card machine that I will be replacing with a more powerful machine for FS2004. Just a thought...would both machines new and the old one have enough power to run 2 views in FS2004?I believe I heard multi-viewing is only as good as your weakest machine...in other words would the 800 machine bog down too much?I also think there is a web-site that serves as a resource for this..can anyone post the link for me.Thanks all.

Hi! Do you know you can run multiple monitors off one computer with the right video card? Might give that some thought.Here's a link though to I think what you are looking for.http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.htmlThe WideFS allows you to do what are asking I believe. Seems like there was also a WideView program to, but I did not see that.Hope that helps some!Dave

Thanks very much for the reply. I did not know I could run multi views of one machine....how powerful should that machine be?I ru multi-monitors now but just a panel view on the extra monitor so it does not tax my system.Can anyone out there advise me on multi views off of one machine?I also check out the web-site....thanks!

Greg,Alas the info of Dave is not completely right.WideFS creates on a client PC an "FS-environment" in which e.g. a GPS etc. can run. FS is NOT on that client PC.With WideView FS runs on both PC's and WideView coordinates them (server and client). That's what you want.WideView till now only 2002, 2004 version hopefully coming.WIdeView page: http://www.wideview.it/WideView forum: http://www.flightsim.no/cockpit/forum/view...218d4b88cba4092Hessel Oosten

Thanks very much for the response.Can FS2004 be run on one computer with 2 views...that is to say can these 2.4's mghz machines handle 2 views or do we need to run 2 computers for the extra Horsepower?If the answer is that 2 machines are required...is one at 2.4 and the other at 800mhz going to be enought to get to smooth views? I'm wandering if the weaker machine might not be able to run a smooth view since FS2004 requires so much cpu.Thanks.

I have an athlon 2.2 with an ATI 9700 (no flickering by the way.. "?") with two 21" monitors attached. I have started playing with having two outside views and have enjoyed it tremendously. With only one view I tend to get 25 to 30 FPS. Two views drops it down to 16 or so. Unpopulated areas like all of arizona for instance I can get 25 fps. Being able to have an acceptable FPS with a fullscreen second view depends mainly on the aircraft. Anything bigger than the Default 737 virtual cockpit brings my FPS below 10 and thus unplayable. My new favorite thing to do is fly the extra-300 or piper cub in virtual cockpit with both screens in full windowed mode. I get fairly smooth frame rates pretty much wherever I go. When I first started doing aerobatics (totally awesome doing simple loops now and looking over the wing) I got a little sick to my stomach. This effect has faded and i'm left with pure pleasure. Also makes landing the Mooney easier as you can easily look out the side and gain a lot of reference. When flying online (vatsim) I keep the 2d cockpit on my main monitor and open a window on the second monitor roughly the same size as the viewable area on the 2d. With all of my apps open (servinfo, Sbox, reality-XP garmin etc) I obtain a marginal 13 to 14 fps in traffic areas. Addon's like Captain sim will bring two monitor viewing to a crawl. Oh what i wouldn't give to be able to view that virtual cockpit over the two monitors. Now I need a third monitor and a new computer >:) sighJosh LaughlinAAL302 Flyava.org - KSTL hub

Thanks, that sounds great.Doesn't sound like people are using multi monitors for 2 views much with FS2004 (I'm sure they are using multi monitors for a 2nd panels and stuff).Guess everyone is waiting for revised software for FS2004.

Hi, just got around to loading my FS9 and without multiple monitors tweaked yi up to about 30 FPS. I now am using 2 multiple views (side - full screen and front -full screen). Since I have a home built cockpit I don't need guages on the screens. With both views, I am now getting about 16 FPS in dense areas...with a fall-off to 11 FPS in NYC on a bright day. The effect is absolutely astounding so I don't think I will go back to single view. I am using two projectors (Viewsonic 501's) and my res in the monitors are 1024/7.