Hello,I have a spare monitor sitting here gathering dust, rather than make a pathetic sum of money, I want to keep it and use it as a screen for my pedestral or something when flying aircraft.How do i go about getting the monitor to work, then with FS?Thanks.Alex.

You could by a PCI video card and hook your monitor up to it. I don't know for a fact, but I think XP Home doesn't support dual monitors. I know Pro does. This could be one option for you. If you only use the monitor for pedestals, fmc-cdu, etc, then you probabaly could get away with a lower end card like a ATI 7000 or whatever for about $100 or less.

Alex,If you have a graphics card capable of supporting two displays (Ti4600, Ti4800) you don't need a second card. Multiple monitor support is available in XP Home as well as Win98 and WinMe.Some system details would be useful.

You do not say what video card you have. If you have any of the newer cards with a second "monitor out" then you can connect to the second monitor and set it up with the control panel for the video card. Once that is done you can then go on to use in FS9. There have been difficulties in "undocking" panels in full screen and transfering to the second monitor but that has finally been overcome by the following method. Move the panel you want to move to the right of the (full screen) until only half of the panel is showing. Do NOT undock just move. Then turn off the panel and then turn it on again and it will appear in the second monitor. If your video card is set up properly you will be able to move the mouse freely from one monitor to the other. Get back to me if you have further questions. It works fine and nice to have something like the GPS full screen all the time on second monitor.

I successfully run a second monitor (19 inch analog) off the LeadTek Ti4600 DVI port using the "dongle" (dvi connector one end and vga connector on the other) that Leadtek supplied, so if you have a VGA out and a DVI out, you can purchase one of these "converters". If you can't find one for sale, let me know.Once installed, the second monitor can be commanded to use a different combination of AA and Ansio. Since my second monitor is used mainly for squawkbox and fsnav4.6, I don't need ansio nor aa filtering on it.I get about 20 fps usually with fs9 settings almost all the way up.Larry

What must be done, so that we can "see" FS in one monitor, and another application, such as FSNAV or even the spot view of FS, in the other monitor?Comments appreciated. Regards, Marcelo Santiago, ChilePosted on Friday Oct. 03, 7pm EDT

FSNav4.6 runs quite nicely on the second monitor with FS2004 on the first with little FPS penalty. Slide the M$ GPS over to the second and the penalty is about 3 FPS, too much for my system.Running a second monitor has been part of windows for some time. There's lots of "how to articles" so I won't repeat here. I'm running XP Pro and the beta nvidia 51.75 driver set (which really didn't offer any improvement over 45.20) but other drivers also offer the ability to drive a second monitor.Just for causal browsing and email, I find the second monitor very handy. Larry

What about the TI 4200? Anyone know if it supports two monitors?Barry

>What about the TI 4200? Anyone know if it supports two>monitors?>>Barry>yes it does : I have a Creative TI4200 64Mb with 2 monitorshttp://hifi.avsim.net/activesky/images/wxrebeta.jpgPatrick/EBBR

All, I am running an ATI 9700 Pro - I believe it does support dual heads... How bad is the frame rate hit when running two monitor ???Thanks,Scott