I am considering the purchase of one of those "mini" monitors that are entirely USB powered...I want to use it for my radio stack...I already have a second monitor that I use for the GPS...Will I be able to drag my radio stack to the mini-monitor and still have the other two monitors up and running? In other words, can I have three monitors running; My main one, the smaller one for GPS and the mini for radio? Thanks,Steve

Yes, but only if you run FSX in windowed mode. The reason for this is that, upon startup FSX will detect the monitors but since they are incapable of being hardware driven it will refuse to run because the monitors will not support it. This has to do with FSX's annoying habit of auto-detecting all attached monitors and not letting you choose which ones to use with the game. Note that I am using Lilliput 7" monitors and am unaware of ones like these that are hardware accelerated.The trick is to turn off the monitor(s), then start FSX and turn them back on after FSX is loaded. You need FSX to be in windowed mode because if you bring focus to these monitors that FSX does not know about, it will take focus off the game. In windowed mode you just lose sound, in fullscreen mode the whole game minimizes and sometimes you can have trouble bringing it back up.Furthermore realize that these monitors are software driven, which means running them requires CPU cycles. You can undock windows from the main FSX window and drag them to the smaller monitors fine, but you will see an immediate impact on frame rates - noticeable even with 2D panels depending on your CPU.I have two of these I use for regular work - I currently do not use them for FSX though when I upgrade to a Sandy Bridge I will try again and hope my CPU has enough power to handle it better than on my current setup.

Thanks for the detailed reply...did not realize that the small monitors would result in a frame hit...Makes sense now...Guess maybe I will wait a while...Really appreciate the advice...Steve

out of curiosity I did a quick search and found this - a 7" HDMI supported monitor. IMO that's a very reasonable price and with these types of monitors you would indeed be able to have hardware support through an HDMI output of your graphics cards. Problem is we usually have more spare USB ports than HDMI ports ;)

I am considering the purchase of one of those "mini" monitors that are entirely USB powered...I want to use it for my radio stack...I already have a second monitor that I use for the GPS...Will I be able to drag my radio stack to the mini-monitor and still have the other two monitors up and running? In other words, can I have three monitors running; My main one, the smaller one for GPS and the mini for radio? Thanks,Steve

Steve- consider resizing the GPS to make room to also display the radio stack on monitor #2. If resizing is not attractive, consider layering where the two overlap- but each retains an edge visible that can be clicked on, to bring it to the top. It's remarkable how much can be packed onto a single monitor this way. Be aware that large sub panels such as Radio Stack or Overhead Panel may impact frame rate.AR

Unless there is a specific reason why you want to use a USB-only monitor, you could save some trouble and get a very nice VGA touchscreen (with USB for the touch interface) for only a few bucks on ebay.Then you can run in either fullscreen or windowed mode. I use two of them in FSX for the FMC and GPS/moving map and it works great.

Hey Tolip,How are you doing this. everytime I drag an undocked window to my 7" USB monitor, the item I drag over stops working. It seems that FSX just does not want to play with USB monitors.LouP