From my experience the frame drop is solely related to he video card installed in your system, not any specific "optimization" of gauges for multi monitor use.

Interesting, thanks for your input. I would have thought that considering gauges are very simple graphics (no fancy 3D or texturing, not bump mapping no nothing, just plain basic 2D), the graphics card could not have been the issue here.Maybe it's time to change my GTX285 then...

You do make a point though. Fancy coded gauges with it's own set of rendering like EFIS displays and stuff probably do have a different effect then something like a radio stack or something.

Hi all,maybe the question has already been asked and answered but I couldn't find any 100% relevant post. If it has, dear moderators, please feel entirely free to remove the post.I would like to undock the PFD/ND and if possible EICAS gauges and put them on another monitor in bigger size. The second monitor is connected to the second video output of my GTX285. The two monitors are different in both size (23" for outside view and 19" hopefully for gauges) and resolution.However, on the 747-400X I never managed to achieve this without cutting my FPS by 50% everytime I took a gauge to the new monitor. PFD out : -50%, PFD+ND out = -75% etc etc etc. Unplayable.This happened in both windowed and full screen modes.Maybe I did something wrong though, however after much much research I couldn't find any solution.What about the 737NGX ? Will that be possible without rendering the sim unusable ?Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Good evening,Well, this post don't offer a solution to your problem, but maybe it is good to know that I have the same videocard, and if I took two undocked windows to my second monitor the framerates keep mostly the same. (I never uses more)20 on the ground at heavy airports and 40 and higher in the air.I guess it is not your video card that causes the problem.Regards,Eric

I think it depends on other things as well like what resolution and AA settings you are using, I had a 285 before my 580 and it struggled a little with the settings I was using. The 580 has no such problems, there is no noticeable drop in frame rate when running a second screen.

One thing I have seen is when people are running their video card as a primary display, then dragging stuff across to a totally secondary device...which frequently is a motherboard supplied on-board chip or something...that's where one starts to see the wonky behaviour.So it's probably not a video-card only thing that I mentioned above...depends on what the user is using/doing.

I run till recently 3 22inch displays but using th2go, I've a ati6900 card now and run it using eye infinity instead, so same principle but different tech.I have been playing about connecting my iPad to it also to expand the fmc onto it...as I broke my hardware one...I generally run in full screen mode as I see better performance that way, but have been using windowed mode to do fmc thing with iPad, I generally see very little effect on fps when I do drag fmc to iPad. However have heard that people say that if possible you should let the window of the gauge you have dragged, still overlap slightly the main window, as it helps prevent any major fps issues. I have to say however my experience of this is is all with the leveld 767.That said, as we are on the subject of multiple monitors, I am interested to know if the 737 as been tested on a widescreen multi monitor set up. How things Like the hgs will work etc? The 747 cockpit doesn't scale very well at all on a wide screen 3 monitor setup running at 5040, and another reason most of my flying at present is with the level d other than lack of sdk.As our coughing friend above suggested can it be confirmed that you've actually tried this 737 on a multi setup? As I think the development team are becoming somewhat unique in only having one monitor, I don't think so many of your customers are that way, and I think whether it's people using the vc across 3 monitors using eyeinfinty/th2go or multi monitors to undock gauges to build cockpits this is a major feature they will be interested to know.Of course just like my coughing friend, more than happy to help with the testing of this lol James CarrFrom iPad on tap.

That said, as we are on the subject of multiple monitors, I am interested to know if the 737 as been tested on a widescreen multi monitor set up. How things Like the hgs will work etc? The 747 cockpit doesn't scale very well at all on a wide screen 3 monitor setup running at 5040, and another reason most of my flying at present is with the level d other than lack of sdk.As our coughing friend above suggested can it be confirmed that you've actually tried this 737 on a multi setup? As I think the development team are becoming somewhat unique in only having one monitor, I don't think so many of your customers are that way, and I think whether it's people using the vc across 3 monitors using eyeinfinty/th2go or multi monitors to undock gauges to build cockpits this is a major feature they will be interested to know.Of course just like my coughing friend, more than happy to help with the testing of this lol James CarrFrom iPad on tap.

Thank you very much James! +1There might be more individuals - maybe not that communicative in this forum - who'd love to see focus on multi-monitors and hardware utilization. The announced SDK is a perfect beginning. I'm sure a perfectly modeled 737 NG offering flexible 2D usage in combination with a seamlessly working hardware interface is something the community hasn't seen yet but has a strong need for.my 2 cents.Torsten