Hello,I have a laptop and would like to plug the second monitor in.I would like to KEEP ALL THE GAUGES PANELS AND STACKS on the first monitor (laptop) and drag the 3d view to the second monitor.How can I do it?How do I have to set the 3d acceleration under troubleshooting-tab for each monitor?thanks for your help!Luca

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Luca,Without knowing what kind of graphics card you have it's difficult to give specifc details but here's some general guidelines:The first thing you need to do is setup the monitor and laptop display so that the windows desktop is extended over both displays. If you have windows XP it fairly easy:Do a right-click on the desktop and select properties from the shortcut menu. Goto the settings tab. You should see your two monitors. The laptop display will be number 1, your monitor should be number 2. For the external monitor you need to select it and make sure you tick the option: "Extend my Windows Desktop onto this monitor."You don't need to do anything with the 3d acceleration in the trouble shooting tab - leave these both on full.That's the hard part. Once you have that working in flight sim it's easy:Start a flight as normal. Make sure you are not in full screen mode. You have to be in windowed mode. (Alt-enter toggles these modes)Right-click on the outside view and select 'undock' from the menu. the outside view will then pop out of the flight sim window into it's own window. You just drag that onto your monitor and size it. Make sure it's completely contained in the monitor and that bits of the window do not creep onto the laptop display or your frame rates will be very poor.Once you are happy with the window positions save the flight. The window positions are saved with the flight.If you're not using windows xp you may have to make the monitor your primary display, run flight sim on the monitor and drag the panels to the laptop. (You undock the panels in the same way as the main display).Paul

Hello,my specs are:windows xp homeati radeon 9600 128Mbdell's ati drivers (normal catalyst drivers (about 4 months old)).I heard from previous posts reducing the acceleration from the troubleshooting page regarding 'non 3d view monitor' would increase performance.cheersLuca