At the moment I am still using two monitors (in an eyefinity group) for my 'outside view'. I am thinking of growing to a complete cockpit with a 180 degree outside view supplied by three beamers (with Nvidia GPU's). I have done some experiments to get the best option for this setup and have found out something strange. The resolution I normally fly in is 3840x1080 (two HD screens). I also tried 1920x1080, 1280x1024 and 1024x768 (all on one screen) and I noticed that the width of each picture was the same and the only difference was the heigth of each picture. So instead of seeing more (what I expected with two monitors side by side) I am actually seeing less. As mentioned before I want to grow to a cockpit with an outside view of 180 degrees. As I add another monitor / beamer to my setup I will likely be seeing even less (in heigth) and certainly not 180 degrees.

 

So here are my questions:

- Is this normal behavior for FSX or must I make some adjustments to some config file to get a wider image? If so, what alterations do I have to make to which file?

- If this is normal behavior which can't be adjusted as mentioned above, what must I do to get three adjacent images to cover the desired 180 degree view?

- Must these adjustments be performed each time I startup FSX or can they be stored in a config file? If so which file and what are the alterations?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Theo.

Welcome to my world.. :)

Been playing with this myself for a while,

First thing is to make sure you altter the main fsc.cfg file under the [Display] settings is a line that by default is "Widescreen=False" change that to "True" then just use the keyboard commands to change zoom, eyepoint adjustment etc.. Unfortunately with this you will still get stetched out side windows and the only soloution I have found to fix this is to use 3 camera views, left, centre, right..Do a google search for fsx windowmaker and you will find a link on the mycockpit forum to an excel spreadsheet tool that can create the views for you so they all match up.. Problem is it kills framerates and makes the use of track IR useless. still looking for an alternative method that can give180- 220 FOV without issues.

I originally had changed WideViewAspect to 'True' but due to some ?? it was changed back to 'False' without noticing it. I supposed I did it myself, but I can't remember when, why and how. I changed it back to 'True' and I did indeed get a wider view.

 

I also tried the windowmaker. It looks as it works OK if you only show the scenery. If you also have the virtual cockpit visible, the cockpit (or a part of it) will be shown twice. So I first have to find a way to split the total view in an inside and an outside part. After that I can use the windowmaker. Before I can split those views I have to get a TH2GO Digital. The first advantage will be to stretch the total (outside) view over three monitors and secondly I will gain a free videoport for the inside view (on one monitor for now).

 

I am thinking of creating a new panel with just all the gauges, switches and annunciators I will need for each plane I like to fly. This will be a hell of a job, but in the end I think it's worth the effort.

 

Greetings,

 

Theo.

With 2 pc's , 4 outside view monitors and Wideview you can make a 150-180 degree view.

@Gerard (and others ofcourse).

 

I think I will go for an odd number off monitors for my outside view else the bezels are exactly in the middle of my most importent view. At the moment I have only one usable PC, the other is that old that I can't install WideView on it (I tried but got an error that the hardware didn't support something, I don't remember what that was). I am using that one now for FSCommander or Plan-G depending of the plane I am flying.

 

I am planning for a new PC and then I can use the setup you mentioned. In the mean time I am thinking of going for a TH2GO Digital so I can use my three 22" monitors for the outside view and an old 17" screen on the second port of my HD7770 for the instrumentpanel I am building at the moment. The TH2GO can be used in the new setup as well, but then with a GTX580.

 

Anyway thanks for the advise.

 

Greetings,

 

Theo