May 12, 200422 yr I'm currently running FS 2004 on a P4 2.6 800mhz HT machine with a GeForce FX-5200 graphics card. I have two 19" LCD monitors connected to the one video card - one using the Digital and one using the Analog port.I'm experiencing the following issues. If you can help, that would be awesome!1. With my 2 19" CRT monitors, the image was clean and smooth. With my 2 19" LCD montitors, the image is blachie and gradial. In both cases, FS was set to 1024x768x32 as the resolution. Why would the new LCD's produce such a poor image?2. If I put one view on screen 1 and a side view on screen 2, I start getting polygon errors and strange images on my screen. It gets to the point where the sim becomes useless. Once I move the views back to one monitor, the polygon errors go away. Does anyone know why this is happening?attached are some screen shots of what I'm talking about.Thanks.Dean
May 12, 200422 yr Dean,re. 1: Dunno.re. 2: This is definitely a heat problem of some sort with your graphics adaptor. With two monitors it has to work a lot harder, and it gets too hot. Try opening the case, if you have a fan get it in front of the case and see what happens. If the problem goes away you know where it lies. Have you oced the card? Hope that helps,Alex
May 12, 200422 yr Tonight I changed the setting on the card so instead of running 2 1024x768 monitors, the computer thinks I'm running one 2048 x 768 monitor (which is very cool!). I then ran FS9 and change the hardware setting to 2048x768 and now both monitors are working together perfectly. The frame rate sucks right now but that's another night for testing.One thing I do like about this setting is when I fly in 3-D mode, I see the entire cockpit of the aircraft and flying becomes that much more real. It's truely amazing!Thanks for your input.Dean
May 12, 200422 yr What utility are you using to create the 2048x768 monitor? Is that built in to the GeForce drivers?
May 12, 200422 yr It's a setting that's built into the drivers for the GeForce card. On my XP machine, I right clicked on the desktop->Properties->Settings->Advanced Button->GeForce FX 5200 Tab. Then on the tab nView Display Mode, I changed the mode to Horizontal Span. Now my desktop is completly on both monitors and the blue bar on the bottom goes all the way across.Now if I can just get the edges between these two monitors to disapear, then I'd be all set..... Hmmm, new case?????Dean
May 12, 200422 yr Oh I wish! If money wasn't an option, I'd purchase 7 LCD projectors and create a 5 screen wrap around (left, left center, center, right center, right) plus one screen showing the floor and one screen showing the sky. Then I'd stick a mock cockpit inside the screen array and have fun.Dean
May 12, 200422 yr Don't forget the refrigerator, washing machine, and toilet, cause you'd never leave! I know I wouldn't!I even held a useless, tiny, but ever present hope that I would win that $210,000,000 powerball last weekend. I can't believe 1 person won it, and they haven't claimed it yet! I would have already ordered 3 alienware area 51s, 7 or 8 projectors, and every add-on I could find. This would pass the time waiting for my Bell 430, and King Air 350 to roll of the assembly line :)I can't complain though- I've got a nice setup now, and a wife who puts up with it!
May 12, 200422 yr Dean,Is this of help ?http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...90346&mode=fullHessel Oosten
May 12, 200422 yr Honestly, not really. FS9 does recognizes the two monitors without a problem and I can even set each monitor's settings. What I did find is I had to set one monitor, quit FS9, go back in and set the other monitor, quit FS9, and go back again. After that, both monitors were setup correctly.However even after doing all that, I still get strange polygons and corrupted screens in all modes. But if I change the graphics card so it sees both monitors as one monitor, then it works perfectly.Still confused...Dean
May 12, 200422 yr HA!!!In that case, I'll make sure I have a pillow attached to the seat, because my wife would probably kick me out of the house to live in the garage ....I'm still perplexed on why my video card will corrupt my second screen if I split them up. Oh well, another time I guess.Back to work....Dean.
May 12, 200422 yr The corruption is probably just a driver issue. It's not as simple to do something like that as it would seem. The video card has to man-handle the data, split it in two, and render each output for the seperate monitors. Windows isn't really meant to work like this, and I would guess they just didn't optimize the drivers for it. The driver would have to split the buffers, and do a bunch of work it really wasn't made for. The matrox parhelia card works like that, and apparently really well, but that is it's bread-and-butter. The drivers are much happier drawing each image to each screen as it's handed to them. The thing that really sucks, and the reason I'd like to try the above, is that if it is one window split across the monitors, the VC would pan on all of them, and the alignment would be perfect. With a seperate window on each, you have to pan and zoom the view to get each window's alignment correct, and then only the center monitor will pan and zoom with active camera. oh well. But it runs well, and I can say as I had three monitors running- OH MY GOD is it immersive. The frame rates were pretty bad so I went back to one.
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