I am looking at a new PC with possibly a GTX 680 for FSX to drive 3x24" monitors, each with a resolution of 1920x1200 or 1920x1080. Is the GTX card going to be able to handle such a task and provide visual fluidity even with the latest Sandy Bridge processor? If not, what kind of video setup should I be looking at? I mainly want to be able to fly PMDG jets on long flights with very high definition and fluidity. Scenery is of some interest to me, but I won't be cramming the box with ORBX stuff. I appreciate any posts, thanks.

 

JS

I have a GTX560Ti (2 Gig RAM) with three monitors with 1280x1024 (each) and it does quite well. So, at worst case scenario you *could* bump down the resolution a bit if you need to. Certainly that card would do better than mine by a long shot.

Hi

made a short video with my Iphone, its more easy to understand, my bad eng.

the quality of the video is not great.

 

Regards/Hasse

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr4J714lvu4&feature=plcp

That looks pretty rock-solid. How did you get the external display on the right monitor? Was that just a 'new view'? I'm using Triple Head ToGo for my monitors which leaves me with an empty slot on my card. I have, from time to time, thought about adding a small touchscreen where I could pan around in the VC. Think that would work?

I say 3 monitors is not worth it. There are three times as many pixels that have to be rendered by the GTX 680. Your FPS will probably be cut in half. I'd prefer one single 27 inch 1080p LED monitor with TrackIR5 and having 30 FPS at all times instead of 3 monitors and sometimes having to look at a slideshow.

You may want to look at a couple threads down.

 

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/376854-benchmarking-three-monitor-fsx-with-nv680-or-maybe-690/

I say 3 monitors is not worth it. There are three times as many pixels that have to be rendered by the GTX 680. Your FPS will probably be cut in half. I'd prefer one single 27 inch 1080p LED monitor with TrackIR5 and having 30 FPS at all times instead of 3 monitors and sometimes having to look at a slideshow.

 

Its not a slideshow . have locked at 30fps Word Not Allowed tweak and have 30 on essa , eham , ebbr (aerosoft) on ground taxing.

I run the 680 4gb @5.2ghz 24/7 with fast rams its a big diff to a 4.7SB with slow rams. anway its worth it for me a only want to show

thats possible.

 

This config 5040x1050 have a avg of 39fps in FSMark11 like a normalclocked 2500K @4.6ghz and gtx560 most of them run Kostas Tweak ?

or what a slideshow have they with TrackIR ?

 

Kind Regards / Hasse

Its not a slideshow . have locked at 30fps Word Not Allowed tweak and have 30 on essa , eham , ebbr (aerosoft) on ground taxing.

I run the 680 4gb @5.2ghz 24/7 with fast rams its a big diff to a 4.7SB with slow rams. anway its worth it for me a only want to show

thats possible.

 

This config 5040x1050 have a avg of 39fps in FSMark11 like a normalclocked 2500K @4.6ghz and gtx560 most of them run Kostas Tweak ?

or what a slideshow have they with TrackIR ?

 

Kind Regards / Hasse

 

But you are running 5.2 GHz!!! -__-

Most of the people here are running at 4.5 - 4.8 GHz. If I overclock mine to 5.2 GHz I will probably go from 30 to 35 FPS at really intense areas.

 

Btw, are you running Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge?

Hiw Westman, how did you manage to get three individual windows and then sync them all together?

 

Could you post step by step instructions please.. (With any ctrl key combinations you may have done). I rember there was a way to have multiple windows in each monitor and then use some ctrl-alt-something something to lock each view to the other. I forget what that was.

 

Manny

 

Kind Regards / Hasse

 

Hi Hasse!

I say 3 monitors is not worth it. There are three times as many pixels that have to be rendered by the GTX 680. Your FPS will probably be cut in half. I'd prefer one single 27 inch 1080p LED monitor with TrackIR5 and having 30 FPS at all times instead of 3 monitors and sometimes having to look at a slideshow.

 

Mine is a rock solid 30 fps as well but I'll grant that a big wide screen might be better performance. The rough equivalent would be about 55" wide but that'd make for a mighty tall display. It'd be interesting to try.

Arjen

Its basic my IB 2700 that made avg53fps @5.35ghz in FSMark11 downclocked to 5.2ghz with HT enabled.

I am building a 3770 system the 2800mhz rams is on the way, hope that i can have it up and run soon.

The cooling is the key for good clocks on IB , a not sure that water handels the heat.

 

Manny

Shall try to write someting down , its little complicated for me ( bad English) to explian the steps. but be patient

think a most do a pdf with drawings and pics

 

Kind Regards/ Hasse

its little complicated for me ( bad English) to explian the steps

Are you in need of a translator? =)

 

Nice setup by the way Hasse

Here is how you establish three separate views - for this example, they will be the forward view, one directly left (90 degrees to straight ahead as if you are looking along the wing for a turn from base to final), and a right view at 90 degrees.

1. Establish the forward view

2. Views->New View->Cockpit->Cockpit amd Undock Window. With Numlock ON, Left Arrow Key + SHIFT, release SHIFT last. Tnen possibly move eyepoint (Cntrl+Shift+Enter or Backspace)

3. Make another new view as in #2 but with the right arrow.

4. Set Zoom in all three windows to 0.60 and this will give an approximate 200 degree view except for the bezels.

5. You can now move those windows to the three monitors and maximize them - I usually run in WINDOWED mode but you can run in FULLSCREEN

6. Options->Settings->Controls Buttons/Keys Set --- View - link all (toggle) to a key or joystick button so that you can move all three with TrackIR or hatswitch

7. You can have no cockpit being displayed or VC.

If you are adept at editing camera views, you can establish something other than a direct 90 degree off straight ahead and use a different ZOOM.

 

The real benefit to this is the greatly reduced stretching of objects like trees and buildings in the side views - the textures will be clearer as well. The downside is that the framerate is cut dramatically with the separate views but since we can get over 150 fps with the latest hardware (with settings like NO or minimal traffic and simple water, etc), you might like it anyway.

Hi

I dont undock the Views i hit much harder on frames.

I run settings as mix Kostas (thanks for the findings ) and Nick N tweaks , water nicks , Poolsize 7000

The rest ar like in Kostas Settings for Fsx and NV Inspector, 1/2 sync locked 30frames.

Run 2d cockpit not vc , fullscreen,

 

Basic you have the monitors in angle for me 50deg you play with zoom for fov and bezelcorr,

a 3monitor setup with 16/9 with 50deg give zoom 1.1 and 40deg zoom 1.5 65deg i have not tested yet but approx 0.7-0.8zoom fov 195deg.

This gone work with 3 projektors for example cockpitbuilders with warpalizer.

 

Background , before a was running a 3pc 5 monitor setup with wideview and on sideview pc:s a run 2views on I5 760 and gtx285 with good results.

I think the time was coming to test 3 monitor setup with 1PC and single card, the 2700k and 3770k was way stronger and Nvidia 680 with 3 monitor setup.

 

Today a run a 2PC setup instead of 5PC:s. one for FSX and one for Prosim (Project Magenta).

I gone tune it for fov 160deg with 3x 27inch 1920x1080 monitors but with 3x 2560x1440 i think you hit the wall ^_^

 

Manny can you do a FSMark11 test with 690 , you not need to do it with clean install of FSX only to get a clue how it performs in FSX.

wat a see is that in some cases sli gone work clouds etc, a have 100% on the gpu on clouds and some other parts in FSX but

on more CPU demanded parts it cut down to 60% usage if a downclock the cpu the usge droops further to 40-50% .

to gain the usage of gpu i think a 3770K @5.2-5.3ghz would be perfect but its a long way to go ^_^

 

Kind Regards Hasse