hi there

i am a newby at this and have been wanting to build a simple home cockpit. at present, i am running an i7 computer at 3.6 ghz. i have two video cards (gtx 560 and gt 530). in addition, i have a usb display link adapter connected to a touch screen monitor (the intent is to make the touch screen the fmc). in terms of flight controls, i have saitek rudder pedals, saitek yoke with two throttle quadrants, saitek multi-panel, saitek autopilot panel, and saitek radio panel. i have thre monitors - the intent there is to use two monitors for the outside cockpit view, and the third for the instruments.

here are the issues

1) i am having difficulty in stretching the scenery. i was unable to just do scenery and the whole cockpit stretches, but when i do stretch it over to the second monitor, it allows me to do that as i see the borders, but when the mouse lets go, the secondary screen turns black.

2) i am having difficulty linking the touch screen to just the touch screen. the touch screen links itself to the main panel/primary monitor.

3) i was also unable to get fsuips to assign the throttles - i used the step by step instructions, but there always seemed to be a conflict somewhere, although i did remove the saitek drivers and i use SPAD for the panels

any ideas would be appreciated. is a second pc recommended by linking with fswide?

I may not be understanding your problem. Are you trying to stretch the FSX window over more then one monitor? If so, you can not do that with your current setup. You can undock a 2d window and move it to a second monitor, ie place an overhead panel on a second screen.

hi there

what i am trying to do is display only the scenery on two monitors, and the instrument panel on the third monitor. the fourth monitor (touch screen) i would like to use as the fmc.

hope this helps

thanks

As I said before, that won't work with your current setup. You will have to keep the scenery on the main monitor (only 1) then undock the 2d panel and FMC to your other monitors. IIRC, there is a program called SoftTh, that may provide a solution to your problem at the expense of FPS. I looked into it a while back only to discover it was easier to run down to Microcenter and grab a second 570GTX and 3 new screens.

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