Muskoka,

 

Are you running that fullscreen with a single view or 3 seperate views in each monitors for FSX?

 

I'm currently running 3-21.5" widescreen monitors on a GTX680. While I like the viewing space the stretching on the edges can be annoying sometimes. I wonder how much different it would look on 3 non-widescreen monitors. since the resolution won't be as wide.

I run 3 x 24 inch on 680gtx, tried running on 1 monitor only and made hardly any difference to frame rate

The stretch of the two side monitors was strange at first but you soon get used to it, I do find you get a good impression of speed as the scenery flashes by either side.

 

If I then want to work on the centre screen with a single monitor I just change my windows screen resolution and the card will automatically switch off the other two

 

However rarely do this because its good having windows open on three monitors

 

Best to go and view one before spending though and see what you think

 

Regards

 

 

Muskoka,

 

Are you running that fullscreen with a single view or 3 seperate views in each monitors for FSX?

 

I'm currently running 3-21.5" widescreen monitors on a GTX680. While I like the viewing space the stretching on the edges can be annoying sometimes. I wonder how much different it would look on 3 non-widescreen monitors. since the resolution won't be as wide.

 

Hi Shaun, that's full screen single view. I have never run with separate views. There is some stretching on the 5:4 monitors, but not as great as a wide screen obviously, just because of the aspect ratio. I like the look, still nice and wide (45") and it's native resolution is a little lower at 3840x1024 vs. a wide screen setup, allowing me to squeeze out a few extra fps against a higher resolution. Besides, the monitors were $100 each shipped a few years ago when I bought them.

 

Glen

 

Newegg.ca has refurbished HP 19" monitors for $79.99 free shipping, that's crazy, cheap enough to buy and try. Their 6ms, can't be too bad, mine are 16ms.

 

http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16824176384

The stretching, unfortunately, isn't fixable. It isn't distracting, really you quickly get used to it. With a little work i can get FSX with the NGX running pretty smoothly at 5760x1080

I have 3 x 27" 1920x1080 Viewsonics running at 6000x1080 with zero distortion. The distortion is fixable.

I began with a Matrox which at the time I thought was the only solution for 3 monitor viewing. A few weeks ago I decided to dump the Matrox and go Nvidia Surround. I use a Gigabyte 660 OC GPU. The results were amazing. The distortion completely dissapeard and I now run FSX set at 30 degree viewing giving me an amazing widescreen view. Previously, the Matrox required me to set FSX at 70 degrees. It gave me the same wideview but with very annoying distortion on the outside LCD's.

The 6000 rez includes Nvidia's bezel mgmt utility, also far superior to the Matrox.

The frame rate hit compared to a single monitor is probably about 20%. The view and flying experience is about 500% over a single monitor.