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Hi,
 

I have beed trying to figure out how to best use multiple screens when flying. I tried using three screens wide, but together with trackir this got a bit much, and it had a significant impact on performance. My current test installation is to have two screens on top of each other, one for instruments, and one for the VC.

My question is, how do you guys get this to work reliably? Is there any way of having the 2-D panels open up as undocked Windows placed on the correct screen by default? Or do I really have to click each panel, undock it, and place it manually? And I think  the main screen got a bit high up,  wonder how I can solve that...

Here is how the current setup looks. In addition I have a touchscreen to the left on which I place the CDU.

 

(cross post from P3D forum since it is not really sim specific.)

I haven't found a way to save the positions of the instruments on the screen. I'd be interested if that is possible as well.

If you undock the FO's instruments you get to keep the captains in the VC however.

I haven't found a way to save the positions of the instruments on the screen. I'd be interested if that is possible as well.

 

If you undock the FO's instruments you get to keep the captains in the VC however.

Good suggestion, but the controls for the FO screens are very difficult to reach from the captains seat :(

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Unless something is different on your setup to mine Frank, I don't understand what the problem is. When I fly in fullscreen mode I simply use the 2d popup panels and drag them onto my second screen and they stay there until I exit the flight. If you are talking about the instruments retaining their position on the second screen every time you start up a flight with that particular aircraft, then the answer is, it is possible in windowed mode but not in fullscreen as far as I know. There is a little app available that allows you to place the instruments, in windowed mode, anywhere you like and retain that configuration with different profiles for different aircraft. It will need some further requests on the forums or a search on Google.

This is actually good news as I fly in windowed mode. Will Google :-)

Get a projector for the visuals, use your LCDs as glass cockpit (as you have done). 

 

I suggest you use avionics software (none of this undocking business); it will not slow down your frame rate.

 

You should try Jeehell FGMS, its free. Like sunlight. 

 

http://fmgs.co.nr/

I haven't found a way to save the positions of the instruments on the screen. I'd be interested if that is possible as well.

 

If you undock the FO's instruments you get to keep the captains in the VC however.

 

Hi,

 

there is a little software to save and recall the panels position and size :

here the link, go to post #16

 

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/63144-a-software-to-save-your-panel-position/?hl=software%20save%20panel%20position

Thanks. I downloaded it and tried it, but I find that it works very erratically.  It works sometimes, but mostly not. Maybe it has something to do with me running P3D?

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