I know that there are already a number of posts on this topic, but I didn't really find the information I was looking for. Maybe someone with a two-screen setup could kindly help on this??I have (or shortly will have) two flat panel monitors, one 20" the other 17", and 2 PCs, side by side. The first PC (specs as at the bottom) I use for printing, spreadsheets etc. It is attached to the 17" monitor only, through a DVD connection. I want to run FS9.1 from the 2nd. PC, which had an AMD 64 FX55 CPU and two NVidia 6800GTs in SLI format. The idea is to connect this second, "FS9" PC to the 17" monitor through an analogue cable (the two PCs will not both be on at the same time - not sure if that confuses the system - or blows the monitor?!) and use that to show cockpit view, FSNav information and so on; and then also make a second connection to the 20" monitor via a DVI cable and have that more or less set in spot view.Is this going to work in practice and will it be easy to configure? I would think that the high spec second PC should cope with this OK without two monitors running spoiling frame rates? But how do I control each screen individually from the one keyboard, mouse and Belkin Nostromo N52 USB keypad I use for FS9? If I zoom in (for example) in the spot view, will the other monitor zoom in too (and if so, how do I avoid it and control them individually?).I'd like to get this sorted in my head before getting the 20" monitor, so help appreciated.Many thanks,Martin

If you are planning on having more than one display showing scenery, you will more than likely need to network the two computers and run one scenery monitor off each. Otherwise, the computing power is simply not there. The only exception to his is if you were to undock only the instrument panel window in FS and move it to a second screen, leaving the scenery (outside) part of the display on a second monitor. If your computers are networked, it is pretty easy to do. You will need this utility: Wideview FS at http://www.wideview.it/download.htm and follow the instructions. This is how cocipit builders network many different monitors to get multiple exterior views. Hope this helps.

There are many of us out there running two scenery views on two monitors on one computer. Have been for a long time. -- There are some sacrifices on frame rates, but not much considering you are doubling your view.Wideview is another option as well but not the only.I have the same system as you martin. I did turn off autogen to make my frames nice and fast, to me this was a small price to pay. ___Josh

Yes, I too was a bit non-plussed Colin to hear that I would need two PCs to run two screens - I know many people run FS9 on two monitors and can't imagine that many use 2 PCs. If the hardware on my 2nd setup can't run two monitors without struggling, I give up with PCs altogether!When you say Josh you have the same PC setup as me, do you mean the Radeon/2800+ or the 2x6800GTs/FX55? I am hoping that the latter will cope fine with frame rates.Still not sure how I control the 2 screens independently from one keyboard and mouse. How does that work in practice?Martin

>Still not sure how I control the 2 screens independently from>one keyboard and mouse. How does that work in practice?Whichever monitor has the "focus" at any given time will respond to keyboard and/or mouse commands.

I will have to wait until I have the 2 monitors running and experiment - I'm sure it will all be clear.M.

Well, I have my two monitors now, one 17" and one 19" and pretty good they look too! Can't see much a performance hit either - in fact, quite the opposite. Mostly I've sorted out how to set up things as I want them, (even if I have to redo this every time I start FS9 for now - maybe I'll work out how to save my setup as a default each time FS opens).What is quite easy is to move completely different windows to the other screen, just minimise them and drag them across before setting them to full screen again. That way, I have my FSNav window on the second screen.What I haven't worked out yet is how to get 'spot' view of the aircraft permanently showing on one screen, and cockpit/panel view, plus FSNav and/or other third party stuff, on the other; the window I get from pressing the [ key doesn't work - no panel is visible, and it is not a window that can be dragged across to the other screen in any case. I'm sure there must be something obvious I am missing. Help appreciated!Thanks,Martin

... the symbols don't come out in the post as I'd typed them. Of course I mean the square bracket for the new window, just in case anyone wonders what I was going on about!:-)

Well, I can get cockpit view on one screen and spot view on the other - a bit convoluted though it was in setting up, but with my current PC (Athlon XP2800+, Radeon 9800 Pro, 1024MB RAM) the frame rates take a huge hit, so I've given up. I content myself with FSNav on the 17" screen and FS9 on the 19". When my new PC is up and running (AMD 64 FX55, NVidia 6800GT) maybe I'll get a better result.I have read on hardline forums (e.g. Tomshardware) of graphics cards burning up they get so hot, when running FS on two monitors. Anyone come across that particulat disaster?!Main 'niggle' at the moment is that now I have two screens my mouse pointer no longer disappears automatically, I have to shift it out of the way all the time. Seem to remember there's an option for this somewhere. Anyone had this problem and solved it?Thanks, as ever ...Martin

er, "hardware forums", not "hardline". What an odd thing to have written ....

I'm still struggling to get 2 monitors to run 'independently' from one PC. At the moment, I get exactly the same output on both screens. I'm using a Radeon 9700Pro. When I go into the card recognises that there are Primary and Secondary monitors. However, I can't configure these separately - eveything I do on monitor 1 is carried over to monitor 2 and vice versa.There is an option in . When I click on this I get a large white 1 on both screens. What to do?....30 minutes later I found another post. Joy! :-hah

Are you in a good mood Ken? (:

You may want to test out some VGA switcher. IT costs around $20 or so.

I do not know about the Radeon cards, but the Geforce cards - dual headed, with an analog and a digital output - function without any problems. Configuring the two monitors is very easy. Unfortunately FS2004 is not really 'two monitor friendly'. It takes too much time to configure the screens every time you want to fly. Herrie

Hi MartinI have had a bad experience with an overheating video card.My set up was 1 PC running 4 monitors, an AGP card running a forward full screen view and the main panel on a second monitor. Also a second PCI card running 2 monitors for radios, FMC, overhead (depending on aircraft).The PC was an AMD 2.4, 512mb, nforce2, and the AGP card was ti4200 OTES.This set up worked for months without any problems, but then i started to get the corruption problems as seen on the tomshardware site. Then i started getting crashes until finally the system became so unstable it was un-useable. I didn't know what had happened until I did a search for the problem and found the site you mentioned.Just to be sure i borrowed a ti4600 and put that in and all was working perfectly again.I am now going to go down the wideview, 2 pc route but if i was to connect 2 monitors to one card again i think water cooling is the only way to keep the temps under control. Maybe i was just unlucky because nobody else seems to be complaining about this 1 month after your post(I have only just joined) but I would be interested to know of other problems and solutions.Hope this is of some help.Richard