I have a pair of Iiyama ProLite E2409 monitors and thinking about buying a 3rd that's compatible with the 2409.

I have a radeon RX570 card which i may have to up grade, But is anyone running 3 monitors and if so what are the benefits and negatives , So you get to see more ie, Front and side windows without having to use the mouse to see side to side.

I am getting over 20 FPS and no stuttering 

Any thoughts would be great 

The sim doesn't support multi monitors yet, but that could change soon if I've read the DR correctly.

I had a four monitor setup for FSX and while it was a useful experiment I found that the cost of FPS was too high to make it particulaly enjoyable - and I had dual graphics cards then too.

I got over the multi monitor bug for P3D and settled on an ultra wide 21:9 monitor with a second 16:9 monitor for 2D gauges and stuff.

I am enjoying this setup in the new sim where the frame rates are a real benefit compared with my old multi monitor rig. I used to get low teens FPS in FSX which is pretty miserable, and I don't regret leaving the multi monitor experiment behind me.

You'd need some pretty high end gear to make it worth the sacrifice of FPS.

MFS2020 does not support proper multimonitor configuration yet. For more info check my post on the "Tips and tricks" forum. To have decent FPS (above 30 FPS) on triple monitor setup you will probably need RTX 3070 or 2080Ti class card (I don't know much about corresponding Radeons). 

However I enjoy my 3-display setup with wide field of view (5900x1080) plus 1920x1080 for instruments with AirManager, even without proper multimonitor support. Probably I would be better with just one ultra wide with 3840x1080 + 1920x1080 10-inch touch display for the instruments, still wide field of view, but less demanding for the graphics card. 

Hi,

 

I got 3 Monitors, works great, got around 45-50 and in very dense area 35 Frames-never less.

It works with Nvidia_Surround, I think AMD got something simular.

But I got a little more Power 😉

Great replies, Looks like its going to be better to wait for MS to update to allow 3 screens and also upgrade my Graphics card.

I thought adding monitors would not have made much difference , But i guess i was wrong 

46 minutes ago, malct said:

I thought adding monitors would not have made much difference , But i guess i was wrong 

I can tell you, about my personel experience when I start using 3 Monitors at 2013, the next day I know, I will never, ever go back to one screen.

Except there is an 100" Ultra-super-fantastic Widescreen in one 😉

1 hour ago, malct said:

Looks like its going to be better to wait for MS to update to allow 3 screens

I will do the same. Although it is extremely disappointing that microsoft announces the "best Flightsim ever" but does not provide Multi monitor setups... 

In my case the aim is to use 4 monitors for the the Windows and 3 touch monitors for the instruments (both groups are connected with separate computers)  I guess I am right that at this time there is no way to bring my sim with MS flightsim alive? 

I am checking the web weekly and I haven't even found an information about a concrete plan when this feature will come... Does anybody have better Information (except the one given in the preview videos before release)? 

I was using 3 monitor set for many years and I went to a big TV. I used to think that  I would never comeback to a single monitor but I was really tired of stretches on side monitors. It was really distracting for me. I tried several programs even expensive but I still saw stretches. In P3D, for example, you can create 3 different views for each monitor and use them like a big one but that drop fps by a half or more. Wasn’t an option for me. So 50” TV does the job and i see everything clear and all instruments have almost real size like in real airplane. On triple monitors I had to undock instruments to see them better. 

Apparent stretched image on the side displays is the result of placing side displays at angle to the main one, while this sim only support flat projection, no adjustable mutli monitor support (yet?) in MFS2020. Place them all in one flat row, and you will no longer notice any stretch, because you will be looking at the displays at an angle. However, this way you will not have any side views, only the extra wide front/panoroma view (I still enjoy it). To look left/right/up/down I use TrackIR. More in my post on the Tips and Tricks forum. 

It did not matter what angle my monitors had. I tried everything. When you use surround you will get stretches in every simulator. I spent quite sometime doing research and talking in different forums, I was told that stretches were unavoidable unless you will buy a program which make some corrections to FOV. That is why there is an option in P3D for example, where you can create 3 separate views for each monitor and use them like one view but kills fps. 

1 hour ago, skysurfer said:

It did not matter what angle my monitors had. I tried everything. When you use surround you will get stretches in every simulator. I spent quite sometime doing research and talking in different forums, I was told that stretches were unavoidable unless you will buy a program which make some corrections to FOV. That is why there is an option in P3D for example, where you can create 3 separate views for each monitor and use them like one view but kills fps. 

Is/was there an optimal TV or TV attributes you found?  Have an (older) LG 55" OLED curved was thinking of use...

Thanks!

1 hour ago, skysurfer said:

It did not matter what angle my monitors had. I tried everything. 

You are probably sitting to far from the displays or your zoom level is not big enough (not reflecting the real world field of view). This is just geometry of projection. 

Go to my post on Tips and Tricks forum, compare 3 images with hangars and pitot tube. When viewed from the proper eye point you will see that the viewing perspective compensates the apparent stretching, and in the result you don't perceive any stretching. 

If you move farther away from the displays or if you set them at an angle (check image in my post with the display observer at 90 degrees with apparent massive stretching) or you set zoom level to small for the actual geometry of your setup - you will start perceiving streteched image at the far edges of side displays. 

This is how flat projection geometry works. 

27 minutes ago, skysurfer said:

That is why there is an option in P3D for example, where you can create 3 separate views for each monitor and use them like one view but kills fps. 

Not quite true that it kills fps, but using more monitors will always have an effect. Using View Groups in P3D affects fps much less than I expected, and gives distortion free viewing, so I am very interested to see if MSFS is going to provide anything similar for home cockpit users. However I realise it's a minority interest.

I currently run 5 monitors in P3D4.5 on a single pc, which is about the limit for acceptable performance. A large screen tv for forward view, and a second screen for forward left view are both 1080p connected to a GTX1080ti.  To use 4k screens would definitely need a second pc to split the load.  The other screens are 2 monitors for instruments and a touch screen for cdu/mcp, all connected to a GTX1070. I enjoy using it, but things are moving on and there is always room for improvement.

With the generally higher frame rates in MSFS and the newer graphics cards it could potentially be a great base for multi monitor use.

48 minutes ago, Flyfaster said:

Is/was there an optimal TV or TV attributes you found?  Have an (older) LG 55" OLED curved was thinking of use...

Thanks!

I went with Samsun 50" QLED. I thought it would be too much but after trying both 43, 50 and 55" I ended up with 50". I like colors, I like because it is bigger and I see everything inside cockpit much better, feels more real. I use TrackIR as well along with Ezdok and most importantly I do not see bezels and stretches anymore. 

I spent sometime in Hardware forum here in Avsim gathering people's feedback so I think I did the right thing going with TV. And careful with OLED TVs because of burn in issues. 

You guys should also consider a projector. A 4K DLP projector is only little over $1k and you get easily over 100 inches. I'm flying 4k on a 135" screen. All is great/fantastic, except the usual projector drawbacks like room light control (has to be dark) and, this is especially true with the MSFS HDR graphics, the picture brightness which TV holds a decisive advantage over projectors.