April 21, 20215 yr Hi there, I'm now be owner of two pc screens, and I would like to hear what is the best setup for P3D v4.x where I can use the first screen to have Cockpit view and use the second screen to wing and outside views? It's my firste time I use two screens to gaming and my P3D v4.x, so if some one can help me it's would be very good😊 Stay safe😉 Best Jammin16
April 23, 20215 yr You should be able to snap a boarded P3D VC window to fit the whole 2 screens, then Alt+Enter to enter full screen mode, but the split will be between where the two monitors join. Or use the Views menu to open a particular view, undock it, then drag it over to the other screen and resize manually, noting such methods typically will result in fairly hefty frame rate drops. I'm sure there are other methods available, might depend on the version of P3D (academic/pro/pro+), maybe someone else can chip in? Personally I have three screens. However only the one screen is used to display the VC view (the middle screen) and a series of 2 x buttons on my joystick are programmed to swap from internal/external and rotate through each view available in the modes. On the left I have Little Nav Map and on the right is Active Sky Next, Landing rate monitor, GPU and CPU monitoring graphs, and any undocked windows or gauges from the particular aircraft being flown. Alternatively you could use something like TrackIR to "look" around the cockpit, like demonstrated in the below short videos. Ryzen 5800X clocked to 4.7 Ghz (SMT off), 32 GB ram, Samsung 1 x 1 TB NVMe 970, 2 x 1 TB SSD 850 Pro raided, Asus Tuf 3080Ti P3D 4.5.14, Orbx Global, Vector and more, lotsa planes too. Catch my vids on Oz Sim Pilot, catch my screen pics @ Screenshots and Prepar3D
April 24, 20215 yr Author @Rogen Hi, Thanks for your reply it's great to get some chips, I have to say I got a little confused about what you wrote, and I think I have not been clear enough, that is my fault sorry. I'm too confused because I'm not very familiar with P3D v4, I'm used to running with one monitor, and do not know much about VC views. I have a picture of what I mean and what I want: https://ibb.co/6Ykq5jG Best Jammin16 Edited April 24, 20215 yr by Jammin16
April 25, 20215 yr 5 hours ago, Jammin16 said: I have a picture of what I mean and what I want: Yeah, I see. For panels that open in a window it is a simple matter of undocking the window and dragging the window over to the desired monitor. Essentially you disconnect the window from the current monitor, it then becomes free floating and can be moved between monitor screens. And the View Menu allows similar operation for actual Views. P3D does have a View Groups mode allowing specific groups to be created and targeted for specific monitors, that said... I've never used them mostly because they look like time needs to be spent to learn how to build such view groups, i.e. they do not look intuitive to create. The menu item of Help/Learning Center will open the P3D help file with more information. Sorry, cannot offer much more as I use a single monitor with joystick button assignments to manage views, when I'm not using TrackIR that is. Maybe if you get something up and running you could write up a bit of a tutorial so that others may learn from your experience. Cheers R Ryzen 5800X clocked to 4.7 Ghz (SMT off), 32 GB ram, Samsung 1 x 1 TB NVMe 970, 2 x 1 TB SSD 850 Pro raided, Asus Tuf 3080Ti P3D 4.5.14, Orbx Global, Vector and more, lotsa planes too. Catch my vids on Oz Sim Pilot, catch my screen pics @ Screenshots and Prepar3D
April 25, 20215 yr Author @Rogen 19 hours ago, Rogen said: For panels that open in a window it is a simple matter of undocking the window and dragging the window over to the desired monitor. Essentially you disconnect the window from the current monitor, it then becomes free floating and can be moved between monitor screens. And the View Menu allows similar operation for actual Views. P3D does have a View Groups mode allowing specific groups to be created and targeted for specific monitors, that said... I've never used them mostly because they look like time needs to be spent to learn how to build such view groups, i.e. they do not look intuitive to create. Yeah I have now look on the hide menu bar you can open with clik on left "Alt" key. And I found the View Groups when I can chose some difrent views. So I think I would look more on that next time a day off.😊 19 hours ago, Rogen said: The menu item of Help/Learning Center will open the P3D help file with more information. I would also take a look on this. I will say that from what I have been looking at now, as you have told about, it seems that this is what I need to get these different views on each screen. It made very good sense, thank you so much for your help.😊 Stay safe Best Jammin16
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