External Monitor as the main Monitor (Laptop Monitor is off)

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Sorry for the long title.

My gaming laptop so far is more than able to run MSFS with medium and high settings (using Frame Generation+DLSS). But my laptop screen is only 15"6 inch wide.

Been researching a bit and it is possible to make use an external monitor as the main one and set the laptop monitor to off. Some say it even increases FPS (although that's not my objective).

Please kindly share your thoughts and experience (or experiment) so I can decide empirically that this is might be a good (and cheap) idea to add immersion

 

I thank you beforehand 

[Luis Hernandez 570]

I took that route 3 years ago, but with P3D. Since my laptop only had HDMI ports, I couldn't use GSync, despite my monitor (my current one) being somehow compatible. The only advantages I got were a bigger screen and more refresh rate options (instead of only 60Hz in my laptop display). I never noticed any FPS increase back then.

The biggest risk is that you may want more and would end up purchasing a desktop computer afterwards 😂

Edited February 9 by Luis Hernandez