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I originally had changed WideViewAspect to 'True' but due to some ?? it was changed back to 'False' without noticing it. I supposed I did it myself, but I can't remember when, why and how. I changed it back to 'True' and I did indeed get a wider view. I also tried the windowmaker. It looks as it works OK if you only show the scenery. If you also have the virtual cockpit visible, the cockpit (or a part of it) will be shown twice. So I first have to find a way to split the total view in an inside and an outside part. After that I can use the windowmaker. Before I can split those views I have to get a TH2GO Digital. The first advantage will be to stretch the total (outside) view over three monitors and secondly I will gain a free videoport for the inside view (on one monitor for now). I am thinking of creating a new panel with just all the gauges, switches and annunciators I will need for each plane I like to fly. This will be a hell of a job, but in the end I think it's worth the effort. Greetings, Theo.

I wasn't planning to undock any gauges. The first set of 3 monitors will be used for the outside view only (no cockpit visible). The second set of 3 monitors will be used for the instruments only (no outside view). Because of the available space for those instruments (5760x1080) I think it will be a 2D setup for the instruments (all will be visible at the same time). In case of an overhead panel, it might be possible to use two monitors for the standard instruments and the third monitor for an overhead panel (also in 2D). If need be, I plan to create my own 2D panel with only those gauges I need / want to see. The overheadpanel can than be setup as a part of that selfmade 2D panel so there will be no need for gauges to undock. Or am I thinking to simply now? Greetings Theo.

In my new rig, based on an i7 2700k, I want 3 monitors for the outside view and 3 monitors for the instruments, both at a resolution of 5760x1080 (3x 1920x1080). Each set of 3 monitors will be 'powered by' a TH2GO Digital (no DP). Matrox states that this is the maximum resolution for a TH2GO Digital and that a maximum of 2 TH2GO Digital's in one system is supported. BUT, will a GTX580 with 1536 MB of memory be up to this task? And if it is, what will be the downside performance wise. Thanks in advance for your answers (or questions), Theo

At the moment I am still using two monitors (in an eyefinity group) for my 'outside view'. I am thinking of growing to a complete cockpit with a 180 degree outside view supplied by three beamers (with Nvidia GPU's). I have done some experiments to get the best option for this setup and have found out something strange. The resolution I normally fly in is 3840x1080 (two HD screens). I also tried 1920x1080, 1280x1024 and 1024x768 (all on one screen) and I noticed that the width of each picture was the same and the only difference was the heigth of each picture. So instead of seeing more (what I expected with two monitors side by side) I am actually seeing less. As mentioned before I want to grow to a cockpit with an outside view of 180 degrees. As I add another monitor / beamer to my setup I will likely be seeing even less (in heigth) and certainly not 180 degrees. So here are my questions: - Is this normal behavior for FSX or must I make some adjustments to some config file to get a wider image? If so, what alterations do I have to make to which file? - If this is normal behavior which can't be adjusted as mentioned above, what must I do to get three adjacent images to cover the desired 180 degree view? - Must these adjustments be performed each time I startup FSX or can they be stored in a config file? If so which file and what are the alterations? Thanks in advance, Theo.

I checked my settings, they are: operation mode - simple, initiation mode - automatic, controls - proplever (fsuipc) & flaplever realistic, avionics - com/nav simple & transpond. simple. After take-off the problem was still persistent. I closed FSX and ran reset.exe als administrator and selected remove all data. After starting FSX, selecting the Katana and with shift-3 going to the settings I again set those to the ones mentioned above. This time after take-off the plane acted NORMAL!!! I flew for à little bit in utter amazement. Now I can finish the plans I had for this plane (preparing for my club a VFR around the Netherlands with a map on the knees). I suppose the tric with reset.exe is somwhere in the manual, but I never came around to that option because it misbehaved as described the moment I installed it. Thanks for the tip (I still wonder why no one at the aerosoft forum came with that tip). Happy flying, Theo.

I flew everytime with the option 'brand new' (or something like that, it's been a while now). So there will be no damage to the plane whatsoever. The shaking (and veering to the left) only occurs during the initial climb, not in normal flight. If the plane should have some damage, the problem(s) would persist. I have bought two aerosoft products sofar, had problems with both products, put both problems on the aerosoft forum and both had answers along the line 'no problems here'. If that is your opinion of good support, that's fine with me, sofar I have a different experience. On the aerosoft forum is a separate entry for the Katana with almost 400 entries. Hardly what you can call à troublefree airplane. Greetings, Theo.

Luc, I do have the Katana 'flying' but I also have difficulties whence it gets up in the air. Without touching the yoke or the pedals, the virtual yoke starts shaking like crazy and the airplane banks to the left and crashes. Since I now this behavior I roll the plane to the right when it gets airborne. I then am able to keep climbing and eventually I can make a more or less normal flight, however the plane keeps drifting to the left and needs constant corrections. I put this problem on the aerosoft forum, but no response. I also bought the RadioStackX package, but couldn't get that to run on my iPad 3 (it ran à couple of times on my iPad 2 with a lot of effort beforehand). I put that problem also on the aerosoft forum with the same amount of response (none). I now have HD Radio running instead without any problems. I don't think I will be buying another Aerosoft product in the future, mainly because their ominous lack of support. Theo.

Then were decided! When I am gonna build my new rig (with Ivy bridge) the current AMD goes down the drain. I'll buy a Nvidia 680 instead and can then start building my own simpit. Thanks for the advice, Theo

I am not quite 'at home' with the Nvidia terminology, but what I mean by 3D is to have 3 monitors on which one continious image will be displayed. This is in fact a 2D image because you can't see any depth. Is this posible without using the display port? Thanks in advance, Theo

Until now I tried to use 3 monitors on different AMD eyefinity cards, almost always with a negative result because you always needed to have a display port connected to be able to use 3 monitors. I tried an active adapter from DP to DVI, but also with a disappointing result. I am really fed up with this approach and plan to move to the new Asus GTX 680 directCU ii Top. This card has 2 DVI, 1 HDMI and 1 DP connectors of which you can use 3 connectors to create a 3d vision and the fourth connector for something completely different. As you can imagine I have become a 'little affraid' of those display ports. I have been searching for some documentation on the connection possiblities of this card but haven't found anything conclusive yet. My question is: can you use both DVI and the HDMI connector together to create the 3d vision or do you need the display port as with the eyefinity technology. I want to use 3 screens next to eachother to create one continious display for 'the outside world' in FSX. I hope some of you can shed some light on this 'problem'. Thanks in advance, Theo

First I like to introduce myself in this first post on this forum. My name is Theo Scholten and I live in the Netherlands, so English isn't my native tongue and I apologize beforehand for any typos and so. My first experience with Microsoft Flight Simulator was in 1978 on a TRS-80. FS had no number in those days (it was their first version). Can you imagine a flight simulator on a screen with a resolution of 64x16 positions (more pixels off course but you couldn't address them seperately). During the time I 'played' FS on and off (more off obviously) until I got cought again with the flying virus a couple of years ago. I am now flying with FSX with UTX, GEX, and some photorealistic scenery off the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. My original rig was based on an ASUS P5QL-CM with a Q6600 processor, 4 GB RAM, 2 HDD's of 500 GB each and a Sapphire Radeon HD5770 videocard. Apart from that I have the Saitek yoke, throttle quadrant, rudder pedals and switch panel and also an iPad 3 for my radiostack. I had two monitors attached to this videocard, one for the view and one for some instruments. I want to 'grow' to a setup with an ivy bridge processor, 16 GB of RAM, 2 SSD's (90 for OS and 240 for FSX) and a total of 8 monitors just for FSX. In addition to that another monitor on an old PC for FS Commander. A new PC will have to handle 5 screens for 'the outside view' and my current PC will have to handle 3 monitors for 'the instrument panels'. In this 'growpath' I already got both the SSD's and recently I bought two additional monitors for 'the total view' of scenery and instruments. The attached image shows what my setup looks like at the moment. The lower three monitors will, for the time being, be showing the total image. In the future the five 'outside view' monitors on the new PC will be placed on a pedestal above the current three monitors. The current monitors will then be used on my cuurent PC for the 'instrument view'. The separate monitor for FS Commander will find a place elsewhere in the still to build cockpit ( ala SimSamurai) for the complete setup. So far so good (more or less), but now comes 'the hard part' and the questions. I can't seem to get the third monitor working. I know that one of the monitors must be connected to the display port with the use of an active adapter, so I bought such an adapter. I connected the display port plug to the video card, the USB plug to an USB port and the DVI cable to the converter and... initially only a low res screen and after trying to group them all in an eyefinity group, only two monitors were recognized and the one on the display port was not one of them. I tried every combination of the two DVI and the HDMI ports, but nowhere in the world could I get the display port to get active. I searched for new firmware for my videocard, but couldn't find any. The one that I did find gave an error of an incompatible subsystem. I am affraid that I will have to get another videocard that indeed does handle three monitor. So here come the questions I have. - On the (new) main machine I want to have 5 monitors for the outside view. I know that Nvidia cards have a better performance than the AMD ones, but how to get the five monitors to act as one continious diplay. The new GTX 680 cards only allow up to four monitors. Is it possible to group two of those cards to get the wanted five continious monitors for the outside view? - Is it perhaps 'better' to stick with an eyefinity6 card like the 7970 for this five screen monitor setup? I have cheked the FSXMark11 results with comparable hardware for the differences between the GTX580 and 7970 and I find the differences acceptable for my situation (unless you can convince me I am wrong). - Shall I opt for a Nvidia card for the three instrument panel monitors in my current PC? - Or is there an eyefinity3 card that indeed can power all three instument monitors at once? If so which one? - How can I 'split' the outside view from the instrument view? So it has become quite a lenghty story, but I hope you get the drift and can give me directions in the best way to proceed to achieve my ultimate goal. Sorry for the double posting. On the first posting I only got a blank screen in return, so I refreshed the page with as result this double posting. MODERATOR(S) Can you please remove the posting without the attached image... Thanks in advance, Theo Scholten

First I like to introduce myself in this first post on this forum. My name is Theo Scholten and I live in the Netherlands, so English isn't my native tongue and I apologize beforehand for any typos and so. My first experience with Microsoft Flight Simulator was in 1978 on a TRS-80. FS had no number in those days (it was their first version). Can you imagine a flight simulator on a screen with a resolution of 64x16 positions (more pixels off course but you couldn't address them seperately). During the time I 'played' FS on and off (more off obviously) until I got cought again with the flying virus a couple of years ago. I am now flying with FSX with UTX, GEX, and some photorealistic scenery off the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. My original rig was based on an ASUS P5QL-CM with a Q6600 processor, 4 GB RAM, 2 HDD's of 500 GB each and a Sapphire Radeon HD5770 videocard. Apart from that I have the Saitek yoke, throttle quadrant, rudder pedals and switch panel and also an iPad 3 for my radiostack. I had two monitors attached to this videocard, one for the view and one for some instruments. I want to 'grow' to a setup with an ivy bridge processor, 16 GB of RAM, 2 SSD's (90 for OS and 240 for FSX) and a total of 8 monitors just for FSX. In addition to that another monitor on an old PC for FS Commander. A new PC will have to handle 5 screens for 'the outside view' and my current PC will have to handle 3 monitors for 'the instrument panels'. In this 'growpath' I already got both the SSD's and recently I bought two additional monitors for 'the total view' of scenery and instruments. The attached image shows what my setup looks like at the moment. The lower three monitors will, for the time being, be showing the total image. In the future the five 'outside view' monitors on the new PC will be placed on a pedestal above the current three monitors. The current monitors will then be used on my cuurent PC for the 'instrument view'. The separate monitor for FS Commander will find a place elsewhere in the still to build cockpit ( ala SimSamurai) for the complete setup. So far so good (more or less), but now comes 'the hard part' and the questions. I can't seem to get the third monitor working. I know that one of the monitors must be connected to the display port with the use of an active adapter, so I bought such an adapter. I connected the display port plug to the video card, the USB plug to an USB port and the DVI cable to the converter and... initially only a low res screen and after trying to group them all in an eyefinity group, only two monitors were recognized and the one on the display port was not one of them. I tried every combination of the two DVI and the HDMI ports, but nowhere in the world could I get the display port to get active. I searched for new firmware for my videocard, but couldn't find any. The one that I did find gave an error of an incompatible subsystem. I am affraid that I will have to get another videocard that indeed does handle three monitor. So here come the questions I have. - On the (new) main machine I want to have 5 monitors for the outside view. I know that Nvidia cards have a better performance than the AMD ones, but how to get the five monitors to act as one continious diplay. The new GTX 680 cards only allow up to four monitors. Is it possible to group two of those cards to get the wanted five continious monitors for the outside view? - Is it perhaps 'better' to stick with an eyefinity6 card like the 7970 for this five screen monitor setup? I have cheked the FSXMark11 results with comparable hardware for the differences between the GTX580 and 7970 and I find the differences acceptable for my situation (unless you can convince me I am wrong). - Shall I opt for a Nvidia card for the three instrument panel monitors in my current PC? - Or is there an eyefinity3 card that indeed can power all three instument monitors at once? If so which one? - How can I 'split' the outside view from the instrument view? So it has become quite a lenghty story, but I hope you get the drift and can give me directions in the best way to proceed to achieve my ultimate goal.