Multiple monitors

[burningdesire]

Hey guys,
I'm making a cocpit for fs2002 and was thinking of puting three monitors in, one front and one for each side veiw. Is there any way of doing this?
Thanks alot fellas
David

[rcbarend]

Do you mean one PC with 3 monitors ?
I don't know if there are a videocards supporting 3 monitors.
And if they do exist, I assume you will end up will a bad framerate (FS has to calculate 3 windows ..

If you mean 3 PC's:
There a program called Wideview, available in the Flightsim.com lib. (file widev2k2.zip)

Rob

[phhans]

Matrox has a videocard supporting 3 monitors.
phhans

[AirAusquin]

You can put three video cards on your pc if you have enough vailable slots. I have one inboard AGP card and a PCI video card. Yes, framerates will drop. Other option is the matrox cards. Look at the ad in this site main page.

There is were fswideview helps, but you will need to setup a network with 3 computers.

Alejandro

For more info on multiple monitors, write to me: airausquin@cantv.net

[gater]

hey david,
it depends one what you are doing with the three monitors. i just did this with my computer. it is set up as on main frame with a smaller one underneath for the gauges. both of these are supported by a gf4 ti4600 card. the third is to the right of the main frame which i use for fsnav, the radio stack etc. this is supported by a gf2 mx400 card. with everything maxed out i still get 25-30 fps. if you want 3 monitors for one view i would suggest the other tip of the matrix or motrix (whatever its called). if you have more questions about this you can email me and ill help you out the same way someone did me.

james

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[Icarus747]

For the besgt quality you really need to run three PC's networked if you can. The most powerful should run your main (front) view and the sim. The others can be of lesser power (speed, memory, etc) because they only have to drive one view. Having everything on the same OS will save you alot of headaches.

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[tigert]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Apr-04-03 AT 05:08AM (EST)[/font][p]>For the besgt quality you really
>need to run three PC's
>networked if you can.
>The most powerful should run
>your main (front) view and
>the sim. The others
>can be of lesser power
>(speed, memory, etc) because they
>only have to drive one
>view.

Yeah. For multiple 3D-views either:

* Matrox Parhelia + 3 screens - they say there is a limit with FS2002 of 640x480 x 3 - but I guess the FS2004 on summer will fix that.

* Multiple PCs with 3d-cards and WideView (www.wideview.it IIRC) and you need to network the computers. The main PC indeed needs to be the fastest like "Icarus747" mentioned, the others you can have run with lower detail setting as well since you need the detail mostly on the front view.

* One PC with multiple PCI videocards *does work if* you only run one 3D-view and just 2D-panels on other screens. Note that Project Magenta is also using OpenGL, so those are as well sort of "3D apps" thus probably run better with separate machines. No first hand experience on them though so maybe someone can correct me if I am wrong.

Old Matrox PCI videocards are very good and seem to work, test all PCI card before buying since not all motherboards seem to like them in addition to the AGP main card.

Tuomas

[PoRrEkE]

how 'bout my plan to use 1 display for the outside view (GeForce 2 Ti 500), 2 displays for the gauges in my panel (simple PCI vid card)

all this into 1 pc (sort of like a Celeron 2 gig) ??

what are you guys thoughts on that ?

[tigert]

>how 'bout my plan to use
>1 display for the outside
>view (GeForce 2 Ti 500),
>2 displays for the gauges
>in my panel (simple PCI
>vid card)
>
>all this into 1 pc (sort
>of like a Celeron 2
>gig) ??
>
>what are you guys thoughts on
>that ?

Should work okay, just check that the PCI videocards work on your motherboard with the GeForce. Matrox ones are known to be good, but I guess other brands work fine too. But better to check first.

Tuomas

[TomXP]

Rather than get a "simple PCI Card", go pick up a new Geforce card. An MX440 will still outperform the card you have now, but also has an option for a second CRT. The ti4200 cards should do a lot better for you, with the advantage of giving you two video ports.

If you want to do more than the instrument panel and one 3D view, then you will definitely want to set up a second PC.