sgtoro Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 We have X-Plane running on one of our museum flight simulators with three monitors. I have loaded FSX on to that computer and only one screen is used at a time VS X-Plane using the wide view with the three screens. When I go to settings, display I see three video cards and they are numbered 0,1 and 2. What, if anything can I do to get the three monitors to display FSX? We are running a very fast gaming computer with windows 8. Thanks for any advice. Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdr1944 Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Matrox 3 into 1 I believe for sale here I have it running 3 monitors from one computer. Army Engineer Veteran..Busted for insubordination Nam-1966 :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonahbird Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 You have to set the appropriate resolution in FSX settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtoro Posted December 3, 2014 Author Share Posted December 3, 2014 OK, any idea of what that might be? I tried several from low to the highest and still only one monitor shows FSX. I know about the "box" that you can buy but according to the guy who set it up for X-plane, the box is not needed because the it's built into the computer we are using. When going into the display settings and looking at the graphics, I see three video cards listed they are 0 01 and 02 no matter which one I chose, it reverts to 0 which is the first one listed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonahbird Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 OK. What you see is not referring to 3 video cards, it refers to 3 monitors. As you can scroll to all 3, your card is not yet set for triple screening in FSX. As "the guy" set it up to work on X-Plane, I assume your graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce. Is that so? If so, right click on the desktop and select NVIDIA Control Panel from the drop down menu. Then see if you can work your way through it. There are several steps to take but the menus are quite user friendly. Perhaps you should go back to the guy who sold the PC to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtoro Posted December 3, 2014 Author Share Posted December 3, 2014 Would I have to set the video card if it's already running in 3 screen mode with X-plane? We do have it set up with two different users. One for X-plane users and one for FSX users so do I have to set the video card for 3 screens in FSX user mode? Thanks for the help as I know just enough to be dangerous! OK. What you see is not referring to 3 video cards, it refers to 3 monitors. As you can scroll to all 3, your card is not yet set for triple screening in FSX. As "the guy" set it up to work on X-Plane, I assume your graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce. Is that so? If so, right click on the desktop and select NVIDIA Control Panel from the drop down menu. Then see if you can work your way through it. There are several steps to take but the menus are quite user friendly. Perhaps you should go back to the guy who sold the PC to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonahbird Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 I will take it that you do have a Nvidia card. So please tell me the native resolutions of your 3 monitors ( I assume they are matching monitors.) Then look in X-Plane and tell me what resolution that is set at. And, tell me what resolution FSX is set at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 In fsx, look in: learning center -- views and windows -- using multiple windows. and in: learning center -- views and windows -- multiple monitors. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hurst Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 In fsx, look in: learning center -- views and windows -- using multiple windows. and in: learning center -- views and windows -- multiple monitors. Which is useless advice, since nvidia 2D Surround and ATI eyefinity weren't invented in 2006. To the OP, you need to tell us what kind of video card(s) you have. You have three options, as far as I can tell. (1) Nvidia 2D surround, which requires either a 6xxx or better GPU or two earlier GPUs in SLI configuration; (2) ATI eyefinity, which I know nothing about except that it can do multi-screen; or (3) a Matrox TripleHead2Go. Since you have it working for X-Plane you probably don't need the TH2Go. MarkH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtoro Posted December 4, 2014 Author Share Posted December 4, 2014 I will not be at the museum until next week when I'll get the info on the video cards and the resolution that's set for X-Plane. Thanks again for all the replies. Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonahbird Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 When you can, check what resolution X-Plane is set at. Then see if you can set FSX's resolution at the same level. If 1920x1080 monitors are being used, X-Plane might be set at 5760x1080x32. But if the bezel adjustment has been made it will be around 6060x1080x32. I hope this helps. Your talk about 0, 1, & 2 in your earlier post tells me you were looking in the wrong place for the resolution. Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtoro Posted December 9, 2014 Author Share Posted December 9, 2014 OK, we are running a nvidia GTX 770 2GB and the X-Plane setting is 5670X1080X32. The computer is an i5 4690K clocked at 4.2GH and 16 GB of ram. I tried to set the resolution for FSX and the highest I can select is 1920x1080x32 Is there somewhere else that it can be set higher? Is there somewhere I have to tell FSX that there's three monitors? Thanks Rich When you can, check what resolution X-Plane is set at. Then see if you can set FSX's resolution at the same level. If 1920x1080 monitors are being used, X-Plane might be set at 5760x1080x32. But if the bezel adjustment has been made it will be around 6060x1080x32. I hope this helps. Your talk about 0, 1, & 2 in your earlier post tells me you were looking in the wrong place for the resolution. Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Nibbo Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Using nvidia control panel you need to 1/ Configure Surround Physx, tick "Span displays with Surround" 2/ again in the control panel under Display, set up the display configuration. If at this point you set the bezzel settings using nvidia you will have to go to 3/ before you see any changes to the screen. 3/ Now right click on your screen and open "screen resolution" open the tab "Resolution" and move the slider to the highest setting. 4/ start FSX and change the screen resolution to the settings you chose in 3/ Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1. 16.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3. Graphics 2x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 .... 4 X DELL 1920 x 1080 res screens. 1 TByte SSD + 2TByte internal SATA drive +8 TByte External Western Digital Hard Drives (SATA) Backups Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtoro Posted December 15, 2014 Author Share Posted December 15, 2014 Could you please be more specific for a "hacker" with very little knowledge! Step 2 Which control panel? Windows or Nvidia? What and where are "bezzel" settings Step 3 Are you talking about the windows desktop screen? Thanks for the help with this. Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtoro Posted December 15, 2014 Author Share Posted December 15, 2014 Jonahbird, please check your PM's Thanks Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Nibbo Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Could you please be more specific for a "hacker" with very little knowledge! Step 2 Which control panel? Windows or Nvidia? What and where are "bezzel" settings Step 3 Are you talking about the windows desktop screen? Thanks for the help with this. Rich step 2 the nvidia control panel step 3 yes The bezzels....In the Configure Surround,PhysX click the box "span display with Surround" then click on "Configure" the page that opens has the bezzel setting on it. Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1. 16.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3. Graphics 2x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 .... 4 X DELL 1920 x 1080 res screens. 1 TByte SSD + 2TByte internal SATA drive +8 TByte External Western Digital Hard Drives (SATA) Backups Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtoro Posted December 16, 2014 Author Share Posted December 16, 2014 Thanks to all who responded to this. We now have FSX on three monitors and it's awesome! Thanks Again Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Nibbo Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I bet you won't be going back to one screen ever again. :D Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1. 16.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3. Graphics 2x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 .... 4 X DELL 1920 x 1080 res screens. 1 TByte SSD + 2TByte internal SATA drive +8 TByte External Western Digital Hard Drives (SATA) Backups Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtoro Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 Actually we have 5 more to convert to 3 screen!!! Thanks again Rich I bet you won't be going back to one screen ever again. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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