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Did an early morning jaunt from KPHL to DTW.... Temps reached -68 at altitude... This is what the plane looked like after returning to the ground. Frost on the nose, top of fuselage and engines... Very cool depiction...

So I'm running X-plane really nicely on 2 27-nch monitors, both at 2560x1440. Even with heavy payware (Flightfactor 757, for ex) I'm maintaining between 25-30 frames, with sliders mostly to the right. (reflection detail is only one off.) Also HD terrain mesh in much of the U.S. But there's now an LG 49-inch monitor with 5120x1440 res. It costs quite a bit, but I'm wondering whether running ONE display at that resolution would be easier for my machine (and thus give me more frames) than my current setup, with two running at 2560x1440. Any ideas? An experiment with switching one of the monitors to "unused" in X-plane and switching the other to 5120x1440 resolution does not really improve performance... but even under that scenario, the vidcard is producing an image across two monitors, right? Not sure about that one. But any advice would be appreciated. Thanks! My machine is a Dell Alienware Aurora R8, with an i7 9700 and a Geforce RTX 2080.

Restarting the hobby, looking for a new computer. If this is FS-only computer, good choice? (maybe a racing game or two runs on it, too, but no other gaming or productivity or design software) And would this run a 4K monitor pretty well? https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Alienware-Desktop-i7-8700K-AWAUR7-7066SLV-PUS/dp/B07K3PXZNB/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=alienware&qid=1556582411&s=gateway&sr=8-6

Hey thanks.. that's quite helpful..

Hi. Thanks for the advice. So what would be the kind of system specs I'd need to run smoothly on that kind of monitor?

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-LC49HG90DMNXZA-Curved-49-Inch-Monitor/dp/B072C7TNC5 Building a new FS rig after about 12 years (!!!) away from the hobby. I have a great curved screen for my television, and love the way it works... Wondering if this is the way to go for FS, as well..