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DVA12719
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Posted onPost created on October 29 2015 22:10 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch

I am finally upgrading to three monitors for my computer (including the built in one). How do I go about settting them up to have the scenery stretch all the way across all three without stretching the actual image?
Basically: Looking directly forward for the middle screen, and slightly to the sides for the other two.

Yisrael Wealcatch (DVA12719)

DVA11021
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Posted onPost created on October 30 2015 07:49 ET by Sean Zarella

Youll have to set FSX resolution to match your Desktops Resolution this will maintan the aspect ratio without warping

Sean Zarella (DVA11021)

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Posted onPost created on October 30 2015 11:07 ET by Kris Greenough

Well that's not entirely true. The easiest way is to use a card that supports nvidia surround or eyefinity. Once you span the display it will make a size of about 5190x1028. Make sure you you have wideaspect enabled in your FSX or p3d config. Regardless of these settings you will get some warping on the edges. I have never heard of a way to get rid of this. Lastly expect your frame rates to take a serious hit when doing this. I run a 3 monitor setup with a nvidia gtx 970 and it works ok. With full Orbx, pmdg, rex, on p3dv3 framerates in the clouds and come to a slide show (15 fps or so). Some tweaking will be needed. I can average about 22-30 in most airports with customer scenery. Best of luck, once you go 3 screens with 42" tv's you can never go back.

Kris Greenough

Senior Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on October 30 2015 11:33 ET by Sean Zarella

With my unique setup, I run 3 top 23 " displays and I control the warping with the correct Zoom level, and yes there is a ton of loss performance, especially spanning across more than 1 display,

and yes there is alot of FSX tweaking and unique to each setup depending on hardware. My aircraft.cfg is unrecognizable smile

Posted onPost created on October 30 2015 14:23 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch

Can you help me set that up?

Yisrael Wealcatch (DVA12719)

Posted onPost created on October 30 2015 14:53 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch

For now I just opened multiple virtual cockpit windows...

Yisrael Wealcatch (DVA12719)

Posted onPost created on October 30 2015 16:08 ET by Sean Zarella

Yisrael can you detail your PC specs , CPU memory Ram. GPU, PS please ? thanks

Sean Zarella (DVA11021)

Posted onPost created on October 30 2015 16:52 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch

Windows 8.1 Professional
2.6 GHz Intel Processor
8Gb RAM
2Gb of VRAM
Running FSX off a 32Gb USB 3.0 flash drive
I am running this all on a MacBook Pro

SIDE NOTE:
As of now, I have it fuctioning well with no warping because I am just using different windows on each monitor all angled to fit together. I think it looks great, but the only problem is, it will not stay like that for the next time I open FSX.
So far, I have little to no lag, which is great!

Yisrael Wealcatch (DVA12719)

Posted onPost created on October 30 2015 17:45 ET by Sean Zarella

it will stay like that , Go to SAVE FLIGHT as default and will always start up like that.

Sean Zarella (DVA11021)

Posted onPost created on October 31 2015 20:48 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch

Awesome

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