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Reply #15 - May 25^th, 2011 at 6:20pm

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snippyfsxer wrote on May 25^th, 2011 at 5:01pm:

Demious wrote on May 25^th, 2011 at 7:27am:

I've seen in a video on youtube how someone used a double-resolution on a geforce 7200 card, but he doesnt explain how he got that in his list.
Now I have been able to create double monitor resolution and get in in the list within FSX even, but with me it doesnt work.

1) Get a Matrox Box
2) Get another Nvidia card running in SLI, so that you can enable "Surround"
3) Get an ATI Eyefinity card

I don't think there are any other options.

I agree with Snippy and add this, No matter how much duct tape you have on hand, you are just going to struggle and end up frustated. Out of the above three suggestions Matrox is the simplest route and is very user friendly. If Matrox slowed my FSX by by one or two frames per second, I haven't noticed yet. My sig is a Matrox dualscreen shot very heavily compressed to fit in the sig space but it's still not to bad. Matrox software doesn't ask your vid card to do any thing more than it was doing, other than use a higher resolution. Once your vid card spits out the info through its output port (VGA or whatever), it has no idea whether Matrox is hooked up or one monitor is hooked up.

Flying with twins is a lot of fun..

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Reply #16 - Jun 2^nd, 2011 at 4:01pm

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Demious wrote on Apr 25^th, 2011 at 3:28am:

I've got it running in windowed mode and can stretch the outer game window over both screens, but than the cockpit window only spans one monitor, leaving the other half black. And strechting the cockpit window wont go any further.
I do have the extra windows(gps, radio, etc) within the outer window, on the right side, but non of the windows are capable of going bigger than the size of one monitor.

I have been using Nvidia cards for about three years and two monitors. On the Nvidia control panel for 32bit machines you will find a setting that lets you stretch horizontally the view to both monitors, that is they act as one long one. FSX or FS9 works perfectly and look great. Its totaly automatic. Now if you have a 64 bit machine the control panel which I just found out since I got a new machine last night is very troublesome and not as clear as the 32 bit one. I am just having what you mention with the new 64 bit machine, win7 and the Nvidia 460SE...I had to get to work so I could not fiddle with the problem too much but I suspect its all a question of playing around with the resolution, if I get it right I´ll drop you a note tonight.... Shocked

Gera

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