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by **Grumble** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:45 pm

I know that in the past Windows 7 has not been able to run FSX spanned across two monitors in full screen on a single card on Win 7. Has anyone found a fix for this?

by **Ian Warren** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 3:03 pm

Hi ya Chappy , up at Doug,s last weekend ... Three Monitors really looked the part , two i guess would be ideal for the DC-3 , you may to source a two monitor plug inn

by **dbcunnz** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 3:04 pm

Grumble wrote:
QUOTE (Grumble @ Apr 25 2011,2:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I know that in the past Windows 7 has not been able to run FSX spanned across two monitors in full screen on a single card on Win 7. Has anyone found a fix for this?

Hi have you ever thought of going to three monitors I am using the Matrox tripleHead2Go running three monitors if you have a look at this post has some pics taken using the three monitors.
http://nzff.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...+tripplehead2go

by **Grumble** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 3:51 pm

No, just running a Radeon 4890, can't afford to upgrade right now...

by **Dontcopy** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:28 pm

Yeah, was also thinking of dual monitors. Interested to find out if it works.

by **SeanG** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:41 am

Dontcopy wrote:
QUOTE (Dontcopy @ Apr 25 2011,4:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yeah, was also thinking of dual monitors. Interested to find out if it works.

Spanning does work, but as far as I know, only on nvidia cards, using their "span using all displays" option in the SLI menu..

SeanG

by **brendan** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 7:44 pm

SeanG wrote:
QUOTE (SeanG @ Apr 27 2011,1:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Spanning does work, but as far as I know, only on nvidia cards, using their "span using all displays" option in the SLI menu..

SeanG

SeanG can you tell me where to find that SPAN ALL SCREENS I cant find the SLI menu Cheers

by **Dontcopy** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:18 pm

Wouldn't an Eyefinity card work? My card can support up to 4 monitors but never tried

by **AlisterC** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:25 pm

Brendan if Sean doesn't answer in a few days to this thread send him a PM, he's currently in Europe according to his Facebook

by **brendan** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:34 pm

Roger that thanks man, I may have found an answer , Nvidia forums suggest ( i'm not running SLI ) that even if your not running sli to D/L the driver and you can still use the span feature, just set a restore point incase drivers don't work ???? gonna try it.

by **syr** » Sat Jun 11, 2011 6:51 pm

Hello Brendan,

how can I download a SLI-Driver from NVidia explicitly?

Could you give a link please

Did it actually work in your case?

If that won't work...i gonna go back to WinXP 64Bit.....better performance and spanning without a problem

kind regards

by **brendan** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:04 pm

syr wrote:
QUOTE (syr @ Jun 11 2011,6:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hello Brendan,

how can I download a SLI-Driver from NVidia explicitly?

Could you give a link please

Did it actually work in your case?

If that won't work...i gonna go back to WinXP 64Bit.....better performance and spanning without a problem

kind regards

No mate didn't work , as I thought it just screwed things up , went back to old drivers. really at my wits end , gonna bite the bullet and get a new card.

site is......... http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us sorry been away .

by **Dean** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:43 pm

brendan wrote:
QUOTE (brendan @ Jun 14 2011,7:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
No mate didn't work , as I thought it just screwed things up , went back to old drivers. really at my wits end , gonna bite the bullet and get a new card.

site is......... http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us sorry been away .

You either need a Matrox DualHead2Go or TripleHead2Go, or a Radeon Eyefinity card to do this as far as I know. A lot of people have tried in the past but I think those first few mentioned options are really the only way to get it to work at the present time.

by **Dontcopy** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:10 pm

Rather than make a new topic I thought I would carry this on.
I just bought a second monitor ( Exactly the same as my other one, Philips 190CW) and i'm hoping it will be here Monday.
I'm running it on an Eyefinity card so there should not be a problem with that, but can anyone give me any pointers on how to set it up for FSX?
Any advice will be much appreciated.
Thanks

by **zkcav** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:49 pm

To explain my Rig I'm using Win7 64 Bit with four monitors. I can't show any photos because I'm away from home on business at the moment until next week.

Nothing fancy as far as software just lots of grunt hardware: 2 NVidia GFX cards -GTX590 and GTX295. (Not in SLI since 295 uses different chipset)
1 x 23" Samsung LED as main monitor, 2 x Samsung 22" as left and right and a Phillips 19" sitting in front for panel.

I was running this with 295 as main and GTX8800 as second card but that was a slide show. Upgraded to 590 and saw a great increase in FPS... FSX CPU bound? I'm not 100% convinced.

I open up FSX flight and then open windows to give me the views I want, then drag to the required monitor. It depends on complexity of the scenery and A/C - I might only open 3 windows if I'm using PMDG 747 at Aerosofts LFPG with France VFR Paris scenery and get 15 FPS - but for most NZ Flights its fine with 4 monitors with any payware aircraft.

Itâ€™s bit of stuffing around setting up, but I hardly need to use Track IR now - which only works on the active window anyway.

Rest of the PC I7 O/C to 3.6Mhz - water cooled, 8GB DDR3 133Mhz RAM â€“ bottleneck is the 560GB FSX dedicated SATA drive, 1200w PSU to drive it all

The latest NVidia Drivers for the 590 allow spanning across one GFX card for 2 monitors but that defeats the purpose of my setup especially if using Track IR.

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Update - FSX on Dual monitors / Win 7

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