How to prevent FSX from using two monitors in full screen.

[flyboycjs]

Just seen a topic over at the PMDG forums about the second monitor going black when you fly in full screen. They have this link Website but its all in German.
Anyone now about this because if it works it would be great.

Would be so handy to have full screen on one monitor and still be able to have squawkbox, vroute and net running on the other and being able to see it.

Cheers

Craig

[Timmo]

Hi Craig- The link is broken

But simply run FSX in windowed mode but with the window expanded to the full extents of one of the screens....?

[flyboycjs]

QUOTE (Timmo @ Sep 2 2010, 09:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi Craig- The link is broken

But simply run FSX in windowed mode but with the window expanded to the full extents of one of the screens....?

Google (FS-SIMtimizer) should find it. Also windowed mode is a fps killer.

[ZK-MAT]

This is one thing that annoys me in FSX - how full screening blacks out the second monitor. In FS9 full screen = better FPS, but I found in FSX I get more FPS in windowed mode, which is contrary to the above comment about it being a FPS killer? Maybe it's just me!

[Fozzer]

With a dual Monitor Graphics Card, the two monitors can run in full screen mode in FS 2004.
I use the Bendix-King Radio stack, Map, and FS Navigator, running on the second monitor, full screen... ...!

One of the zillions of reasons why I use my FS 2004 instead of my FSX for my Solo and on-line flights!.... ...!

No problems with Frame Rates.

Paul...G-BPLF...FS 2004...FS Nav...and Twins...(Monitors!)... ...!

[jastheace]

QUOTE (flyboycjs @ Sep 7 2010, 11:07 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Google (FS-SIMtimizer) should find it. Also windowed mode is a fps killer.

Hi not sure if you are usaing vista or not, but i had the smae problm when running in windowed mode on vista, and you know it is a very easy fix, all you need to do is expand th fs screen, by grabing the edges and dragging them out to the edges of your monitor, but on the bottom one, make sure that no part of it touches the menu bar or the windows logo in the circle on the menu bar, that simple little change for me increased my frame rates to hat i had in full screen mode

hope it helps a little

Jason

[deeknow]

Wow this is a fortuitous post for me, I'm in the middle of a migration away from my dearly beloved FS9 to FSX and came across this dreaded problem. Was a show-stopper for me until I read this post. I had just figuired that FPS would take a hit like the do in FS9 in windowed mode, but I can concur that on my system there's no noticable difference between full-screen and windowed.

Brilliant!!! , thanx guys

[HueyTeam]

Another good tool i use with FSX is the FPSlimiter. Here Windows/Java is managing the FPS not the FSX. No stuttering with constant 25 FPS.

http://rapidshare.com/files/160642187/FPS_Limiter_0.2.rar