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Running 2 or more views in FSX?

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Is it possible to have multiple views running in FSX?

For example, one one monitor you have the VC or spot view, and on another you have the view from a camera?

If not, perhaps it is possible using 2 PCs networked together both running FSX...?

Thanks,

Martin
 
Yes, you can have as many views as you wish (but if you also wish to have high framerates the useful amount is limited of course). I just tried it and for example when I added 4 views to my second monitor (each about a quarter of the screen) the framerate dropped from 24 to 6 :).
 
With 3 views on a modest 3.06GHz Xeon with 2x19" TFT's driven by a 256MB 6800 Ultra, I am getting about 17fps:



George
 
Ok thanks for that info. 6fps is certainly a little too low ;) . 17 is not too bad though - although not great - I may get more as I will not be using a VC, simply external views...

Looking at a couple of the commercial aircraft available (the Wilco 'Buses for example), it is possible to make "detachable" vector gauges to view on a separate monitor using GDI+.

From a purely practical point of view, how many monitors can be run from one PC? Using, for example, 2 very high end (1GB) dual head NVidia or ATI cards on a super high spec PC (quad core, 8GB RAM, Win XP x64 or Vista x64), would it be possible to run 4 monitors? And furthermore, would FSX support the use of this many monitors at one time?

I am thinking that even though one ultra high spec machine would be very expensive, it would still be cheaper (especially once you take into account multiple licenses for FSX and all the addons) than 2+ high spec machines...

2 more questions (sorry!):

1 - can external views form part of a gauge (you might be able to see where I am going with this... The A380)?

2 - Would it theoretically be possible to read airport data from an AFCAD or other file and "draw" a plan (looking down) schematic of the airport and your aircraft's current location in a gauge or external application (either on the same system or on a networked PC)?

I have tried to condense all my graphics related questions into a single post, so apologies for the lack of brevity! :)

Many thanks,

Martin
 
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FirmamentFX said:
2 - Would it theoretically be possible to read airport data from an AFCAD or other file and "draw" a plan (looking down) schematic of the airport and your aircraft's current location in a gauge or external application (either on the same system or on a networked PC)?
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FSNavigator does exactly this in FS9, an FSX version will be forthcoming.
 
Ok, so it is possible then! :cool:

Although FSNav does it, I would like to integrate that function into a custom MFD (using GDI+) so that it is a system "page".

Cheers!

Martin
 
At work I had a machine delivered that was spec'd specifically for FSX, but it came with an nVidia Quadro graphics card by accident. That is capable of running four monitors from one card. It's not accelerated anywhere near as well as a GeForce 6/7/8 series but I was surprised at how well it did run. (On a 2.6GHz Core2Quad Extreme 2GB RAM.) But then we've always known that FS is more CPU bound than by graphics hardware.

The Quadro's expensive though. I think they're about £700 each...

Si
 
Thanks for that info Simon.

That's not really much of a problem cost-wise - it would cost that for 2 GeForce or similar cards...!

I could put a Quadro in my older machine and just run displays from that, while having a really high end GeForce card in my new machine (which will be actually running FSX).

Does FSX actually support multiple [more than 2] monitors natively (so if I programmed the displays in GDI+ as part of FSX then it would work)?

How about multiple (identical) cards themselves? Will FSX play nice or not?

Cheers! :)

Martin



As an aside:

Quadro's never accelerate games as well as GeForce because the drivers are optimised for wireframe view for DCC applications such as Max/Maya/Blender.

Apparently there is a hack available to make drivers for Quadros work with GeForce cards (the cards are essentially the same, it's the drivers that are different, and which make Quadro cards so darn expensive). I don't think that applies as much to the latest cards though...
 
computer freezes with 4 monitors

I have an AMD 5600 dual core processor
Gigabyte motherboard with 2 PCIe x 16 slots
2 x 8800 GTS graphics cards, non SLI selected
4 Gig ram.
OS: XP pro 64 bit

When running FSX and FS9 on 2 monitors it works fine but when I select it to operate on 4 monitors it freezes. FSX recognizes 4 monitors and loads but freezes once it finishes loading.

I can spread the vies across the 4 monitors in window mode but when selecting full screen it freezes again.

FS9 recognizes 2 monitors whe n4 are hooked up but again freezes.

I thought this computer set up would run all this fine but there is obviously some conflict.

Changing specs to minimum do nothing.

I'd like to use just one computer but would I be better running Vista?
 
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