How do you get a Flight simulator with to work with three screens? How hard is it?
Flight simulators with three screens
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Fanum
Toubab
Easy enough, but you need the right Graphics card/s.
I have two screens permanently running on mine, but could have three, as my card has 2 hdmi outputs and one VGA one.....if I plug a VGA monitor in to the third output, (or used a VGA to HDMI converter) it runs a third screen.
The other way of doing it is to get a second card (most cards these days have two outputs at minimum) but you'd need to make sure you had the correct slot available on your motherboard.......most MOBOS only have one dedicated Graphics slot (AGP older stylee, PCI express newer stylee) but you can get PCI graphics cards that will fit into one of the other, standard PCI slots (used for most cards, not just dedicated graphics cards)
Have a look in your control panel>system>hardware and see what is fitted, and also tell us what motherboard you have
EDIT:
Setting them up can be hard to accomplish unless you have both cards by the same manufacturer.......nVidia cards come with a nice bit of software that helps a lot and identifies the cards and monitors well, allows you to shuffle which display goes where and whether you want the main windows screen on the center one, the left or right one, or what orientation you want them in....You can have one screen set at 90 degrees to give you a portrait layout (for full A4 document display for example) or yopu can have the same display repeated on all three screens, or different display, or the desktop spread across 2 or three screens.....I've never tried that with different makes of cards, but I can imagine it being a right royal pain in the arse !
I have two screens permanently running on mine, but could have three, as my card has 2 hdmi outputs and one VGA one.....if I plug a VGA monitor in to the third output, (or used a VGA to HDMI converter) it runs a third screen.
The other way of doing it is to get a second card (most cards these days have two outputs at minimum) but you'd need to make sure you had the correct slot available on your motherboard.......most MOBOS only have one dedicated Graphics slot (AGP older stylee, PCI express newer stylee) but you can get PCI graphics cards that will fit into one of the other, standard PCI slots (used for most cards, not just dedicated graphics cards)
Have a look in your control panel>system>hardware and see what is fitted, and also tell us what motherboard you have
EDIT:
Setting them up can be hard to accomplish unless you have both cards by the same manufacturer.......nVidia cards come with a nice bit of software that helps a lot and identifies the cards and monitors well, allows you to shuffle which display goes where and whether you want the main windows screen on the center one, the left or right one, or what orientation you want them in....You can have one screen set at 90 degrees to give you a portrait layout (for full A4 document display for example) or yopu can have the same display repeated on all three screens, or different display, or the desktop spread across 2 or three screens.....I've never tried that with different makes of cards, but I can imagine it being a right royal pain in the arse !
Would I need expensive laptops for the two new outer displays, or something quite basic- I assume the computing bit would all be done by my existing computer (a PC) suitably equipped as you say with the right Graphics card/s.
And would I need a special version of the simulator programme for three screens? Or would it be a happy case of "they all do that, sir"?
And would I need a special version of the simulator programme for three screens? Or would it be a happy case of "they all do that, sir"?
depends what you want to achieve, the PC (desktop) option allows you to take a display and split that over as many screens as you want.
say for instance you main screen is 1280x1024 you can in effect make it 3840x1024
the outer screens are only stretched versions of your single screen...
If you wanted a virtual display, so as you turn your head the out screens react to what you doing and give you a virtual view... well that's a whole different kettle of fish....
say for instance you main screen is 1280x1024 you can in effect make it 3840x1024
the outer screens are only stretched versions of your single screen...
If you wanted a virtual display, so as you turn your head the out screens react to what you doing and give you a virtual view... well that's a whole different kettle of fish....
That's the fishieous kettle I'm after, the wingtips should be visible in the two outer screens. So, how hard would that be, then?If you wanted a virtual display, so as you turn your head the out screens react to what you doing and give you a virtual view... well that's a whole different kettle of fish....
Fanum
Toubab
Go back a step.....you don't need any laptops at all....all you need are two more (preferable identical) screens and a graphics card that will run them in your desktop PC.
After that, it depends what resolutions the flight sim prog allows.....
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Fanum got it, if the program can do it and the graphics card can show and support it then your there.
I would also get a whole pile of identical screens makes it nice and easy....and esthetically nice..
depends what your looking for...
but if your looking to POV you also need an IR pickup that references your face/ head to the screens then your heading for an "enviroment" setup....
I would also get a whole pile of identical screens makes it nice and easy....and esthetically nice..
depends what your looking for...
but if your looking to POV you also need an IR pickup that references your face/ head to the screens then your heading for an "enviroment" setup....
That'l be track IR.
Plus if its FSX it won't use SLI. But it will use loads of graphics memory so the larger the RAM size on the card the better.
I'm sure if you hunt around the internet you will find out all the info you want.
Plus if its FSX it won't use SLI. But it will use loads of graphics memory so the larger the RAM size on the card the better.
I'm sure if you hunt around the internet you will find out all the info you want.
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