dual monitor single card

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swiffer88 Trainee
Joined: Jan 09, 2007 Posts: 31
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Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:57 pm

hey guys

I have a evga 8800gts card with two output on the back of it.. can I plug a second small monitor on the card without loosing to much fps in fsx. The second monitor would be like a 10in maybe, just to load google earth and google earth tracker..

and if I can, in windows setup I know I got to go put 2 monitor, but do I need to do something else so that the two monitor show different thing, like my main plays fsx while the second plays google earth or something else if I want

thanks

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RadarMan Chief Captain
Joined: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 17934 Location: U.S.A
Answered
Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:07 am

Good idea, one day I want a smaller one for my GPS.

Try some of these links:

https://flyawaysimulation.com/news/3804/

Radar

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mossy First Officer
Joined: Sep 05, 2006 Posts: 334 Location: London
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Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:01 am

I have a smaller moniter but I cant figure out how to show a different veiw on one screen and the cockpit in the other. A screen for gps is a great idea radarman, I am always having to move it so I can use other instruments, and also I jut got the flight1 meridian which has a very copmlex gps system, which would great to be able to see the whole time so I can figure it out.

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oldsamer First Officer
Joined: Jan 31, 2007 Posts: 307 Location: El Paso TX
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Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:58 pm

That's out of 8800GTX. Didn't see any hit on FPS. 13" shows sectional off the internet and performance monitor.

Xp recognized the second monitor and it was just drag and drop the ie7 window onto the little monitor, no problem. Same for other game windows, like the radio stack or ATC message window.

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Rodney Jacobs (GundamWZero) Captain
Joined: Dec 29, 2006 Posts: 525 Location: Ft. Bliss, Texas
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Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:08 am

Sorry it won't do that. I noticed that Oldsamer is running FSX in windowed mode. If you go full screen, then the second monitor will go blank. However you can add MFDs, GPS, and other stuff to the second monitor. When I was able to do that, I had all my cockpit controls on the second monitor....now when I go to full screen the sim just flashes on and off, so I stay in windowed mode. The thing is once you switch screens the simulator pauses itself.

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oldsamer First Officer
Joined: Jan 31, 2007 Posts: 307 Location: El Paso TX
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Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:23 pm

All true, but FSX runs OK in windowed mode, no FPS hit.

After dragging other windows to second monitor, mouse over to cockpit and click to un-pause.

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