Hi and greetings from Abbotsford BC Canada
Hi everyone .... I'm a 60 yr old flight enthusiast.
I have a serious issue anad I am wondering if anyone can help me in getting a 3 screen 'pan' view with Fllightsim. I use mainly FSX and have a high end Asus mother board, 2 x 1gigVRAM PCIex 2.0 Nvidia cards. I run a quad core 2.8 GigHrz proc ....... so this thing 'goes'! However my computer hardware supplier has been unable to get it to work on 3 LCD monitors ...for a 'wide view' cockpit/scenery pan around view .... etc. 2 monitors will work but the third stays 'independent. I thought it would work as the video cards each have 2x VDi outputs. Anyone have any idea if there is a way to get all three screens working?? I would be thrilled as it should really give an immersion effect ......
Look forward to hearing from anyone .....
Robert
Abbotsford Flightenthusiast.... Robert re: multi-views
Hi and thanks again for everyone responding. I was afraid I was on my own with this .... but what a wonderful community!. I don't see this as a ,,game,, but a learning tool. For me it is the navigation and ILS/manual approach to runways skill. Having said that it is with some disapointment that software seems to be behind with hardware. ( I stand corrected )
My whole point is ... to.... have the 'side views' follow in sync the front view. The front view having..as if in the cockpit .... the instrument panel etc. It may ofcourse stretch somewhat into the side monitors like the 'pillars' but that is OK. Now here is an interesting discovery:
I ran FSX on my front monitor/main ... and noticed the control tower on the right. side of this front monitor and a radio aireal on the left side as I was on the runway. I then set it up for TWO monitors the same way. ( increased res. to ad left monitor etc. and pan view). NOTE: the exact same view only stretched, filled the screen ...DUH! ... Now admittedly it is nice and wide but were certainly not increasing the arc radius here. I use 3 x 24" wide aspect
ACER monitors .... so... all in all I get a 'nice' view but if I want to see what is actually beside me ( RT/LFT).. so say another 45-90 degree view from the front ... then I have to use my pan button on my Logitech Wingman Forcefeedbback stick. I noticed going to the WEBB site Tr'..2go solves this BUT ..it only gives you a total of 90 degrees I understand and does a lot of stretching! WIDEVIEW needs a seperate FSX program running on each computer and EACH one drives it's own monitor ( to my understanding)
Now... Does X-plane work better in this regard?? or does it simulate the same views. I have the program so I'll see if it might work better.
I hope I am not bothering and boring anyone to death with this issue!!??? but how 'cool' the immersion if you could get anywhere from 150 - 180 degree view!! With 2 monitors I still get very good frame rates by the way. I have 1 gigRAM NVidia video cards .... 2 Gig mb RAM.
thanks again ....
FURTHER: I plan to mount this syst. in my own gyroscope seating/setup
Blessings
Robert
FDS Forum ... multiple screens/views?
Hi and thanks for your response Rodney ......
I have tried the same 3 screens method in X-plane as I did in FSX and basically I get the same results. Once you change resolution you basically 'stretch the 'front view' that's all!
I also still can't get a full pan view with my TWO NVidia cards in 2 PCIex 2.0slots and using THREE monitors. I can't believe it .... all that hardware, and FOUR! DVi outputs with the two cards together. ....man ...!!!
Anyway it looks like I have no other option? than a '90 degree view' totalled with the TripleHead 2Go box .... or spend a lot of money on exact same computeres and run WideView. That's beyond my 'hobby' budget ha ha ha....
Too bad though. Maybe some changes will be forthcoming soon> I remember with video editting, no end to 'RE-rendering and tons of memory plus " FREEZES" .... Now it's breeze with 'realtime' rendering ......
Hopefully Tripl' .... will bring out a version that has about a 150 degree viewing radius ....... Now that would sell I'd think!
If anyone has some more ideas "Let it rip". Much appreciated!!
Robert