Dual Monitor support

[fpborges]

psolk wrote:
What video card and driver are you using? I am using a 6800gt with the 77.62 drivers...

Nvidia Geforce FX5600 w/ 7189 drivers.

Old is stable, and stable is better

Cheers,
FPB

[VegasFlyBy]

Hey Psolk,

Any reason I'd get a frame rate drop when I move the radio stack, GPS, etc over to the second screen and then disable windowed mode?
When I keep it in windowed mode there is no drop, but I really don't like the look of windowed mode at all

thanks,
Erik

[psolk]

Vegas,
Unfortunately yes. The processing power required to drive two monitors full screen in FS should essentially cut frame rates in half. I forget about
it somtimes when my FPS drops and then I remember to shut down all those open windows on the second monitor when I need my FPS to jump back up. But
yes, even with my machine, running the dual monitors full screen takes a real toll. Check out this article, it is a bit outdated but pretty spot on,
-Paul

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic...index.html

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[VegasFlyBy]

Thanks for the reference. I've got a top of the line system and it brings a tear to me eye when when my frame rate goes down I guess
I'll just have to shut the windows down, too, when I need the performance boost.

[psolk]

Yeah, I feel your pain, every once in a while I will go into my video card and disable the second monitor just to see the difference and it is
amazing... I guess the next step is dual 7800GTX cards each powering their own monitor (maybe next month with the FX-55 for me) but for right
now, if I can stay at 24 FPS with both monitors, I am happy. The first thing I do when I start to see the FPS drop if I need the windows on the
second monitor is to kill my AI. Bring it down to 20% on landing and it will alwys be smooth. Fluiditiy is the most important thing in this sim in
my opinion so if I give up some eye candy to get it, big deal... I will gladly give up some AI to have the dual monitor setup anyday...
You will see though, it is a compromise and you find the balance that is right for your machine and when you do it is a little piece of heaven.
-Paul

[VegasFlyBy]

I was going to keep my older video card (ATI Radion 124MB) for the other monitor but I only have one PCI Express in my computer. Oh
well...anyone want to buy a slightly used video card LOL.