Three Monitor Disappointment

[paulsl]

Hello,

as work was upgrading to all-in-ones and had about 200 monitors to give away I boosted my two to three. FSX ran well with three but when I got to Goose Bay on my current RTW there was obviously too many trees (I use ORBX trees) and I started getting memory errors binging away until a CTD. Thereafter, I kept getting the memory errors even in relatively sparse areas. I've had to do a repair install a couple of time too just to get FSX running again.

Is there some secret to using three monitors rather than just tuning down all the graphics goodies? That would really tick me off after finally getting a decent machine.

I did try P3D v2.5 (bought a fortnight before 3 came out ) but that had exactly the same result and I hated it so it's been refunded.

Any tips gratefully received.

Thanks, Paul

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 4Gb
CPU: Intel(R) Core<TM) 17-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz
Memory: 16.00 GB RAM (15.94 GB usable)
Driver version: 347.52
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional

[Tako_Kichi]

Are you trying to run all three monitors from a single GPU/graphics card? If so that might be your issue. I run two on mine but the card supports two monitors.

Here is some reading that may help:

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-set-up-tri ... 1680863770
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2923941/ ... plays.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1839 ... itors.html

One way to do it is to use a custom connection box but they are not cheap (c$400 USD):
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/produ ... splayport/

Hope that helps.

[adysmith]

I am running four monitors successfully on FSX from a single graphics card, which has the capability for a fifth monitor, I just don't have desk space for one.

Card is a GeForce GT970 4Mb (rest of the PC is quite high spec as well)

[Vancouver]

I do not understand, as your machine is superior to mine (specs below) yet I occasionally run 3 Acer monitors especially when practicing circuits and the like. Whilst not spectacular, I do get respectable fps in the mid 20's even over ORBX sceneries. I can only suggest a serious look at your FSX.cfg to try and iron out some issues. More often than not to accommodate DX10 with FSX I run with only 2 of my 3 monitors (sometimes all 3) but in Pseudo full Screen mode. That way I can use moving maps (AS FCS9 & Plan-G) Opus WX, PFPX, SPAD on the exterior displays.
IMHO FSX doesn't really look great with 3 monitors anyway as the extremities of the monitors are highly distorted. Strange that with FS9 the distortions are not nearly as bad.
Can I suggest if you have not already done so, that you try DX10. It is smoother than DX9 and its issues are now very few.

My Settings.
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2Gb
CPU: Intel(R) Core<TM) I5-4790 CPU @ 3.50GHz
Memory: 16.00 GB RAM
Driver version: 352.86
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 7 64 Home
MB: Asus Maximus VII Hero

Incidentally I run mostly maxed out at 1920x1080 resolution.
All the best.

[Airspeed]

Sorry to hear of your troubles, Paul.
Paul's CPU i7 is 3.6 GHz
Alex's CPU i5 is 4.5 GHz
Does this make much difference?

[Vancouver]

ooops 3.5Ghz

[paulsl]

Thanks Gents.

I should have said that I was running off one card.It's using DX10 as well.

I think I may have the set up wrong. I always run in full screen mode and I 'spawn' windows using the '[' key. Then I drag them to each monitor. These were the instructions I found when I googled but Tako's links seem to suggest there's another way to do it. I don't see any distortion that Alex mentions so maybe I am doing it wrong.

More googling I think......