Flight Sim X Multi Monitor Tutorial Video (Up to 8 Monitors!!) 

I fly a plane; FSX is a cheap way to try out other aircraft.

Flying plane is bad for our economy

or buy 8 20$ monitors

Plane need fuel. This needs electricity. Much cheaper than ATF.

@@lalchandra4590 VR !!! he's using unnecessary pixel while he's never look at them at once

The problem is that the FOV is not correct in FSX. In the config file you need to change wide field of view to true and than it can work.

Which '.cfg' file is that Thomas?

@@davidwilkinson4969 Hi you can find the file in this path: "C:\User\Thomas\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX". You find now in this directory the file "fsx.CFG". Now open the file with the Editor and then you should see in the 50.row "WideViewAspect=False" set that to "WideViewAspect=True". I used the FSX SE but it should also work with the normal FSX. And now you can use 3 Monitors ore more! (I have "only" 3 Monitors)

Thanks for such a swift reply. As a result of following up on Matt's comment I have just now set up 7 monitors that give me about 270° of view. It has taken me about 7 hours of reading and trying different combinations based on the various limitations of my system and of FSX that I discovered as I went along. Now I have finished up with 4 monitors linked with "Surround" and three more separate monitors. There has been a lot of time spent trying to line up the views in the monitors but I have arrived at an arrangement that will be OK while I learn about other stuff like connecting my DIY controls and switches and getting a second PC networked for the Instrument Panel. I also tried your idea - finding the '.cfg' file as directed and altering the line relating to WideViewAspect. I didn't notice any difference. What was it supposed to do?

@@davidwilkinson4969 My problem with 3 monitors was that I only could see the hud in the fa18 and from the left to the right monitors was it like one monitor. Now with the changed "WideViewAspect=True" I can see on the monitor in the middle the instruments and the hud (like one monitor) and the monitors on the left and right they add more view. If you want could you message me on Instagram @Thomas_HD71. Then I can send you two pictures so you can see it what it does.

Yes it will save if, as you save the flight, you select the checkbox that makes it your 'Default Flight'.

right cliikc and open the white bar on the top where it says flight, aircraft ect. hit the tab that says flight and click save flight, that should save all the sings you set up and when you want to play, you just load up the flight where all this is saved

like the video, identify and arrange the monitors in the display setting

did you get an answer I'm wondering the same thing

He just mixed up fighter jet cockpit with commercial jet cockpit

Try a powered USB hub

You can install more than one GPU. It used to be that you could "SLI" them, which means have them work together to render the image (But now that's considered obsolete). Basically SLI is making it potentially twice as powerful by having the cards work together, but in reality it's less than that. However if you do that, you can only use the outputs from one of the graphics cards. The other alternative is to have two graphics cards that are not configured as "SLI" and so you can use all of the video outputs (as shown in this video) but actually only the primary graphics card will be doing the 3D rendering. The other card is simply displaying output, so can actually be a much less powerful card and it won't affect anything. Due to the fact only one card is rendering 8 screens though you will find that even on FSX you will need to turn down settings to get a good framerate. On newer flight sims I think the most screens you will manage on a single GPU would be 3. Flight sim 2020 currently doesn't even support multiple monitors, so you are stuck with 1 screen.

need better graphics card(s)

no they do not have to be, just better that way so they look symmetrical

Depending on the graphics card, yes you can run 3 monitors on one graphics card.

Computer Planet Thanks. Also, how did you get your Flight Simulator in a window/windowed mode. Mine isn't like that by default, and I can't go to the desktop during flight, I can only go to the desktop when I'm on the screen where you select aircraft, origin etc.

Press CTRL+D to minimize the game. Not big deal.

What is the best way to run 3 monitors to play widescreen gaming? I have a top of the range Gaming laptop, which uses dual SLI 980GTX cards, but there is only 1 HDMI output on the laptop. This gives me the LAptop screen, and a monitor screen to the left, but if i want also to use a 3rd screen to the right side, what's the best way to set that up please? I've heard of splitters, but apparently that is not possible to use, because the graphics card still see's the output as 1 no matter how many outputs the splitter has. I assume the only way to use a 3rd monitor, is to use 1 as a USB 3.0 output? Is that correct? thankyou.

I assume 2 years later you have it working, or gave up! It's fairly easy, under graphics settings you can see the other monitors there at the bottom. Just enable them, and set the offsets to the number of degrees you want to turn the view on that monitor (negative degrees is turn left)

A splitter wont work, that just duplicates the output. If you have a (mini) display port, you could search the internet for multi stream transport (MST)

Multi screen transport using one displayport

Yes, 1 graphic card can only go up to 4 monitors. If you have 2 graphic cards can go to up 8 monitors. So yes you need 2 graphic card to use 6 monitors

Glennhandschoen Is not posible, run 5 monitors with only one gtx 1060 SSC ???

NO guys, he is asking if you need the exact same GPU to run more than 4 monitors. so i want to use my 1070 and one gtx1050. Is this possible

I'm running 8 monitors and two PC's with yoke & rudder pedals etc off one power point without any problems