Multi-Monitor Set Up Guide | Microsoft Flight Simulator | New SU 10 Feature 

Quick tip: Click on the sliders then use mouse wheel scroll to easily move values in small increments without having to type numbers into the value boxes :)

I'm considering trying multi-monitors, and your video by far is the most concise I've seen so far. Thanks!

Mark - as a relative novice your videos are excellent, not only my flying skills have improved so have my computer skills, keep em coming

Thank you Mark, again a brillant how-to video!

This was incredibly helpful. Thank you!

Always helpful. Many thanks for your hard work :)

Thanks Mark. This is excellent and SU10 has transformed FS2020 for me. Now I’m tempted to move the sim onto my sim racing rig with triple 32 monitors and full motion.

great help thanks for posting!

Love your vids Mark. You have helped me (and no doubt countless others) a lot this last year or two. I think of you as the "David Attenborough" of the Flight Sim world. :)

Thank you so much for this instructional video. It was superb! 🙂

Very helpful. Thank you.

This video got me in the ball park. Thanks

definitely going to try it today, thanks for the clear demonstration and tip, I wonder how it would end up with me as I have monitors of different size

Hi Mark, finally I upgraded from 2 * 4K screens to 3 * 4K screens and with a 4090 and a little settings ajustements it's a big immersive difference !!!

Great video and explanation I just bought 2 extra monitors and I'll be following your guide! Even though I'm a VR user, once in a while is good to enjoy 1440p details...

Ah I knew you’d have a tutorial on this thank you!

For me I can't get it perfect. I can only get it perfect for one particular position. What I have done is set a few custom views that are pretty good and have a button on my controller to swap views then it is fairly realistic. I don't know if it's a coincidence but I am 78 years young and I agree with Old Guy Gaming Network's comment below that I prefer it to VR. I have 3x24 inch monitors at 45 degrees for the sides and I get about the same fps as with VR (HP Reverb G2). I love VR with my racing sims but for MSFS 2020 I prefer this Multi Monitor even if it's not perfect. Hopefully Asoto will put some more effort into this as time goes by. I am now off to explore the other setup links you have recommended. Thanks for posting this topic.

thanks so much mate

no matter the topic wheather it applies to me or not like I can only have one monitor Your Videos are Always Study Level

IF I may, I'd like to correct you on one INCORRECT statement . It's crucial that people understand this so that they can enjoy a faster running game: Same Resolution IS NOT Necessary this is a crucial point. I am personally am running 3 , 55 in 4k tvs. I'm using a 3080 cpu. Although very capable, it does come to a grind when running three 4K tvs. Therefore I set my Center monitor resolution to 4K and the two side ones (left and right) to 1440p. Doing so allows my game to run much faster frames per second , because it's not rendering as many pixels on the left and right screen. It is incorrect to say that you cannot align them because you absolutely can. You guys can try this on your own. I have videos showing it working. The one thing that becomes difficult is if you're using physically different sized monitors. Even so, with a little bit of patience those can be aligned..There is a benefit to it so I want to make sure you guys knew

Thank you.

Haven't installed the update yet but can't wait to try multi monitor, have 3x 43inch 4k screens

Thank you Mark for yet another great video - You are my favorite FlightSim CC! A question: I have a 3-monitor setup and use Nvidias Multimonitor "3D Surround" to have "one big Windows monitor" which works well with MSFS - What would you say would be the advantage of using MSFS Multi-Monitor setup instead?

I have four 24” monitors three of which are using nvidea surround, if I want to use the multi monitor function I’d have to disable it and then reset all my resolutions back to default then set up the sims multi monitors. Then once I’ve finished flying reset it all back.

just before I fell asleep to this, all I could see in my mind was someone talking about animals in a PBS show... Jokes aside, well done!

Currently running three 32 inch monitors 4K LG NVIDIA.

Hey bud you can also use the mouse wheel to get real close to your screen values instead of typing them onto the window screen

Ok, for people who only have 2 monitors I'll have to make a table for POSH directions and locations so that you see the best stuff like traveling by old timey ships.

I have a three screen cockpit with smaller monitors on the dash for instruments. MSFS needs to add an other slider adjustment for vertical height- in addition to the existing three. Horizontal roll offset and vertical roll offset are not sufficient to line up everything at the bezel while keeping the ground looking level on the left and right sides. (I also had trouble entering the numbers in the boxes. The zero kept jumping in after the digit when I cleared everything and the decimal point also deleted itself if I cleared a decimal digit - so I would always have to enter the decimal again.... as well as making sure a zero did not insert itself.) I am surprised MSFS did not just look at what XPlane has done and duplicate that. UPDATE: As per Al Heeley's tip, I found that you can adjust the numbers very accurately using the mouse wheel. Hopefully though, they will eliminate the duplicate fields that appear in the control window for adjusting the extension views.... and hopefully they will eventually provide a means of lining up the cockpit independently to the environment.... because currently the environment can be lined up perfectly but the plane frame is not - and vice versa.

Another great video! I'm struggling with VR on my G2 due to poor image quality (blurry displays, tiny sweet-spot) I only have a single 32" monitor - would I be better going for a larger (50") monitor or adding two more 32" monitors?

Thank you! Literal game changer! :) I have a 27" curved monitor in front, and two 32"ers on the sides... it feels like I'm in a real plane!

Did Microsoft finally added the functionality of FS2004 of undocking instrument panels ? Or is it still only 3D cockpit where you have to zoom in to the panels losing the aerial view ?

The Nividia Control Panel has a feature on the left side panel called Configure Surround, PhysX which is 10 times faster to setup and align. It also has a built in feature for bezel correction which you can adjust (it provides a crosshatch image to make this easier). You can then pan or translate to your heart's content while flying and the image will always look correct. No matter where you are sitting. And no matter if you are in cockpit, external. or Drone view.

Can’t wait to try this on the Xbox!!

I have some big issue with pop up instrument window. As workaround I woul think to use new render option just focused on the PFD and MFD instrument.. Thus I don't have allignment issue. I just want to have some panel always in good view. My second monitor as a different screen resolution because the first one is 49" curve. When I set up the render monitor I have to use the resolution of the second monitor?

Mark - Great video. Just confused on one point. You mentioned FULL SCREEN. I have seen other similar (but not as good) videos that say to use WINDOW mode. I am setting up a 3 monitor cockpit. What is the correct mode and why. Thanks. Keep it up!

Mark, Does the new MSFS sim allow different views ( say the inside cockpit view to be run 0n Monitor 1) along with say an external outside view on the Monitor 2 ? My two monitors are upper & lower. Thanks

hi, i have 3 monitors, middle ultra-wide 34" 3440x1440 curve screen, two outside monitors are 27" upright in portrait mode (also 2K (1440p) monitors) A really crazy thing that I'm able to do is just setup one render window and then stretch if left and right by taking the mouse and moving it out wide left and wide right. Once I let go of the mouse key, it snaps it to the correct resolution just perfect for each of the monitors. Of course, with two outside monitors upright in portrait, i don't want them full-screen and sure enough they are not and that is awesome. So, i get 60+ frames this way and it's amazing. the only issue is that you can peel upward using the mouse and grabbing the bottom border and there is an original layer underneath. and it seems to swap the original layer for the "on-top" layer when I need to use the menus etc. And i notice that instruments are not where the mouse clicks think they are, but sometimes they are depending on which "skin" (original skin or rendered windows 1 skin) is on top. This is great at the same time a bit confusing at times. I can live with it for sure because the speed is unbelievable. I just can't believe it knows how to snap the right resolution to each monitor after the stretching (it's like it knows what I want to do). I don't seem to be able to figure out how to do 3 rendered windows. Again, two outside monitors i just want the middle part to be used as the 34" middle one is exactly centered to the portrait mode monitors. So, in other words, the middle part of each of the 1440p 27" monitors are being used in this "stretch config" , which is great, that allows me the top and bottom of each portrait mode monitor to have other things showing like SPAD and websites and other utilities. I have a fourth monitor down below the 34" 1440 Ultrawide that is an extra monitor connected to my motherboard and setup for touchscreen when needed but I also can put littlenavmap, MS Add-On Linker and a bunch of other things on the bottom screen (4th screen). I hope they don't mess with this and take this feature away, but perhaps you can tell me that if I were to do 3 window renders, will I get the same performance (i have a 4090) and again, Im getting about 60FPS with the monitor setup with MSFS?

I appreciate your input Mark. I have tried doing this, but for some reason when I go to the experimental menu, and when I add render windows and restart sim, my physical monitors do not show the view at all. I do see multiple windows minimized on my main displays, but these minimized windows are not appearing on the other monitors. Any suggestions? Thanks

I highly recommend an ultrawide 32x9 aspect ratio monitor for flight simulator vs multi monitors. I play at a resolution of 5120x1440 and from my desk position the monitor fills up my side to side field of view. From within the cockpit it feels very realistic and I prefer it to playing in VR.

I miss some sliders to be able to move the image in X and Y; I was using Windowed Borderless Gamming and the result was much better for me!

i have started an home cockpit build with Captain and FO seat if you have only 2 screen and you want to have the 2 central bezel screen in the middle of cockpit view , do you have to set -45 on left and +45 on the right ? or the best of the multiscreen is a 3 screens configuration (1 central + 1 left + 1 right) ?

Im confused on the angle of your monitors .Do you have 2 monitors or 3? . Does any of this conflict with Nvidia surround view or the win 10/11 set up surround ?

What computers setup do you use?

Do you know if it works if you second monitor is a TV?

Mark, I followed your you tube instructions exactly but my virtual window 1 and window 2 never appear. Any suggestions? Also, is there a way to split the pop out PFD and MFD so I can place them on separate monitors?

Thanks a lot for this detailed setup, but..... how to start in Windows, setting up multi monitors ?

Can't wait to see someone build a home sim with 3 Samsung Odyssey Ark monitors.

so you cannot setup different views on 2 monitors, for example, i just want to see the cockpit view on the second monitor which would be on my right side of the main monitor. my monitors are 2 different sizes.

Yes, a much wanted feature. I want to put a LEFT SIDE view on one monitor and RIGHT SIDE view on a second monitor while the front view is on my 3rd monitor. I don’t need them to line up with adjacent monitors. Will this release accommodate that type of setup?

I have been experimenting with triple screen but have been disappointed with my frame rate. I am not sure if something is configured wrong or if I am set up correctly and this is the frame rate I should expect to get. I am on a system with a 5800X3D and RTX 3080, with 1440p main screen, and 1080p side screens. These three screens add up to less than one 4K screen's worth of pixels, so I was hoping to get a consistent 40 FPS or so. However, I only get 25-35 most of the time even with settings turned down a bit.

Every time I switch from menu to flying or vice versa, and switching between VR and pancake mode, the side screens "jump" back to hide behind the main screen, I have to go to options, make them into windows, and then back to full screen in order to put them back to the side monitors. This is extremely annoying, do you know any way to keep them there or at least can put them back where they belong easily? Thanks

is it right that i have to disable nvidia surround or will it work with surround? i have 3x55" 4k monitors

1x 32:9 2x 16:9 monitors... hers where the MSFS has problems... tried connecting the 32:9 as two monitors for a total of 4 displays.... can not adjust... x-plane does a great job with monitors

Will my RX 6700xt drive 3 screens at 2k each?

Does this feature also fix the big fps drop when you pop out panels to another monitor?

When you have multiple monitors and you bring up a new aircraft, you have to reconfigure the left and right window to align with the center window. I would think that flight Simulator should be able remember each rendering window for each aircraft. Am I missing anything?

Mark, I have an ASUS Predator 34P 3440 x 1440. I would like to add a couple more monitors to my setup, but I don't want to buy the 34P for those. I was looking more at 27" monitors with 2560 x 1440 resolution. Would this work as far as blending all the monitors together? I know the ideal would be 3 of the same, but that is not in my budget at this time. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am using MSFS 2020.

How to activate experimental option in the general options? I don't have an experimental option in the general options

can you have cockpit on one monitor and chase plane on the other?

what are you using to actually connect the monitors?

Hello, can you use MSFS 2020 with master and slave computers for multiple computers?

Mark, What happens to your FPS figure when creating new Render Windows? I get a reduction of 50% with the first new window and 67% with the second. (Crunch meister of the Simstrumentation team tells me that essentialy everyone who pops out instruments into their own windows has suffered this problem since the initial release of MFS, but I never encountered it until SU 10.)

I guess this wouldn’t work with my Tobii eye tracker.

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is it the plan or your pc making these sounds?

Except the taskbar on the right screen showing

Hi Mark, would three Samsung g9 49 inch monitors work?

How does this work with track ir?

I tried this the day the update came out. I have an i7 12700 and 3080 GPU with 32GB RAM and triple 32 inch 1440p monitors. Setup worked fine but after flying a Cessna for 10 minutes the game crashes.

Can you set up multi monitors on an XBOX Series X for Microsoft Flight Simulator?

Do we need to have nvidia surround on or off as the moment I try add a window it crashes everytime! I have 3080ti 1440p monitors and no problems with amy krher games except this 1, so annoying.l can't work it out.

I don't like it it's not like Xplane because we cannot zoom left or right to remove the door frame when you have home cockpit like me its not a good configuration.

wil dualmonitors slowdown my fps if im runing fs2020 in 4k

Does Approach Mode still work for you? Since they made the latest update, Approach Mode no longer works at all on any plane! Even the diamonds on the plane's monitor no longer appear!

I find it odd that the storm clouds on the upper right of your left monitor go from dark to white as they cross into your right monitor. Is this an illusion, or real?

Working with not straight monitor? Like ( Round monitor?

This must be the most unintuitive multi monitor funtionality of any current simulator. Of course I understand that, in a flight sim, the view ports are not necessarily aligned, but it’s common enough with aligned triples to at least consider it. I spent hours trying to get this right, without ever managing to get it to a decent level. In fact, I gave up on the whole sim for quite some time due to this. Just as you, I eventually chose to fly in VR, but that has other drawbacks. I feel that MS/Asobo didn’t quite funish anything. Multi monitor support, but not quite working. VR support, but not quite there (thinking of lacking controller support), etc, etc. A real pity, because the sim is on most other ways, a piece of art.

he sounds like David Attombrugh

There's no experintal menu in my msfs 😢

I find this set up really bizzare. Why would you not want the main display perpendicular to your face and then have the secondary monitor angled at 35 to 45 degrees? In this odd "V" sort of configuration I would assume you get a great deal of parallax error. Lastly, because left hand traffic patterns are most common in the real world, why not have the secondary monitor sitting on the left instead. That would seem a lot more natural if not having three displays.

easier to use nvidia surround physics.

two monitors in a V configuration creates a very odd perspective

it doesn´t work for me. Game crashes all the time and he says something with NVIDIA: "your graphics device has encountered a probleme and MSFS will exit" I have a 3090 watercooled

Literally everything since the new update is about the PC version. Show some love to the xbox version youtubers not everyone owns 4k + graphics cards

Hi....I have triple monitors for sim racing but i don't use surround. I thought I'd give this a go today but i can't get it working across the 3 screens. It will render each view, ie, they are selectable from the taskbar, the +90 and -90 views are there but they will only work on the center screen, the two side screens are doing nothing. Does nvidia surround have to be on for this to work ? Thanks

I've three monitors at 90 degrees to each other. The left of my centre screen seems to move faster that the right of my left screen. Drives me nuts