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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Enduro on December 30, 2005, 11:05:41 AM

Title: dual monitor support?
Post by: Enduro on December 30, 2005, 11:05:41 AM: Just received a hand-me down monitor from my brother. Need to go buy the DVI-to-analog adapter. In the meantime, does AH2 support dual monitors at all? Anyone tried it?

Happy New Year!
Title: dual monitor support?
Post by: jodgi on December 30, 2005, 12:45:44 PM: I'm afraid AH doesn't support 2 monitors.
I have a 2 monitor rig and in my experience very few directx/OGL games support 2 monitors. MSFS and X-Plane has support for 2 monitors.

I've been thinking how cool it would have been to have the map, chat , fieldstats and whatnot on the other screen. I doubt it is planned as a feature, as very few subscribers would benefit.
Title: dual monitor support?
Post by: Enduro on December 30, 2005, 12:49:47 PM: Well, I fly MSFS now, too; so, glad to hear 2 monitors are supported.

Support for that TrackIR (sp?) doohickey-thing affects only a very few users, too. So, I think you're right to say that AH2 would benefit us if it supported dual monitors, as well.

Thank you for the response, Jodgi. Happy New Year.
Title: dual monitor support?
Post by: jodgi on December 30, 2005, 12:59:19 PM: TrackIR has established itself as a must-have for the tiny little demographic entity that is; hard core simmers.

Dual monitor setups are still considered exotic.

Happy New Year to you and yours as well!
Title: dual monitor support?
Post by: indy007 on December 30, 2005, 02:09:54 PM: I'd settle for the ability to set my game resolution to 3072x1024... then I could stretch across 3 screens :)

It can be done with the original Falcon 4 as a matter of fact, but I'm not sure if anybody has made it work with F4:AA or anything else with non-native multimonitor support. Frugals forum's may be worth doing a search in.
Title: dual monitor support?
Post by: eilif on December 30, 2005, 07:46:13 PM: A dual monitor set up with one view just on the guages would be cool, specialy for realistic sims where eng temp is life.
Title: dual monitor support?
Post by: ROC on December 30, 2005, 11:10:48 PM: Tbolt, SIM runs 2 monitors in MSFS2004, he can get you rolling, has a great setup from what he brags,....err...talks about :)