My simpit's instrument panel problem?

[bailey_girl]

I posted this in the panel design forum as well.  My homebuilt flight simulator will utilize an lcd projector to display the outside view and a basic crt monitor to display the instrument panel view.  My video card supports dual monitors which will allow me to drag seperate fs9 view windows to each monitor.  FS9 supports hardware acceleration for both monitors including the 3D rendered main instrument panels.  
The use of dual monitors does of course lower the performance.  My questions are: If stretched across my entire CRT monitor, will the instrument/guages view
cause a significant drop in performance/framerates of the simulation.  Stretching the instrument panel of course drops the resoloution and makes it look sloppy.
Is there a way around this?  Is there a way to design a panel that includes only the guages with nothing in between but black space?  Would such a simple design improve performance?  Is there a way to enlarge the guages of the panel?  I will take a look at the popular cfgedit program later this week to see if this might solve my problems.  Right now I know nothing about it.  ???
Thanks  :)

[JBaymore]

Bailey_Girl,

Another approach might be to run two or more separate programs on your PC to get the instruments on a separate monitor.

[JBaymore]

Bailey_Girl,

I may have found some info that would assist you in your use of a single machine to create a "glass cockpit" type setup.

[radio16]

its sad that you can't span the cockpit image across 2 monitors , I guess that would take too much thought  on microsofts part to format the programme  to work that way!!!!
 

[JBaymore]

Radio16,

I wonder if you could do this br creating two custom panels that effectively were 1/2 the original cockpit panel?

JUst a rambling thought.

best,

...............john