2nd screen

[Mazza]

Okay I have found a nice little 15" LCD lying around so I have setup a nice dual screen setup thingo, Now I have seen that my 2nd screen flickers, Alot with Windows Aero ON, barely with it OFF, I do not mind this, but is there a way to fix it so I can have Windows looking awesome 

BTW, Both screens are running at 75Hz, but Main (19" WS) is DVI and 2nd in VGA 

[HarvesteR]

flickering in LCD screens can be caused by bad cables... are you using VGA or DVI?

also, maybe the screen is having trouble with the resolution you set it to, or with the color depth (which would be weird, but still in the realm of possiilities)

check to see if the screen is running at it's native resolution (probably 1280x1024, maybe less), and try changing the color depth to 16-bit, see if it helps...

hope this helps

Cheers

[Mazza]

flickering in LCD screens can be caused by bad cables... are you using VGA or DVI?

also, maybe the screen is having trouble with the resolution you set it to, or with the color depth (which would be weird, but still in the realm of possiilities)

check to see if the screen is running at it's native resolution (probably 1280x1024, maybe less), and try changing the color depth to 16-bit, see if it helps...

hope this helps

Cheers

My main is using DVI and 2nd is Using VGA, I mean it only flickers when map loading in game, or i scroll fast in web browser, doing nothing it's fine 

[EVVFCX]

Hi Mazza,

Be aware that the resolution you use in multi screen mode is when you have FS in windows mode, that means your resolution etc is not those you set within FS but those set via desktop/properties or via the control panel.

Try dropping aircraft/dynamic graphics down to min then turn them up and check what the monitor specs are and play with the refresh rates.
I occasionally have problems on multi screen depending on which aircraft I use and I think it's because I'm asking too much of the PC, but never flicker but corrupted graphics.

[machineman9]

I found that flickering can be caused by having one monitor at a different resolution to the other.

Is there a resolution that they both share which you could put them both into (so they have the same resolution) and then try it again.

[Mazza]

Hi Mazza,

Be aware that the resolution you use in multi screen mode is when you have FS in windows mode, that means your resolution etc is not those you set within FS but those set via desktop/properties or via the control panel.

Try dropping aircraft/dynamic graphics down to min then turn them up and check what the monitor specs are and play with the refresh rates.
I occasionally have problems on multi screen depending on which aircraft I use and I think it's because I'm asking too much of the PC, but never flicker but corrupted graphics.

It doesn't happen when I'm in FS, as i undock the cockpit view and drag it over, and I don't think my 19" (1440X900) would look good at 1074X768 

Doesn't bother me THAT much 

[EVVFCX]

Hi Mazza,

Ok, flickering during dragging? Could be simply a windows thing, there is an option if your using Win XP only for dragging windows to redraw them as they are dragged, it could be that, turn it off so it only draws it when you've finished moving, mine does that but as you've said, 'it does'nt bother me that much'.

In my case I'm fairly certain its my radeon 9250 512MG card that does'nt cope, cpu is 3.2ghz single and 1 gig of memory, I get the graphics all broken up in multi screen but it does'nt do it with every plane but mainly from memory I think it's only add-on aircraft.

[Mazza]

Hi Mazza,

Ok, flickering during dragging? Could be simply a windows thing, there is an option if your using Win XP only for dragging windows to redraw them as they are dragged, it could be that, turn it off so it only draws it when you've finished moving, mine does that but as you've said, 'it does'nt bother me that much'.

In my case I'm fairly certain its my radeon 9250 512MG card that does'nt cope, cpu is 3.2ghz single and 1 gig of memory, I get the graphics all broken up in multi screen but it does'nt do it with every plane but mainly from memory I think it's only add-on aircraft.

Thanks, I'm using Windows 7  I don't mind the flickering, very little, and I have ALWAYS hated the silly little dotted 'window' whilst moving it about 

There is no flickering when I turn redraw off, but meh