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Postby Mass » Sat May 19, 2012 10:20 am

Hey guys

Im currently running two monitors on my computer, however I cannot get them both to work in FS2004. My main monitor works fine but the secondary simply shows what it did before I boot the sim.  However with FSX I have no issues the dual screen works perfectly.

Is there an option somewhere I am missing or something silly I am doing wrong?

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Re: Dual Screen

Postby Bass » Sun May 20, 2012 11:44 am

Well, as you said, i think some on the site needs a feedback here

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Re: Dual Screen

Postby Mass » Sun May 20, 2012 1:46 pm

Hi Bass, I honestly thought I had already responded to that. I apologise though, you guys have been more than helpful on here!!  :-[
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Re: Dual Screen

Postby Bass » Mon May 21, 2012 6:56 am

Hi there Mass. Its just ok.

About your dual screen, i'm affraid its not that easy in fs9 as in fsx

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Re: Dual Screen

Postby Mass » Mon May 21, 2012 1:08 pm

So I take it there's no way of doing it without having powerdesk installed? Unfortunately I don't have the money to afford it at the moment.  :(
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Re: Dual Screen

Postby EVVFCX » Fri May 25, 2012 4:45 pm

Hi,
Make sure you can drag any window from one screen to the other before you run fs2004/fs9. Close everything you don't need.

Run fs9 and start a flight, on the drop down menue select windowed mode and make the screen full size.

Press the [ key to open a new view window (  ] key if [ does nothing)

Right click on the top bar of this new window and select undock window.

You can now drag and drop this window onto your other screen and resize it.

When your done with dual screen, close the windows on your second screen and deselect windowed mode.

You don't need anything but windows and fs9 for dual screen.


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Re: Dual Screen

Postby Mass » Wed May 30, 2012 6:14 pm

Thats brilliant! Thankyou for that! Worked a charm!

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Re: Dual Screen

Postby EVVFCX » Thu May 31, 2012 6:58 am

No problem, one thing to consider, setting the resolutions: Set resolution via windows desktop properties (screen display properties) in windowed mode fs9 doesn't use the resolution settings in fs9 but the ones set in windows itself.

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