simple fs9 guage-only panels?

[bailey_girl]

I will be posting this in the homebuilt cockpit 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,

I posted a reply down in the "Homebuild Cockpits" Forum.

best,

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

[jumbo7474]

Hi Guys,

Any information how to get to the homebuilt cockpit forum ?

Thanks for a feedback   Phil

[Hagar]

Phil. Scroll down the forum index or hit this link. http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=homebuild