Austin Williams 1089499 Posted January 30, 2010 at 02:43 PM Posted January 30, 2010 at 02:43 PM Hey all, I've been having an issue lately attempting to hook up two monitors to use with FSX. I've successfully hooked up both monitors and both work fine outside of FSX. The problem I am having though is that when I enable the 2nd monitor and start to fly the game finishes loading and the screen keeps flickering. It either flickers between black and the loading screen or black and a black & white representation of the game world. However, when I disable the second monitor the game works just fine. I am running both monitors & FSX on Windows 7 x64 System Specs: Video Card -- NVIDIA GeForce 9800S Processor -- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 @ 2.66GHz Motherboard -- NVIDIA nForce 760i SLI Primary Monitor -- LG W2453V (Flatron) [connected with HDMI] Secondary Monitor -- Acer AL1715 [connected with VGA] If anyone could offer any suggestions to the problem, that'd be great. But, for now, I've disabled the second monitor while using FSX so I can actually fly. Thanks, Austin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuriel Shem-Tov 1120623 Posted January 30, 2010 at 04:48 PM Posted January 30, 2010 at 04:48 PM Hi, 1. Are you using PREVIEW in DX10 mode? 2. When did you last update your Nvidia drivers? 3. Did you make any changes you are aware of in the Nvidia control panel graphics settings? 4. Are you using nhancer? Nuriel Shem-Tov, Amsterdam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted January 30, 2010 at 06:24 PM Posted January 30, 2010 at 06:24 PM I had to turn off DX10 in order to get multiple monitors to work on my system. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuriel Shem-Tov 1120623 Posted January 30, 2010 at 06:48 PM Posted January 30, 2010 at 06:48 PM I had to turn off DX10 in order to get multiple monitors to work on my system. That's strange, i dont have any troubles whatsoever using DX10 in FSX... Arrrggg...computers... Nuriel Shem-Tov, Amsterdam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted January 30, 2010 at 07:01 PM Posted January 30, 2010 at 07:01 PM Nuriel, do you use windowed mode or full screen? I use windowed mode ... that might be a difference. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuriel Shem-Tov 1120623 Posted January 30, 2010 at 07:32 PM Posted January 30, 2010 at 07:32 PM Nuriel, do you use windowed mode or full screen? I use windowed mode ... that might be a difference. Both and having no issues whatsoever. When u activate Preview in DX10, u override any nvidia control panel settings or nhancer. i dont know if that has anything to do with you not being able to see DX10 on two screens. I do know that DX10 behave very weird on different systems, I heard of people with flickerings all around when activating DX10... all kind of weird things. I can say that it does give me FPS boost, that is for sure. I had to correct and optimize scenery i am working on so it would be compatible and not flickering with DX10. I hope we can have some Graphic's/computer guru jump in and help on this one. Where's nick n? Nuriel Shem-Tov, Amsterdam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted January 30, 2010 at 09:19 PM Posted January 30, 2010 at 09:19 PM The biggest issue I had with DX10 is that I couldn't run FSX in windowed mode, and be able to undock any subpanels and drag them to my other monitors. When I tried, those subpanels would either go completely black, or they just wouldn't update. And my cursor would get stuck on the "loading" cursor state, and flicker between that and the normal cursor. Any ideas how to resolve that? I would prefer to use DX10 since I get better FPS. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Williams 1089499 Posted January 31, 2010 at 03:43 AM Author Posted January 31, 2010 at 03:43 AM 1. I am not running preview in DX10 mode, however I will try that and see observe the results. 2. I am running FSX in full screen mode (as always) because I usually tend to see a performance boost running in the mode. However, running FSX in windowed mode will allow me to run the game. 3. I am not using nhancer. 4. And finally, yes, all my video card drivers are up to date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Pierce 1105688 Posted March 23, 2010 at 11:21 PM Posted March 23, 2010 at 11:21 PM Austin, Are you connecting your second monitor via a DVI connector on your video card? Dave Pierce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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