MSFS grew up to support multi-monitors after 2 years
Channel: Fred Hsu
Date: 25/07/2022

With Update 10, MS Flight Sim finally supports multiple monitors with proper viewports. The terrible geometric distortions on side monitors are finally eradicated, after a long two years. As of the creation of this video, in July 2022, MSFS works well with multiple monitors, as evidenced by the public Beta release version 1.27.11.0. 

To fully appreciate what has just happened, you should first watch the video I made two years ago on this distortion issue: https://youtu.be/vukjvo06DGs. If you want the best technical details, consult this excellent video from Russ: https://youtu.be/uc0gMN9q0rw.

That issue is (largely) no longer. See the official "Multi Monitor Support" thread in the "Sim Update 10 Beta" forum: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/multi-monitor-support/529211

If you want to set it multi-monitors, with the current SU 10 Beta, please watch Russ' great video: https://youtu.be/iK6pnS0F7gs and https://youtu.be/uc0gMN9q0rw.

Many people mentioned in comments that the new view on top shows the two wings of the plane pointing forward. Some think that the bottom view is correct because the wings don’t do that. That’s an illusion. In the bottom view you get only 110 degree of distorted stuff shown due to geometric distortions, so you can’t even see the wings. In the top view, the wings correctly point outward, for a pilot sitting on the pilot chair, when said pilot turns to left and to the right to look at wings. The three monitors are physically angled to cover 180 degrees of a pilot’s view. So the two wings are visible to the pilot in her peripheral vision. This video is captured with a phone positioned far behind the chair with a narrow field of view compared to a human, thus the illusion. To understand this more, please see the article I wrote from two years ago: https://xinhaidude.com/2020/08/22/geometric-distortion-in-a-triple-monitor-setup-for-msfs-2020-compared-to-xplane-11/

My hardware setup is simply what I settled on almost two years ago when msfs first came out. See details in video description of that video from two years ago: https://youtu.be/vukjvo06DGs... except I no longer run one big wide window and no longer have to hide the title bar using Windowed Borderless Gaming. Instead I just use SU10 Beta to create three full-screen windows.

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