Monitor combinations

For those of you who acutally use multiple monitors, can you tell me in your experience if image alignment from screen to screen is better with all flat, all curved, or a combination of flat and curved screens? Also, does this work better with identical size monitors with the same refresh and resolution? How does this affect the alignment when switching from cockpit to outside views? (if I get one looking fairly looking good, the other is off kilter). Thanks again, Mike

@Mlminto

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Hope this will give some info to your questions

Regards

Sebastiaan

hi. you know, i have retired my 3 screen setup and am now flying on a 43" 4K TV. My computer was crashing over 60% of the time when I made changes to graphics or screen orientation/alignment, and it just wasn’t worth it. wish i could have kept the multiple monitors, but with a load time of 5 minutes and having to reboot my computer every time it happened, i was spending more time waiting than flying. mike

Sorry to hear about this negative experience with the 3 screen set up,
Gladly when 43" tv is wo4king for you.
May you want to try in the future let me know and i will try to help you out.

Happy landings mike

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Hi. I have 3 55" OLEDs (flat) and alignment is good even when switching planes. Was a bit finicky to set up at first but is consistently good now. I am running all three at 4K/60 and it works great. I did try 2K on the sides once and that works well too. Overall no complaints with the multi setup. I am even running a Pimax Crystal (requires disabling at least one of the side monitors on the 4090 first) and I switch between them with no issues.

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Here is the setup with alignment shown.

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Can you tell me what hardware you have? I’m about to start a 3 monitor build - I already have a PC, honeycomb alpha & bravo, 1 touch screen. CPU / video card? Did you make or buy the mounting panel for the yoke & monitors? Great looking setting, and by great I mean I’m insanely jealous :slight_smile:

Hi there. The CPU is a Ryzen 9 7900x with 64GB DDR5. The GPU os a 4090 with 64GB (MSI). Mobo is MSI B650 Carbon Wifi. Have to say it runs MSFS really well on three 4Ks or the Pimax Crystal at near ULTRA. For storage I have 2TB Samsung 980 Pro SSDs (two of them, one for main and another for full mirror backup). The three 55" run off of the 4090, the G1000s run off of a StarTech USB 3.0 to Dual HDMI Adapter. The panel was a custom build in my shop to mount on the GTTrack rig. The lower guages are home built and interfaced using Mobiflight. The seat is mounted on the NLR V3 motion platform with a Gamer Plus buttkicker for haptics. The panel was designed in Fusion360 and mostly cut on a CNC out of baltic birch plywood. Hope this helps. Happy to answer any additional questions. Good luck with your build. It’s fun. I have been working on this setup for about two years now.

That does help, but I don’t expect to be as fancy (ex: CAD / CNC or a motion platform). Does the USB to HDMI hub use graphics processing from the CPU? Right now I have a single touch panel that I run off of the built in graphics and will do the main gaming from GPU connected TVs.

My understanding is that the USB HDMI adapter is the “GPU” and is self sufficient. I also use my internal GPU for an additional Garmin touch device I built with no issues. It all works amazingly well together despite being three separate GPUs.