MSFS 2020 Simpit Visuals: 3 TVs or 3 Projectors (as of Sept 2023)

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I know this has been questioned/debated to death, but some posts are well out of date (prior to MSFS’s multi-monitor support last year) and others I really question the validity of (some who say they’re running three 75" TVs at 4K or 3 projectors at 4K with ultra settings and are getting great results).

I just wanted to ask the question, as of today (Sept 2023), is there anyone out there running their home cockpit visuals in MSFS 2020 on either three large (75"-ish) TVs or three projector set ups, and if so what are your opinions. Unfortunately it’s a very hard thing to try out or test seeing as how shipping back/returning three 75" TVs isn’t the easiest thing in the world to do, nor is building a full 220 degree curved screen just to test a 3 projector set up.

I know a lot of it is going to depend on the PC, and right now I have two PCs which are powerful enough to run MSFS at decent settings. One is a 12900K with a 3090, and the other a 13700KF with a 4070Ti. I know neither is the absolute most powerful machine available, but they’re what I have and what I plan to use for this project. I have seen YouTube vids online where others have used less powerful machines but say they are using 4K projectors with high/ultra settings and getting 30fps (while using the multi-window option in MSFS). I just find this hard to believe given the fact that I currently get 30-35fps on my machine while using multi-view on a single 49" ultra wide and two 34" ultra wides for the sides…all running at 1080p. Plus, my LOD sliders are at 100, and most settings on medium.

Basically, I’m just hoping someone out there who currently has a pit running 3 large TVs or projectors for visuals can give some honest input about how they’re doing it, if the performance is acceptable, if there’s anything they’d do different, etc. I know I’m going to do one or the other, I’m just trying to gather as much info on it as I can prior to making the decision since as I said earlier this really isn’t something you can easily “test” using both methods without significant hassle/cost. Thanks in advance as always!

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Hi !
For example with a 2080 I have 3 24 inch high/ultra screens with an old processor (xeon 5670!) and 24 GB of ram, it runs at 40 fps…

If you want to shoot in 4K, you will actually need a minimum Nvidia 40XX series, but it must work the same!

The size of the screen (75 inches) doesn’t really come into play of course, but 2K or 4K does, but you know that…

So you are held by the GPU for this, the CPU will debiterate it without problems even a small AMD 4000 series…

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The size of the screen doesn’t matter? So if I have three 75" TVs running in 4K it would only require the same amount of performance as say three 24" monitors running in 4K?

I’m also fuzzy on how projectors work compared to TVs in that sense as well. Would three projectors running at 1080p theoretically be less resource heavy than three 24" monitors running at 4K?

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yes it’s the same thing, only the resolution counts (the technology used on the monitor too but it’s much less!).

For projectors it’s the same logic but the finesse is much less because the projection cannot smooth the pixels they increase them with the size… you have to go up in resolution if you don’t want to see the pixels (so depending on 2k or 4k). The TVs have smoothing systems which are similar to Msaa or Taa on Fs.

I have already played on a 55 inch and in 2K, no problems or visible pixels…

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