Pieter2427
Also: Why not simply make your center monitor the primary display in Windows? You can show/drag your taskbar on another screen or have that taskbar shown on all screens.
I just did a few tests here (3 monitor setup) and I really can’t see what your problem is. If you drag your central MSFS screen to the middle monitor, make it full screen via Alt+Enter, you can then just enable to additional screens left and right of it. Despite the right monitor being the primary monitor.
Update: I made another (very nervous) effort to do as you suggested. Not that I was unaware of this option… just that I had originally discarded it because of the REAL difficulty in lining up windows without having access to adjustment bars in the experimental options window at the same time as having all the windows in full screen.
HOWEVER… now that I am well past that (and have the numbers settled and recorded on paper) I was able to “take a risk” and move the main MSFS window to the front - thus eliminating one additional window.
Although this option still results in a few inconveniences, I have to agree that it is now a better option - largely because the GPU is not working so hard to produce that extra screen.
Some of the inconveniences are:
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Having to hit Alt+Enter every time I want to access the home window & options.
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As mentioned further above, if you want to “tweak” the position of the left and right windows, you cannot do that while the front window is in full screen - so you need to guess and then return to full size to see if your guess was right.
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MSFS task bar windows open in full size right in front window thus needing to be moved to a side window so we can see the forward view… however, that problem is minimized with the //42 FLOW application which replaces the MSFS menu bar and has its own menu windows that can be adjusted to a more elegant size… … as well as provide so many more features
So thanks for the challenge. I think this is an improvement on the way I had it.
I can only hope that Asobo will sometime in the future implement adjustment for the main window as well as the additional windows … and ideally with the home and options menus as a separate window aways available during flight with all flight windows in full screen.
A dream wish would be to also be able to adjust each camera view of the plane independently in each window. At the moment, you can line up the “world” independently, but the plane itself is “fixed” so that all windows move together with whatever cockpit camera position is made.
This means that it is not possible to make the left and right cockpit view join perfectly with the front view - there are either some bits missing or there are duplicate bits where the windows join. (this is to do with the size of screens - 55inch in my case - not being the actual width of the particular cockpit of the selected plane… … eg. the difference between a single seater and a dual seat aircraft.
Anyway… I have all my views set up pretty well to disguise these small imperfections.
Cheers.