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Old November 20th 06, 09:46 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Dan Youngquist
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Default OT - Video Card Question(s)

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Jay Honeck wrote:

I want to add a second monitor (dedicated for the panel), and use the
104" projection screen for the "out-the-window-world-view" only. This
means that I need a video card with two video outputs.

Our flight sim PC is a Dell Optiplex GX260, Pentium 4, with a gig of
RAM -- but only an AGP slot for video card upgrade. The current card
is a Radeon 7000, with just 32 mb of on-board memory, and a single VGA
port.


If your software will do it, any old cheapie PCI video card should do just
fine for the panel. I wouldn't think it would care about super high frame
rate, resolution, etc. A computer store will probably give you someone's
old cast-off 4MB PCI card for the panel, and keep your existing AGP card
for the main screen.

Of course, it all depends on what the software will do.

-Dan