Matrox Parheilia and FS2004

The parhelia makes 3 monitors act as one.
Evidently, that is why I do not have the undocking problems alluded to in the
previous posts. When I try to undock to the 4th or 5th monitors (which are not
connected to the Matrox Parhelia) ..sure enough, no ability to move to separate
monitor.
I can conclude that FS 2004 will not support undocking to a separate
monitor unless it is controlled by the same master video card.
This is unlike FS98-2002 where you could have a tri monitor setup and
have one dualhead card which if it was Matrox or nvidia would support d3d
acceleration across 2 monitors (seen as one) and allow a third extended view
window, albeit unaccelerated across the third monitor or 4th , 5th etc.

I am getting 20 fps with sliders almost all the way across (but it is
locked at 20 too) ...sometimes it will dip to 12 at a scenery intensive
airport. Pentium P4 2.4 ghz 1mb DDR. I think the MSFS series are primarily CPU
dependent for frame rates anyway... I believe the Matrox Parhelia performs as
well (or badly, depending on your viewpoint) as a GeForce 3 or an Ultra high
end GeForce 2 in other games.

It seems that this issue happens to many persons using FS04.
I would like to know what are the FPS using the Parhelia card. I'm thinking
on buying it for my home simulator and I really would like to know how it's
performing.
Pedro


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I'd be interested to hear how the undocking things works for you.
Personally I'm running a Matrix G550, which isn't *that* well suited
to
this sort of thing but works well enough with FS2K2 for my needs.

I dont understand. Undocking windows is same in this as in FS98, FS2000,
or FS2002. However, now higher resolutions are supported for triple
monitor configurations. Who is complaining about undocking problems?

in
URL:news:alt.games.microsoft.flight-sim
contains the initial report. It seems the poster found that, in full
screen
mode on his primary display, he was unable to undock things like the radio
stack or the GPS or whatever and drag them to his secondary display. It
seems unclear at the moment if this is a general issue or an issue
specific
to the poster's setup.

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Dave Pearson
http://www.davep.org/

I can conclude that FS 2004 will not support undocking to a separate
monitor unless it is controlled by the same master video card.
This is unlike FS98-2002 where you could have a tri monitor setup
and
have one dualhead card which if it was Matrox or nvidia would support d3d
acceleration across 2 monitors (seen as one) and allow a third extended
view
window, albeit unaccelerated across the third monitor or 4th , 5th etc.

This is not correct. I am running FS2004 with a five monitor setup on two
video cards. My Parahelia runs my top three monitors for outside views. I
am running a GeforceMX440 driving to 15" LCD flat panels which is used for
my panels and radios/GPS. The only thing you need to do is ALT/Enter and
maximize. This of course will leave you with the title bar showing which is
a show stopper for some, not for me. I have no problem undocking any panel
and dragging it to my LCD's. Hope this helps clear things up.

Paul







You are right! Alt Enter actually takes it into windowed mode and now I can
undock to the 4th or 5th monitor.....should have thought of that...ALSO 4th
monitor has acceleration..so I was wrong on that count too. I am really
enjoying this sim and card together.