Hardware & Technical [MAC] Who has more than one monitor?

CmdrKull

C
Mac doesn't support things like nvidia surround or eyefinity. I have 2 nvidia cards in a Mac and while they are both detected they are not used in SLI. So while I have 3 monitors, any given app only occupies 1 at a time.
 

Polared

Polared
you can do multi monitor out on the mac, it's in the display settings in system preferences. how many monitors you can connect will depend on the type of mac you have.

if you can connect three, then there's always the option of using bootcamp and running eyefinity in that.

here's a chart for thunderbolt macs, look at point 18.

http://support.apple.com/en-us/ht5219
 

Scampaboy

Scampaboy
Is there any benefit to having my MacBook connected by thunderbolt to my iMac for example to keep the Galaxy map open or for using other applications that can help me with route planning.

I would like to try doing this if I could share my screen with my MacBook

I am using boot camp at the moment to run the game
 

Polared

Polared
as things stands no, the game doesn't support multiple screens in the sense that each screen is showing a different window, so you can't have for example your cockpit on one monitor and the galaxy map on another simultaneously.
 

Polared

Polared
yes the cockpit view would be spread across the screens. you would need three screens, of preferably the same size though.
if you had an i mac 27" and two 27 displays it would look good, but if you had an imac and a macbook pro, i reckon it'd be all but unplayable!

you really need a minimum of three monitors for multiscreen playing, two screens even if they're the same size really doesn't work as you wouldn't have a left view, central view, right view effect, but a half screen left and half screen right with the monitors bezel being right where you targeting reticule is.
 

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Scampaboy

Scampaboy
That does look cool, I was more thinking about how people use flight sim they have the maps open on a screen and then maybe the instruments on another screen with the view ona separate screen. I see what you are saying about the 2 screens though
 

Polared

Polared
that would be cool of course, but it would have to be built into the software itself, as it's effectively rendering different screens/camera viewpoints to each separate monitor. it also gives a far better pilot view than using eyefinity, as you don't get any stretching of the image on the outer monitors,. iracing and dcs world have been doing it for years now, so hopefully one day FDEV will get round to it.
i suspect the separate map screen might well appear as an app for tablets in the not to distant future!
 
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