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I have been trying to get the surround views set up in my cockpit, and have been experiencing problems with the virtual cockpit when multiple monitors are used. I have the 3 front views set up as Front, Front Right, and Front Left on an AMD 6970 video card. They are not in eyefinity configuration, but as individual monitors. When set up using the virtual cockpit, The Front view (centre monitor) lurches up and down and is out of sync with the left and right monitors when the plane is in motion.

When I use the 2D cockpit, all of the monitors stay in sync, but I don't get any of the sound effects such as the switch sounds, Hyd pump sounds, the APU sounds, Gear and Flaps sounds etc.. I have uninstalled and re-installed a few times, but it doesn't make any difference.

Anyone have any idea what is causing this?

Thanks Bill

Hello,Bill
I have that affect on single monitor as well I have noticed.

Best Regards
Mark S.

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All of the sounds etc are tied to the virtual cockpit switches etc. I dont think we really touch the 2d system as our products dont come with this old style cockpit. I'll ask Scott to be sure.

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Thanks for your reply Mark!



Thanks Lewis! I was afraid that would be the case.

I do understand the reasoning for this though, as probably 99.9% of people would have no use for a 2D cockpit view. It is only of use to hardcore cockpit builders, and the majority of builders do use them. The virtual cockpit just doesn't play nice when you try to have it on 5 screens.

I did however stumble across a solution to my dilemma quite by accident. I had previously made a camera view of the central switch panel in the virtual cockpit with the OpusFSX software that I am using to network my systems, so that if needed I could verify that my physical switches were working.

I usually close that camera before I commence the startup. I happened to leave it open yesterday when I was doing the startup, and lo and behold I had all of the effects sounds in the 2d cockpit window views. I then went one step further, and undocked the camera view, and moved it to my gauge monitor, but left it open.

When I switched to full screen view, the camera view disappeared since it is not on the primary monitor. It must still be open but just not visible because I still had all of the effects sounds in the 2d mode. I took off, and had the roll out sounds, brake squeals, gear up, flaps etc.. the whole nine yards! I did this a few times, and it has worked every time. I also didn't suffer from any noticeable frame rate loss from the invisible open camera

Bill

Good observation there Bill. That will 'save the day' for other cockpit builders as well it would seem.

Paul

Thanks Paul!

It could have been a game breaker for me, so hopefully it will help others who find this post through a search on the problem.

Bill