One of the features I missed the most after moving to MSFS from P3d is the 3-monitor setup.  I believe many friends feel the same.

A friend, KaseLite, who told me in an earlier email saying that he is running MSFS on three PCs with Wideview and the result is very good.  But he admitted that the approach isn’t economical.  Besides the hardware cost, you need to buy the same flight simulator, aircrafts and addons for all machines.

Nevertheless, KaseLite says that the graphics are the best this way.  You can run all machines at maximum solution.

Here’s a demonstration video of his 3-monitor MSFS setup KaseLite took upon my request to share with other friends here.   Thank you.

Builder: KaseLite
Aircraft: N333ZS
Home Airport: KSBA, Santa Barbara Municipal Airport

Project Notes:
If you’re looking to have MSFS 2020 working on three screens, its possible to do it today. It’s not new, this approached has been used for since FSX or before.

The setup requires 3 PCs (on a dedicated wired network), each configuration the same i.e. same aircraft, same scenery addons (for MSFS 2020 you need to buy three different copies on three different accounts).

In addition to this, you need the software (payware) from WidevieW. There are two items (a) to keep all three aircraft in the right position and (b) syncing other aircraft and airport vehicles.

The multi-pc approach is more expensive… its not as rare as you think.  Xplane supports it natively (base version), P3D supports natively in the advanced version. Earlier Microsoft Flight Simulators and MSFS 2020 have never supported it.

I started using Wideview when I used P3Dv4, no matter what I tried (with i9900k and duel RTX 2080ti either running in SLI or independently) I could not get to smooth frame rates on multiple monitor configurations (3 or 5 monitors).

I switched to three PCs, P3D, then Xplane and now MSFS 2020 (I use Xplane and I will continue with XP alongside MSFS2020).

With this Wideview configuration you can get the maximum immersion, maximum graphics performance, you don’t have to tradeoff anything.

My experience with MSFS 2020 in this configuration is now perfect. The performance of simconnect (Wideview uses this for comms between PCs) was poor in the beginning of the sim, now its great with no issues at all.  Smooth as anything.

PC configurations:
Master: Asus TUF motherboard i12900k, ASUS TUF RTX3080ti, 64GB, SSDs
Left: Asus Strix F gaming mother board i10900f, EVGA RTX 2080ti, 32GB, SSDs
Right: Asus Strix F gaming mother board i10900f, EVGA RTX 2080ti, 32GB, SSDs

Main screen: Samsung 65inch Q80
Left/Right: 27inch gaming monitors
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