I have successfully spanned two displays.

[JCitron]

This question comes up off and on in the forums. I finally got around to trying this with my setup and I find it is very helpful while working in Surveyor as it keeps the mini-map out of the way while trimming baseboards, for example. I haven't tried Driver yet, so I don't know what the difference will be with performance. It maybe a bit slower since the program is drawing across two displays.

Anyway I added the following line to my trainzoptions.txt file, which is now located in the Userdata folder and run Trainz in a window.

-width=3960

This is actually 2x the width of my largest display. I am running two displays a 1680 x 1050 and a 1980 x 1080 with the 1980 being my main display.

John

 

[RoysTrainz]

Thanks for sharing this info and great you made it work.

have a nice weekend

Roy

 

[oknotsen]

Thanks for the update John.

What you did sounds really easy. Is it indeed as easy as it sounds?

Let us know when you tested in driver!

 

[norfolksouthern37]

yea i did this a long time ago, but it is kinda useless since it puts the the center of view in the split between them in driver.

 

[JCitron]

It really was a easy as it sounds. If both of my displays were the same size I probably wouldn't get some distortion on the smaller monitor, but hey this is the breaks a trade-off for wanting more surface area to work with.

That's good to know about driver. I was too tired to try it last night. As it is I went to bed again at 3:00 am!

It's great in Surveyor though.

John

 

[norfolksouthern37]

i suppose if you like it there then it wouldnt bother you in driver that much.

 

[trainman7616]

could always work it out with a large flatscreen tv. then you would have plenty of workspace.

 

[cascaderailroad]

If you had 2 PC's ... and ran the same route in multiplayer ... could one PC control the minimap, throwing switchs (like a CTC operator does) ... and the turnouts would throw on the other PC ?

 

[oknotsen]

If you had 2 PC's ... and ran the same route in multiplayer ... could one PC control the minimap, throwing switchs (like a CTC operator does) ... and the turnouts would throw on the other PC ?

The answer is yes.

 

[itareus]

The answer is yes.

Would you require 2 Trainz user IDs ?

 

[norfolksouthern37]

could always work it out with a large flatscreen tv. then you would have plenty of workspace.

you might have a larger picture relative to an average monitor, but the actual resolution would be the same or nearly the same.

 

[cascaderailroad]

Would you require 2 Trainz user IDs ?

I do not think you would have to buy the game twice, though

 

[JIb228]

Would you require 2 Trainz user IDs ?

Yes you would. You need two ideas, and two copies of the game. At least two registered serial numbers.

 

[mikeaust]

I run a 32" TEAC at 1920x1080 with HDMI from my laptop.
The only thing I find that there tends to be some sawtoothing of lines.
Certainly an improvement on a computer screen though.
Cheers,
Mike

 

[boleyd]

Inspector, the nVidia "all card options" program allows more extensive anti-aliasing. Might help.