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Was there a full screen mode that didn't show the instruments? That would be nice for the side monitors. As much as I played it, I don't remember if that was an option.

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Yes, you can hide the instruments. But then it changes the projection and then nothing lines up across the displays. You need to hide the instruments on all or none of the displays.

Perhaps you could add a fourth display below center for the instruments, and have the three mains just show out-the-cockpit views. The rendering method you're using seems like it would generalize that far, with the simulation running on the VM displaying the instrument panel, and the center head synced the same way the sides are now.

(Don't mind me, though - I'm just letting my old flight-sim bug live vicariously for a while through your extremely impressive setup...)

Unfortunately I don't have any more space below the center monitor to put another display :) or it gets in the way of the yoke. I tried to fit a smaller LCD display in there but it just got in the way and slowed X-Plane 11 down with an extra display to render.

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