Tuomas, I do use two computers. For the Project Magenta Computer I have a Intel 2.6gig, 500 Meg Ram, and a PCI Radeon 7200 Series 32 meg Videocard.

>Tuomas, I do use two computers. For the Project Magenta>Computer I have a Intel 2.6gig, 500 Meg Ram, and a PCI Radeon>7200 Series 32 meg Videocard.Yea, that explains it.Using one computer only and a fast 3D card for the outside visual and a cheap old PCI card (old Matrox'es are great) for a full screen instrument panel with FS gauges works great, apart from the general issues with gauge smoothness in FS200X in general.But since Magenta uses OpenGL, it borks totally on the PCI card since only the "big" screen has 3D acceleration as far as I know.Tuomas

Matt,Yes - I saw on your website that you ended up leaving with that panel - very nice indeed. And you interate the point I was trying to make in my earlier post... one can get guages that work fine and run them in a second monitor in FS and get acceptable results, but folks, if you have not seen the PM IFR guages in person you simply can not appreciate what we are talking about. I mean that Matt and I (not novices) thought they were REAL at first glance. The movement and shadow detail is astonishing. Worth the extra trouble of putting up a second machine and monitor, if you can figure out a way to afford it. To my thinking, if you are building a home cockpit, running instruments on a second computer/monitor is pretty much a given, and you get a lot of bang for the buck with these!-MitchN714TX King Air simwww.mmorrell.com