Hi all,I plan to buy a new pc configuration with multiple display setup. What hardware is recommended? What kind of graphics card should I buy to run Flight Simulator properly on multiple display's?While surfing around searching for hardware, I read about a company called Matrox. This company says that their producs are being used by Flight Simulator enthousiasts. Is this true? Are their products worth the money?Do I need anything else like special software? Where can I get that software?I hope you can answer my questions.Regards from Amsterdam,Alexander SierPlease visit The Dutch Flight Simulator Site: www.hinttech.com/~dfs

The card from Matrox that caught a lot of attention from the FS community is the Parhelia. The Matrox Parhelia can output to 3 monitors at the same time. But it isnt a very powerful card, you can only do 640x480 in each monitor if you have 3, and the fps is average at best. I believe some Nvidia GeForce 3's and 4's provide dual outputs. These are pretty good cards to some people, but I never really messed with a GeForce card, so I cant really comment on it. Some ATI Radeon cards have this capability too.I think you should go to a hardware review site like www.tomshardware.com or www.anandtech.com and find out what card is the best for you. They usually have lots of info about this sort of thing.

I use GF4 TI4400 and have dual screen, setup is very easy and works quite well.While you can do 3D display on both monitors in FS2002 I tend to use only 1 screen for 3D and the other for panels.(sorry for oversized images)http://www.bgic.org/~georgi55/FS2002_Surround.JPGhttp://www.bgic.org/~georgi55/FS2002_Dual1.jpg