Well I would hold off on that the new cards from ATI the 5 series will drive up to 6 monitors at once. Both the 5870 and lower end 5850 will do this. At $399 and $259 if you can find them,
have tobe the cheapest way to a more than 2 monitor setup. Plus you get the most powerful and up todate card. I am looking at these my self and currently loking for a 5850(which by the way are hard to find. The 5850 at $250 will blow the GTX 285 out of the water and matches the GTX295.
Go to Toms hardware for the full story.

I have purchased the 5850, and as MagicMan mentions, the 5850 will only drive 3 monitors (for gaming) not six. The 5870 will do six. Widescreengaming.com is an excellent resource for multi monitor information. Thanks again Magic Man

The 5870 will 'only' drive 3 monitors as well - the HDMI is shared with the DVI. The 6 outputs will be available on an upcoming card, possibly the 2GB card - it will use 6 mini DP connectors.


Yep, it is.


No problem, enjoy your setup.

Well, I have not yet gotten my ATI5850 (out of stock everywhere) but I did get Rise of Flight to work very well indeed with SoftTH (Free software alternative to TH2GO)
These are from a game I played tonight with a few friends over on War-Hawks.net. I am using three Acer 22" monitors a 9600GSO as a primary and a 8600GT as a secondary card (the 9600 does all the rendering, the 8600 is just for passing the extra DVI-out to the third monitor).

First, the menu screen


An in flight shot before we met up with the hun


Another


And after I met up with the Hun :P


Some exterior shots

Is the Rise Of Flight FOV still not compatible with triplehead setups?

How do you mean Joe? It looks ok to me...

Hi Joe

The FOV was fixed a while back in a patch.
There are still some minor issues in the hanger view of the planes being too close, but nothing wrong with the actual gameplay now.

The two in-cockpit screenshots that PropNut posted look too zoomed in. These, to the best of my recollection, look the same as a pre-release version of Rise Of Flight looked to me at E3, and there was definitely a triplehead FOV problem at that time.

Yes, I understand what you mean now. They are a bit too zoomed in. I had heard there is a setting in one of the config files that would fix the issue (for multi monitor gaming) but I have not looked into it yet. Last night was the first time I had triple monitors working at all.

Proper FOV settings make a dramatic difference in immersive triplehead gaming. For proper immersion you should be seeing more information horizontally, not losing it vertically.