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Many thanks for such a fast response John. I thought WideFS7 would probably be needed but was just hoping otherwise. I therefore need to upgrade to at least 2 or 3 modern W10/11 PC’s to upgrade my sim to MSFS 2021. Probably not the best time to do this due scarcity of silicon (hence higher prices), I will have to decide.

My sim was developed many years ago when Noah was building the Ark! It still runs fast and well but is based on 4 networked PC’s running XP (remember that - fab bit of non crashing s/w) all linked together with the FSUIPC 3.99, WideFS 3.75? etc. running FS2004. I want to come into the modern age using MSFS 2021. I obviously need a modern gaming PC to host this with Microsoft 10/11 and the lasted FSUIPC. Will the latest MSFS FSUIPC7 communicate with the rest of my old system running the old WideFS 3.75 ? from the FSUIPC 3.99 era (on the Windows XP PC’s) ? Thanks in advance for any comments / help to modernise my Ark! But still a good fully functioning Ark at that!

Dear Peter, I'm running PM GCDemo as a trial before buying. It is set to run on 2 XP based machines. I'm 5 days in now but no joy so far. The network is fine, graphics displaying, but no data is getting to GCDemo i.e. no IAS, pitch, bank, Alt, VSI etc. When running the pmFileCheck utility it throws up :To do - "Share Main FS Path" (I have shared the relevant folders on the network). Enrico, Katy and Jonathan have all tried to help but as yet no joy. The FS file is on the main PC under D:/Program Files/Microsoft Games/FS2002. The PM team say FSUIPC passes the path and wonder if the temporary time limited registration keys (supplied a few days ago) may be causing a problem. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time with this. Regards, Iain.