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Thanks Pete, Whoops.. Yes, the 2nd PC that is my views is running FSUIPC, the latest version as well as my Main PC. I didn't add it as I thought it would have been a given. :) Ok, I have tried running AS on both PC's but don't like how it works. It also kills the juice in my 2nd PC. Thinking of your other suggestion... Looking at the config settings.. and since AS is running to my main PC through the client.. is it possible to add the IP address of my 2nd PC which I install wideFS server on? I see a ClassInstance=0 in the settings.. is this what you mean by the class name? I have no problem emailing AS to add some programing for us multiple PC users, as we are paying customers too, but I don't expect it. The AS program runs the weather through the activeradar.dll in the main pc. IF I can get the 2nd PC now running wideFS in server mode to read the Client as well.. I don't know much about programming, so don't much about it. AS refresh is capped at every 5 minutes or higher. Wideview I am not sure of and will look into. I have posted on the wideview forum.. and was told that unlike my laptop and my main pc, which sends the texture info over to themain pc... wideview does not send the textures over. I have also noticed. After all computers are running and synced...I will sit at the gate for about a half hour doing preflight. After about an Hour and a half to 2 hours in the air... the weather seems to start matching more. In one case.. the clouds matched 90% exactly on both pc's. I am doing some more flights to test this out. Again, thanks Pete for the help. Jason

Hola Pete! Thanks for your post. I have actually posted everywhere.. including the Wideview forum, ActiveSky forum.. and any other forum that I thought might help. :) I have been through the WideFS manual. Since the second pc (views) is running wideview client and nothing else... Is there no way to get this pc to run widefs either in server mode.. or client mode, to read the same information on my laptop, which is sending information to my main pc? Or is this what wideview is for? AS needs widefs to work.... since 2nd pc does not have it installed, it doesn't get sent. If I can get the laptop to send the same information to the 2nd PC as well as the main pc, through the activeradar dll active sky uses.. this could work... I think... I don't know.. I know nothing about programing. I am not worried about system usage on my laptop... thats what it is there for, to take away anthing that can lag the main fs9 systems. I guess the other thing, if this is possible, is to get active sky's program to be able to send to more then one directory at the same time.. if that is possible. All three computers are networked very well, and read each others drives very quickly.. so hoping maybe an idea might come out of this. The closest thing Ihave been able to do, to get the closest cloud formations... and I know I will not get exact cloud formations on main and views pc's. Is to set my wideview to refresh every minute.. and my active sky to refresh every 5 minutes. This works in a way... but cloud textures sometimes match, sometimes they don't. But cloud position will be there. Again Pete, thanks for the reply. Jason

Hello all, I have been using FSUIPC, WideFS, and, Wideview for awhile now, but only under minimums. And have been using the FS9 weather till now. I know not to expect perfect cloud syncs on my client pc's, but like having them at least look the same... meaning, heavy overcast on main pc, and on views, having heavy overcast... not no clouds. Anyways... I currently installed Activesky5... My setup includes: 1st PC (main) runs fs9 on 2 monitors. 1st monitor runs cockpit. 2nd monitor runs my fsnav, overhead panel, throttle panel etc etc, depending what aircraft I am flying. THis is the wideveiw server, and widefs server 2nd PC (views) 2 Monitors, left front, and right front. Runs fs9, and after reading this forum, is connected online through sb3 for online traffic for vatsim. Wideview client. 3rd PC (laptop) Runs servinfo, and on 2nd monitor, runs SB3, and now active sky. This runs widefs client. When all are running..... everything is good, except for active sky. The main pc gets the info from active sky, and the textures and such. The wideview client however is not. I will get the fs9 cloud textures at times to match up with my main pc, but for the most part, it is way off. Is there a way for the client pc to read the textures from the laptop active sky the same way the main pc does? Are there settings I should be using? I don't have widefs running on the second PC... and not sure I can under server or client. Any help on this would be great.. Jason