Thanks pete that a great help, the main reason for shifting the controls to the client is two fold, 1, saitek say that by doing so it reduces the workload and pressure on the main pc and 2 I have been getting the problem of the whole thing crashing about an hour into the flight and fatal error appearing and the program going back to either the beginning or shutting to the desktop.
naturally I assumed I was running too much stuff on the main pc. The specs of the main pc are
intel 3ghz quad cpu
ati radion 6000 series graphics with dual digital output
8 gig ram
550 watt psu
on as rock g41m mother board
windows 7 64 bit home edition
sata 2 320 gig harddrive
having looked about on the net it seems others have had this problem of collapsing an hour or so in and some one came up with changing a ddl file that is supposed to rid the problem, another said about running windows 8 and include the accelerator expansion pack and that cured it. if any one has any ideas on this please come back I would be happy to hear from you
anthony