Multimonitor using FSUIPS/WideFS over LAN

[karstenschwegmann]

Hello,

i want to connect 2 High End PCs with WideFS (still connected yet, it works, e.g. traffic look) to use FS9 with multiple monitors.

How can i do that (Don´t want to use WideView)?

Can someone help?

Regards,

Karsten

Germany

[chazzie]

Write your own software :)

[fog]

Buy an extra monitor then :D

2 monitors to 1 PC, and 1 to the other....

Freddy

[Pete Dowson]

i want to connect 2 High End PCs with WideFS (still connected yet, it works, e.g. traffic look) to use FS9 with multiple monitors.

How can i do that (Don´t want to use WideView)?

With WideFS you can run FS on one PC, other programs on the other.

With WidevieW you can run FS on both PCs.

There's no way you can run one copy of FS split over two PCs, if that's what you are thinking. If you want to move instrumentation off the FS PC onto the other, then you can -- external instrument programs such as Project Magenta and FreeFD allow this, via WideFS.

Regards,

Pete

[Grey_Wolf]

But with WidevieW gauges and things like that dont work on the second pc do they?

[Pete Dowson]

But with WidevieW gauges and things like that dont work on the second pc do they?

I don't know, sorry. There used to be two versions of WidevieW -- a full version and a "Lite" version. In the full version you could actually configure what sort of stuff was sent to the clients. I think the Lite version was intended for the majority the users, where all that was needed was support for the outside views -- time, location, weather, basically.

If the current FS2004 version is that Lite version, then you are probably correct. Not sure how important that is to the current question though.

Regards,

Pete

[Bruce_C]

But with WidevieW gauges and things like that dont work on the second pc do they?

If you mean running a wideview FS AND extra instrumentation (Project Magenta, FreeFD etc) then no, the instruments wont work completely as only the position (lat, long, alt etc) is passed to the client, no airspeed data is sent for example.

Also you cannot run WideFS at the same time as Wideview because of course WideFS is like a 'dummy' version of FS.

It depends on exactly what you want from your setup. If you want multiple outside views you need Wideview. If you are happy to just run instruments etc on the second PC use WideFS.

HTH

Bruce

[airforce2]

If all you're trying to do is run FS9 across several monitors, the best solution may be to buy one of the many fast dual-head video cards on the market, and run two monitors off one PC. And to a lesser degree of performance, it's also possible to run a 3rd and 4th monitor off a second (PCI) video card on the same PC, assuming you only want instruments and not 3D views.

I run FS9 on a 3.06GHz P4 with a dual-head 256MB nVidia FX5600 Ultra, giving me two 1280x1024 displays that appear to the PC as a single really-wide 2560x1024 display that does DirectX or OpenGL acceleration across both. I also have a PCI nVidia MX440 card that runs a third monitor at 1024x768 resolution, 2D only, and it works quite well for instrument panel displays.

On my secondary PC, I have another dual-head AGP card, a 128MB nVidia GF4 Ti4600 driving two 15" LCD monitors at 1024x768. I use this PC for Project Magenta, Radar Contact, ActiveSky, SquawkBox, and a few other utilities all running over the LAN via WideFS.

I find that multiple diplays on multiple PCs is very cumbersome...getting displayed wx to synch across machines, for example is nigh onto impossible.

Cheers

[Raymond van Laake]

Talking about 2 monitors on one computer: that's what I intend to do. I would like to have the upper 3/4 of the screens used as a cockpit-window, the lower 1/4 as panel with instruments. I've never seen such a panel, probably because it's not realistic.... has anybody else maybe seen such a panel?

Thx,

Ray