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How to network a basic "crew" simpit. (Read 601 times)
Feb 24th, 2005 at 3:41pm

Gary R.   Offline
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It is my plan eventually to set-up a very basic simpit involving 3 large monitors.  I also reason that for best performance I would need a very fast master PC with a 6800 running the software with 2 medium PC's networked to it. The 3rd monitor is for 3 man aircraft like 742's, 727's etc. How hard would it be to put such a sim set-up together?
 

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Reply #1 - Mar 3rd, 2005 at 4:10pm

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Gary,

Not too hard to do at all.  Basically you'd need an ethernet 10/100 network card in each machine, a network switch, to set up the network itself in XP (or 98), and then install Peter Dowson's FSUIPC and WideFS on the three machines.  Then it is likely for what you want you'll need WideView also to run the actual fs200X on each machine simultaneously.... about $20 USD.  The first two payware programs (together) would cost about $35 USD if I am remembering correctly.

See some of the other multimonitor threads in this and the "Hardware" forum.

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