Hi Mike,
I downloaded XView and installed the plugin in 64-bit XP 10.25 in anticipation of the arrival of PSX (I am hoping it will be delivered in the next few days, as I pre-ordered from Aerosoft).
Anyway, fired up X-Plane with the plugin installed, obviously without PSX being present to drive it. Did note a few unusual things. Without PSX present to inject weather data into XView, X-Plane loads with the visibility set to 0.06sm, temperature at 32 F/0C, and barometric pressure at 00.00 in/hg! I assume this is because it is looking for the current weather from PSX.
I know that the instruction manual for XView states that PSX should be up and running BEFORE X-Plane is started - but the results I saw would seem to indicate that one cannot run X-Plane (with XView installed) in a non-PSX session - i.e. that one would have to move the plugin out of the X-Plane /resources/plugin folder whenever planning to run X-Plane normally... and only have plugin present when planning to use XP as a scenery generator for PSX?
It's no big problem to do that, but just wanted to know if the strange weather injection apparently coming from XView is to be expected when the plugin is running without PSX being present.