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Hi, I am a novice in X-Plane but a long time Flightsimmer (starting with the FS on a c64 some 40 years ago). Just restarted the hobby. I also commented on one of your YT channels as I am trying to replicate your setup. T
he difference at the moment is that I am running the two sims on two PC's (XP on a newly built Win10 high end machine and PSX on an older WIn7 machine). I get everything to run (with some of the reported quirks of airplane orientation at startup) and nose diving issues (it seems to help to switch off the Boost Server to remedy that too).
What I really don't understand now is how to get the visual? I have both PC's connected to one screen and have to switch between the two. So, I get a screen in X-Plane (with the rather old XP-10 747) or I get a screen with PSX. But I can't get the outside view to show on the Win7 PC or the PSX Cockpit to show on the Win 10 PC. I seem to misunderstand the concept. I know you are running on one PC, so I assume you somehow overlay the two program screens. But shouldn't it also work with two PC's?
Any tip I would be thankful for.
Stay safe!
Alexander
So just to confirm you have one monitor and two computers connected to that one monitor, and you wish to have the screen display output from both computers?
If this is the case, I'm afraid you have misunderstood things. If not, I've misunderstood things
If what I've written is correct, this won't work. With some certain exceptions that are of no concern here, a computer screen cannot display input from two sources at once. It is one or the other.
What the Xplane - PSX connector does is takes information from PSX and instructs XPlane to position itself to mirror PSX. .
What you need to do is either:
- Get another monitor and have each computer going to its own monitor and break things up that way; or
- Run everything on one computer.
Your new Windows 10 machine, if it is "high spec" as you've said, would be more than powerful enough to run both. I ran XPlane11 and PSX on one computer without it breaking a sweat and that one is 4 or 5 years old.
What I suggest is you set up PSX to take up the bottom half of your screen and XPlane to take up the upper half. You can use a program called "Borderless gaming" to tell Xplane to run without a border around it.
Then on your other computer you can connect it to PSX across the network and get it to display the overhead, comms etc panels.
Anthony