WidePSX

[Eric Volmer]

It seems, that WidePSX no longer works!
Much to my regret, I cannot use MSFS2020 (and the POSKY 747-400) as a scenery generator for the great PSX 744 flight simulator anymore.
Are there any alternatives for WidePSX available yet?
Regards, Eric

[Gary Oliver]

Eric,

Since an update to MSFS added some useful SDK features I started revisiting to see if we could get a P3DExternalsim level smoothness from MSFS, rather than just setting position which is just not as smooth as I am used to with P3D External Sim, especially when scaled up to 3 x projectors.

I have had huge amounts of success with a proof of concept reusing the external sim router.

Lots more to be done but I'm hoping to have a client out for testing out the window views in a reasonably short time frame, just one small stumbling block I am hoping Mark can solve using his geniusness!

The proof of concept has gone well, will share something here as soon as we have it working satisfactory.

It will be free as always and there are many members of the PSX community who have access to the source code.

[Eric Volmer]

That sounds promising, Gary!
Please keep us posted.
Thanks a lot for your feedback!
Best regards, Eric

[simbro]

Eric,

There have been a number of issues reported when using the Posky 747-400 in MSFS2020 with serious stutters & lag occuring during ,longer' flights....

Many PSX users have started using the default B747-800 included in MSFS which does not have the issues.

Regards
Simon

[Gary Oliver]

Simon,

I found by removing the cockpit and internal model those issues have gone away (only tested with the latest MSFS release).

Cheers
G

[Greg Hateley]

Gary, brilliant work as usual.
Im excited, looking forward to the working version.

Greg