X-Plane 12 with X-View - Guide

[assaero]

Hey all,

as I work on refurbishing an older 744 simulator to use X-Plane as an IG, I pondered a bit how to do this stable, as I hit several obstacles on the way. I got it stable enough for now (I think), so I want to publish what I am actually doing/configuring, as @mikeindevon (the original X-View developer, all hail to him) seems to be sadly no longer existing.

All is done under Windows - I have no overview over other OS or testing capabilities right now, sorry.
My current version list:
Windows 10 22H2 (W11 assumed the same)
VC redist 2010 x64 installed
X-Plane 12.1.3
PSX 10.180
X-View 1.2

X-Plane Aircraft is NOT the brought along PSX-Plane from XView - instead I am using the updated Sparky 744.

Installaion notes:
-X-View plugin win.xpl from the attached archive into the subfolder XView/64 (you can extract the attached archive directly into the plugins folder)
-move the extracted XView.cfg into the X-Plane root folder
-edit it so that the settings path points to the folder where the XView.cfg resides (in this case, the X-Plane root folder, in my file E:\X-Plane12)
-after saving, make the file write-protected!
-install the Sparky 744 and rename the aircraft folders in a way that the file structure looks like:
...xpl-root\Aircraft\Heavy Metal\PSX Plane\747-400.acf
(do not know if this is necessary, but...)
-launch X-Plane, create a flight situation with this 744 and your startup airport, and save it as load-on-launch-situation (when you click save situation in X-Plane, you can select "Load at sim startup")
-now launch PSX, configure auto-init of Start with main server on & Start with Boost server on Basic options
-save that config
-see that your default launched flight and X-Plane launched flight are synchronized for the first startup of the day!

The start sequence now is really important. For me, X-Plane has to be launched first and be ready on the runway - only THEN I can start PSX. Everything else lead to crashes of X-Plane, various errors, drefs wrong etc. So I would recommend you keep this in mind, and for an automatic startup sequence either time it graciously via a batch or similar (I will set up an AutoIT-script that also brings the X-Plane window later in the foreground after PSX has init, but one could also write a LUA script with FlyWithLUA that handles a ready flight before launching PSX.)

I disabled animations and inject elevation in the XView config; first one for performance, last one as I had some issues with the plane hopping, and I thought the small discrepancies on landing are the least issue in comparison.

It was also important for me to leave the PSX Preferences / Frame rate limit on 72 so that the boost server feeds consistently the XView plugin for a smooth X-Plane-refresh.

I hope this helps some others struggling, and feel free to share further problems I have not yet discovered.

Dropbox with XView 1.2

[QuadFan]

Thanks for sharing this, I will be trying this once I get round to it. Very much love the idea of having XP for outside views