Are there any advantages to using multiple PC's to run FS9, Radar Contact, ActiveSky2004, FSreal Time and other external third party add ons...I'm thinking about...Any thoughts. Thanks

Yes Sir, there are. I run (well used to run, since I have not simmed in a long while now) FS 2002 pro on my main pc, while I have all the others (Active Sky wxRE, FS RealTime, ServerInfo, Vatsim's AVC, and SquawkBox) on the second pc. This allows me to have the best performance possible with the hardware I have.What is really cool is that the second pc I use to run all these programs is an old pentium II running at 233 Mhz, and 256 Mb of SDRAM.The important thing to remember is that you need WideFS to interface both computers. I don't know if there is anyway to make it work otherwise.Good Luck!

It works really well for me. Thqt way I have windows etc on the support computer and they don't interfere with primary FS9 one. If you are going to use FSUIPC anyway, there isn't any additional load that I can think of using WideFS, other than the purchase cost.scott s..

The others have mentioned most benefits Troy and I will mention another if you fly on line.With 2 PCs running if FS crashes you can still talk to ATC and advise you have a problem.If the PC running SB etc crashes FS will keep going so you can quite easily reconnect and advise ATC again that you had a problem.The main benefit is that using WIDEFS & FSUIPC you can leave one PC to run FS and nothing else so it can use all the 'horsepower' available.Oh, it's also neat for opening your cahrts on the second PC, saves all that printing :-)You can also use Wideview and FSUIPC so you can have other external views on the 2nd PC.

It would be so freakin' ideal if a future version of MS let you distribute computing tasks, so you could lay ALL the 3d on one, and ALL the 2d on the other...OR, better yet, if you could set up a computer simply to cope with Autogen, and another for terrain, another for traffic... la, la, la.Andrew

Hi guysMy main "new" computer is a Dell 8300, Win XP pro with a Pent 4 3.0 mhz and 1024 Ram and a ATI 9800 pro 128 MB. I have another computer (not being used at the moment) with a Pent 3 700mhz running Win ME.I have "Game Cam" but the fps goes through the floor (10fps) when I try and record a video of a flight. I would like to run "Game Cam" on the second computer and record the the video from the primary computer running FS9 but don't know how to set it up. I theroize that "Game Cam" won't give me a big hit in the fps department during the flight. I already have an ether net connection (LAN) but don't know how to make it work.Any ideas (step by step) on how to do this?Thanks

Doesn't that card have video out?You can probably record right into a camcorder, then firewire it back in for editing.Andrew

Yes DVI and S-video out on the ATI card. On my old computer I had an nVida 440 MX that had an RCA jack for video out. I could record onto my VCR. It was smooth analog video on a tape but it wasn't digital. I want to burn a DVD for computer and TV viewing on a DVD player. If I could get the video on a second hard drive why couldn't I be able to import it back in to edit in a movie program.I half heartedly tried a S-video adapter to an RCA jack but didn't get video on the VCR. I tried it straight to the S-video on the TV and the card did recognize it but I still didn't get video.