Hi everybodyI'm using FS9.1 (large address aware) with a registered FSUIPC on a E8400 Win7 x64 with 4GB and a GTX460. Lately I've been playing around with manually assigning RC4 and ASE onto the second core for a little more fluidity, but haven't noticed a whole lot of difference. I've got an old laptop gathering dust and thought of trying it out for RC4 and ASE, but seeing as shifting these 2 programs onto a scond core hasn't made much difference, would WideFS help out much?And also, does FSNav work across WideFS?Cheers, SLuggy

Yes you will see performance increase and No FSnav does not work in a network. I use FsCommander in a network.

Thanks for the answer. Just to be annoying, much of a difference? The second core display in Win7 doesn't seem to get TOO busy, although I'm sure the memory usage would be a bit better.Is there much messing about to set it up? The laptop is XP sp3 and would be connected directly via an ethernet cable.Cheers, SLuggy

Hi,If you moved both ASE and RC to the other computer you would notice a difference. How much? Run FS all by itself and that is about what you would get if you moved those 2 programs.

Hi,If you moved both ASE and RC to the other computer you would notice a difference. How much? Run FS all by itself and that is about what you would get if you moved those 2 programs.

Now, Jim, you're a thinker. That's what I'll do. :( Cheers, SLuggy

Keep in mind that running RC4 on the second computer makes the voices come out of that second computer. For my setup, I run ASE (which uses SimConnect, not WideFS BTW), PlanG and any other proggies EXCEPT for RC4 from my laptop. Because I use headphones (flying all hours of the night so I don't wake the home crew up) I need the RC4 voices and FS9 or FSX sounds to come through the headphones. If anyone has a way of running RC4 on the LT and having the voice come thru the main PC running FS, I'm all ears.I have no perceivable difference in performance on my PC by moving ASE to the remote computer. I do it because it MUST free up RAM which can only be beneficial, that's it. Plus I have three monitors going - one for the PlanG, one for whatever (surfing the web during flight, etc.) and the main PC 24" running FS. Oh, and it looks hi-tech. LOL

ASE I believe only uses Sim Connect for FSX, not FS9. For FS9 it uses FSUIPC. AFAIK SimConnect is an FSX function only. Some RC4 users (in FS9) run it over WideFS with FS9 as host so RC ATC comes out of a headset attached to the client as FS sound ambiance and aircraft cockpit ambiance comes out of speakers on the host. Some users where ASE and FS9 run on a host and RC4 on a client did experience network time-out problems but I believe later versions of WideFS and FSUIPC took care of that. (Please note that where FS is on a host and RC is on a network client that an added step to rebuilding RC's scenery database is required as outlined in the RC manual.)

Thanks for that info Ronzie. I will see what I can get to happen this weekend. I admit I fly FSX 90% of the time and have not tried networking RC4 with FS9 and assumed it was the same for both sims.So OP, never mind.

Well, after some heartache setting up a network, (thanks Microsoft ), I've got ASE running over WideFS and the amount of difference is quite astonishing. Little or no blurries and no stutters at all. Looking at ASE running on a Pentium D 3.4GHz (the client), it's quite surprising how many resources ASE is using when it's left to it's own devices. FS9 is sitting constantly on one core of a E8400 (stock) at around 80-90% and looking mightly smooth. Am celebrating with a MD-11F flight to my brand new Kefavik! Cheers, SLuggy