Hey,i was wondering, cross pond is up a head, and my friend and i want to do the flight together, so we want that each one will have his own monitor with his own gear of saitek yoke and throttle, and pairs of pedals. also if that possible, two mouses.so my question is, did somebody try it? can i do that with my current PC, or we need to buy something to make it happend? thanks very much!

On the same PC? Not a chance.

I don't see why not..I've done dual like that with joysticks. Two joysticks, two keyborads, two mouses (mice? always wondered that) all run through my hp 8460 and my TV, and that worked just fine. The only problem I could maybe see would be the saitek gear..but I don't really see that being a problem. I may be wrong. Just try it haha. Just make sure you've got enough open USB ports haha.

On the same PC? Not a chance.

I don't see why not..I've done dual like that with joysticks. Two joysticks, two keyborads, two mouses (mice? always wondered that) all run through my hp 8460 and my TV, and that worked just fine. The only problem I could maybe see would be the saitek gear..but I don't really see that being a problem. I may be wrong. Just try it haha. Just make sure you've got enough open USB ports haha.

LOL, thanks Dave.why is that impossible? i think i have to connection for screens, 8 USB'S, and i think the saitek will work(: actually.

Two mice/mouses will work (just tested it), but they will operate on the same cursor (arrow). I wouldn't know how to get a second cursor on one PC. And what about framerates? I also don't think that you can run two instances of Flight Simulator on one PC, let alone assigning two different yokes since there is only 1 fsx.cfg ...

One Windows-based PC having two mouse cursors? Not going to happen.One PC running FSX twice at decent quality and performance? Nope, won't happen.It'll be way easier to get a second setup and network the two PCs.

Guys guys, you didn't understand, i don't want to run two fsx on one PC, i want that we'll get the realistic feelling, so we will both have gear and screen in front of our head, thanks(:

I agree Thomas, but that would be in a perfect world. As an option to try, I should think that it is possible. Yhe only thing in there, apart from the performance issue which Thomas mentioned, are the two keyboards. Not sure this is too much of a problem though. While two keybpoards can be used side by side, they will only duplicate each other and so cannot be used independently. I'm more or less 99% sure two mice can be used independently though.

Seems like software does exist (never tried it before, so no idea on performance), there's "Multimouse" and "Dual Mouse & Keyboard". Although I'm quite skeptical about it in this situation. (I never knew windows was capable of "understanding" two mice.)If I understand it correctly, you'd like to fly one plane with two persons? The way it should be done?You could span the instruments across two monitors, but I'm not sure how it'll turn out.

If I understand it correctly, you'd like to fly one plane with two persons? The way it should be done?

correct mate.

There is no problem running two mice? or two keyboards as that is how my sim is set up.....You can use a monitor spliter or if your video card has two outputs you can just have the monitors mirror each other....You will have to work some with the cailabration of dule controls but no problem....percy

thanks Percy!

Two mice isn't the problem, two cursors is. Without extra software, you'll still see one cursor, influenced by two different hardware components.Think of it like the stick in an Airbus, you can deflect one stick fully forward and the other fully backwards, the end result would be zero. The same would happen if you connected two mice on one computer without extra software. The same applies to keyboards, if I remember correctly.You should be able to use two joysticks, pedals and throttles without extra software, though I'm not sure how you would set them up.

though I'm not sure how you would set them up.

big table, thanks mate.

I wanted to fly multi-crew too, so here my 2 cents.About the mouse: I tried it a couple of years ago and I'm sure MS created a SDK for it. There was a company which I forgot the name of. It worked alright-ish; 2 pointers no problem, but simultanious clicking was not good. The company went out of business but there is a chance is was taken-over by an other company.Maybe this one? http://www.multimouse.com/This is the easy part.Now yoke and throttle, that is -in my opinion- a whole other game. I think the best/easiest chance you have with this one is to connect each set to a separate USB hub with external power supply. Use 1 of both sets.The monitor is quite simple: just use a VGA-splitter or duplicate the windows of your graphics card. (2 outputs required).Bert Van Bulck