Does MSFS 2020 play well with other sims..?

[Seahawk72s 3]

If you have MSFS 2020 installed along with X-Plane 12 and DCS, without issues, I would appreciate a thumbs up.

I am building out a new machine and would appreciate some guidance.

Many thanks..

[martinboehme 493]

I have all three of these sins installed on the same machine without any issues.

I'm not aware that these sims share any common components, so you should be fine. 

[Seahawk72s 3]

33 minutes ago, martinboehme said:

I have all three of these sins installed on the same machine without any issues.

I'm not aware that these sims share any common components, so you should be fine. 

Thanks, good to hear..!

[SierraHotel 982]

2 hours ago, martinboehme said:

I have all three of these sins installed

My wife couldn't agree more.............................. 🤪😉

[Adamski_NZ 952]

I'll add my vote of confidence here as well. I have MSFS, DCS and XP11 (now XP12). All are totally separate - and don't appear to interfere with each other at all.

However - they're all HD space hogs, so maybe a separate drive/partition for each <?>.

Edited February 7 by Adamski_NZ

[tonywob 4,770]

Yes, no problem.. I even have FSX and P3D still installed as well, but rarely use them.

X-Plane doesn't even install, it just sits in a folder you can move around as you please.

[Malaromane 424]

I'll join the chorus. No problem having MSFS, XP12, and DCS installed. Agree with the comments above about space though: Make sure you have a tonne of storage space because each sim can just devour disk space.

[Kaboki 437]

No problem here either, have DCS, Xplane 12 and MSFS installed, pluss 15 other games..

[cianpars 1,170]

No issues I am aware of other than the fact that you may run out of disk space as they are all very storage intensive programs.

[Tierborn 188]

10 hours ago, Seahawk72s said:

If you have MSFS 2020 installed along with X-Plane 12 and DCS, without issues, I would appreciate a thumbs up.

I am building out a new machine and would appreciate some guidance.

Many thanks..

not issues, they do not share any code, components, or executables.

[turbomax 3,287]

ok, that was the easy part. but as the o.p. asked: how well do they really play together, i.e. simultaneously, using only a single pair of controllers, mouse, joke etc. like simultaneous chess. this way you could easily double your flight hours and land or take off at the same time, during boring long distance flights, in different simulators.

I had better add 😀 and 🤣

Edited February 7 by turbomax

[Adamski_NZ 952]

1 hour ago, turbomax said:

ok, that was the easy part. but as the o.p. asked: how well do they really play together, i.e. simultaneously, using only a single pair of controllers, mouse, joke etc. like simultaneous chess. this way you could easily double your flight hours and land or take off at the same time, during boring long distance flights, in different simulators.

I very much doubt the O.P. meant simultaneously. Even if you could sort out the controllers profiles mess, I suspect your system simply wouldn't have enough RAM (or CPU power for that matter).

[turbomax 3,287]

4 minutes ago, Adamski_NZ said:

I very much doubt the O.P. meant simultaneously.

I doubt that even more. 🤣

[turbomax 3,287]

5 minutes ago, Adamski_NZ said:

your system simply wouldn't have enough RAM (or CPU power for that matter).

mine does. that's why I got 64 GB and 8 cores. 😀

[Adamski_NZ 952]

1 minute ago, turbomax said:

mine does. that's why I got 64 GB and 8 cores. 😀

Gulp!!!!