Lucas777

Never found a fix so I just hardcoded this by simulating a "G" keystroke, which switch the gear up/down

Hey guys, I'm currently working on my B738 home made cockpit based on the PMDG 737 NGX I already have a lot of controls working, but i'm currently stuck with the gear. It's frustrating due the lack of documentation but playing a bit with values I managed to make the gear move to the UP position SimConnect_TransmitClientEvent(hSimConnect, 0, EVENT_GEAR_LEVER,-1, SIMCONNECT_GROUP_PRIORITY_HIGHEST, SIMCONNECT_EVENT_FLAG_GROUPID_IS_PRIORITY); and hr = SimConnect_MapClientEventToSimEvent(hSimConnect, EVENT_GEAR_LEVER, "#70087"); That worked, however I'm unable to make the gear to go down, tried almost any value and it only seems to work with -1 and it makes it to go up. In the PMDG_NGX_SDK.h file the MAIN_GearLever variable is commented as // 0: UP 1: OFF 2: DOWN So I tried to directly change its value, didn't work either, I guess it is read-only. Any idea how can achieve this? Thanks in advance.

Thank you all, the problem was my TV which is set as an extension of the main desktop, I turned it off and then the FSX screen popped up in the main monitor. Not sure why this happened now as I never had such problem before.

Better later than never... If you read the comments in the SDK structure it says: So, if there is not present in the SDK you access them via simconnect, there is nothing wrong with that.

If I understand it correctly, it's the status of that system, when the linked control is not being pressed.

...and there is no way to maximize it tried alt+tab, clicking the icon in the taskbar, "bring to front" from the task manager...nothing works. this happened suddenly after installing Visual Studio 2010. Any other idea? PS: deleting fsx.cfg helps but would like to avoid it Thank you.

According what I have investigated... - You need at least one, or more machines. - You need a software that capture the part of the screen you want in the secondary monitors, tried some demos a freewares, nothing worked properly - If your network bandwidth isn't good enough you will suffer FPS lag. - You are still adding extra load in the main box, since it needs to generate the images that are transmitted over the network, unless you use a program like project magenta which transmit only raw data, they use to cost a lot of money and doesn't work with paywares like the NGX.

You will also face a lot of different problems following that path. I think the only downside with the multi-monitor setup is the performance loss, if you can keep it within the acceptable limits you'll be just fine. I need to make a lot more testing but it seems running the sim in full screen mode fixed it for me. (crossfingers)

Thank you rend, I realized that couple minutes ago. I was told undocked windows wouldn't work with full screen but they do. Thanks!

Some additional info... I'm using FPS unlimited with no external limiter Setting ForceFullScreenVSync to 0 improved FPS a bit but still bad. Vsync at nvidia inspector is set to "force off". Not sure what else I can try.

Hi friends, as title says I'm having problems trying to use a 2nd screen for Instruments Always I move a new undocked window to the 2nd monitor it eats a lot of FPS. IE: No windows: 30 FPS fixed 1 window: 20 FPS 2 windows: 10-12 3 windows: <10 I tried the NGX undocking ND/PFD/EICAS, tried also the Aerosoft A320 making views for those gauges, even with the default 737-800, results are pretty much the same. My system i5 2500K @ 4.5GHz 8GB RAM GTX 760 2GB W7 Professional FSX Acceleration windowed mode Any idea about what can I try? Thanks in advance.

Thanks, I will stay with FSX for now.

Hi, and sorry about that, I don't come here very often, mainly because almost always I try server is "out of resources" I have a high end machine. About if my addons are compatible or not, i think I can care later, first I would like to know if P3D can really give me improvements over FSX.

My question is pretty simple, is worth to buy P3D if I already own FSX? How would it improve my experience? Thanks in advance.

I don't want to hijack this, but I think if someone answer my question would be also contributing the thread. Could someone please list current P3D advantages over FSX SP2 ? Thank you.