NZ in X-Plane

[towerguy]

Hi
I am building a Baron - see the tech section under cockpit building - and wonder if xplane9 would support something like the triple head connected to projectors? and when you say it is fully configurable do you need anything like fsuipc? and will it connect through the boards from opencockpits to run lights and radios etc in a sim cockpit?

any info appreciated
cheers

[SteelBlades]

X-Plane supports multiple monitors two ways. You can span two or three monitors on one computer, but that's a kind of hack, as X-Plane wasn't' built with this in mind. Ideally, each monitor would be connected to it's own computer running its own copy of X-Plane. This maintains the sim's performance, but of course, cripples you financially.

There is a burgeoning market for 3rd party hardware, but it's still in its early days. There are rumours of FSUIPC supporting X-Plane, but I haven't found out for sure yet (I went looking but came up empty-handed). You can however buy 3rd party USB controllers and hook them up to over a hundred switches and sliders that are all configurable within X-Plane.

This is an area I'm dying to see develop as the flying experience in X-Plane is so far ahead of MSFS that it's a real shame to see a MSFS attached to great cockpits. It really want's to be a proper sim, not a game.

[towerguy]

thanks
I'll just keep on plugging along building for now and see what develops
cheers

[Anthony]

I might have to give X-Plane a try.
It looks pretty good, and it doesn't need a university computer to run it.
Worth a look I think.

[SteelBlades]

Um... I was wrong. X-Plane now has official support for Matrox Triple-Head-2-Go. Sorry about that.