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Add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator
Compatible with Flight Simulator X, Flight Simulator 2004 and Microsoft ESP

WidevieW can be used to create virtual cockpits with panoramic scenery view, through multiple monitor support on networked PCs. There is no limit on how many PCs can be linked together, and each of them can be configured to show scenery, maps or Spot Plane & Tower view. View angles and zoom factors can be easily customized, to get perfectly matching images between the monitors.

Widetraffic, available for FSX and ESP, ensures AI and multiplayer traffic synchronization throughout the local area network, so the same airplanes fly at the same time and place on every computer. Since version 1.2, Widetraffic synchronizes also the airport vehicles and, thanks to a distrubuted client - server processing, improves the performance of Flight Simulator when lot of AI Aircrafts are displayed.



Sample configurations built by users, using WidevieW for panoramic scenery view.
More pictures here - More links here
Multiple monitors with Flight Simulator 2004 Flight Simulator 2004, FSX and Flight Simulator ESP multiple monitors
Turnkey Flight Simulator based on six 57" LCD-HD monitors and 9 computers, by FSC Flight Simulator Center

Flight simulator cockpit Large panoramic view created with WidevieW and Flight Simulator

My own cockpit. More info and hardware specs.

Courtesy of Steve Ferris. More info.

Multi monitor in Flight Simulator Large view in flight simulator with multiple monitors
Courtesy of Peter Koller. Courtesy of Jaap Both.

Flight simulator multiple views Virtual cockpit with multiple monitors for Flight Simulator
Courtesy of the Wingspan team. Courtesy of Gerard Salden. More info.

 

How to install wideview
WidevieW Control Center is used to configure WidevieW and Flight Simulator interactively, for proper view angle setup. Illustrated here, is the version for Flight Simulator 2004. The interface for Flight Simulartor X is much simpler, and integrated directly into the simulator.


SOFTWARE'S MAIN FEATURES

•  Adds multi monitor support to Flight Simulator X, Flight Simulator 2004 - 2002 and Microsoft ESP, through networked computers, for panoramic scenery views;

•  Compatible with Flight Simulator 2002; Flight Simulator 2004 with or without 9.1 patch, Flight Simulator X with or without SP1 installed, Flight Simulator X with or without FSX Acceleration Pack and / or FSX SP2;

•  Compatible with Microsoft ESP (Flight Simulator ESP)

•  WidevieW Control Center provided to configure Flight Simulator and WidevieW easily and quickly (external program for 2002 and 2004 version; integrated into Flight Simulator for Flight Simulator X version);

•  Works with scenery & map views;

•  Can be used to display spot plane or tower views on clients;

• Spot plane views can be spanned onto multiple networked monitors, having for example the wings on lateral monitors and keeping the animations, like landing gear, flaps, etc., synchronized with the entire LAN (FSX / ESP only, not guaranteed to work with every add-on aircrafts)

•  Compatible with computers having dual head video cards or multiple video outputs (to reduce the total number of PCs required);

•  Remote hat switch function (reorient remote views throughout the cockpit with a single mouse click or , in FSX / ESP only, by keyboard and joystick / yoke hat / POV switch);

•  Works with custom cameras, to switch the view simulataneously on all the clients and to get multi monitor Spot Plane view (FSX / ESP only)

•  Works with TPC/IP or IPX protocol, supporting multiple network adapters on the same computer;

•  Low bandwidth required: works also on older 10mbits networks based on coax cable. Compatible with 100 and 1Gb networks;

•  Works in Windows 98SE**, Windows ME**, Windows XP (all editions), Windows 2000, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Doesn't require "server" editions, but just any normal network configured under one of these operative systems. Very cheap to setup! Supports mixed operative systems through the network;

• Works with 32 and 64bit editions of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Operative systems can be mixed throughout the network.

• Supports mixed FS2004 / FS2002 or FSX / FS2004 / ESP configurations;

• Supports multi-core / multi-processor platforms (FSX / ESP only);

• Configurable joystick / yoke buttons to provide simultaneous camera switching on the computers and to re-orient the view interactively (FSX / ESP only)

• "Intellismooth" option provided to let the clients to always run at their maximum possible speed, even if the server is very slow. This option builds missing frames dynamically, letting to get smoothest clients regardless of network and server's speed (FSX / ESP only)

• AI and multiplayer aircraft traffic synchronization throughout the LAN provided via optional Widetraffic module (FSX / ESP only)

• Supports Level-D 767 custom lights on clients (FS2004 only);

•  Trial mode available;

•  User's friendly windows to configure all the options.


 

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