Widefs and two computer problem - cannot see other aircraft.

[Richard Hennessy 869493]

Hi all,

 

I have just started trying to set up Vatsim flying on two pc's linked via a network crossover cable and have an issue. I can get connected fine but I cannot see any of the other users aircrafts. I can actually hear their engines beside me but I cant phsically see them. They dont show up in FSnav either. I have registered versions of both widefs and fsuipc. Below is my setup.

 

PC1 Server: FS2004, wideserver, FSUIPC, SBRelay, internet connection

 

PC2 Client: Squawkbox, AVC, Activesky, Servinfo, wideclient

 

I have a copy of the CSL in the aircraft folder on the server machine and just to be sure i installed FS9 on the client and also made sure the CSL was in here too.

 

 

The steps I use to connect are as follows.

 

- dial up to internet on server.

- open SBrelay on server

- wait for SBrelay to finish loading then launch FS2004

- Open multiplayer session and join the session that shows up here.

- Create flight and load so that aircraft is parked at the gate.

- Run wideclient.exe on client machine. The connection is made successfully on both machines and 1 connected shows on title bar.

- I then run squawkbox on the client. I run through the connection steps as when i only had one system and it connects fine.

- I show up on servinfo and at airports where i know there is traffic around me, i cant see them.

 

Can anyone please give me any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Richard

[Richard Hennessy 869493]

For anyone that may be interested or have the problem in the future, I think I have solved it. I just added WIDEFSVER=3 into the squawkbox.ini file in C:\Windows on the client machine.

 

Richard