

The Client machine runs the other supporting panels and software including:. I have the sim software on the core machine and connect the yoke (with throttle quadrant) to that machine. For the following updates and tips I will refer to the ‘Flight Sim’ PC and the ‘client’ PC for the remote machine (s). It is useful to have the processing load spread across more than one PC to get the best performance on the main flight simulator machine. Networking has proven to be the most challenging and often the most frustrating element of the simulator. I found that it was the public firewall that was blocking my connection, even though both machines are on my private network. This is relatively straightforward but for the LAN setup as well as the tweaks below if the steps do not allow your machines to connect you should first try disabling the respective firewalls.

Google the LAN setup and sharing relevant to your version of Windows if you are not sure.

To find the app data folder you will need to ensure that your PC is set to allow access to ‘hidden files’. Letter of your simulator drive:\Users\your user name\AppData\Roaming\your simulator name. Also useful to share the folders that contain your flight simulator main files, the folder within documents that contain your add on files and finally the folder at: First you should set up both (or all) of your machines to see each other across your Local Area Network (LAN).
