Simconnect to MSFS 2020 on different computer

[tim arnot]

The laptop I have it running on is as follows:

Intel i7-8750H, 2.2GHz, 16GB system Ram, GTX1070 with 8GB VRam
Windows 10 Home, build 1903 / 18362.1082

[jccolle]

Hello Tim,
Good news, V4 build 228 makes the job, nore more problem of connection with the same configuration.
Merci.

[nemoz2000]

Good news here too Tim, v4 build 228 working fine on remote laptop under SimConnect.
In my case the breakthrough was putting a SimConnect.cfg file a la Prepar-3D in the Plan-G program folder. That caused a bit of head-scratching, and might be the cause of problems by some.

Some praise where it is due -- for another very nice new feature - the Bing maps feature in Plan-G maps. There was little wrong with the old maps, but this takes things to a new level - now we can fly to the Bing satellite scenery in pretty good 3D near-photo quality, while tracking in Plan-G on street maps that correlate exactly. Very nice, thanks.

[buntings]

Brilliant :-)

228 Working for me too, great news!

Out of techy curiosity, any idea what the issue was?

[nemoz2000]

No, apart from the obvious (obvious now, that is <g>) -- there must be a SimConnect.cfg and there was none.

Other possibilities -

      (1) mix up re. 32- and 64-bit versions of Dotnet -- when I originally installed 228 I assumed 64-bit but it wouldn't run, so went back and installed 32-bit, which worked. I left both versions installed. Irrelevant maybe.
      (2) need for a bigger receive buffer - the clue here is in the MS Simconnect SDK stuff, they use 41088 so I followed suit. Someone better qualified might be able to throw light here.

For the record, my SimConnect.cfg ... (address and port to suit your own installation of course).

  [SimConnect]
Protocol=IPV4
Address=192.168.0.5
Port=4504
MaxReceiveSize=41088
DisableNagle=0

[buntings]

Thanks for the detailed reply (although I think it is the latest release that fixed the problem so my question was directed to Tim )

However, I wonder - do you see "AI" traffic being displayed? I have enabled it in "options" but I still see no AI traffic being displayed.  Traffic does exist and it is still displayed correctly in the old version 3 software but not in V4

[tim arnot]

The issue is it failing to load the simconnect dll. I thought I had it cracked, but there are still some people for whom it doesn't work. So there's still no definitive answer.

If you've got another issue, please start a new thread - that way it helps keep track.

[buntings]

How weird. Always happy to try anything out if I can be of help.

Re the AI traffic - it was more a general question, I was curious if the other "remote" users were seeing the same or whether it was just me before I raised it as an issue.  I will do some more checks later (eg see if V4 running locally shows the traffic ) and start a new thread as requested.

Thanks