In-game panel in VR slows down the sim extremely

Please note that this is in no way endorsed by Navigraph and that you are putting yourself, your computer and your Navigraph credentials at risk by using this third-party tool.
I have investigated the code, and it includes everything needed to turn your computer into a server. It even asks you to make exceptions in your firewall when you run it.

The way that this tool works around the issue of lag in the simulator is by completely externalizing the panel process, meaning that it no longer runs within the simulator and thus will not share the same thread which ultimately leads to no stutter on load. While the solution works, and seemingly even rather well, we would never be comfortable with shipping an entire server infrastructure to our users like this - there are way too many warning signs all over the place.

Around the release of Charts 8 we actually discussed similar approaches, but ultimately decided against it at the time for several reasons. That is not to say that we won’t revisit it in the future and see if we can find a solution, but rest assured that if we do something like this, it will not require you to download a complete WAMP stack in order to function!

You are free to do as you want, but I personally would never trust a third party like this with my Navigraph credentials unless it is endorsed by Navigraph.

Kind Regards,
Malte

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