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Author: Goose 60 Posts Status: Pilot near incorporation  | Date 01-30-09 20:33 |
Hey everyone, I am looking into getting a better weather system, but i wanted to get some feedback first. The two programs I'm looking at are ASX or
RWX. I should note that my frame rates are at a minimum right now with all the addons i currently have so performance is key here. Although i do plan
on adding another Geforce 8800 GTS video card and increasing my ram to 4 gig so feed back on quality would be nice as well. Let me know what you
hotshots are using.
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| Re: Active Sky X or Real Weather Xtreme |
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Author: elfamoso2020 71 Posts Status: Pilot | Date 01-30-09 20:47 |
active sky give better weather performance
i tried both em out
real weather extreme is still in beta form even tho its out already
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Author: mgerner Www 41 Posts Status: Student pilot | Date 01-30-09 21:07 |
Can only recommend Active Sky Advanced.
Some test pics:
Shots by Niclas Andersson.
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| Re: Active Sky X or Real Weather Xtreme |
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Author: Goose 60 Posts Status: Pilot near incorporation | Date 01-30-09 21:32 |
Nice shots Niclas, and thanks for the feedback guys. What a improvement over the default textures! I need this program, too bad im still broke..
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| Re: Active Sky X or Real Weather Xtreme |
Author: Joeflyer 7791 Posts Status: Living Legend  | Date 01-31-09 02:20 |
I've got ASA fro FS9 and have been contemplating on spicing up FSX with the wx graphics by using ASA and FEX. Of course I'm in no hurry
to start sinking a bunch of $$ into FSX yet. In a few months I'm going to see about upgrading my system,too.
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| Re: Active Sky X or Real Weather Xtreme |
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Author: Joeflyer 7791 Posts Status: Living Legend | Date 02-12-09 19:51 |
Well, I bit the bullet and registered FSUIPC 4 and purchased ASX and graphics today. I'll see how all of this works out on my system
before going any further with on wx addons.
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| Re: Active Sky X or Real Weather Xtreme |
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Author: Super M 7 Posts Status: Young recruit | Date 03-17-09 11:59 |
Honestly, i've tried both, ASX is great but just doesn't come close to Real Environment Extreme, not sure about RWX, however i know that
you will be blown away by REX.
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Author: Valoran 809 Posts Status: Living Legend | Date 03-17-09 15:47 |
I have ASA. It's great. No screwy wind shifts, ever. Hurricane simulation, etc...
Charlie don't surf!
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Author: 42jeff 67 Posts Status: Pilot near incorporation | Date 03-17-09 16:44 |
I had REX but half way through texture loading every time, my monitor would start flashing the display. Even the three finger salute screen
came up flashing. The only way to get it to stop was to reboot.
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| Re: Active Sky X or Real Weather Xtreme |
Author: relichd 410 Posts Status: Confirmed Astronaut  | Date 03-17-09 18:46 |
Got XGraphics with ASA - ASA creates XGraphics snapshots based on real weather data so any time I fly I get different looking environment to fly in...
At least, that's how it looks like... Don't have much experience though.
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Author: Super M 7 Posts Status: Young recruit | Date 03-18-09 09:13 |
42jeff : have you tried updating your video drivers, REX has know issues on some ATI cards.
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| Re: Active Sky X or Real Weather Xtreme |
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Author: Joeflyer 7791 Posts Status: Living Legend | Date 04-30-09 16:49 |
Wow, I bought Flight Environment X the other day and installed the high definition update for it. I am amazed at the details of clouds now.
Here are a couple of shots before I installed the high def clouds...still looks great anyway:
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| Re: Active Sky X or Real Weather Xtreme |
Author: 969SQN Www 197 Posts Status: Exceptional Pilot  | Date 04-30-09 18:44 |
Great pics joeflyer what other features deos the Flight Environment X have.
Is the second pic a SU-37 just wondering looks great.
And Active Sky Advanced looks great too. Which one shall i consider buying
If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.
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| Re: Active Sky X or Real Weather Xtreme |
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Author: Joeflyer 7791 Posts Status: Living Legend | Date 04-30-09 20:49 |
Go to Flight1.com and see all of the features  Too numerous to tell you here. Definitely get the high def. update. It's a huge file but worth
the download time.
I'm only using Active Sky X at the moment and will consider getting ASA later.
The second pic is of the Blue Angels#5 F18
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Author: baoding 47 Posts Status: Pilot near incorporation | Date 05-01-09 00:16 |
Joeflyer, what cloud theme is this? I have the high definition clouds too, but i can't find a cloud theme that's this good...the one im using atm is
Blue Angle, and it's not as good as i expected..
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| Re: Active Sky X or Real Weather Xtreme |
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Author: Joeflyer 7791 Posts Status: Living Legend | Date 05-01-09 03:53 |
baoding wrote:
Joeflyer, what cloud theme is this? I have the high definition clouds too, but i can't find a cloud theme that's this good...the one im using
atm is
Blue Angle, and it's not as good as i expected..
As indicated, the pics are the before installation of the SHD high def. update. In those pictures I just did the random theme. Since
installing the SHD update, I have randomized the themes to my liking. Have tried Blue Angels as well but they aren't as defined as some
of the others. Randomize the themes and try each one out. I've got some shots of the high def. ones that I will post later.
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Author: panam1736 26 Posts Status: Student pilot | Date 05-01-09 05:20 |
I have REX, I get the flashing screen thing during loading too, its kinda annoying but doesnt do anything worst than that, program works
fine, loading times are really long though, about 15 minutes... Its pretty amazing program, id recommend it.
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| Re: Active Sky X or Real Weather Xtreme |
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Author: Joeflyer 7791 Posts Status: Living Legend | Date 05-01-09 05:27 |
Ok, here are some high def. shots. I don't recall which themes I used:
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Author: 969SQN Www 197 Posts Status: Exceptional Pilot | Date 05-01-09 18:03 |
Joeflyer wrote:
Go to Flight1.com and see all of the features Too numerous to tell you here. Definitely get the high def. update. It's a huge file but worth
the download time.
I'm only using Active Sky X at the moment and will consider getting ASA later.
The second pic is of the Blue Angels#5 F18
Thx for the web for FsxEnviroment and tips i got alot of info from there.
F18 i new it was that
NIce pics of the embraer lineage 1000
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Author: the_nick 1623 Posts Status: Living Legend | Date 05-02-09 21:17 |
when you take active sky advanced do you need to take Xgraphics also or is this included ?
on the site from hifi there is a pic using active sky xgraphics rex and fex but combining these programs is this reccomemded ?
 
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