I guess I figured it would behave the way the weather does now... Once weather is downloaded, it's in there.In his situation he would be using offline mode all of the time due to a dial-up connection and I figured once the weather was downloaded in ASV and is fed to FS04 that whatever info was gathered and put in would remain. Regardless of weather ASV was open or not. Not have weather revert to the same sky, clouds, wind, etc to be the same everywhere in the world.

Hi,Let me explain a bit more! If you download and save a weather file and switch to Offline mode, worldwide weather will be included. The key in this is to leave ASV running. You asked what will happen if ASV is closed down. If ASV is left running, even in Offline Mode, then weather will change according to the saved data.If you are in Online Mode ASV only downloads and uses a 200 mile radius of weather. Then if you shut down ASV you would run out of data and weather would go all clear.But Offline mode is going to work as long as ASV remains running.I hope this clears up any confusion!Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Sales and Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_dev_team.jpg http://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_proud_supporter.jpg

Right. So if the worldwide weather is included and already loded in FS04, and you are flying in offline mode, why would ASV need to be running? As you progress to a different part of the world does FS04 still look to ASV to see what weather is happening even though it was all loaded in the beginning?If so the only reason I can think that this would be necessary is so that ASV can copy over new textures to display. For example you were in an area of thunderstorms and now you are in an area with barely any clouds at all. Is this what is happening?

Hi,See, there is a misunderstanding. Worldwide weather is included, but it is not all loaded into FS04 all at once. It would take a huge amount of time to do this with the data ASV supplies for all the stations that ASV has.It is not a texture issue, but a data issue.I understand about needing to use Offline Mode, but is running ASV along with FS04 a problem? ASV uses very little resources and very few CPU cycles. It will not cause a performance hit between running and not running. I just want to better understand!!Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Sales and Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_dev_team.jpg http://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_proud_supporter.jpg

"it is not loaded into FS04 all at once"... That is what I was trying to find out. Now it makes sense.As far as running ASV being a problem, I have no idea. I haven't purchased it yet. I think I'm the one who was just trying to better understand what was actually going on before I decided to plunk down some cash.Thanks for trying to understand and explaining.