I am still using ASV, but I have a weather issue...I did a flight from KBOS to KDEN in LDS767, and before departure I set the following weather within 100 miles of KDEN:34004kt 1sm ovc007 ovc030 +sn M03/m03 29.80I do NOT have TAF processing on. Online updates were disabled. When I arrived in KDEN, I had ovc003 and 1 mi vis, but NO SNOW! I landed, taxied to the gate, and checked the ASV weather reporting box...the correct report is mentioned, but still no snow showing out the window. So, I clicked on "Refresh Weather", went back into FS, and guess what? A HUGE snowstorm!!So, what am I doing wrong? BTW I have noticed this same problem before when trying to set destination weather, except with rain instead of snow.Help!!

do you have force destination metar checked in the options? also once the game loads up and sends the weather to FS, I always go to the in-game menu and change the time forward a minute. this refreshes everything and should give the most updated weather and runway configurations depending on wind

I guess I should have been more specific. I changed the destination weather in the Weather Configurator, updated that weather and saved the changes, before running FS. Then, when I started FS I refreshed the weather (not downloaded, just refreshed) while sitting at the departure airport. "Force Destination Weather" is checked in my options. So it seems like it should work.Damon

Hi,You are right, this should work.I am not sure if it makes a difference, but use all CAPS for the codes. I just tried +sn and the decode window did not recognize this as snow.Please let us know.Hope this helps,Jimhttp://www.hifisim.com/Active Sky V6 Development TeamActive Sky V6 Proud SupporterHiFi Beta TeamRadar Contact Supporter

The decode window was definitely reading the snow and the rest of the entry, I checked it before I refreshed. The weird thing is that it got the overcast and the visibility right, but there was no precipitation even though the decode window showed it. And after I landed and MANUALLY refreshed the weather, the snow showed up fine. I did not do anything at that point other than press the "refresh" button, and it worked.Maybe I am totally off base here, but just a thought...in the dark recesses of my brain I seem to recall reading that if for whatever reason there is not enough graphics memory that sometimes the first thing to go is the precipitation graphics. I have a 128mb GF6600 and I run FS on an AMD64 with 1.5mb of RAM, so I don't know why this would be an issue. However, I am running FS9 with LDS767, ASV, FS2Crew, FSpassengers and a significant amount of AI traffic (I don't have all the graphics sliders all the way up though). Is it possible that it's just too much for my system and it "dumps" the rain and snow? I never have a problem at the departure end though.Is there any other ASV option setting that I might be missing?Damon

Hi,First thing would be to upgrade to ASv6... since it's free and you can have both installed, there is no harm in doing so and if you wanted to back you can just uninstall ASv6. Anyhow, ASv6 improves some things in precip handling and does have a few fixes from ASV... so before looking into this deeper let's make sure it isn't already solved..As for precip and FS deciding not to render it, yes, depending on system resources this is possible,,One other thing to remember is the local suppression system, which will prevent airborne changes to local stations within the suppression range. If, for example, you changed the wx to include snow while within the default 100nm suppression range of destination, it won't show until after you're landed. This is by design. But it sounds like you had added the snow long before this...Please get the ASv6 upgrade for ASV users from http://sales.hifisim.com/ASv6/downloads.htm then update to the latest B479 release at the top of this forum. After this, if you continue to get similar behavior please let us know and we'll go from there.Thanks!Best,

OK, I'll do the upgrade and let you know how it goes. Thanks!Damon

OK. I installed v6 and the SU4 beta. Weather looks great, by the way. However, I still am not getting the precip to show up on arrival.Here's what I did:Set up FS with LDS767 at KDEN.In Weather Configurator, I entered a METAR for 500' overcast, vis 2 in heavy rain at KLAS and within 50 miles. Decode window showed the proper weather including "heavy rain." Pressed the Update button. Pressed the "Save and exit" button.Went into Options and verified Force Destination Weather, otherwise everything else was default settings.Did the flight. Upon arrival to KLAS, got the 500' overcast and the 2 mi vis, but no rain. Landed, taxied to the gate. Minimized FS9 and went into ASv6. In the nearest weather window, it showed my report for the 500' overcast, 2 mi vis in heavy rain. I went back to FS9. No rain. I went back to Asv6, pressed Refresh, went back into FS9, and THERE'S THE RAIN!I'm stumped. It seems like ASv6 is working properly, but for some reason the precip is not being shown in FS9. Any other ideas?Damonps in the meantime, as a work around, is there a keyboard shortcut that I can set up to force the weather to refresh, without having to switch out of FS9? Maybe if I force the weather to refresh it will work.Next stop: I suppose I can try it with the online weather enabled and fly somewhere with known precip, to determine whether it is just a problem when I create the weather myself, or even when it uses online weather.

Hi Damon,I tried this scenario and everything work properly with rain experienced at about 6000AGL on approach.Perhaps it is something with the system load and FS not depicting rain by choice, as you had suggested earlier? Also, depending on your startup order, previous flights, default airport option, flight plan options, suppression range, suppression altitude, use of time accel, etc, there could be variances. When using Wx configurator like this to edit existing wx conditions my best recommendation would be startup AS after FS is loaded at the proper departure airport (or start AS paused and only unpause after at departure) to avoid any possible problems with data consistency.Feel free to drop me an e-mail at [email protected] and I can troubleshoot this with you further. Also do let me know how the online precip test worked out!Best,