Hi,A couple of weeks ago I posted regarding problems with visibility at altitude, and Jim suggested reducing maximum vis to 29, which I duly did. However, for some reason the visibility in game simply is not reducing, and I am struggling to understand why.Before my system reinstall a few weeks ago, when cruising at altitude, the visibility was VERY low, and thus the effect was almost that of flying through very thin high altitude cloud. But since I HATE any sign of the horizon, or of huge gaps in the clouds at maximum draw distance, I was quite happy with this.But, IF the vis setting on my old setup was considerably lower than 29, wouldn't this have given me perpetually low visibility when flying VFR at lower levels? Because I don't remember it being like that? So am slightly confused how I had very low vis at high altitude, yet fairly normal vis at low levels?My apologies if I am not being clear enough, but as it stands, and with my vis set at 29, I am STILL seeing the horizon when cruising at altitude, appearing as the same old perfectly straight blue line, which we all know and hate.I wish I still had the screenshot of someones settings, which I got from these forums around 18 months ago, and which had me happy in my Activesky airspace for the last year and a half! :-)Anyway, any insight you can offer would be great!Many thanks.Al.

Playing around a bit in FS, I am thinking that I definately did have the vis set lower than 29.When flying over land, the horizon is perfectly acceptable, and isn't the straight line, the textures simply disipate into the haze. Its when I am over sea, that its the horrible straight line, with the large areas at the horzion that aren't rendered.So I think its simply that I need to reduce it further from 29, and thus to my own personal taste!So perhaps I have answered my own question!Al.

Jim, am I overlooking something, or is there a setting within Activesky, which dictates the upper altitude limits of the maximum visibility setting?It is apparent that when climbing through about 10,000 ft the Activesky generated haze simply vanishes. Hence the problem I have already described.Al.

Hi Al,What do you have Maximim Upper Visibility set at in ASX?I was following this thread all along!Thanks,Jimhttp://www.hifisim.com/banners/hifi-community-sigbanner.jpghttp://www.hifisim.com/

Hi Jim,Its AS6.5 that I'm using. Currently maximum vis is set to just 15. But as soon as I reach about 10,000' the vis just vanishes and I'm left staring at clear skies (albeit with AS generated clouds etc) and a horrid straight line at the horizon.Is visibility in any way connected with suppression ceiling? Which I notice is set at 10,000'.Regards,Al.

Hi Al,In FSUIPC click on Default Settings and Weather Settings Off. Then give things a try.Also, you can post or attach your ASv6.ini file and I'll look at your settings.Thanks, Jimhttp://www.hifisim.com/banners/hifi-community-sigbanner.jpghttp://www.hifisim.com/

Hi Jim,I have definately set default settings and no weather settings in FSUIPC.Enclosed is the .ini file.Many thanks for your continued help.Al.

Hi Al,Your settings look good. I am really not sure why all of a sudden you can't get this. Is weather in FS marked as User Defined? Have you changed video drivers?Thanks,Jimhttp://www.hifisim.com/banners/hifi-community-sigbanner.jpghttp://www.hifisim.com/

Hi Jim,Yes, weather in FS is marked as user defined. Yesterday I reverted to the ATI drivers that I was using at prior to my system reinstall a montha ago, which were displaying low vis quite happily at cruise altitude. Sadly this did not fix the problem - still exactly the same - as you climb past 10-12,0000' the vis simply vanishes as if somebody somewhere waved their 'clear skies wand'!I am still determined to get to the bottom of this. I think I will trawl through my past posts and see if I can't find the thread from 18 months ago where someone had posted their Activesky settings...the ones which brought me happy skies!Al.

Hi again Jim.After a week of having the occasional 'fiddle' with settings, I had resolved myself to trying to ignore the lack of a satisfactory visibility at altitude.However, this morning I unchecked 'Depict FS Haze', unchecked 'Limit Cloud Layers', and as I climbed through 12,000' I had to take a second glance as despite relatively little cloud cover, the horizon was wonderfully invisible, shrouded in a sweet haze! Currently cruising at around 21,000' and the horizon has stayed obscured by my vis, set only at 19, but I figure I could increase that now that the problem has been solved.My guess is that it was definately the FS Haze setting. Prior to unchecking this, on top of seeing the horizon above 12,000', there was a huge ugly grey band just above the horizon, which has now vanished, leaving Activesky to depict its own wonderful vis.Anyway, thought I'd let you know Jim, and many thanks for the usual great support. Now I just need to make an exact note of my settings for any future reference!Regards,Al.

Very good!Jimhttp://www.hifisim.com/banners/hifi-community-sigbanner.jpghttp://www.hifisim.com/