Presently for my weather I use FSMeteo for FS9 and the FSX default weather for FSX. In the past I also used Cris Clouds in FS9 but since my curent upgrade to an i7 975 CPU and 64 bit system did not reinstall them. I have debated upgrading to Active Sky for years but have really never been too picky or critical relative to clouds so I have procrastinated (Something I am very good at). However, particularly with my new system one item does bug me. My home area is in West Virginia and particularly during this time of year there are a multitude of low level clouds hanging in between the mountains. The thing I don't like is that under these conditions, the clouds below make it look like the dead of winter and everything is covered with snow.Would Active Sky Advanced significantly improve this image? A second question would be is there any problem with Active Sky on a Windows XP Pro 64 bit system?Thanks:RTH

Hello RTH,I used Active Sky with FS9, ASX and now ASA, on XP 64 and now Vista 64. ASA cloud coverage is very good in my opinion, fog layer is well represent also; please tell me what airport and general direction of the flight you usually take, also if you can provide time and date (you are using real time weather i presume?) i could try it out tonight and let you know :( Alain from Montreal

Active Sky Advanced does what you need extremely well - the handling of haze and low-level clouds is outstanding.Because low-level clouds are thicker (haze is handled as a cloud layer), performance can be slightly challenging, even on a fast i7 system, especially if you use large cloud textures. But the results are so good that I don't want to do without them. My solution has been to run ASA pretty much at its default settings (five cloud layers), with direct wind control and direct visibility smoothing checked (these work together to eliminate abrupt transitions). I use the REX 2.0 1024 clouds (they work well, and to my eye, the larger textures look over-detailed). If I run autogen at Dense, and scenery complexity at Very Dense, everything runs well. Am getting 20-30 fps in most settings, depending on choice of aircraft, with frames locked via FPS limiter.Specs below so you can judge for yourself.Hope this helps.Alan

Thanks for the information folks:I believe ASA will have to be my next addon.Alain:For frequent routing::KLWB - BKW - HVQ and then all points west.KLWB - MOL and all points East or NortheastKLWB - PSK and all points SouthKLWB - EKN occasionally to the NorthOver the past few weeks, early daylight mornings frequently produce the low level haze or cloud cover.Thanks again:RTH

ASA can deliver stunning visuals - just be warned though that it delivers a huge hit performance. I have an i7 920 overclocked to 3.66 ghz and a 4800 HD ATI video card, and I'm still in single digits in the clouds - and that is with the settings at just two cloud layers and using the least resource intensive clouds. ColinThanks for the information folks:I believe ASA will have to be my next addon.Alain:For frequent routing::KLWB - BKW - HVQ and then all points west.KLWB - MOL and all points East or NortheastKLWB - PSK and all points SouthKLWB - EKN occasionally to the NorthOver the past few weeks, early daylight mornings frequently produce the low level haze or cloud cover.Thanks again:RTH

Just purchased and downloaded ASA.Next: To get it working under WideFS6 for FS9 and the other provisions by Windows or FSX that I am not yet familiar with. If anybody has any advice realative to making that easier, it would be appreciated.Happy flying:RTH

Just purchased and downloaded ASA.Next: To get it working under WideFS6 for FS9 and the other provisions by Windows or FSX that I am not yet familiar with. If anybody has any advice realative to making that easier, it would be appreciated.Happy flying:RTH

HelloAll the help and experience you need is in the Hifi simulation forumQuite why you refuse to use it is beyond me.http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showforum=171

Hello Maddog:Why on earth do you think that "I refuse to use it"?Hey, I am just getting started now, and sure nuff, I am having trouble getting the required files shared from my primary computer. Thanks to your aggressive reply, I will wait until tomorrow and see if I can find a solution to my current problem thanks to your discipline.I assure you I will research everything at my disposal, but I don't even know what that is yet. I will also accept any suggestions or advice in replies to my post that might help me take a shortcut or two to avoid pitfalls.Sorry to have offended you.Respectfully:RTHAdder: A nice piece of advice to such a shortcut might have been a link to the forum, but don't bother, I will find it. Thanks for the constructive criticism.

HelloAll the help and experience you need is in the Hifi simulation forumQuite why you refuse to use it is beyond me.http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showforum=171

Hello Maddog:Why on earth do you think that "I refuse to use it"?Hey, I am just getting started now, and sure nuff, I am having trouble getting the required files shared from my primary computer. Thanks to your aggressive reply, I will wait until tomorrow and see if I can find a solution to my current problem thanks to your discipline.I assure you I will research everything at my disposal, but I don't even know what that is yet. I will also accept any suggestions or advice in replies to my post that might help me take a shortcut or two to avoid pitfalls.Sorry to have offended you.Respectfully:RTHAdder: A nice piece of advice to such a shortcut might have been a link to the forum, but don't bother, I will find it. Thanks for the constructive criticism.

HelloI was not being aggressive, Just slightly frustrated that you have posted in three different forums now despite being given the link to the Hifi simulations forum at least once.Then you critisise my input by saying I could have given you a link to the forum"Adder: A nice piece of advice to such a shortcut might have been a link to the forum"When in fact I gave a link as you can see in your quoted text.Surely you can recognise a forum link ?Here it is again, hope it proves helpfullhttp://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showforum=171

Sorry!Didn't see the link after reading your "frustration" with me.Nothing I said was meant to "critisise". I was just a bit surprised at your choice of words, which I concede I probably justly deserved.I am afraid I had already looked at the forums you reference, and so far am finding little help.I fear I have opened a can of worms relative to my ignorance concerning Simconnect. Google searches have also not enlightened me so far, finding mostly payware for configuration or whatever relative to SimConnect. I highly suspect that a number of more ignorant questions are to follow than those I have already asked. I have installed ASA on my client computer and see that a number of hoops need to be jumped through in order to get it to work. I am afraid I am totally ignorant of SimConnect and am having difficulty in knowing how to set it up and getting it to recognize my shared harddrives on my primary computer.I wish I had tried FS9 first for ASA implementing FSUIPC. After the installation when I clicked on the desktop execution icon, it asked me whether I wanted to address FS9 or FSX. I said FSX. Now I don't know how to get it to let me try setting up FS9 as every time I click on it, it references FSX (with the Simconnect error messages).I am sure everything will eventually fall in place, but I am going to have to really RTFM in depth along with a few other things in order to figure this out. I will also study your referenced forum more carefully, but thus far I have found little at least that I understand listed there for SimConnect.Please accept my apology.and thanks for your attempt to help. I didn't mean to offend apparently as neither you did in your "beyond me" statement.Respectfully:RTH

HelloI was not being aggressive, Just slightly frustrated that you have posted in three different forums now despite being given the link to the Hifi simulations forum at least once.Then you critisise my input by saying I could have given you a link to the forum"Adder: A nice piece of advice to such a shortcut might have been a link to the forum"When in fact I gave a link as you can see in your quoted text.Surely you can recognise a forum link ?Here it is again, hope it proves helpfullhttp://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showforum=171

Sorry!Didn't see the link after reading your "frustration" with me.Nothing I said was meant to "critisise". I was just a bit surprised at your choice of words, which I concede I probably justly deserved.I am afraid I had already looked at the forums you reference, and so far am finding little help.I fear I have opened a can of worms relative to my ignorance concerning Simconnect. Google searches have also not enlightened me so far, finding mostly payware for configuration or whatever relative to SimConnect. I highly suspect that a number of more ignorant questions are to follow than those I have already asked. I have installed ASA on my client computer and see that a number of hoops need to be jumped through in order to get it to work. I am afraid I am totally ignorant of SimConnect and am having difficulty in knowing how to set it up and getting it to recognize my shared harddrives on my primary computer.I wish I had tried FS9 first for ASA implementing FSUIPC. After the installation when I clicked on the desktop execution icon, it asked me whether I wanted to address FS9 or FSX. I said FSX. Now I don't know how to get it to let me try setting up FS9 as every time I click on it, it references FSX (with the Simconnect error messages).I am sure everything will eventually fall in place, but I am going to have to really RTFM in depth along with a few other things in order to figure this out. I will also study your referenced forum more carefully, but thus far I have found little at least that I understand listed there for SimConnect.Please accept my apology.and thanks for your attempt to help. I didn't mean to offend apparently as neither you did in your "beyond me" statement.Respectfully:RTH

HelloNo offence taken and truly none intended on my part.Hifi Simulation has gold standard level of support, Mr Skorma will be along shortly to help you out.This is probably a record for the longest time he has stayed out of a thread about any of the Hifi Sim products :-)

Hello RTH,In the ASA manual, at the bottom of the index, there is a chapter called "Network configuration for FSX", there is 7 steps, well depicted, i was able to use it on my client PC in les than 15 minutes and you know how much time it took me to figure oute WideFS (as simple to implement, i just didn't get it at first :( ) !Try it out and if you have any questions left, i'll try to help later this afternoon....Alain form Montreal

Hi All,I have answered RTH in one of his threads he has posted. He and I frequent the same major forums and there is no need for me to reply in every thread. He wanted to get as much feedback as possible before his purchase. I am sure he has or will post in our forum.Thanks,