Thanks for that J. Great common sense post and I was thinking along the exact lines. Well, I just downloaded the eight files and will install over the weekend. I'm still doing a little testing, but I think I'l be fine. I know I'll be fine in bush country. I have virtually unlimited frames flying around Darrington in PNW with high settings. A gorgeous sky shouldn't cause any problems there. In the Duke around Los Angeles, that might be another story, but I'll take it easy on the settings.As an afterthought, how's the flight planner with REX? It's not the reason I'm getting it of course, but will be a nice bonus if it works well.

Is REX worth the money for FSX? It looks amazing but I want to hear what more people have to say. How does it run on your set up?

I like REX2 pretty much for the weather generator, and for taxiways. For cloud textures, water, sky I much prefer FEX. The HD clouds in either software is overly distinct and less realistic IMO, plus sap performance when in maximum density clouds.Noel

I like REX2 pretty much for the weather generator, and for taxiways. For cloud textures, water, sky I much prefer FEX. The HD clouds in either software is overly distinct and less realistic IMO, plus sap performance when in maximum density clouds.Noel

What I like about the REX skies is that you can seperately choose dawn, day and dusk skies: in FEX you can only choose one sky that has it all and usually it never has the combination I want. So in that regard there is no going back to FEX for me! However, I do use FEX for water and water animation (while I actually bought REX for that...! But the Sparkling effect is only good for screenhots imho). I used to use FEX clouds but the low res REX clouds are just as fine with me too right now. I am glad to have both... :(

I have and old rig and I use the smallest resolution for 3D Clouds, 2D Clouds and Water. What I've noticed: still better looking clouds then FSX default, and IMPROVED frame rates.It just gets a little ugly when flying into the clouds. Well, it happens. I just look into the cockpit at those times, and forget the clouds hehehe...

Wanted to chime back in and thank you guys for the comments. Installed REX Saturday and am VERY impressed so far. Landing in Vegas at sunset was phenomenal. This add-on is, as has been mentioned, is essential! FPS was great using 1024 textures. Very happy. I only installed cloud//sun/water textures as the manual mentions that once you install runways/taxiways, you can't go back to default unless you restore your default fsx textures. So, how do you like the the runways with REX? Do they affect performance at all? ;) The clouds didn't take any performance away and I am thrilled about that. Still trying to figure how things work....Using FSX generated real weather gave me more cloud coverage than using REX yesterday, and am still testing, although I was using REX generated weather for the Vegas flight, the cloud coverage didn't look right, but the sky was gorgeous regardless.

Hello,I bought REX for the FSX a few days ago but I'm having a heck of a time getting some of the textures to show up. I was able to get the weather to load but no other textures would show up. I followed the manual and tried many times to no avail. I'm pretty sure the problem is at my end but I don't know what to do next. Can any of you give me some hints as to the general workflow to get REX working? Thanks in advance!!Nicolas

Click on the REX icon on your desktop to fire it up.Click the Options tab, tick the stuff you prefer and click Save at the bottom right.Go to the Configuration Manager tab and make sure the Folder Location bits on the left are okay, then tick the options you want and click on the Create button at the bottom to back up your textures and hit Save at the right hand side.Now go to the Theme Creation tab and choose all the themes you want to be in FS, this being clouds, water, lights, textures etc. Save that and click on Install. (this install bit is the part I'm guessing you missed).Should be good to go after that.Al

I use the 1024 clouds and they are fine...as for keeping REX active, task manager will show that it does drain off some resources....but, once the clouds set is installed it is there, no matter what wx source you use. you could go back to fsx real weather if that's your choice...or your own design...also, if you are flying online with vatsim, which draws on its own wx resources, you can shut down REX. one more note...REX supplies Pirep wx updates..for example turbulance, rime ice...etc.Sherm

Click on the REX icon on your desktop to fire it up.Click the Options tab, tick the stuff you prefer and click Save at the bottom right.Go to the Configuration Manager tab and make sure the Folder Location bits on the left are okay, then tick the options you want and click on the Create button at the bottom to back up your textures and hit Save at the right hand side.Now go to the Theme Creation tab and choose all the themes you want to be in FS, this being clouds, water, lights, textures etc. Save that and click on Install. (this install bit is the part I'm guessing you missed).Should be good to go after that.Al

Thanks for the reply guys! I tried the Theme Creation tab and the textures did install (it took a while) but I was still getting FSX textures.How should I set up FSX for REX to work? Maybe this is the problem I'm having.Regards,Nicolas

Thanks for the reply guys! I tried the Theme Creation tab and the textures did install (it took a while) but I was still getting FSX textures.How should I set up FSX for REX to work? Maybe this is the problem I'm having.Regards,Nicolas

Hi Nicolas...are you sure you are seeking FSX and not REX textures? Can you send us a couple of screen shots. Remember, REX is for sky and water, along with some airport textures...I also suggest you look into the REX forum for info and advice in addition to what you are finding here.Sherm

Hi Nicolas...are you sure you are seeking FSX and not REX textures? Can you send us a couple of screen shots. Remember, REX is for sky and water, along with some airport textures...I also suggest you look into the REX forum for info and advice in addition to what you are finding here.Sherm

Thanks for the reply Sherm!Here are 2 pics:

It's hard to tell from your pix if that is REX...and off the top of my head, I would not think so. However, I suggest you fly in an area, or create a wx scheme with lots of puffy cumulus clouds.Here are a couple of my screenies with REX...and note the icon in the lower left task barAs for the water, we lose detail in the compression of your picture, but I do agree it does not look like REX. There should be texture, waves, caps, etc. After you have created or flown through a cumulus scheme, and if it still does not look right, the only alternative is to reinstall. But, before you do much more, when you boot FSX, during the process does the REX program pop up and ask to be activated. If it is running, you will see a small icon on the bottom right of your task bar.Sherm

Thanks for the reply Sherm! What I usually do is set up REX and it would load the textures it needs; then I'd minimize it and start FSX. I've never seen REX pop and asked to be activated but the REX WASy menu did show up.On all my attempts to get REX working, I've never seen the quality of textures in your 2 pictures. So either REX is not working on my system or I'm doing something wrong every time.Thanks again!!Nicolas

Don't forget guys you can use the REX textures with any weather engine, be it FSX's or a 3rd party. Personally I like using ASE with REX. :(

david is correct...REX can be used with any wx engine, as I also pointed out in an earlier post. Nicolas, do a CTRL+ALT_DLT to bring up task manager...click on processes and see whether REX is running after you hve booted up FSX. If not, then it indeed is not connecting with FSX. As I recall, REX reaches FSX via the simconnect.dll. If it is faulty, that could be part of the problem, but first, make sure it does show up in task manager before we get even more complicated...:-).Sherm