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How is REX for weather

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happy friday everyone,well I am in the middle if a tedious reinstall on my fs9, and i thought it would be a good time to up my experience within fs9. I was just wondering if REX is a good program for real world weather, or should i just stick with Active sky?I have yet to purchase REX but am seriously considering it, but am very curious as to how good the real world weather is, Im not questiong the textures for clouds, as they look amazing but just the real world weather feature.ThanksP.S I must say that I really like active sky, mainly because of the their customer support (The best I have received on any of my add-ons to date), And if I do switch over to REX I have no regrets on my active sky purschase, I just wanted to mention that.

 Intel I7 12700KF / 32 GB Ram-3600mhz / Windows 11 - 64 bit / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060TI / 32" Acer Monitor, Honeycomb alpha/bravo, CH rudder pedals, Tobii 5, Buttkicker, Logitech radio panel. 

I'm a little rusty but I believe they are two different animals... Active Sky is a weather simulator while REX is a graphics package... I would suspect they complement each other very well - if you get both... I'm also trying to get my fresh install of FS9 up to speed - LOL - it takes forever - right ??? I'm still running Active Sky 6.5...Regards,Scott

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I'm a little rusty but I believe they are two different animals... Active Sky is a weather simulator while REX is a graphics package... I would suspect they complement each other very well - if you get both... I'm also trying to get my fresh install of FS9 up to speed - LOL - it takes forever - right ??? I'm still running Active Sky 6.5...Regards,Scott
Ya it is quite a process, Very time consuming. Im hoping it will run a little smoother than it did, It seems to get cluttered up pretty quickly so im gonna "TRY" and run a "lean" fs9 if you will however with the abundance of magnificent free and payware add-ons, it is very hard to keep it "Lean".thanks for your reply, I was pretty certain that rex was a weather generator also, but i could have been mistaken.Thanks again.

 Intel I7 12700KF / 32 GB Ram-3600mhz / Windows 11 - 64 bit / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060TI / 32" Acer Monitor, Honeycomb alpha/bravo, CH rudder pedals, Tobii 5, Buttkicker, Logitech radio panel. 

REX does indeed have a weather generator. What I do though is use REX textures with ASE weather and I'm very happy with the results. I'd recommend both products for FS9.

Gavin Barbara

 

Over 10 years here and AVSIM is still my favourite FS site :-)

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Ok thanks for the replies, Ill try using the combination of both as I already have as 6.5. I was just debating installing only one as to keep my fs9 as small as possible.thanks again.P.sIs that your aircaft in your sig Scott???

 Intel I7 12700KF / 32 GB Ram-3600mhz / Windows 11 - 64 bit / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060TI / 32" Acer Monitor, Honeycomb alpha/bravo, CH rudder pedals, Tobii 5, Buttkicker, Logitech radio panel. 

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Hi Gerry, Yeah - it gets really good frame rates... :( Regards,Scott
Hahaha I would have thought it would be frame rate hog but i was wrong.very nice, im quite jealous. I looked into owning but for my current situation it was better to keep renting for now. Maybe some day.

 Intel I7 12700KF / 32 GB Ram-3600mhz / Windows 11 - 64 bit / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060TI / 32" Acer Monitor, Honeycomb alpha/bravo, CH rudder pedals, Tobii 5, Buttkicker, Logitech radio panel. 

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