Gentlemen,Does anyone have any experience with REX V2.0 (Real Enviornment Extreme), a high definition graphics package which includes a flight planner and weather engine?Thanks.Stanner

Lots of threads/posts around regarding REX. It is a fantastic program for the cloud textures alone. That is all I use since I use ASE for the weather. It is worth the money for the cloud, sky, water and varius other textures. The clouds are the best. Get GEX if you also want great land textures. REX and GEX are quite the combination.Randall

Gentlemen,Does anyone have any experience with REX V2.0 (Real Enviornment Extreme), a high definition graphics package which includes a flight planner and weather engine?Thanks.Stanner

Yep! REX is great...It's a like a new simulator re-born-- seriously! It is probbably the best add-on I have on FS9 apart from the "Professional Aircrafts"

Yep! REX is great...It's a like a new simulator re-born-- seriously! It is probbably the best add-on I have on FS9 apart from the "Professional Aircrafts"

That is assuming you have a fairly high end pc with sufficient memory and a good graphics card with even more memory. Otherwise, it will bring fsx to its knees if you have something like Orbx/PNW running. I keep hearing how great REX 2.0 is and I never even think to run it. It just sits on my hard drive waiting for a new i7 processor. Meanwhile, I am content using the weather choices that FTX/Orbx make available with their Pacific/Northwest scenery package. They look like they might have slipped out of the REX package.RayM

Gentlemen,Does anyone have any experience with REX V2.0 (Real Enviornment Extreme), a high definition graphics package which includes a flight planner and weather engine?Thanks.Stanner

REX2 is very very good, but it does not play well with ATI cards unless you apply the shader mod; you can get bad stutters and poorfps otherwise.http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=148399

Looks very nice. The flight planner couldn't be more basic, though. Vienna to Palma you get just three waypoints, as an example, so expect 250 mile legs. Just mentioning that since you brought up the planner. Doesn't necessarily bother me, depending on my mood.

Never experienced any performance hit, even on my low end system. REX has some setup defaults for different systems and even if you take the lowest, the optical effect will still be a "wow".You shouldn't go with 4096 texture size of course (this is for the high end systems) if you're running a small CPU. REX just exchanges textures and if you stay within the standard Fsx size (1024), there won't be more to do for your machine but definitely more to enjoy for your eyes.

REX is geat addon indeed!

REX2 is very very good, but it does not play well with ATI cards unless you apply the shader mod; you can  get bad stutters and poorfps otherwise.http://library.avsim...php?DLID=148399

I have good success with an ATI card

That is assuming you have a fairly high end pc with sufficient memory and a good graphics card with even more memory. Otherwise, it will bring fsx to its knees if you have something like Orbx/PNW running. I keep hearing how great REX 2.0 is and I never even think to run it. It just sits on my hard drive waiting for a new i7 processor. Meanwhile, I am content using the weather choices that FTX/Orbx make available with their Pacific/Northwest scenery package. They look like they might have slipped out of the REX package.RayM

The high-def textures will use up more memory, which can affect performance, but the normal definition textures won't affect performance. The weather engine may be a different issue - I haven't used it in a while. This is beside the point, but I actually found my performance was better with PNW installed than the default scenery. No idea why. I'm still running an old Core 2 Duo.

That is assuming you have a fairly high end pc with sufficient memory and a good graphics card with even more memory. Otherwise, it will bring fsx to its knees if you have something like Orbx/PNW running. I keep hearing how great REX 2.0 is and I never even think to run it. It just sits on my hard drive waiting for a new i7 processor. Meanwhile, I am content using the weather choices that FTX/Orbx make available with their Pacific/Northwest scenery package. They look like they might have slipped out of the REX package.RayM

Hm... it seems like you don't quite know what REX does... You say that some weather choices that come with FTX/Orbx might have slipped out of the REX package...? REX is not really about the weather choices. Yes, REX comes with a weather engine, but the main part is the new texture department. They will replace the default FSX clouds, skies and waters with new ones, which makes things look a LOT better. And you won't notice ANY difference in performance if you use the same settings for resolution as the default FSX textures (like I do: I don't even like the high res clouds). You can use the same FTX/Orbx weather themes if you want to, but with REX things will suddenly look a LOT more real...! REX won't suddenly show you more clouds but just different looking ones that look better! And it won't cost you any fps: that's absolutely impossible when you use the same resolutions. When you use higher resolutions you may lose some fps, but even then it ain't that much on most computers. Again, if REX would bring your PC to your knees, then FSX would do the same. Again, when you use similar resolution settings.So... if you have it on your computer, just give it a try! You can make a backup of the original FSX files if you want to revert to them for some reason. Giving it a try won't cost you anything (since you already have REX)! It's a shame not to use it.BTW If you never use clouds with FSX default but suddenly use overcast skies with REX, then you will indeed see a difference in fps, but that's not due to REX but simply due to using more clouds.

I have no problem running FSX but the REX clouds do seriously effect performance on my ATi 4850, hi or lo res. I've never had a problem with clouds otherwise. Not real sure about all this HD hype anyway. They do look good in some circumstances, but in others they look odd.

Rex is great. Buy it for the textures and the weather engine. There are no issues or frame rate hit on my system.Cheers,Noel.