Please we need more friendly clouds the ffpv2 is not enough, i fly the 737 PMDG and the clouds kill my FPS.TUNKAMy SystemPIV 2.2 GhzGeForce 4 Ti 4200 128512 RAMSyncmaster 17"

So make some yourselfI agree, the clouds are killer, but managable.

Hi, Your weather setting:Reduce the weather setting, clouds draw distant 30, clouds percentage 50 or lower, sight distant to 60 mile, clouds coverage density medium. If you have Nvidia card, Antialasing 4x and higher will drop more FPS when there is clouds with AA. 2x Antialasing handle better the clouds fps.You can`t do anything more then my files available are the lowest freindly fps available for fs2004 to dates, with the cirrus clouds, cumulus etc (from 1.33Mb to 65KB)http://fsw.simflight.com/FSWFs2k4fix.htmlThanksChris Willis[link:fsw.simflight.com/FSWMenuFsSim.html]Clouds And Addons For MsFs

If you are really having problems, try changing your settings to simple clouds in the weather tab. The 2D look ok, and you will get a huge fps boost.

>If you are really having problems, try changing your settings>to simple clouds in the weather tab. The 2D look ok, and you>will get a huge fps boost. Does anyone know if you can set up a hot key to switch between complex and simple clouds without having to interrrupt the flight by accessing ther menu bar? I have FSUIPC registered but that doesn't do it. Think it might need a gauge.Allcott

or...if you switch to fsuipc 3.12you can assign 2 keys to 'TRAFFIC_SET and TRAFFIC_TOGGLE'.2 very usefull usefull commands:the first one allow you to set the traffic to the specified value in the parameter field (ex. 25 means ai traffic 25%).The second toggles between the current traffic percentage to 0% and pressed again to 100%.OF course you can easily press the TRAFFIC_set key again to revert it back to 25%.Usefull during panic approaches :-)

>clouds coverage density medium. Chris, is there a way to get a really overcast sky with this setting? So far I had to set the density to the highest value to simulate real 8/8. Since this has a huge impact on my fps I would be more than happy, if there was a way to creat an overcast layer with medium settings.Wolfgang

Wolfgang...I have a way of fixing the overcast problem.... It's not perfect, but if you don't mind manually creating a layer, you can get a good solid overcast that makes IFR flight more of a challenge....Basically, I've tweaked the cirrus overcast layer.... If you combine it with a stratus deck or cumulus deck and place my layer above or beneath it (and only a 1 ft. thickness is required!), it creates a fairly realistic overcast underneath the aircraft or above, although it is limited in range....One disadvantage is a "seam" is visible in parts of the overcast, as the new weather engine doesn't blend cloud layers perfectly. But by using it with a stratus deck, the stratus layer tends to hide the seam...I had a post here a month or two ago promoting this fix... I offered to upload it to the library, but I had no takers... So I quickly forgot about it...-John

Tunka,Although the clouds have a big effect on FS performance the PMDG737 panel is just a big a killer. Switch back to the default 737 panel and see how your frame rates improve.It was this panel that finally convinced me to buy Project Magenta www.projectmagenta.com and transfer all the gauge processing to a separate PC. With no panel or gauges to slow things down the frame rates on a full screen view on my Athlon XP2000 are very good indeed.These 3rd party panels are excellent in what they have achieved but there is now so much processing going on in the gauges FS cannot cope with that and redraw the scenery efficiently.Cheers,

>I had a post here a month or two ago promoting this fix... I>offered to upload it to the library, but I had no takers... >So I quickly forgot about it...>Hi John,This sounds very interesting! I haven't seen your previous post on this. I definitely would be interested in your solution. Although I do lots of flying with FSMeteo I also built up my "personal" weather enviroment frequently. Would there be a chance that you upload your fix?Wolfgang

Hi,I've compressed Chris' resized clouds to dxt3 using imagetool and I'd say there was quite a performance jump, however now they look a little awkward from up close and especially at night. The filtering is off somehow (streaks in the texture). But I can live with that, maybe there's even a fix (better compression algorithm using dxtbmp or something)...-Daniel

Here's a pic using dxt3, reduced-size clouds. This is on my Notebook, with in-build ATI9000M! So definately playable. Of course, this is over water and it's not real world weather but still, frames were consistenly above 19.Good night folks! its 3:45 I gotta go sleep :-D-Danielhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/49390.jpg