I have a very general question about the weather works in FS9, and if I'm setting it up correctly.I just installed FS9, FSUIPC, and GE Pro. I'm currently using the default weather, which is fine for now and actually doesn't look that bad. My very general question is how do these 3 work together to control the weather? More specifically, how does GE Pro affect the weather? Is it considered an external weather controller? When I set it up, it developed several ground and SKY texture sets. What does this do? I didn't fully understand the manual.How does FSUIPC play into all of this and does it have any impact on GE Pro?Thanks.

GE Pro is not a weather program. GE Pro provides ground and sky textures that work with the weather data received by a program like HiFi Sim's ASV6.5 or the Flight1 server (if it is still available) to select the textures best matched to the current weather for a particular location. You use the Wx button in the GEP dialog to fetch the weather. Then it installs the appropriate textures in FS9. FSUIPC is not involved unless you have ASV6.5 or similar, if so it provides an interface that allows these weather programs to set the weather in FS. ASV6.5 also provides an interface that will work with GEPro to automatically set the textures in FS... I very much recommend it.DJ

Thanks for explaining that clearly! Active Sky is definitely on my want list, but I may have to wait for a better system. I currently use my iMac, which is working very well so far, but the graphics card and RAM are a little limiting right now.

You double posted 30 minutes apart this afternoon and I replied in your other post.