And what about that User Interface???? Text spilling over and obscuring other information. Totally unacceptable for a commercial product. My screen settings should not be an issue outside FSX...Looks like something I could have cobbled together myself.

 

I had that and I fixed it by changing the font settings of Windows. Smaller works better. Also, you can turn off that interpolation. It's mostly for when airports are few and far between.

2-3 minutes before landing it said something about "Injecting weather" and everything went ape...

 

Same happens to me alot... I've stopped using it for now. I sure hope they resolve these issues.

(Access...really? Ugh.)

 

It came with the Office package I have and the other pieces I needed. Doing the DB compact and repair was the first time I'd ever fired it up.

 

No, really. :-)

 

Scott

It came with the Office package I have and the other pieces I needed. Doing the DB compact and repair was the first time I'd ever fired it up.

 

The compact/repair option is a good utility to have if a lot of writing is performed on a database. Over time the database size increases due to temporary files/junk data and using this utility not only shortens the filesize by restructuring itself to remove the junk but also repairs any errors within the tables etc preventing database crashes/loss of data in the future.

I run my database through it every week.

From their forums, they are on the issue with the database getting out of shape.

I adding that we will be releasing with REX Essential Service Pack 1 - a program that repairs and compacts the REX.mdb file.

http://www.realenvir...post__p__143309

 

I have to thank the folks posting that tip with the Access repair feature. Since using it, REX-E is back at speedy levels.

I wonder if you can delete it and have it recreate it or something. I don't have Access so it's an unsupportable thingy for me.

Same happens to me alot... I've stopped using it for now. I sure hope they resolve these issues.

I've set my Rex Essential stop injecting weather below Ten Thousand Feet. So on approach I know I won't get any weather injection problems...

Yeah, I was doing some low level IMC work today and set mine to not update below 6000...essentially, never. no problems. I do see REX E hanging a lot with a blank screen in the background. It seems to have a lot on its mind. LOL

After much experimentation with both programs, I'm down to using AS2012 for airliners and flights above 18000 and REX ESS for lower altitude/smaller aircraft flights. Why?

 

AS2012 is rock solid in its depiction of winds aloft (using DWC)...predictable, accurate, and not prone to causing the dreaded S-turns in my PMNG/LevelD airliners. And the rest of its weather depiction ain't bad either.

 

REX ESS is awesome in its depiction of weather, period. The clouds, the layers, the storm scud...amazing! But the winds aloft are ever changing, unpredictable, and often wrong as compared to forecasts. That makes for unpleasant commercial-style, tubeliner flights...but down lower, the flights in smaller aircraft are just beautiful.

 

BTW, I'm using REX ESS textures throughout.

I wonder if you can delete it and have it recreate it or something. I don't have Access so it's an unsupportable thingy for me.

 

Dunno. I think the injection problem I was having was mostly about the old METAR data still hanging around. The DB cleanup seems to speed things up.

 

Secondly, I would recommend that you widen your weather region in the Configuration Manager to a larger area, and then set the Weather Refresh Rate in REX to 60 minutes.

 

I leave the region at a middle setting and refresh at about 15 minutes and keep my fingers crossed. The problem I have with extending this is that I do a lot of flying from lower terrain to high and not refreshing fairly often seems to give me the old cumulus clouds at ground level problem as I fly over higher terrain. Tried these settings as an experiment last night flying from Spokane (Felts) at just under 2000' elev. to Jackson Hole over mountains rising to near 14,000, and ended up with Idaho mountainsides covered with ground-hugging puffy clouds.

 

REX ESS is awesome in its depiction of weather, period. The clouds, the layers, the storm scud...amazing!

 

I guess that's why I keep hanging in there and making adjustments and trying fixes. When REXE wx works, it's amazing.

 

Scott

I wonder if you can delete it and have it recreate it or something. I don't have Access so it's an unsupportable thingy for me.

I've tried that one with moving the file away. Not an option, unfortunately, since it forgets about all the settings then.

 

Before that MS Access optimization tip, I just kept a copy of the initial (small) db file and when the one in use grew too big, I've exchanged them. So I still had the settings in place.

 

But maybe the tool is just around the corner, with the SP1. There's hope. Until then, I'm using MS Access.