Sorry to say but I'm not really feeling confident with Opus.

Today during my flight from ENGM same windspeed and direction at FL380 enroute with only 6 knots. In descend, winddirection suddenly changes complete (90°)in a second for some minutes, then at FL240 absolutely no wind for several minutes!

 

Also metardata is very rare in Europe. There are so many areas with zero Metar and therefore only some clouds appear, mainly around the aircraft where areas in greater distance are nearly cloudless (became more cloudy as the aircraft reaches this areas, despite cloud draw distance is set to 100 miles).

 

Maybe it's more for visual flights at low altitudes at the moment, but as an airliner pilot I'm not really satisfied.

 

I will install AS2012 new Beta 2 and do the same flight to compare now.

 

The 0 METARs means there are no met stations in your current weather cell, that is within 5 to 10 miles of you. You really do not know anything do you.

 

Also check the Upper Atmosphere weather report window, that will tell you what the GRIB forecast data (temps and winds) is for all the upper levels. Display any of the Local,Destination, and Alternate weather report windows and you will also see the current ambient temp and wind along with the GRIB forecasted targets. If I were you I would make sure I know what I'm talking about before voicing an opinion. 0 METARs implies no METARs found in Europe ... That's the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. Check your OpusWeather.txt file and you will see the hundreds of METARs downloaded to construct your last weather map for the 600 x 600 mile map area.

 

What a laugh.

 

Amuzed

Stephen

Stephen I'll get ready to put on a flame shield, just some friendly advice.

Silly man. The 0 METARs means there are no met stations in your current weather cell, that is within 5 to 10 miles of you. You really do not know anything do you.

 

Also check the Upper Atmosphere weather report window, that will tell you what the GRIB forecast data (temps and winds) is for all the upper levels. Display any of the Local,Destination, and Alternate weather report windows and you will also see the current ambient temp and wind along with the GRIB forecasted targets. If I were you I would make sure I know what I'm talking about before voicing an opinion. 0 METARs implies no METARs found in Europe ... That's the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. Check your OpusWeather.txt file and you will see the hundreds of METARs downloaded to construct your last weather map for the 600 x 600 mile map area.

 

What a laugh.

 

Amuzed

Stephen

 

wow ... :Worried:

Well if you want to express an opinion you should at least first take some time to get your facts right. To suggest to anyone that the OpusFSX LWE cannot find ANY METARs in Europe because it says 0 METARs in the Local report window IS plain stupid. Sorry but it is.

 

Everyone knows what the 0 METARs means, it is very obvious !

 

If you are confused and are not sure about some operation, then just ask and Cheryl and I will be very happy to tell you what it means. But if you are going to just jump to some very silly conclusion then that's another matter.

 

All you had to do if look into the matter for a few seconds, examine the Spy window, or look at the OpusWeather.txt file at you will see the hundreds of METARs that are downloaded. Then ask yourself the question .... Why is it saying 0 METARs in the Local Weather Report Window ? Does that mean the LWE is just making the weather up? Does that mean this silly software cannot find any met stations in Europe? I thought Opus rave about the weather map as covering over 600 by 600 miles! How can this be? ........

 

What conclusion would you come to.

 

WOW indeed.

 

Regards

Stephen

Sorry to say but I'm not really feeling confident with Opus.

Today during my flight from ENGM same windspeed and direction at FL380 enroute with only 6 knots. In descend, winddirection suddenly changes complete (90°)in a second for some minutes, then at FL240 absolutely no wind for several minutes!

 

Also metardata is very rare in Europe. There are so many areas with zero Metar and therefore only some clouds appear, mainly around the aircraft where areas in greater distance are nearly cloudless (became more cloudy as the aircraft reaches this areas, despite cloud draw distance is set to 100 miles).

 

Maybe it's more for visual flights at low altitudes at the moment, but as an airliner pilot I'm not really satisfied.

 

I will install AS2012 new Beta 2 and do the same flight to compare now.

 

Please just ask questions before coming to such conclusions.

 

Also metardata is very rare in Europe. There are so many areas with zero Metar and therefore only some clouds appear, mainly around the aircraft where areas in greater distance are nearly cloudless (became more cloudy as the aircraft reaches this areas, despite cloud draw distance is set to 100 miles).

 

Come on folks ... "METARs are very rare in Europe" ... You really want to defend this !

 

"There are so many areas with zero Metar and therefore only some clouds appear" ... Ditto

 

Perhaps I have this all wrong here, I've over reacted, but instead of a question or two I open my iPad and read unqualified and obviosly erroneous statements such as this, not questions or a few queries, just the above. If you feel those statements are justified or should be taken and accepted as serious comment then fine, have your rant at me. But I am sure most of you have more sense than this, so why can't I comment on something I know an awful lot about and react against such false opinions.

 

Regards

Stephen

Having a bad day, Stephen? It happens to all of us, but reading some of the comments already I guess you can tell people are a little bemused at the treatment of one of your paying customers.

 

Yes, he maybe misrepresented your data, but I see this as a great opportunity for Opus to show some customer service and point out the way your software actually does things.

Just returned from my MRI scan and saw the above. Not a single question, not a single query asking why are there no met stations in Europe. Just the above statement if assumed fact. Yes it's a bad day.

 

I don't mind providing customer support, we do that for over 18 hours a day, but the above contained no questions from a confused customer. I still do not see any question to answer. Yes he has 'misinterpreted' the 0 METARs in the Local Weather Report, I don't mind the misinterpretation, its the proclamation that followed that I find annoying. I am just human you know.

 

Stephen

Just returned from my MRI scan and saw the above. Not a single question, not a single query asking why are there no met stations in Europe. Just the above statement if assumed fact. Yes it's a bad day.

 

Stephen

 

Sorry to hear that, but your problems are not the poster's fault. I lost my cousin two weeks ago, my wife lost her job and my daughter got very ill, all in the last 3 weeks, but it just means I need to take time out before doing things to ensure I am in the right frame of mind.

 

Support from the seller is what sells most products. Wish your health problems get resolved soon.

 

 

I don't mind giving support 24 hours a day, and some times we nearly manage that. But it is still a proclamation not a question. Please, please as questions before publicly airing your assertions.

 

OK I was a little snappy and regret my statement, I apologIse to you all, sometimes those statements are like a red rag to a bull.

 

Regards

Stephen

I have already changed the software to read ...

 

0 METARs at Current Location

 

And for the gentleman who proclaimed that the OpusFSX LWE gives no METARs in Europe,

 

This statement in the Local Weather Report window is informing you there are no met stations within your current 16km x 16km weather cell, the weather insertion point that is closest to you at present. So most probably, there are NO met stations reporting any METARs within 5 miles or so of your current location. Of course, this does not imply there are no met stations in Europe.

 

If there were a met station near your current location, the Local Weather Report window (showing the inserted weather in the current weather cell, an area 16km x 16km to the North West of its insertion point, so not necessarily directly below you) would try to assist you by showing you the met station's details (ICAO code and name).

 

If you are at all uncertain as to the extent of the weather coverage or a little concerned that the weather may not be interpolated correctly then please refer to the numerous topics on our Flight1 support forum. You may also find the Using the Live Weather Engine topic useful, along with our description of the Weather Smoothing feature soon to be added.

 

Please also check your OpusFSX\Themes\OpusWeather.txt file. This file lists all the downloaded METARs that were used in constructing your current 992km x 992km weather map, possibly assisted by the world wide GRIB upper atmosphere forecast data, details of which you will also find displayed in the Upper Atmosphere weather report window.

 

If you have any further queries then please just ask, we are always happy to discuss matters with everyone and provide any assistance you need.

 

Best regards

Stephen

Hi All

 

One final comment,

 

If you feel you have uncovered a weather anomaly or suspect all is not quite right with your weather then you will find advice on the correct procedure to report that anomaly to us. I am always willing to load in your OpusWeather.txt file and recreate your conditions to check over something. On the few occasions when something has been found to be in error we have normally corrected and posted a fix within an hour or two.

 

Please also see our Flight1 forum topics describing the current beta dev cycle, what we are currently working on, and ideas we have for new developments, we welcome all feedback and involvement from our users in all development cycles.

 

Best regards

Stephen

 

Im using TIR 4 with TIR 4 drivers

Hi!

Since I am having serious problems with the installation of the TIR 5 software on my all new machine (just Win 7 64 bit, FSX and Opus installed), I'd like to use the TIR 4 version of the software.

But somehow, I am having strange effects (something like two different pictures altering very fast) when TIR 4 and Opus are active.

The install notes on Opus are for the TIR 5 software only, at least as far as I read it.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Here's a modified extract from our TIR topic,

 

TrackIR Interface

 

BEFORE using the interface you MUST 'Check For Game Updates' within your TrackIR5 and ensure OpusFSX is listed in Titles under the Advanced Settings tab, then restart TrackIR. The restart after updating is very important.

 

Prior to using the TrackIR5 device via OpusFSX you must ensure TrackIR5 does not directly connect to the FSX/P3D simulator. To accomplish this you MUST rename the two SimConnect manifest files within the TrackIR5 installation folder. The folder is usually located in either,

 

c:\Program Files\NaturalPoint\TrackIR5 (Win 7 32-bit)

or, c:\Program Files (x86)\NaturalPoint\TrackIR5 (Win 7 64-bit)

 

BEFORE using the OpusFSX TrackIR5 interface you MUST rename the two manifest files, simconnect.manifest and simconnectSP2.manifest. We recommend renaming these files to simconnect_RENAMED.manifest and simconnectSP2_RENAMED.manifest. If you wish to revert back to using TrackIR without the OpusFSX interface then you will have to change these files back to their original names.

 

Check your TIR manifest files after any TIR update, the TIR software can create new files after the upgrade. Ensure you have no other software packages running that are trying to control the camera or create camera shake effects.

 

Run TrackIR and FSX before running OpusFSX. Minimise the TrackIR program to prevent FPS loss.

 

Do not run any other program that controls the camera views or interfaces to TrackIR. Make sure no such program or subordinate task is running, do not allow any other program to connect to TrackIR prior to OpusFSX.

 

TrackIR effects must be tuned using the TrackIR program. We would advise initially setting the Speed to a low value and the Smoothness to 50. You should experiment on your system and set values your PC is happy with to avoid any jerky DHM movements. Use the test options within the DHM dialog to see what the DHM should look like on your system, then try taxiing up and down in windowed mode and adjust your TrackIR smoothness to give you the optimum effect.

 

Make sure your Light Filter Threshold isn't set too high, try setting the default 100, and adjusting from there, with a max setting of 15 for your IR Brightness. Light polution and an incorrect Light Filter Threshold setting are the number one main causes of flicker.

 

Also make sure you have Video Processing Mode set to Precision with a Precision Mode Smoothing of 100. It has been brought to our attention that on some systems TrackIR can become very jerky if 'precision' is disabled, its default key assignment is F7 so it's possible to inadvertently change its setting if you use F7 to increase flaps.

 

Within OpusFSX set the TrackIR scan speed to 25 initially, the XYZ scaling to 1 and PBY scaling to 0.75 (... Actually just use the defaults at first whatever they are). These can be adjusted on the fly from within the Configuration dialog. The PBY setting should be adjusted in conjunction with the TIR device speed settings to determine the range of head movement and how far you can see behind you.

 

The TrackIR interface can be toggled on/off within the Cameras dialog (Toggle TrackIR On/Off button), allowing camera configuration and editing with the TrackIR device either on or off.

 

We have not as yet imposed any limits on the TrackIR head movement. This will most probably be included in a later beta release. You may need to try different versions of the TrackIR drivers to get it working smoothly on your system.

 

End.

 

My first guess would be you haven't renamed the manifest files so TIR is connecting directly to FSX. When you enable the TrackIR option in OpusFSX Configure dialog, you should see the FSXTRACKIR program activate automatically. This is our TIR interface program using the SDK supplied by Natural Point. You can open this console application and it will tell you that it has connected etc. if it cannot connect to TIR then you will hear repeated beeps.

 

Hope that helps.

 

Regards

Stephen

 

P.S. I have now idea about which are the best driver combinations etc. but many people have reported problems with the very latest TIR driver, I think it might be 5.2 or something similar. If I could point you to our Flight1 forum, you may find some useful topics there.

I don't mind giving support 24 hours a day, and some times we nearly manage that. But it is still a proclamation not a question. Please, please as questions before publicly airing your assertions.

 

OK I was a little snappy and regret my statement, I apologIse to you all, sometimes those statements are like a red rag to a bull.

 

Regards

Stephen

 

Stephan

 

normally I am only a reading participant of this forum, but now I really must must say something. THERE IS NO NEED TO APOLOGISE!! The Opus weather programm is the best there is. I am simulating since FS4 and dreamed ever since about a realistic weather environment. With Opus this dream came through, amazing!

 

Now, if someone, obviously ignoring his stupidity, is shouting out on the internet that Opus is not offering METAR's for Europe, you have the right to defend your programm (and yourself). The words you chose are completely allright, allso towards a "paying customer". The paying customer is not the king nor the emperor and cannot afford himself anything he likes. I am running a clinic for physio- and manualtherapy. I have a lot of "paying customers" to treat. But if some of them is not respectfull or bad mannered towards me, I send them away with the message of never coming back again.

 

Please, can we stop forcing hard working developers to be slave for the holy paying customer.

 

Regards, Hans Wijnroks

Ok so I just purchased...

 

Why on earth can I not install this to a folder other than \OpusFSX in the root of the drive? The manual seems to indicate that's all that's allowed and when I tried putting it in E:\FS Stuff\OpusFSX, which is my main container folder for non-aircraft FS utilities like weather and texture addons, the program throws an error saying it's unable to find its own folder when I run it.

 

I do not like the root folders of my drives getting cluttered up with program folders and files like this and it's something that's bugged me about Flight 1's system for a very long time, the fact that you have to leave .lic files within folders in your C:\ root or stuff stops working. (ie - why can't these be stored in a FSX\Flight 1 Software\Licenses folder or something similar in an organized fashion?) Is that the reason here or is it something else?

 

I agree. My FSX files are where i want them and by that i mean organised but all my Flight 1 purchases are scattered in C:/Root and EZCA even decided it was going in the x86 folder which bugs me. But can't seem to do anything about it. Why they do it this way i don't know and could put me off buying from them even though otherwise its a good system.