I'd asked this before but...  Could one of you who's currently using FSGRW share how it handles historic wx.  In other words, can I easily time shift to earlier in the day (as Opus can), or better yet to a real summer day in the middle of winter (as REX and AS can) and so on.  I've gotten the impression that you can locally store a prior snapshot, but I'm not sure how or if it allows true historic wx.

 

Thanks,

 

Scott

I'd asked this before but... Could one of you who's currently using FSGRW share how it handles historic wx. In other words, can I easily time shift to earlier in the day (as Opus can), or better yet to a real summer day in the middle of winter (as REX and AS can) and so on. I've gotten the impression that you can locally store a prior snapshot, but I'm not sure how or if it allows true historic wx.

 

Thanks,

 

Scott

I havent used that feature much to be honest but I do know you can go back and select a weather file stored in the server, and load it.

 

You can also save a weather file to your hard drive to load later if you wish to continue practicing in the weather conditions you have found.

 

The developer says fsgrw has the largest amount of grib data calculated of any other weather engine and it is all done in their server, so I can only assume the historical weather files will have no problems being injected back into your sim.

 

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Thanks, Will.  I appreciate the info.

 

Scott

'Why the heck should I spend 39 euro's when I've got this already?'

 

 

That's true, OPUS and FSGRW are very close. If I was starting from scratch, I like the look and feel of FSGRW better, though. It's just personal preference. I don't think that the three weather apps have the disparity in quality among them like there is among the  other hotly debated add-on topic: base scenery textures (good), GEX (better) and FTXG (best), for example.

 

BTW, .Net 4 is a system component. It shouldn't mess anything up. At least I haven't seen any reports of that happening. It only affects .Net apps that are designed for it.

 

 

So I started FSX again with OpusFSX and I was greeted with an encredible good looking sky... and I thought 'Why the heck should I spend 39 euro's when I've got this already?' You have to draw a limit somewhere and this is one

 

Don't get me wrong, I think Opus sky also looks great. But  I think some underestimate what FSGRW have, that neither Opus, REX and AS have and that is the local weather effects. That is what sold me completely to this engine, so shelling out 39$ was an easy choice for me:). Sooner or later Opus and others probably gonna catch up with these effects but at the moment FSGRW is the only one that has it B) So if having some money to throw out the window FSGRW is really worth a try.

 

 

I think some underestimate what FSGRW have, that neither Opus, REX and AS have and that is the local weather effects. That is what sold me completely to this engine

 

That's interesting indeed but at this moment only 10 airports have these effects. There is a list of airports that will get effects in the future but there are only some 18 additional airports that will get these effects. And most of them I never visit. So for ME this isn't enough to spend 39 euro. ^_^

 

 

And most of them I never visit. So for ME this isn't enough to spend 39 euro. ^_^

 

Then you can mail  them and get your favorite on the list , I did(ENVY). And the list will expand, I bet in a one more year the list has grown alot bigger:) Im hooked on these effects, so I may be biased:p

I have some 30 airports I fly to on a regular basis and some of them are already on the list but would be great to have more of them on the list. That is of course if they have these local weather effects and that brings us to my question, is there a good source where I could look up airports and find out about any local weather effects or where do you find this kind of information?

 

If I found a good source I would be happy to put together a list and send to the developers of FSGRW.

Oh, something I've been wanting to say for a while but forgot everytime: one thing that worries me a little when it comes to FSGRW is that it is completely dependant on their own servers...! OpusFSX uses (various) general onlne servers for the weather data so even if in the (far away) future OpusFSX goes out of business, you still will be able to use the addon. FSGRW however will be useless even when the developers servers are down for some reason, let alone if they are completely gone. Correct me if I am wrong.

 

Obviously a lot more addons are dependant on the servers of developers but that's mainly for installing, not for the usage itself.

 

But maybe I am a bit too negative in this regard. ^_^

Oh, something I've been wanting to say for a while but forgot everytime: one thing that worries me a little when it comes to FSGRW is that it is completely dependant on their own servers...! OpusFSX uses (various) general onlne servers for the weather data so even if in the (far away) future OpusFSX goes out of business, you still will be able to use the addon. FSGRW however will be useless even when the developers servers are down for some reason, let alone if they are completely gone. Correct me if I am wrong.

 

Obviously a lot more addons are dependant on the servers of developers but that's mainly for installing, not for the usage itself.

 

But maybe I am a bit too negative in this regard. ^_^

 

Well Jeroen more important is that FSGRW is heavy on FPS compared to Opus and sometimes it has a memory footprint over 700 mb ouch... (between 50mb and 700 mb)

 

What I don't like current about Opus is the sudden cloud shift during an update

talked about this with Stephen but we have both a different view.

Which is I prefer a more subtitle change instead of the most realistic wx update which kills the immersion and isn't realistic behaviour regarding clouds;-)

Further the EZDOK camera renders sharper terrain textures as the Opus camera at the same angle and zoom level ;-)

Turbulence from AS2012 and FSGRW far better as Opus implementation...

But I like the depiction from Opus...

Well Jeroen more important is that FSGRW is heavy on FPS compared to Opus and sometimes it has a memory footprint over 700 mb ouch... (between 50mb and 700 mb)

 

What I don't like current about Opus is the sudden cloud shift during an update

talked about this with Stephen but we have both a different view.

Which is I prefer a more subtitle change instead of the most realistic one which kills the immersion ;-)

Further the EZDOK camera renders sharper terrain textures as the Opus camera at the same angle and zoom level ;-)

 

Heavy on FPS, is that so...! Wow! Didn't hear that before! The other with Opus problems I don't have because I always disable updates as soon as the weather has loaded (don't need updates for my usually short flights) and I also don't use the camera part of OpusFSX (nor EZDOK btw).

 

Think I will stick with OpusFSX for certain. Well, for now...... ^_^

Heavy on FPS, is that so...! Wow! Didn't hear that before! The other with Opus problems I don't have because I always disable updates as soon as the weather has loaded (don't need updates for my usually short flights) and I also don't use the camera part of OpusFSX (nor EZDOK btw).

 

Think I will stick with OpusFSX for certain. Well, for now...... ^_^

 

Well Jeroen I have the nasty habit to compare both (in this case even more then two lol) in the same situation local and see what the differences are ;-)

In case of FSGRW it looks like more calculations in the background and a lot of fluctuations in FPS maybe also to much layers in case of heavy weather conditions ...

This is interesting because I haven't experienced any difference in FPS between these two products but then again I haven't performed any actual tests like you did.

I, too have not experienced any frame rate drop, whereas both REX and AS 2012 will always affect frame rates on my machine.

 

As far as using saved, downloaded or historic weather - I've done this many times over the past week, as Bowerman had three layers and a high, quite solid dark grey  overcast on the day I purchased the programme. I saved it, also the second, did a bunch of checking for current weather compliance and have never looked back. This is one great little weather engine.

 

 

is there a good source where I could look up airports and find out about any local weather effects or where do you find this kind of information?

 

Most of these effects are described in approach charts of the specific airports