Darn, read this thread the other day and so I look up from 230 and there they are, duplicate cirrus clouds. The saga continues. If anyone where to come out with an updated sim, I think we would all fall over dead.

Make sure you are using the latest Beta, as mentioned above in this topic we may have found a way to minimise this anomaly. But unless everyone is using the latest software we will have no idea if that is true.

 

Stephen

I am shocked that the repeating clouds had not eaten everyone's lunch!

Glad to see others have had this issue. It never bothered me enough to care, but the issue is definately prevalent. I will give the latest beta a go.  

Yep, I'm a bit surprised some haven't seen this as well.  It happens for me (or not) with both Opus and REX wx engines, and when I last looked into it, the consensus did seem to be a core FSX issue.  What's odd for me is that it seems to come in waves.  I'll have the problem for a while and then it will simply disappear and I'll forget about it until the next wave hits.

 

I've not seen it in weeks, so I've probably just jinxed myself. :-(

 

Will definitely DL the latest Opus beta, but given the sporadic nature of the problem I won't be much proof for or against the viability of the potential fix I'm afraid.

 

Scott

We're hoping we may have identified what FSX does not like when updating the cirrus, and hence causes it to get a little messed up occassionally. Time will tell.

 

Stephen :-)

The effect is not attractive, but thankfully is rare. I doubt I've seen it more than a half dozen times in the whole time I've been flying FSX.

 

Hook

It's interesting that some see this occurrence as rare, as for me it happens 90% of the time! 

Try changing your cirrus cloud textures and checking that ini file mentioned above.

 

Stephen

Same here...its not bothering me much: But when flying close under a cirrus-layer, it can be irritating. I use P3D with REX-textures but Opus for the weather . I had the same effect when using the REX weather-engine. My workaround is to use a "soft" set of cirrus textures. Means one with lots of transparency and not too much patterns. This reduces the effect somewhat.

 

Awsome peace of software btw!!!! Thank you very much!!

Marcel

checking that ini file mentioned above.

 

Stephen

 

Sorry Stephen, what are you referring to?

I think its the enbseries.ini file, but try changing your cirrus cloud texture to something quite different. I have never had double cirrus clouds but I seem to recall the enbseries.ini file content being a problem, you could just try renaming the file. These double cirrus seemed to have occurred since the release of FSX, not sure about FS9. There must be something people can do though since it is not a constant issue.

 

It might be something to do with multiple cloud bases accumulating inside the FSX code, only one cirrus is defined by the LWE always at the same altitude, but FSX treats cirrus differently to other clouds so its anyone's guess what's going on in the code.

 

Stephen

 

I will also have another look next week see what else I can do. I can try changing the LWE to deliberately coax FSX to display double cirrus, then I can make sure it never happens under normal conditions. You never know I might get lucky.

 

Stephen