i have been using the trial and didnt notice any issues with FSUIPC 4.926 networked?

 

Anyway im gonna wait to see what Rex Direct brings to the table.

@Jackson,

Sorry I don't see what you get, I only fly the PMDG 777 ATM, I don't get turbarlance all the time, the last flight I did I got almost none, but when I do, I can see clearly how it's affecting the aircraft, speed, height and course are all taking a hit and the AP is working hard to work it all out.

The aircraft is being banged around perfectly with what I see on the instrument.

 

You think it needs some work, sorry for me it works perfect with what I fly.

 

My only gripe with ASN is I have Shade and get the patchwork clouds on overcast and I hate that.

After a few days of testing ASN i have to say that - at least as far as i can tell by now (as it's still early days) - ASN sure is a great and very powerful engine and i am happy to have purchased it!

 

But i also have to admit that it - performancewise - simply asks for to much from my PC from time to time and i even had my first CTD since ages as ASN recently crashed on a flight between Anchorage and Vancouver in PMDG's great 777, somewhere between waypoints EEDEN (N55°54.98' W137°0.40') and FRIED (N54°13.53' W133°38.46').

I am just mentioning this here in such detail because ironically, and as i have to admit, Opus also had to struggle there noticeably (i was hidden by sudden wind shears and FPS were decreasing as the weather tried to follow up being drawn and depicted correctly around my aircraft) while i was redoing the same flight with it.

So maybe there is some local/regional issue with the available source data or so.

Anyways:

Opus did not crash and i was able to finish the flight as intended.

Okay, this might be some local and/or temporally irregularity - but due to the fact that i experience a noticeably performance hit with ASN frequently whenevr using comparatively demanding planes such as PMDG's 777 and also the NGX, i will for now use ASN for flights in planes such as the wonderful Majestic Dash or Flight1's great B200 and Opus for all the PMDG tubeliners.

 

But again saying:

I am happy to have purchased ASN and i am most confident, that HiFi will get lots of things fixed and/or improved - an yes, just in case and to avoid missunderstandings in advance:

I sure have lowered various settings in the ASN options menu and sure use a balanced set up for my sim.

 

Overall though - and repeating myself a bit:

Great to have ASN available - it is tempting because it does offer superb weather depiction indeed!

But best of all for us flightsimmers out there is the fact that there is some very vital and - hopefuly - continuing constructive competition going on around weatherengines at the moment - and it is great to have so many superb engines to choose from nowadays!

Just some personal - first - notes from my side.

Cheers, Christoph

@Jackson,

Sorry I don't see what you get, I only fly the PMDG 777 ATM, I don't get turbarlance all the time, the last flight I did I got almost none, but when I do, I can see clearly how it's affecting the aircraft, speed, height and course are all taking a hit and the AP is working hard to work it all out.

The aircraft is being banged around perfectly with what I see on the instrument.

 

You think it needs some work, sorry for me it works perfect with what I fly.

 

My only gripe with ASN is I have Shade and get the patchwork clouds on overcast and I hate that.

 

David, do you have ASN on a networked pc? Which FSUIPC version did you use last?

 

If running ASN in network configuration what is a safer version of FSUPIC to use for now?

 

Can't wait for the hofix already.   ^_^

 

 

 

Thanks,

Dirk. 

I'm just thinking (typing) out loud here...so correct me if I'm mistaken.  For me, it seems like my performance with ASN drops once I climb above a certain altitude (usually around 30K or so) with clouds below.  Interestingly, the cloud depiction of the undercast also seems to transition from using cumulus clouds to stratus clouds when climbing higher (is that that true or just my imagination?).  I remember reading on some "other" sites that stratus clouds are known for reducing frames as well as causing the well-documented checkerboard effect.  I've seen the checkerboard effect before in FSGRW and I know that it has an option not to use stratus clouds to avoid the problem.  I wonder if the option to disable stratus would have any effect in ASN?

No Dirk its not.

I really like the way ASN gives you a list of predicted weather throughout your flight plan. But I am wondering is it able to forecast jet stream for high altitude flights so I find a faster route?

I must be one of the only sods who's having issues with it. Whenever I boot (trial version) and do a flight, I suffer periodic lockups the entire time. every 15-20 seconds it'll lock up for 3-5. The moment I turn off ASN they stop. I'm at a loss, and I'd certainly like to partake in this apparently wonderful creation!

@Jackson,

Sorry I don't see what you get, I only fly the PMDG 777 ATM, I don't get turbarlance all the time, the last flight I did I got almost none, but when I do, I can see clearly how it's affecting the aircraft, speed, height and course are all taking a hit and the AP is working hard to work it all out.

The aircraft is being banged around perfectly with what I see on the instrument.

 

You think it needs some work, sorry for me it works perfect with what I fly.

 

My only gripe with ASN is I have Shade and get the patchwork clouds on overcast and I hate that.

 

Ok...thanks for the feedback. I will do some homework tonight..! I have narrowed it down to two possible reasons: it should be either a conflict with Opus camera view/DHM or some issue with FSUIPC (I use a networked set up and the current FSUIPC versions are reported to create some problems in such set up)..

Thanks anyway for letting me know your experience.

 

With respect to the patchwork clouds on overcast I didn't know it was Shade related. Have been using Shade since it was released and I'd hate to dismiss it, but I also have these patchwork clouds and they are horrible...!

 

Regards

You really got to experiment with the performance settings and be reasonable with it. I just flew into Anchorage with a heavy overcast and snowing, and in the 777 no less, and maintained around 26 fps. Seems to be running well for the most part other than an occasional FPS slowdown but its quite temporary.

I think a good GPU will help with things here in order to keep up with the cloud draws. 

The main thing was still, not a single wind shift enroute.

Hi a couple of notes here:

 

- For stutters/lock ups, we've identified a few common causes you could check:

- Specific versions of fsuipc don't work well with ASN and in some cases this may come up as a stutter every 30 seconds. Keep an eye for newer fsuipc versions as we actively work with Pete Dowson to improve things on this area.

- Then, it's AV scanning of the files created by ASN (exclude as_srv folder from scanning or even better the whole fsx installation folder).

- A conflict with fsinn multicore optimizations has been identified (disabling this removes stutters with ASN).

- Finally, make sure your affinity mask is properly set in fsx.cfg.

 

 

For more information and support please visit our dedicated support forums.

 

- For the rectangular cloud patterns. It's correct stratus clouds are to blame for this. In addition when a smooth cloud reload happens with ASN this get's more pronounced and furthermore the way the clouds reflect the light also affects this. We're investigating various ways to circumvent this at this point. An easy way of improving things is to install a day (or brighter) sky from AS2012, but this will be only a partial solution (the pattern will still be there during a smooth cloud redraw).

 

Thanks,

Kostas Terzides, ASN developer

For me turbulence "felt" too high because of my DHM settings in EZDOK. Which was fine for ASE but with the enhanced level in ASN is too strong. I toned it down and it seems much better. The only operational anomaly I've had with ASN so far, was a flight from KMCO to KATL with the PMDG 777, On approach to Rnwy 09R I had a crosswind with a 20 degree upwind component (020@6kts with an occasional gust in the low teens) My approach speed was VREF+5kts as usual but during the approach the engines didn't seem to want to settle down an speed kept climbing up to 180kts, til I disengaged AP/AT. Weight was below MLW so I'm not sure what would cause this. I haven't seen it since with other aircraft. I haven't tried it yet again though with the 777.

... Finally, make sure your affinity mask is properly set in fsx.cfg ... Thanks,Kostas Terzides, ASN developer

Great info all of it, but would that be affinitymask=14 on a i5 2600k such as mine?

 

Thx for a wonderfull piece of software!

 

Mas

Great info all of it, but would that be affinitymask=14 on a i5 2600k such as mine?

 

Thx for a wonderfull piece of software!

 

Mas

Yup - any quad processor without hyper threading enabled

 

Vic

For me turbulence "felt" too high because of my DHM settings in EZDOK. Which was fine for ASE but with the enhanced level in ASN is too strong. I toned it down and it seems much better. The only operational anomaly I've had with ASN so far, was a flight from KMCO to KATL with the PMDG 777, On approach to Rnwy 09R I had a crosswind with a 20 degree upwind component (020@6kts with an occasional gust in the low teens) My approach speed was VREF+5kts as usual but during the approach the engines didn't seem to want to settle down an speed kept climbing up to 180kts, til I disengaged AP/AT. Weight was below MLW so I'm not sure what would cause this. I haven't seen it since with other aircraft. I haven't tried it yet again though with the 777.

 

I've noticed that with the T7 too.  It seems to happen descending through about 1,000 - 1,500 AFE.  It seems like you're flying through some form of small, unregistered wind gusts that jockey the speed all over the place (like the speed does when flying through turbulence).  I was flying into Frankfurt last night and selected about 159 KTS for Vref and the erratic speed changes got all the way up to 210 KTS but the airplane never experienced any turbulence or changes in wind variation/speed.  I had to disconnect the Autothrottle and keep power at idle going down the ILS to get the speed down and manageable.