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Best weather engine for my computer?

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My computer certainly isn't the best, performance wise, but I am still interested in a weather engine for Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition. Also I am not currently able to afford ASN for my prepaid mastercard, but probably will be able to in the future. Specs for those who are interested: 

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I love REX for their textures, but I don't think their weather engine is quite as good as either ASN, OpusFSI, or FsGlobal Weather, although I know these are more expensive than the REX package. Personally, I use Active Sky Next and think it is amazing. If you are getting bad performance with it, you can adjust the number of cloud layers and the cloud draw distance.

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I'm surprised FSX would work well on that rig...


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@Buziel, have you tried with the latest SP3 recently released? 

 

No I don't think I have. I purchased REX4 earlier this year and uninstalled REX w/OD and bought ASN over the summer, I do love REX4 though!

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No I don't think I have. I purchased REX4 earlier this year and uninstalled REX w/OD

 

You knew that you could mix  and match textures between  rexe  and rex4


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Rex released Soft Clouds. Looks quite nice!

Soft Clouds isn't a weather engine. It's a texture replacement.


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Rex released Soft Clouds. Looks quite nice!

 

The OP asked about the best weather engine for his Rig,

Softclouds is not a weather engine.

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Easy, simple, and FREE....   http://www.plane-pics.de/fsxwx/home.htm

Is this actually worthwhile?

 

I'm surprised FSX would work well on that rig...

It does! Just had to edit the config and now getting great frame-rates!  ^_^

 

@Buziel, have you tried with the latest SP3 recently released? 

Hm, I heard about this latest update for REX, could someone show me how it compares to other weather engines on the market?

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Hm, I heard about this latest update for REX, could someone show me how it compares to other weather engines on the market?

 

I think it is better than the older rex weather engine but when I tested it  I still got that annoying cloud popping , yes even with sp3, so  I'm not using it anymore.

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i wondered about pilot's global weather, i have asn but it doesnt work with fsx steam and was considering fs global weather, any thoughts?

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I have both and use ASN with FSX-ME and FSGRW with FSX-SE.  

 

I have nothing but good things to say about FSGRW and it was my weather engine of choice until I tried the ASN demo.

 

I dropped out of some clouds on final and was blown away by how immersive ASN was. Then at a few hundred feet the runway appeared, not all at once but gradually with wisps of clouds near me.

 

I had done this once is real life when I was learning to fly and remember the feeling all too well.  ASN gave me the same feeling, which is why I bought it.


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