October 16, 201510 yr Hi All, I currently use fsrealwx lite on a laptop, that has widefs running to inject weather into my fsx PC. I hear there are better weather addons out there. Could you please advise which would be the best addon ?. Requirement is that it should be able to work over widefs, I don't want to install on my fsx PC as you can see mine is stretched now and currently get a decent 20fps. Thanks Jeganathan Harishanker (YSSY) i7-7700k @4.9GHz, ASUS Maximus IX Hero, 32 GB RAM @3200MHz, GA GTX 1080 G1, 2 x M.2 NVME Samsung EVO 256 GB, Kraken X61, 55" 4K TV @30Hz, P3D v4.3, MCE, GSX, ASP4, FSUIPC, PMDG 747 v3 & 737 NGX, QW 787
October 16, 201510 yr Commercial Member Could you please advise which would be the best addon ?. Requirement is that it should be able to work over widefs, I don't want to install on my fsx PC as you can see mine is stretched now and currently get a decent 20fps. I use ASN, and ASN is the only engine at the moment to provide weather radar in our products. It doesn't work over WideFS, but that's because it doesn't need to - it works via SimConnect (and has instructions for enabling this). As far as your 'stretched' comment goes, you have an i7, and FSX does a terrible job of spreading its load across those cores. The result is that the other cores are free to process other things, like running a weather engine. Additionally, it isn't so much the weather engine taking up processing power - it's the sim trying to drive the resultant graphics. I doubt you'd see much of a performance hit if you ran it locally. I used to run everything networked and then consolidated because it just wasn't worth it to me. Kyle Rodgers
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