February 25, 20179 yr I've been using Active Sky Next for a little over a year and absolutely love the program. Twice in the last 5 weeks though when launching the program I've been told that I've exceeded my active registrations and to open a support ticket with their support team. The first happened about a month ago and again just now. The HiFi team was pretty prompt with unlocking/resetting my license but they were unable to effectively communicate why the problem just suddenly started happening via the trouble ticket. My forum post on their support site went unanswered. I'm looking for alternatives (can be freeware or payware) to Active Sky as I have significant loss of confidence in the product right now. I acknowledge anti-piracy protections are important but acceptable use from a licensed user is being caught up in their systems and as a result I'd like to explore taking my business elsewhere. I'm running Windows 10, FSX:SE. Anyone have some good recommendations that is not Active Sky Next 16? - Mark Manacsa Most of the flight simulation community is pretty toxic and gets easily worked up about little things. Just go into it knowing that.
February 25, 20179 yr FS Global Real Weather is a good option. I own both and use FSGRW with FSX-SE and AS16 with FSX. I owned FSGRW first, but ASN impressed the heck out of me, so I picked up a copy of it.. Ernie
February 26, 20179 yr 4 hours ago, Beardyman said: Wait for REX, maybe one day finally their weather engine will be out... Yep, about the same time as Aerosoft's CRJ and QualityWing's 787. : Ernie
February 26, 20179 yr Author 8 hours ago, airernie said: FS Global Real Weather is a good option. I own both and use FSGRW with FSX-SE and AS16 with FSX. I owned FSGRW first, but ASN impressed the heck out of me, so I picked up a copy of it.. Ernie Thanks, I'll check it out. The ASN support team was pretty quick with the unlock, even though it was the weekend so that's all good. - Mark Manacsa Most of the flight simulation community is pretty toxic and gets easily worked up about little things. Just go into it knowing that.
February 26, 20179 yr 14 hours ago, airernie said: FS Global Real Weather is a good option. I own both and use FSGRW with FSX-SE and AS16 with FSX. I owned FSGRW first, but ASN impressed the heck out of me, so I picked up a copy of it.. Ernie I used FSGRW before getting ASN. It worked but didn't seem to give the weather detail that ASN gives. However,the biggest problem I found was that FSX froze for a few seconds whenever FSGRW updated. After a few freezes on short finals, I gave up on it. ASN has worked flawlessly for me. I tried AS16 but, whilst it was good, didn't seem enough of an improvement over ASN to justify the extra expense. As I may consider P3D in the future, the fact that, unlike ASN, you had to buy separate licenses for FSX and P3D also put me off. i7-14700k | Asus ROG STRIX Z790-F Gaming WIFI | 32GB DDR5 RAM | MSI RTX 4080 Super | WD Black SN850X 1TB & 2TB | Corsair HX1000i ATX3.0 | MSI MAG401QR 40" monitor | Win 11 Pro 64-bit | Meta Quest 3
February 28, 20179 yr I would never fly in FSX without ASN. For me it was a game changer. The only weather engine I know of that gives you a true to life overcast condition. I'd used REX before that - the textures are incredible but the weather engine is not a patch on ASN. REX textures combined with ASN weather generation is the best combination IMO. Tom Wright, UK PPL(A) SEP + Night Rating + IMC/IR(R) Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 32GB DDR5 6000MHz RAM | 16GB RTX 4080 Super | 2x 2TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2 | Thrustmaster TCA Airbus Sidestick + Quadrant | Logitech G Saitek Pro Flight Rudder Pedals | WinCTRL Airbus FCU + EFIS + MCDU
February 28, 20179 yr 17 minutes ago, Tom Wright said: REX textures combined with ASN weather generation is the best combination IMO. Yup, that's what i use too. Alan Bradbury Check out my youtube flight sim videos: Here
February 28, 20179 yr On 26/02/2017 at 6:01 AM, softreset said: My forum post on their support site went unanswered. which forum .... post a link & one might be able to follow up & help (given you had 12 months of "love" !! what's that saying ... something to do with babies & water. if alan recommends asn, why should I recommend as16 .. for now, cheers john martin
February 28, 20179 yr I have just moved across to P3D, along with ASN, but I too am looking at an alternative. I LOOVE, ASN, but for some reason that still needs resolving, any amount of heavy cloud and the performance goes through the floor. This is still after the latest 'fix.' I'm not talking about a few frames here, I'm talking from 30fps down to anything between 9-15 with stutters! HowardMSI Mag B650 Tomahawk MB, Ryzen7-7800X3D CPU@5ghz, Arctic AIO II 360 cooler, Nvidia RTX4090 GPU, 32gb DDR5@6000Mhz, SSD/2Tb+SSD/500Gb+OS, Corsair 1000W PSU, LG Ultragear 48"4K, MFG Crosswinds, TQ6 Throttle, Fulcrum One YokeMy FlightSim YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@skyhigh776
February 28, 20179 yr FSXWX is all I need. http://www.plane-pics.de/fsxwx/home.htm 7950X3D + 7900 XT + 64 GB + Linux | 4800H + RTX2060 + 32 GB + Linux My add-ons from my FS9/FSX days
February 28, 20179 yr 1 hour ago, Rockliffe said: I have just moved across to P3D, along with ASN, but I too am looking at an alternative. I LOOVE, ASN, but for some reason that still needs resolving, any amount of heavy cloud and the performance goes through the floor. This is still after the latest 'fix.' I'm not talking about a few frames here, I'm talking from 30fps down to anything between 9-15 with stutters! I have experienced the opposite. The killer is SGSS in NVI. I moved to 4k and ditched NVI and only use in game AA settings and performance has been great. SGSS 4 or 8 x with heavy clouds will bring the best machine down. CPU: Intel i9-11900K @5.2 / RAM: 64GB DDR4 3200 / GPU: 4080 16GB /
February 28, 20179 yr Author 6 hours ago, vadriver said: which forum .... post a link & one might be able to follow up & help (given you had 12 months of "love" !! what's that saying ... something to do with babies & water. if alan recommends asn, why should I recommend as16 .. https://hifisimtech.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?7-Technical-Support - Mark Manacsa Most of the flight simulation community is pretty toxic and gets easily worked up about little things. Just go into it knowing that.
February 28, 20179 yr Author 8 hours ago, Tom Wright said: I would never fly in FSX without ASN. For me it was a game changer. The only weather engine I know of that gives you a true to life overcast condition. I'd used REX before that - the textures are incredible but the weather engine is not a patch on ASN. REX textures combined with ASN weather generation is the best combination IMO. I agree. I'm extremely happy with ASN and REX textures. In the year+ of my enjoyment of FSX:SE it stands as best the value and combo. My recent frustrations are the issues of DRM protection locking me out of a product that was legitimately purchased. - Mark Manacsa Most of the flight simulation community is pretty toxic and gets easily worked up about little things. Just go into it knowing that.
February 28, 20179 yr Author 38 minutes ago, Bjoern said: FSXWX is all I need. http://www.plane-pics.de/fsxwx/home.htm Thanks, never heard of it before now but looks great. I'll check it out! - Mark Manacsa Most of the flight simulation community is pretty toxic and gets easily worked up about little things. Just go into it knowing that.
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