What's everyone using for weather in XP these days?

[pegruder 65]

On 7/8/2018 at 4:55 AM, Ralf Maylin said:

Xenviro: Performance is better than Skymax but worse than UWX. Too many new problems with every update.

 

That's the reason Im here looking for alternatives.  The first time I installed it (cant remember the version), I was very impressed.  Now it seems very buggy with lots of graphical anomalies.  I may look in to FSGRW and FS Enhancer.  Seems to be popular between this post and others i've read.  

[NickJZX 17]

I rolled back to Xenviro 1.06 and am happy with it so far. I’ve got most of these addons;

UWXP: alright but very repetitive clouds, the 2D spinning of clouds passing is far more noticeable than other plugins, also have issues with overcast and seeing through it from above, tried the fixes and no good. But the dev is active and takes criticism really well.

X-enviro: the latest is fairly buggy, always had loads of issues with terrain blending/ on the opposite end, 1.06 seems to have next to no issues with the blending?

Skymaxx: pretty reasonable, looks alright but large performance hits. Found it and RWC to be pretty inaccurate with depiction. 

 

FSGRW/NOAA: FSGRW works amazing, if I had to pick between free NOAA or FSGRW, I’d go FSGRW. It updates repeatedly and predictably. The only downfall is a split second redraw but as far as I’m aware, FSGRW has more stations/interpolation so less drastic of a change.

 

at the moment xenviro 1.06 seems to be working fine for what I want, which is mostly accurate depictions of fog, IMC etc. UWXP comes up right close but the issue with the clouds constantly turning in front of me and gap of overcast is really limiting it for me. It’s depiction of fog is pretty good though, but the visability mist is a bit exaggerated even on lowest settings. My opinion is that if you can, spring for FSGRW and UWXP. Unless you’ve already bought Xenviro, in which case roll back. I also noticed you mentioned you have SMP, you can tie it and RWC into FSGRW.

Edited July 10, 2018 by NickJZX

[tonywob 4,768]

3 hours ago, NickJZX said:

I rolled back to Xenviro 1.06 and am happy with it so far.

Silly question, but how did you roll back? I'd like to do the same, but not found any option of doing so.

[Guest-475 81]

Just uninstall and get 1.06 from here: http://xenviro.net/update.php

[NickJZX 17]

5 hours ago, tonywob said:

Silly question, but how did you roll back? I'd like to do the same, but not found any option of doing so.

4 hours late it would appear! Woops!

 

No worries!

http://www.xenviro.net/update.php

on this page you should see the different versions listed, just download 1.06. I uninstalled the latest one on my system and then installed this. I did have a slight issue with clouds not drawing at first, so i removed the key and then reactivated it, all worked well afterwards!

 

cheers

Edited July 10, 2018 by NickJZX

[Bjoern 1,153]

So what options are there for the scrooges, i.e. in terms of freeware?

Is the NOAA plugin even a viable option anymore considering that it's for XP10 and any improvements having been made to the real weather for XP11?

Any cloud textures with better performance than the defaults out there?

[NickJZX 17]

NOAA and FSE would be your best bet to stay in the freeware section. 

[pegruder 65]

18 hours ago, NickJZX said:

I rolled back to Xenviro 1.06 and am happy with it so far. I’ve got most of these addons;

UWXP: alright but very repetitive clouds, the 2D spinning of clouds passing is far more noticeable than other plugins, also have issues with overcast and seeing through it from above, tried the fixes and no good. But the dev is active and takes criticism really well.

X-enviro: the latest is fairly buggy, always had loads of issues with terrain blending/ on the opposite end, 1.06 seems to have next to no issues with the blending?

Skymaxx: pretty reasonable, looks alright but large performance hits. Found it and RWC to be pretty inaccurate with depiction. 

 

FSGRW/NOAA: FSGRW works amazing, if I had to pick between free NOAA or FSGRW, I’d go FSGRW. It updates repeatedly and predictably. The only downfall is a split second redraw but as far as I’m aware, FSGRW has more stations/interpolation so less drastic of a change.

 

at the moment xenviro 1.06 seems to be working fine for what I want, which is mostly accurate depictions of fog, IMC etc. UWXP comes up right close but the issue with the clouds constantly turning in front of me and gap of overcast is really limiting it for me. It’s depiction of fog is pretty good though, but the visability mist is a bit exaggerated even on lowest settings. My opinion is that if you can, spring for FSGRW and UWXP. Unless you’ve already bought Xenviro, in which case roll back. I also noticed you mentioned you have SMP, you can tie it and RWC into FSGRW.

I do like Xenviro 1.06 for 2d flying, but it still has issues with VR for me.  I think 1.04 worked best with fly inside but had some other strange issues if I remember.  I think Ill try FSGRW and the SMP combo for a bit and see if I like it.