April 17, 20206 yr Stephen at OpusFSI posted about some weather injection problems in the P3D SDK forum--he says that there is a bug in P3Dv5 that prevents wind direction at altitude injected into the sim from being acted on. Also, he says that when surface winds are updated, they are intermittently cycling to a continuous slow shift from the last wind to the new target without ever reaching the new target direction. And apparently each time weather at a wx station is changed, even one distant enough to be over the visible horizon, the sky/clouds flicker. LM has not answered his concerns there. I'm also wondering why we haven't seen a beta for ActiveSky--usually those guys are right there when a new version releases, since they are on the LM beta team and presumably have been working it all along. Damian has posted a "we're working on it" statement on the HiFisim forum, but there's not much in the way of specifics there. Hope this gets sorted quickly...spiffy TrueSky clouds don't do much if there's no reliable mechanism available to control the wx. This is the long pole in the tent right now for me--just can't see going back to the days of wind shifts and flaky wx. Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
April 17, 20206 yr Commercial Member No weather, no aviation! In jurisprudence, there is a principle - you look for the person who benefits.
April 17, 20206 yr Does that only apply to Truesky? Is the weather injection by REX Skyforce with default skies just an illusion?
April 17, 20206 yr 3 hours ago, w6kd said: Stephen at OpusFSI posted about some weather injection problems in the P3D SDK forum--he says that there is a bug in P3Dv5 that prevents wind direction at altitude injected into the sim from being acted on. Also, he says that when surface winds are updated, they are intermittently cycling to a continuous slow shift from the last wind to the new target without ever reaching the new target direction. And apparently each time weather at a wx station is changed, even one distant enough to be over the visible horizon, the sky/clouds flicker. LM has not answered his concerns there. I'm also wondering why we haven't seen a beta for ActiveSky--usually those guys are right there when a new version releases, since they are on the LM beta team and presumably have been working it all along. Damian has posted a "we're working on it" statement on the HiFisim forum, but there's not much in the way of specifics there. Hope this gets sorted quickly...spiffy TrueSky clouds don't do much if there's no reliable mechanism available to control the wx. This is the long pole in the tent right now for me--just can't see going back to the days of wind shifts and flaky wx. It is my understanding that v5 betas were being tested as soon as the night before release. Considering the major change in the sky, I'm not surprised that they weren't able to release on P3D v5 release day. And apparently, even the LM coders got it wrong. Gigabyte x670 Aorus Elite AX MB; AMD 7800X3D CPU; Deepcool LT520 AIO Cooler; 64 Gb G.Skill Trident Z5 NEO DDR5 6000; Win11 Pro; P3D V5.4; 1 Samsung 990 2Tb NVMe SSD: 1 Crucial 4Tb MX500 SATA SSD; 1 Samsung 860 1Tb SSD; Gigabyte Aorus Extreme 1080ti 11Gb VRAM; Toshiba 43" LED TV @ 4k; Honeycomb Bravo.
April 17, 20206 yr FWIW someone suggested FSXWX elsewhere and that's working for me, though I haven't checked winds aloft. Will do that later. it is free and easy to get going with just the new FSUIPC 6 free version and the FSXSp2 simconnect module included in the redist folder with P3Dv5. Was painless to get going for the short term. Others have said rex works - I don't have that as an AS user, though, so haven't tested it. BTW, it does inject the weather for both enhanced atmospherics and the old school atmospherics. http://www.plane-pics.de/fsxwx/instructions-p3d.htm 5800X3D | Radeon RX 6900XT
April 17, 20206 yr 4 hours ago, w6kd said: Stephen at OpusFSI posted about some weather injection problems in the P3D SDK forum--he says that there is a bug in P3Dv5 that prevents wind direction at altitude injected into the sim from being acted on. Also, he says that when surface winds are updated, they are intermittently cycling to a continuous slow shift from the last wind to the new target without ever reaching the new target direction. And apparently each time weather at a wx station is changed, even one distant enough to be over the visible horizon, the sky/clouds flicker. LM has not answered his concerns there. I'm also wondering why we haven't seen a beta for ActiveSky--usually those guys are right there when a new version releases, since they are on the LM beta team and presumably have been working it all along. Damian has posted a "we're working on it" statement on the HiFisim forum, but there's not much in the way of specifics there. Hope this gets sorted quickly...spiffy TrueSky clouds don't do much if there's no reliable mechanism available to control the wx. This is the long pole in the tent right now for me--just can't see going back to the days of wind shifts and flaky wx. Yes, some more here also https://www.simforums.com/forums/prepar3d-v5_topic63585&SID=32215-8z4f5edb52ba5ae354937200925926.html Eagerly awaiting a statement from Hifi on this! desperately more like lol
April 17, 20206 yr 10 minutes ago, pgde said: It is my understanding that v5 betas were being tested as soon as the night before release. Another proof that the release of v5 was rushed. For the obvious reasons though. Tomaz Drnovsek My FSX Videos My AVSIM Gallery
April 17, 20206 yr Interesting about FSXWX. I'll have to give that a go. Edited April 17, 20206 yr by CaptainIronside
April 17, 20206 yr Commercial Member Not prepared for real weather. They think that we are flying in the room)) In jurisprudence, there is a principle - you look for the person who benefits.
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April 17, 20206 yr 8 minutes ago, cwburnett said: FWIW someone suggested FSXWX elsewhere and that's working for me, though I haven't checked winds aloft It's working but the winds are out of control. Its shifts in two directions every five seconds instantly during injections.
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April 17, 20206 yr 1 hour ago, Benzhangar said: It's working but the winds are out of control. Its shifts in two directions every five seconds instantly during injections. It’s working pretty well but winds are doing crazy thing and the planes don’t like how the wind is injected... but mays be that’s because of LM bug..
April 17, 20206 yr What kind of software release process is this? So they haven't tested their SDK? As a senior software engineer, we normally encourage public betas - > release candidate and then the final version. Now I have the perception the version we have in hand, is actually a beta version more or less that needs tweaking. AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 64GB DDR5 6000MHZ RAM, RX7900XT, FreeSync 165hz 1440p display
April 17, 20206 yr 2 minutes ago, omarsmak30 said: What kind of software release process is this? So they haven't tested their SDK? As a senior software engineer, we normally encourage public betas - > release candidate and then the final version. Now I have the perception the version we have in hand, is actually a beta version more or less that needs tweaking. Well that's correct they even call it in the gui beta 😉 André
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