8 minutes ago, PWJT8D said:

In the manual they explain what to change if you are experiencing low FPS with weather updates. There are a couple different options you can try for how REX updates the weather. Some have more or less impact on FPS.

I will look in the manual then. It does not seem to come with a manual?

EDIT: oh, an online manual on the website, had not seen that, a bit unusual. Will try the fps tips on page 23. Thanks!

Edited April 12, 20215 yr by Rene_Feijen

We have stunning default weather. Don’t see the point of spending money on a weather addon. Things from the past...

On 4/12/2021 at 4:07 PM, DaWu said:

We have stunning default weather. Don’t see the point of spending money on a weather addon. Things from the past...

Because it's not accurate en route.  At airports the winds, temps, and barometer will generally match, but en route is based on a model.  Could be an issue for things like Vatsim if the sim's modeling has a wildly different QNH etc at altitude and your flight level is way off due to that.  Also I've regularly had the sim show like 0 vis heavy rain at a major airport near me when the weather is in reality just overcast with rain but decent vis.  Sim weather you could barely see the runway from the terminal which is right next to it.  At the same time REX showed a much more realistic interpretation.

6 minutes ago, flyinion said:

Because it's not accurate en route.  At airports the winds, temps, and barometer will generally match, but en route is based on a model.  Could be an issue for things like Vatsim if the sim's modeling has a wildly different QNH etc at altitude and your flight level is way off due to that.  Also I've regularly had the sim show like 0 vis heavy rain at a major airport near me when the weather is in reality just overcast with rain but decent vis.  Sim weather you could barely see the runway from the terminal which is right next to it.  At the same time REX showed a much more realistic interpretation.

I really don’t care. I just wanna fly and have nice looking weather. As if I would compare the data to the real outside data. Who cares 

7 minutes ago, DaWu said:

 Who cares 

Those of us who fly online (VATSIM, IVAO, etc) and need accurate wind data, that's who 🙂

25 minutes ago, DaWu said:

I really don’t care. I just wanna fly and have nice looking weather. As if I would compare the data to the real outside data. Who cares 

Then don’t buy it. Those of us that want weather that resembles real life will. Everyone is happy.

Edited April 14, 20215 yr by haskell

1 hour ago, haskell said:

Then don’t buy it. Those of us that want weather that resembles real life will. Everyone is happy.

I personally dont care if it is 'correct' or not, I just want access to it for airliner flight and approach planning.  Since it often does not match realworld metar, how else can I get this info from the sim?  That is what we need.

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Edited June 28, 20214 yr by mikeymike

Hey sorry to bring this up again,

what’s the consensus on this now?

as I am new to msfs is it worth purchasing or should I use unreal weather which is free?

hopefully hifi chimes in the future?

cheers 

mike 

On 6/28/2021 at 9:35 AM, mikeymike said:

Hey sorry to bring this up again,

what’s the consensus on this now?

as I am new to msfs is it worth purchasing or should I use unreal weather which is free?

hopefully hifi chimes in the future?

cheers 

mike 

Still the same. They haven’t updated it in months. So it looks like what you see is what you get. 

Still misses from time to time (broken will look more like scattered, etc) and my biggest issue that I WISH they would implement is locking to arrival weather. It only updates every 5 minutes (adjustable) so in a fast plane you could have weather from 30 miles away displayed at your arrival airport. ActiveSky let you put in a destination and at 30 miles out it locked in that airport’s weather. REX desperately needs that function. I have mentioned it on their Discord but that is such a horrible platform to support a product. 

8 minutes ago, haskell said:

ActiveSky let you put in a destination and at 30 miles out it locked in that airport’s weather.

When did AS become available for MSFS?

37 minutes ago, fppilot said:

When did AS become available for MSFS?

It's not. I meant that is a feature in all versions of ActiveSky.

rex weather never has been state of the art, where active sky was very very good.

i hope they come on eventually.

On 4/12/2021 at 7:07 PM, DaWu said:

We have stunning default weather. Don’t see the point of spending money on a weather addon. Things from the past...

I believe it is a "but your mileage may vary" issue.  In the USA regions where I fly most often REX WF provides more accurate weather, and currently does not saddle me with lightening and thunder every 30 seconds.  That is what MSFS default is presenting when clouds and any rain is in the forecast.  When I say every 30 seconds I am not exaggerating. That issue came after one update and seemed to go away with another.  But with the most recent update it is back again and just not tolerable.  I am wondering now if it is a seasonal aspect of MSFS default weather, and if that, rather than updates, is why is left for a period of time and now has come back. 

It happened to me when I started my most recent flight on Monday, which was out of I69 - Clermont Co., Batavia, Ohio (Cincinnati area).  I checked the recent most 24 hours of metars for nearby KCVG and KLUK as well as the terminal forecasts and there should not have been any thunderstorm activity, much less intensely constant.  I loaded REX WF and it presented much the same weather without the thunderstorm theatrics.  

2 hours ago, haskell said:

Still the same. They haven’t updated it in months.

https://rexsimulations.com/news.html

First news item, from June 19:

FIX ITEMS: 

• FIXED - Pressure where data is missing in the weather data.  
• FIXED - Incorrect pressure rendering on the main interface.  
• FIXED - Ground snow not clearing over time.  
• FIXED - Clouds not clearing over time.  
• FIXED - Low level clouds not rendering bases correctly.  
• FIXED - Weather computations that was causing weather to not inject during flight. 
• IMPROVED - Overall cloud rendering.