Are clouds the best ever now? I'm impressed.

[blueshark747 1,843]

So REX WeatherForce has a notable constant injection performance issue in MSFS like its prior sim versions?

[Cpt_Piett 4,617]

2 minutes ago, blueshark747 said:

So REX WeatherForce has a notable constant injection performance issue in MSFS like its prior sim versions?

I can’t use the persistent option. And I’ve got a decent system. Without persistent there’s of course more abrupt changes. So REX gives you the cake (beautiful cloudscapes), but you don’t get to eat it…

[MrBitstFlyer 3,870]

43 minutes ago, Bdub22 said:

I wish I could get a refund for that program. It kills my FPS and will often change weather dramatically during approach. Sure, it looks good, but I can't use it with it's poor performance and I have a high-end setup. 

Stop Rex before final approach so another weather load doesn't happen.  

[scotchegg 4,186]

46 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

Stop Rex before final approach so another weather load doesn't happen.  

That has to be one of the more immersion-breaking trade-offs I’ve heard of: making sure you’ve turned off the world’s weather as the final part of your approach checklist.

[MrBitstFlyer 3,870]

1 minute ago, scotchegg said:

That has to be one of the more immersion-breaking trade-offs I’ve heard of: making sure you’ve turned off the world’s weather as the final part of your approach checklist.

You said it - a trade off between the poor cloud depiction in live weather and the better cloud depiction in Rex WeatherForce.    For me, that little Rex disconnect, as part of the approach checklist, is worth the previous 5 hours of very nice weather depiction. The weather doesn't change when Rex is disconnected, it stays the same for those last few miles

I completely understand anybody not wanting to do this as we all adjust stuff for our own immersion criteria. I just can't suffer Live Weathers Cumulus fest for a 5 hour flight, for the sake of a single button press a few minutes before landing.

[scotchegg 4,186]

14 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

You said it - a trade off between the poor cloud depiction in live weather and the better cloud depiction in Rex WeatherForce.    For me, that little Rex disconnect, as part of the approach checklist, is worth the previous 5 hours of very nice weather depiction. The weather doesn't change when Rex is disconnected, it stays the same for those last few miles

I completely understand anybody not wanting to do this as we all adjust stuff for our own immersion criteria. I just can't suffer Live Weathers Cumulus fest for a 5 hour flight, for the sake of a single button press a few minutes before landing.

Fair point. And it’s not like default Live weather doesn’t sometimes ruin an approach by dramatically changing the weather when you get in the metar bubble sometimes😤

[HiFlyer 9,358]

7 minutes ago, scotchegg said:

Fair point. And it’s not like default Live weather doesn’t sometimes ruin an approach by dramatically changing the weather when you get in the metar bubble sometimes😤

We have to be careful what we ask for sometimes, and not let the perfect be the enemy of the pretty good...

Edited June 27, 2022 by HiFlyer

[Tuskin38 6,468]

5 hours ago, flying_carpet said:

Do they have turbulences inside?

I descended through a cloud towards EINN and had some minor turbulence.

Edited June 28, 2022 by Tuskin38

[flying_carpet 657]

11 hours ago, HiFlyer said:

There are always possibilities... https://secure.simmarket.com/m.-a.-realturb-realturb-cat-areas-global-for-msfs.phtml

 

Actually I asked for turbulences within the clouds, not CAT (clean air turbulence). In X-Plane you can set CAT (and every turbulence you want) by default since 20 years, for MSFS you can get an addon 2 years after release ...

 

6 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

I descended through a cloud towards EINN and had some minor turbulence.

Then, you were lucky and experienced these casual baked in turbulences. Even in thunderstorm clouds you don't get turbulences, or at best minimally rocking. Fly in X-Plane through a hevy thunderstorm and you can fall from the sky - even in airliners. Why do airliners circumfly thunderstorms in reality? See?

 

[Krakin 5,748]

Flying in the caribbean I've definitely experienced cloud turbulence. It's gotten bad enough that I've had to request altitude increases to avoid the clouds

[flying_carpet 657]

57 minutes ago, Krakin said:

Flying in the caribbean I've definitely experienced cloud turbulence. It's gotten bad enough that I've had to request altitude increases to avoid the clouds

So, how do you do it? I never experienced (dangerous) turbulences, and when I watch videos from others called like "severe thunderstorm landing", "dangerous thunderstorm", etc. at best the plane rocks a bit around like a boat in a moderate breeze.

[WestAir 2,522]

4 hours ago, flying_carpet said:

So, how do you do it? I never experienced (dangerous) turbulences, and when I watch videos from others called like "severe thunderstorm landing", "dangerous thunderstorm", etc. at best the plane rocks a bit around like a boat in a moderate breeze.

Yeah. Severe turbulence should really be an uncontrolled aircraft. You shouldn't be maintaining altitude and you should be forced to fly slower to avoid overspending. 

I haven't encountered that in MSFS, which is a shame because we know it can do that. It does very drastic wind changes during weather refreshes which usually send me plummeting a few hundred feet.

[avhpilot 156]

The clouds are too limited in style, as many others mentioned already.

And the cumulus reminds me of an oil-paintings of the baroque era, like a Rubens, with those fat little pink baby angels in the sky with trumpets in their mouth.

The MSFS splashscreen with the Giraffe shows cirrus clouds like we have never seen in the sim itself. It is kind of misleading actually. Cirrus clouds, if we do get to see them at all, are always the same kind but never the feather-like example in that splashscreen. 

Maybe one day ?

 

 

 

[Noel 4,492]

4 hours ago, flying_carpet said:

So, how do you do it? I never experienced (dangerous) turbulences, and when I watch videos from others called like "severe thunderstorm landing", "dangerous thunderstorm", etc. at best the plane rocks a bit around like a boat in a moderate breeze.

Speaking of t-storms--where the heck did the lightening go?  I just realized I haven't seen any for....over a year!

[WestAir 2,522]

3 minutes ago, Noel said:

Speaking of t-storms--where the heck did the lightening go?  I just realized I haven't seen any for....over a year!

The lightning is on the flight instruments now. 

No really, when flying over or in clouds that should have lightning, they'll be shown on the PFD. 😆 It's actually an amazing bug because I imagine such a thing would be hard to pull off intentionally, let alone by sheer accident.