REX Wx Force 2020

[dbw1 444]

Personal experience.

I bought this a couple weeks back and am very impressed with it. For me this has added greatly to the msfs. I use real world weather when in msfs.

In my area we've had some real interesting weather the last couple weeks and it has been present in the sim courtesy of REX - much better than the msfs wx.

Based on my experience I suggest having a look at this product.

[Virtual-Chris 682]

My understanding is that it does a good job locally (for VFR) but fails to transition well over longer distances (E.g airliners). Is that your experience also?

[Bdub22 1,609]

I've got a fairly beefy setup and I still get pretty crummy performance with this app. It also has huge weather shifts which obviously kills immersion pretty badly. 

[shamrockflyer 647]

Will MS/Asobo ever open up the weather system to be fully used by third parties? I'd like to see Active Sky for MSFS, it was great with P3D and never had any issues with it!

[Maxis 1,857]

14 minutes ago, shamrockflyer said:

Will MS/Asobo ever open up the weather system to be fully used by third parties? I'd like to see Active Sky for MSFS, it was great with P3D and never had any issues with it!

Not happening. 

[Cognita 1,054]

3 minutes ago, shamrockflyer said:

Will MS/Asobo ever open up the weather system

Asobo has pretty firmly said no, it will not be opened up. And someone with insight said essentially that the way the whole weather system has been deigned it would not be possible to do this without substantial redesign work, and that is just not going to happen.

[MrBitstFlyer 3,837]

Both Rex WeatherForce and MSFS both have negatives and positives. 

1.  MSFS live weather has a local weather model, so clouds and weather can be different in different directions. Rex WeatherForce is a global weather model, so weather is the same everywhere.

2. Because of point 1 above, Rex has to transition from one area to another.  MSFS live weather does have transitions since including Metar reports, but those transitions are less noticeable. IMHO, the REX transitions are not immersion killing if the settings are optimised.

3.  During REX weather updates, fps can suffer, but this has improved through successive updates.

4. REX currently depicts more cloud types using live weather than MSFS live weather can. MSFS cloud depiction has improved during SU10, but REX still wins out here.

For me, REX loses out for points 1-3, but point 4 makes it better overall for my enjoyment in MSFS. Each person will of course make their own judgement - the gains in point 4 may not be sufficient to overcome the negatives in points 1-3.

Edited August 4, 2022 by MrBitstFlyer

[Alvega 2,119]

If someone is thinking about buying Rex Weather Force be advised it doesn't work with SU10 beta.

[Soulflight 97]

1 hour ago, Maxis said:

Not happening. 

Then they are pretty pig headed, my guess is a lot of people wait for exactly this to happen including myself. AS simply had the most sophisticated weather on the FSX/P3D platform and to prevent them from doing their work is similar to, for example, locking PMDG out from making planes for MSFS.

[Alvega 2,119]

12 minutes ago, Soulflight said:

Then they are pretty pig headed, my guess is a lot of people wait for exactly this to happen including myself. AS simply had the most sophisticated weather on the FSX/P3D platform and to prevent them from doing their work is similar to, for example, locking PMDG out from making planes for MSFS.

AS is based on metar only, MSFS uses new technology based on a global weather model from Meteoblue and only use metars around airports. If done right, this will be much better than AS did in other sims. I think that's probably the main reason they don't want to open it for 3PD.

Edited August 4, 2022 by Alvega

[Cpt_Piett 4,544]

1 hour ago, Alvega said:

If done right, this will be much better than AS did in other sims.

Yes if they can smooth out the transitions between meteoblue and metar zones I think a lot of people will be happy with the weather model. Introducing METARs was in many ways a regression, but I guess in many ways unavoidable due to user demand. 

[MrBitstFlyer 3,837]

21 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Yes if they can smooth out the transitions between meteoblue and metar zones I think a lot of people will be happy with the weather model. Introducing METARs was in many ways a regression, but I guess in many ways unavoidable due to user demand. 

Will be interesting to see how XP12 handles this, as that sim is also mixing a global model with metar.

[dbw1 444]

7 hours ago, Bdub22 said:

I've got a fairly beefy setup and I still get pretty crummy performance with this app. It also has huge weather shifts which obviously kills immersion pretty badly. 

Mine rig is 3+ years since built….. I9-9900k, 2080-8gig, 32 gigs ram, m.2 drives. 
Interestingly I get no noticeable fps hit. On the whole I’m quite pleased.

 

Edited August 5, 2022 by dbw1
Spelling

[timest 472]

7 hours ago, Alvega said:

If someone is thinking about buying Rex Weather Force be advised it doesn't work with SU10 beta.

Once official release builds are public we update accordingly. Until then it's a moving target.

For those who have Weather Force, we just released Tech Update 4.0. 

[dbw1 444]

I'm new to your products.

Where do I find Tech Update 4.0?

Thanks.