March 20, 20233 yr Hi All Juat beginning the mass install of MSFS as I type… what is everyone’s view on the live weather? Is it accurate or are there any add ons that are better the default setup? Thanks Matt
March 20, 20233 yr It is good, no need for any add ons IMO. It used to be even better in the beginning but it is gradually getting back there. Tomorrow it will hopefully be even better after the SU12.... Tapani Österberg
March 20, 20233 yr I use default/live. Not perfect but generally working quite well for me. Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
March 20, 20233 yr MSFS offers the best weather generation out of the box on any sim that I've used or use. PC1: AMD Ryzen 9800X3D | Zotac RTX 5090 SOLID | Asus TUF X670E-Plus | G.SKILL 64GB DDR5 PC 6000 CL30 | 4TB NVMe | Noctua NH-D15 | Asus TUF 1000W Gold | be quiet! Pure Base 500DX | Noctua NH-D15S | LG OLED CX 48" + 2x Acer Nitro XV240YP 24" + 2x 15.6" Touch-screen Panels PC2: AMD Ryzen 7500F | Asrock 7900 GRE Challenger OC | Gigabyte B650I AX | Corsair 32GB DDR5 6000 CL36 | 1TB NVMe | CM Hyper 212 | Corsair 750W Gold | Lian Li TU150 ITX | SAMSUNG Odyssey G9 49" Winctrl Ursa Minor Sidestick + Ursa Minor 32 Throttle & PAC - Thrustmaster Boeing TCA Yoke - Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog - Honeycomb Bravo Throttle - MFG Crosswind Rudder Pedals - TrackIR - Stream Deck XL + Stream Deck Plus - Winctrl MCDU + 2 MFD's - Meta Quest 3 (VR)
March 20, 20233 yr Live weather is all I use, pretty much spot on most of the time but they faffed around with METAR integration in SU7 and it went backwards. Slowly getting back to what it was like pre that update, I'm currently over Madagascar and the clouds/wind match that of windy.com very well. Pico Neo3 Link VR - Windows 11 64bit, Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Elite Mobo, i7-10700KF CPU, Gigabyte RX 9070 XT OC 16gb (AMD GPU), 32gig Corsair 3600mhz RAM, SSD x2 + M.2 SSD 1tb x1 Saitek X45 HOTAS - Saitek Pro Rudder Pedals - Logitech Flight Yoke - Homemade 3 Button & 8-directional Joystick Box, SNES Controller (used as a Button Box - Additional USB Numpad (used as a Button Box)
March 20, 20233 yr I'm not in the SU12 beta, and we'll all know soon enough, but various folks on the official forums are reporting live weather improvements in SU12. If a great thing is being made even better, then can't go wrong.. that's been the track record so far by MS/Asobo ever since METAR integration, so hopefully we'll keep seeing it progressively improve even more thru future SUs.https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/excellent-live-weather-in-su12/581538 Edited March 20, 20233 yr by lwt1971 Len 1980s: Sublogic FS II on C64 ---> 1990s: Flight Unlimited I/II, MSFS 95/98 ---> 2000s/2010s: FS/X, P3D, XP ---> 2020+: MSFS Current system: i9 13900K, RTX 4090, 64GB DDR5 4800 RAM, 4TB NVMe SSD
March 20, 20233 yr It's so convenient and economical to have everything bundled together in the single package that is MSFS: Live weather which is beautifully depicted; gorgeous, highly-detailed, worldwide ground scenery, and high-quality aircraft. No need to purchase everything separately anymore. I do own add-ons, but they are luxuries rather than necessities now. Processor: Intel i9-13900KF 5.8GHz 24-Core, Graphics Processor: Nvidia RTX 4090 24GB GDDR6, System Memory: 64GB High Performance DDR5 SDRAM 5600MHz, Operating System: Windows 11 Home Edition, Motherboard: Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX, LGA 1700, CPU Cooling: Corsair H100i Elite 240mm Liquid Cooling, RGB and LCD Display, Chassis Fans: Corsair Low Decibel, Addressable RGB Fans, Power Supply: Corsair HX1000i Fully Modular Ultra-Low-Noise Platinum ATX 1000 Watt, Primary Storage: 2TB Samsung Gen 4 NVMe SSD, Secondary Storage: 1TB Samsung Gen 4 NVMe SSD, VR Headset: Meta Quest 2, Primary Display: SONY 4K Bravia 75-inch, 2nd Display: SONY 4K Bravia 43-inch, 3rd Display: Vizio 28-inch, 1920x1080. Controller: Xbox Controller attached to PC via USB.
March 20, 20233 yr Question on live weather: It is separate from SIM time, right? So if it's 3am real time, but I fast forward in the sim to 8pm, is the weather is still based on conditions at 3pm (real time)?
March 20, 20233 yr 30 minutes ago, BrammyH said: Question on live weather: It is separate from SIM time, right? So if it's 3am real time, but I fast forward in the sim to 8pm, is the weather is still based on conditions at 3pm (real time)? Yes. So you can theoretically fly the current daytime weather in the darkness of night or the current nighttime weather in the light of midday. Edited March 20, 20233 yr by David Mills Processor: Intel i9-13900KF 5.8GHz 24-Core, Graphics Processor: Nvidia RTX 4090 24GB GDDR6, System Memory: 64GB High Performance DDR5 SDRAM 5600MHz, Operating System: Windows 11 Home Edition, Motherboard: Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX, LGA 1700, CPU Cooling: Corsair H100i Elite 240mm Liquid Cooling, RGB and LCD Display, Chassis Fans: Corsair Low Decibel, Addressable RGB Fans, Power Supply: Corsair HX1000i Fully Modular Ultra-Low-Noise Platinum ATX 1000 Watt, Primary Storage: 2TB Samsung Gen 4 NVMe SSD, Secondary Storage: 1TB Samsung Gen 4 NVMe SSD, VR Headset: Meta Quest 2, Primary Display: SONY 4K Bravia 75-inch, 2nd Display: SONY 4K Bravia 43-inch, 3rd Display: Vizio 28-inch, 1920x1080. Controller: Xbox Controller attached to PC via USB.
March 20, 20233 yr Interesting people think that the live weather is looking better. For me, the clouds are nice some of the time but the vast majority of the time they are volcanic/cauliflower looking, and the colour is too yellow. I’m on SU12 beta, and personally haven’t noticed any difference to live weather from SU11.
March 20, 20233 yr 44 minutes ago, abennett said: Interesting people think that the live weather is looking better. For me, the clouds are nice some of the time but the vast majority of the time they are volcanic/cauliflower looking, and the colour is too yellow. I’m on SU12 beta, and personally haven’t noticed any difference to live weather from SU11. Never noticed those type of clouds. I guess those would be most likely in low pressure weather systems. Another reason why MSFS weather is not some across the board implementation. sp
March 20, 20233 yr 6 minutes ago, Sky_Pilot071 said: Never noticed those type of clouds. I guess those would be most likely in low pressure weather systems. Another reason why MSFS weather is not some across the board implementation. I’ve often seen clouds like this. Pretty nasty. Not my image btw. I’m away from home but have seen ones like this quite often.
March 20, 20233 yr 10 hours ago, MarcG said: Live weather is all I use, pretty much spot on most of the time but they faffed around with METAR integration in SU7 and it went backwards. Slowly getting back to what it was like pre that update, I'm currently over Madagascar and the clouds/wind match that of windy.com very well. This is an interesting take. Pre SU7, weather at airports often bore no resemblance at all to actual conditions, as the 12 hour model runs would often blow the timing of events like frontal passage by whole hours. This completely negated the use of any real-world flight planning tools, and badly broke the experience of networked flying as well (ie Vatsim.). The integration of METAR into the depiction of airport weather is probably the single greatest advancement this sim has made in weather accuracy. It can be debated whether the clouds are more or less "pretty" now (I think they look good), but conditions are certainly more accurate than they ever were before. Edited March 20, 20233 yr by Stearmandriver Andrew Crowley
March 20, 20233 yr 2 hours ago, abennett said: Interesting people think that the live weather is looking better. For me, the clouds are nice some of the time but the vast majority of the time they are volcanic/cauliflower looking, and the colour is too yellow. I’m on SU12 beta, and personally haven’t noticed any difference to live weather from SU11. I guess its all in how we view it, but like you, I agree. Also using the SU12 beta and although things are improving some there is still a lot of work to go. The clouds are where they should be, but something is way off with the cloud heights, layer(s) (normally not enough), missing true overcast, and most especially the cloud types (we have cumulus puffs everywhere or a thin strange looking wispy flatter type of transparent puff) and most every one of them are very transparent can see through them.. Edited March 21, 20233 yr by KERNEL32
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