September 3, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, blingthinger said: Is the METAR situation a problem with LR servers? Or is it the NOAA system? It's not with NOAA, for sure, unless if due to host blocking... Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
September 3, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, jcomm said: It's not with NOAA, for sure, unless if due to host blocking... I ask it that way because LR's server downloads the NOAA files and redistributes them to us peasants. I've known NOAA servers (for other things) to go down over a weekend and not get fixed until the first work day of the following week, which is Tues in this case as US has a holiday tomorrow. I know LR's aware of the situation. The org and discord is lit up with complaints. I think if it was on their end, it would be rebooted/fixed by now... Friendly reminder: WHITELIST AVSIM IN YOUR AD-BLOCKER. Especially if you're on a modern CPU that can run a flight simulator well. These web servers aren't free...
September 3, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, blingthinger said: I ask it that way because LR's server downloads the NOAA files and redistributes them to us peasants. I've known NOAA servers (for other things) to go down over a weekend and not get fixed until the first work day of the following week, which is Tues in this case as US has a holiday tomorrow. I know LR's aware of the situation. The org and discord is lit up with complaints. I think if it was on their end, it would be rebooted/fixed by now... Others are using NOAA without issues... Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
September 3, 20232 yr 33 minutes ago, jcomm said: Others are using NOAA without issues... Must be LR. E.g. their metars haven't updated since yesterday: https://weather-mirror.x-plane.com/v12/noaa/ but the NOAA server is still cranking them out just fine: https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/cycles/ Friendly reminder: WHITELIST AVSIM IN YOUR AD-BLOCKER. Especially if you're on a modern CPU that can run a flight simulator well. These web servers aren't free...
September 5, 20232 yr Simadditions have released their latest version of VisualXP, loving it so far 😎 Edited September 5, 20232 yr by UKflyer
September 5, 20232 yr 7 hours ago, UKflyer said: Simadditions have released their latest version of VisualXP, loving it so far 😎 Ok, those clouds rival or surpass DCS! 😮 And the lighting is perfectly matched. "Society has become so fake that the truth actually bothers people".
September 5, 20232 yr some screenshots look great, and I was thinking about getting VisualXP, but there seem to be too many problems with it, ranging from night lighting "cockpit lights are too dark or not working anymore. Furthermore exterior lights are also not working properly. No lights on the ground (landing, strobe, beacon...), to complete x-plane crashes: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/292081-x-plane-1206r1-visualxp-v117-released/& Edited September 5, 20232 yr by turbomax AMD 7800X3D, Windows 11, Gigabyte X670 AORUS Elite AX Motherboard, 64GB DDR5 G.SKILL Trident Z5 NEO RGB (AMD Expo), RTX 4090, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 2 TB PCIe 4.0, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 1 TB PCIe 4.0, 4K resolution 50" TV @60Hz, VR: Pimax Crystal Light + HP Reverb G2 @ 90 Hz, Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant, be quiet 1000W PSU, Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black air cooler. 60-130 fps. no CPU overclocking. very nice.
September 6, 20232 yr 12 hours ago, UKflyer said: Simadditions have released their latest version of VisualXP, loving it so far 😎 Looking very good. Is there much of an fps hit? i910900k, RTX 3090, 32GB DDR4 RAM, AW3423DW, Ruddy girt big mug of Yorkshire Tea
September 6, 20232 yr 5 hours ago, turbomax said: some screenshots look great, and I was thinking about getting VisualXP, but there seem to be too many problems with it, ranging from night lighting "cockpit lights are too dark or not working anymore. Furthermore exterior lights are also not working properly. No lights on the ground (landing, strobe, beacon...), to complete x-plane crashes: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/292081-x-plane-1206r1-visualxp-v117-released/& Can confirm. It's hit and miss right now. The light enhancements are very much focused on bloom/fog effects which IMHO makes the sim look like FSX did ca 2012 with ENB bloom addon. No thanks. Most of the atmosphere color presets are now worse (some by a huge margin) than default since LR corrected the sky colors. Clouds look great at times, but it's way too inconsistent in realistic depictions. It's a fun tool, you can tinker for hours with a wide range of parameters for sky, water, lights, clouds etc. But yeah, it randomly crashes my sim, shaders are acting weird (cache always deleted before flights). I'd rate it 3.5/5. Too many "oooh" to "eeew" moments for me. Running visual XP ultimate package, btw. EASA PPL SEPL + NQ / CB-IR in progress MSFS24 | X-Plane 12
September 6, 20232 yr hmm not seeing much of those problems, do you have the latest version from their website?
September 6, 20232 yr 6 hours ago, scotchegg said: Looking very good. Is there much of an fps hit? fps looks the same with default settings, but you can adjust the settings to make it better/worse
September 6, 20232 yr 3 hours ago, UKflyer said: hmm not seeing much of those problems, do you have the latest version from their website? Yes, otherwise you'll get a warning and the plugin won't load for B7/R1 Sometimes it looks gorgeous, no question about it. edit: Loading a custom saved preset from Atmosphere page instantly crashes my sim. edit II: just to show that default is actually holding its own vs the presets. preset 1 default Edited September 6, 20232 yr by SAS443 EASA PPL SEPL + NQ / CB-IR in progress MSFS24 | X-Plane 12
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