Sounds not too promising to be honest. I've been a happy active sky/hifi user for more than 15 years and quite happy with it. Never had any problems with it and it was always well worth the money. Sounds pretty logital to me that they charge money for weather engines for multiple sims. I mean it's a completely different piece of software, takes a lot of time to code and make it work flawlessly.

Made the mistake to invest in other weather progams than AS and will not do that again in the near future. Let's see where this goes.

FWIW, I didn't use ActiveSky for a long time but used AI to give me the best possible settings so transitions etc would be smoother etc and I have to say I've been really impressed. I've been using it ever since in tandem with Rex Atmos. I don't notice transitions at all anymore.

4 hours ago, El Diablito said:

FWIW, I didn't use ActiveSky for a long time but used AI to give me the best possible settings so transitions etc would be smoother etc and I have to say I've been really impressed. I've been using it ever since in tandem with Rex Atmos. I don't notice transitions at all anymore.

Would you be able to share these settings please?

To me realistic weather plays a big role in the simulator and therefore I got curious after reading the Stratawx propaganda and I bought it to try it out. To be honest, I am disappointed. It is in no way better than AS. It has the same well known preset flaws as the visible transitions. You are, as in AS in a weather bubble with the same cloud scape all around you. The volcanic ashes clouds are back (!) and Cb clouds get for instance a top of 35000 ft and a base of 30000ft and a sharp cut at the base, absolutely strange looking. Turbulence is a joke. It is comparable to the in sim realistic turbulence setting. There is no slider to tame it a bit, therefore the choice of chosing an overlay which makes it even worse. My Fenix A320 was dancing around like crazy. An it looks as if they provided a kind of in build shader than I never saw cloud shadows on the ground that black (using HDR). The design of the app (UI?) is modern and beautifully done, but I think the weather features are more important than that. On the other hand, nearly every time you start Stratawx, an update is uploaded in the background so they seem to try to optimise things. But to me AS is convincing enough and above all, more honest.

HansW

18 hours ago, abennett said:

Would you be able to share these settings please?

sorry mate, just seeing this post now. When I'm back home later I will grab them and post!

13 minutes ago, El Diablito said:

sorry mate, just seeing this post now. When I'm back home later I will grab them and post!

Awesome.

Many thanks!

18 hours ago, Hotel Whisky said:

But to me AS is convincing enough and above all, more honest.

Thanks for the review, your service to the community is appreciated!

On 6/3/2026 at 9:38 PM, JYW said:

I'd be suspicious that they spend almost all of their marketing approach on disparaging Active Sky.

Odd approach for a new developer. "How to win friends and influence people".

😄

Came here to comment this ... let your product do the talking.

11 hours ago, abennett said:

Awesome.

Many thanks!

The most important area for me, the depiction options, these are the settings I use based off my system -

Depiction Smoothing Rate - 22

Periodic Theme Reload Interval - 10

Cloud Density - 65

15 hours ago, El Diablito said:

The most important area for me, the depiction options, these are the settings I use based off my system -

Depiction Smoothing Rate - 22

Periodic Theme Reload Interval - 10

Cloud Density - 65

Brill thanks

I never used ActiveSky in FS2000+, what is disadvantage of the native engine compared to ActiveSky? Seems like AS lacks realistic transitions whilst the native engine is perfect in this regards, is this correct?

Like AS it uses Global weather. The MSFS2024 engine uses Local weather, so the weather left from the plane might look completely different form the weather right from the plane.

3 hours ago, GSalden said:

Like AS it uses Global weather. The MSFS2024 engine uses Local weather, so the weather left from the plane might look completely different form the weather right from the plane.

The live weather is one of the only things I wish Asobo would either allow other companies to expand on (i.e. open the code up to AS or whoever), or if they just cannot give it up then for them to do a major overhaul on weather. It's not horrible by any means the way it is now, but in certain situations it's very repetitive or depiction looks the same in one part of the world versus another. Seems like the system almost always uses cumulus version of clouds, and yesterday I had these terrible looking very dark cumulus clouds around San Diego KSAN that were atrocious! Other times, the weather can look pretty good.

Still missing towering cumulus, cumulonimbus, supercells, etc. as well.