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  2. btacon
    Mine can be locked. Title says it all and I have no attachment to this particular thread. -B
  3. Cognita
    I suppose a way around it is to give others an SKD of all the data fields related to weather that are on the client side -- so that a company like REX or Active Sky can easily insert data to your particular installation of MSFS. These companies have now figured out how to do this in a preset, likely to a limited degree, but then have to turn off live weather -- as live weather and a preset are mutually exclusive. An SKD of client weather might help, although what can be done in a preset is likely more circumscribed so it may also entail building out data fields related to those presets. Maybe Asobo will do this, but it does it at its own expense. But it is hard for me to visualize how Asobo can give access to the live weather client fields without creating a security threat that a client installation could be used or configured to be used to access and attack Azure servers. When you run Active Sky r Rex you are giving those companies access to your computer; MS does not really care about this as you are taking all the risk. But opening live weather, even providing a detailed SKD of it, opens potential vectors to attack, and there are bad actors out there always looking for attack vectors. I just don't see a way around that given the current design.
  4. Noel
    Well sure, that was why I passed this on to others here perplexed as to what was bothering me with FG. I only just figured this out. And here's the reality for me. I've figured out what it is that contributes to this--it's pretty much any kind of sharpening algorithm including Render Scale (mine's at 150), TAA (versus DLSS or other 'softer' algorithms), and as explained, AMD FidelityFX, and can improve it. I'm using all of these hence the issue surfaces. I've become duly spoiled by looking at AMD FX of 200 along w/ RS at 150 and rock solid image quality everywhere. The degree of clarity, sharpness and so forth from everything from characters in glass cockpits, FMC and so forth, to objects near and farther is unparalleled in my experience. Couple that with the fact I am constantly moving back and forth from main screen to 2nd, and every one of those gets a modest judder when returning to the main screen. Using FG allows me to put the native rate to 30fps and the cost of that is less sharpness, frequent screen judder and a little less 'stability' in glass cockpit/FMC. That latter is very modest and not a show stopper at all now when AMD FX is set at 50 or 70 or what have you. But all combined the value of FG for me drops enough to avoid using it as my default mode--largely this is because 7800X3D/4090 is able to produce solid frame rates of at least 40 in most settings. And the reality is I don't find a frame rate of 40 or 45 undesirable, at all. Panning is great, as is everything else, in native mode. What this translates to for me is that I'm only going to use FG when I can't maintain a native frame rate of 40 or more, and that can happen in the most complex settings I find myself in. Thanks all for helping me get to the bottom of this, for now. My sense is that this area will continue to be improved with driver revisions, IOW it will only improve.
  5. KL Oo started following Historical weather planned for MSFS 2024
  6. KL Oo
    Would be interesting to know if they'd consider "historical Live AI Traffic" to go alongside the historical weather. I know it wouldn't be "live" if it was historical, but it would be good if you could sync with the time of day. So if for example I'm taking off 12 hours ago the live traffic beind displayed was also from that time. I'm guessing since its taken four years for them to understand the point of historical weather, and then implement a 24 hour verison, it will be at least another four years before we get historical live AI!! Yes - I know you can do this with PSXT + RT - But the coverage is getting pretty bad.
  7. Cpt_Piett
    …and some other data between METARs? I still haven’t seen any noticeable transitions, so that’s a good thing.
  8. Tuskin38
    I’m guessing they’re sharing coding between the A320N and the BelugaXL/A330 Since the Beluga would have started development first presumably because it was in the 2024 trailer.
  9. jcomm
    It's tranning, see ?... I keep holding myself from looking at bottoms... Wife always complains...
  10. tup61 started following Historical weather planned for MSFS 2024
  11. tup61
    As long as the AS active mode depends entirely on presets, so weather themes like you would manually create them, there is no way this will be possible. Weather presets can only deal with one type of weather, period. Not much anyone (apart from MS Asobo) can do about this. The AS active mode is 'nothing but' an automated preset generator that generates presets on the fly based on Metar and switches between them (as) smoothly (as possible) because only one weather theme can be the active one at a time. Now that we know MSFS 2024 won't come with truly historic weather (when someone talks about history I seldom think about the last 24 hours... usually history has to do with things that happened long ago) my only option to fly in different seasons than the current want seems to be AS (active mode). But I don't think I can stand one active weather theme all around me as far as the eye can see... The MSFS default live weather spoiled me. Who knows MS Asobo will open up the API for 3rd party devs with the release of MSFS 2024 and a truly new and full blown weather engine might appear in the future...
  12. pete_auau
    yes if you look at the bottom of his specs and his first post 🙂
  13. Tuskin38
    Life must be perfect if a silly load screen ruins your time
  14. jcomm
    Strange ? Win 11 ?
  15. Cpt_Piett
    In other words there’s no way to get around that as long as MSFS keeps it partnership with Meteoblue? As they cannot share proprietary data with 3rd party devs? Btw I’ll get crucified for saying this, but I agree with their decision to move towards a METAR-Meteoblue blend back in the day (SU5), as otherwise we’d have highly inaccurate airport weather. But I’m beating a dead horse here, the topic has been discussed at great lengths here on Avsim…
  16. Matchstick
    Both JFs Arrows and Warrior have the bug fixed which is why I'm surprised to see the problem back with the Tomahawk
  17. Beagle12
    OK Thanks
  18. Cpt_Piett
    Didn’t know that. Haven’t dared to open a window since I got Carenado’s Mooney.
  19. St Mawgan
    In the Documents folder there is another folder - 'Cockpit' Also see P7 of the Operations Manual
  20. Matchstick
    yes, but 3rd party devs have been fixing it since at least the P.149
  21. dave2013
    This is a bizarre issue that just cropped up in the past couple weeks. Whenever I run P3Dv5, even just the UI without actually starting a flight, I lose internet connectivity. I have reproduced this several times and I am certain that P3D is the culprit. I tried disabling all my Bitdfender protections, including the firewall, but the problem remains. I wonder if the latest Windows 11 update on April 10th may have changed something? Antone else ever experience this, and if so, were you able to resolve the problem? Thanks. Dave
  22. CarlosF
    I could care less about the initial screen (dune) I'm not that sensitive. All I want is the Dukes.
  23. Cpt_Piett started following New Just Flight PA-38 Tomahawk On Sale Now
  24. Cpt_Piett
    Three threads now to discuss the Tomahawk 🤷🏻‍♂️
  25. Cognita
    I am not sure the issue is storing data. I don't have the impression that live weather in MSFS is generated by reading a data file and then displaying weather according that file; that sounds like how weather was handled in FSX. In such an approach data is not a big deal. Take all the METAR reporting stations in the world and add some NOAA forecast data and it will probably not be more than a few GB, and that can be stored and served up easily. What MSFS seems to do is to interface and read Metroblue's NMM forecast weather model. That model requires a supercomputer, probably several supercomputers, to run. It runs twice a day and produces updated forecasts based on a stream of weather inputs about every 3 hours at different resolutions around the world. Metroblue is not the only weather forecaster but it is one of the biggest; this is where your local TV station is getting its forecast from when it does its weather segment. MSFS takes the forecasted data directly from that model and uses it to generate weather. While MSFS will certainly have data fields they are likely populated directly by Metroblue's servers to Azure servers. And there will be a host of security arrangements and protocols to protect that data transfer and use. This arrangement allows Asobo to sidestep sourcing and maintaining weather data, it just worked out a partnership that would provide its servers with the data needed to generate a evolving live weather scenario in MSFS. It is actually a brilliant idea. But it meant that it cannot allow read access to the data -- as that data is propriety and the source of Metroblue's income -- or to write to those fields as this would open up glaring security vulnerabilities to both Azure and Metroblue. They may have taken time to adapt the architecture in MSFS2024. They already expanded it to be able to include METARs -- these may very well come from Metroblue too, as Metroblue collects all of these as part of the input to its data model -- so it is possible Asobo have made further changes to let users access that weather forecast back in time by 24 hours, the life cycle of one model run, which is what is needed to provide forecasts around the world. It will be interesting to see but unless they have made a deep architectural change, I do not see weather read/write access becoming open to third parties.
  26. Krakin
    Haha I know these quotes very well because I was the one who started the talk about them lying about the Beluga on discord which prompted the first quote. The second quote was a response (not a quoted reply tho) to me saying a sim launching with a full lineup of high quality aircraft is unprecedented. At the very least we can speculate that they are very impressed with whatever they've seen lol. They also confirmed to another user that the A350 will indeed be dropping sometime this year. On a side note, I've noticed that iniBuilds have been judged unfairly. The first thing we need to realize is that anything locked into the MSFS marketplace is going to be updated at a glacial pace and at the discretion of MS. It makes no sense bashing iniBuilds for the A310 when MS is the one determining when the plane gets updated. The A300 came out and yes, it did have its problems but iniBuilds gave the plane regular updates and even dropped a V2 very recently that I am very happy with at the moment and I do not think it suffers in the quality department. The best people to know what iniBuilds can and cannot handle is iniBuilds themselves and not us on the outside looking in. In the same way MSFS continues to do away with conventions we were used to, maybe we need to wake up to the reality that a high volume of quality aircraft can be pumped out as long as the resources are in place. iniBuilds employs about the same amount of people Laminar Research does, don't they?
  27. Cpt_Piett
    I hope so! His liveries are top notch 👌🏻 I think this has more to do with how MSFS handles “overstressing” the aircraft.
  28. Noell
    Thanks for this. I do indeed have the TDS GTNXi. Furthermore, after checking the reliability monitor as you suggested, I see several entries saying "GTN Xi Series Trainer Stopped Working". I've had the TDS GTNXi for a long time but being presented with the option for safe startup every time the sim is opened only started happening on March 24th. Anyway, good to know TDS is on it.
  29. Matchstick
    It appears the plane "blows up" if you open the storm window in flight. I thought we'd got past that idiocy in anything not made by Carenado 😞
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