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Are you cold and dark or engines running in idle when you try this? Steve

Using VNAV to climb, the jet has very little VVI..sits about 1500 fpm..was taking horrible long to climb to FL310....accelerated to about 330 kts (slightly below OVERSPEED) and got there about 11,000 and then picked up a climb to hold that speed and the climb was taking way longer than I have normally experienced in any payware jet. Also, passing 18,000 I hit the "B" button to set teh altimeter to 29.92 and it just changed the current altimeter setting to boxed yellow. Is this a manual adjustment now? Steve

I have had the same problem for over a week now.Steve

Jim,Have you tried without importing a flight plan? I have some suspicions that the loading of a flight plan into ASA may be having issues. I ran a flight with a flight plan processed and it was not going well, I ran one without a flight plan loaded into ASA and it worked perfectly. Also, did you change your starting location from where your initially loaded up at to a different starting point on this flight?Steve

Ok, so from your ASA computer you are able to open up Windows Explorer and open both the FSX main directory and the AppData directory and see the files in there on your FSX computer right?Also, did you map these folders on your ASA computer to a lettered drive, like X: or G: or something?Steve

Jim,Correct me if I am wrong but his laptop will need to have both the FS9 and FSX paths and AppData folders entered into the registry for this to work correctly right?Steve

Andy,Just install ASA in the default location especially if it is Program Files/HiFi....it will create another folder in there with XEngine and XGraphics called ASA. ASA installs as a standalone program that can integrate with ASX as well as other texture addons for selecting weather influenced textures to be used for the best weather depiction possible. Steve

Also check that the "Value Name" in the registry is correct...unlike ASX that has "AppDataPath" or "FSPath", ASA must have the sim title in front of the Value Name title like, "FSXAppDataPath" or FSXPath". More times than not it is a typo in the Value Name or Value Data when it comes to network setup. You can just copy and paste the "Value Data" (network path) info from the ASX XEngine registry entry into the ASA registry entry but look close at the Value Name.

I have the registered version of FSUIPC and still have issues with ASX, although the continued hard work of FSUIPC creator Peter Dowson constantly improves on this. It is getting old buying high-end add-on software which ASX is and then being disappointed with the final result. I swore off buying new software to wait out the forums and see what the early buyers had to say on new releases and the latest release of REX and Traffic X were my first tests of this concept and I am glad I did hold off. What is even more disappointing is people that read these forums, have the same problems and say nothing in hopes that since the word is out it will get fixed. I believe it will only get fixed when the masses weigh in and let their voices be heard that they to are experiencing these problems. Iam sure this helps the programmers get focused on what needs to be fixed if many are screaming.ASX has definitely added to my flight simming experience but it is my opinion that it has not lived up to it's "advertised" abilities. I guess what I am saying is let's have a little more truth in advertising and make the product match the words touting it.Steve

Damian,I appreciate the comments back, but the "open bugs or issues being solved" comment is not entirely true. From your ASX product description page it says this..."We are now fully controlling all the important parameters that bring you beautiful and realistic weather depiction to your simulated flights." One could argue that you are somewhat "controlling" the winds but I had a flight last night that showed realistic winds out of the west in ASX and the winds in my FSX world were blowing from the east. I would say you accurately depict the winds in the ASX front-end software but are coming up short in the delivery end to FSX. And the "realistic" weather is coming up short as well with large clear skies above and around your aircraft in an overcast environment. If it was only me saying this then I would not be commenting here, but the forums are filled with comments that mirror these two specific problems. I am not saying it is not a FSX problem, I am saying that your position that your product delivers what the quote above states is not accurate.As simple as ActiveSky was in the early years it delivered a very realistic environment. It seems we have moved away from the simple yet real and more toward a fluff and less accurate phase of flight simulation weather add-ons. My opinion, as long winded as it took to get here, is that I wish add-on developers would put the time and effort into making it really, really work and that could be a real simple front-end piece of software but it delivers the goods. If you want to take that information and create another piece of software that neatly displays it and allows manual manipulation to it then great, make a cool GUI with all the bells and whistles.I do appreciate your hard work and customer dedication.Steve

If you look at the past few days in the forums as a simple snapshot (let alone the past few weeks or months) you will see countless topics of weather not depicting properly, windshifts that can't be controlled, no clouds when the observation is overcast, on and on. Now, you are touting this new version as fixing a lot of those issues and you feel good about charging people for it? Anything that remedies known problems in ASX should be free; anything new you add I have no problem paying for. I like the comment that you have refocused on core weather delivery into the sim, that is important. One just has to look at a very recent release of an environment enhancement program and realize that snapshots are cool but when it is time to install and run (which many people are have problems doing) and get the real effects of a program all the "fluff" means nothing if it misses the desired end result; which for most of us is realistic weather. I could care less about a cool front end if the final result is clear skies when a 300' overcast sky is called for. If I could start a program that goes out and gets the current observations and properly populates my flight sim environment and then it drops to a taskbar icon that is all I need. For the most part FSX and FS9 have adequate clouds built in, just give us a high-end weather engine that takes existing real weather data and makes my flying environment "as real as it gets!"Steve

We try to be helpful and positive as much as possible here. Thanks, JimSteve

Are you kidding me? This is a well documented issue with the advanced weather programs and can be clearly researched that a lot of us have commented on this in the past in these forums. My guess is you are wasting your time trying to fix the donut hole around your aircraft. On the positive side, this customer support is very active but I would be amazed if you can do any more than what they have already told you to check and you are going to have to live with this. Steve

Sanal,Don't go nuts on this and start messing with your software or hardware to much to try and chase getting complete overcast skies....you won't. Those pictures you have attached look very typical for what may be reported as overcast. Frustrating but HiFi is supposedly working on it.Steve

Yea, me too and this product has caused me to take a different position on future purchases that relies more on initial in-depth comments before I drop my money into a product. What do they say? "Patience is a virtue." I relied on previous products from HiFi and jumped right in on day one. And although ASX is a high quality product that has all the right options it just does not make FSX weather look like current conditions and I believe they are not alone. It is my understanding that all 3rd party wx programs have identical problems. So maybe the lesson learned from this is when MS changes their version of FS it is best to pause and let the developers chew on it for awhile before buying addons.Steve

ASX has had much written and verified within these forums about the poor overcast rendering and cloud popping. We are left right now to waiting for a patch to come out that deals with it. So far 3 patches since release and no gains have been made on this most important topic.Steve

>Hi,>>Yes, we do, but there are a few users that have not been able>to see this. Maybe slightly understated...one just has to scan the threads and it becomes evident real quick that wx depictions that do not reflect the current METARs are quite prevalent in ASX. There is no way that you can garner an 800' OVC deck in his 2nd photo above that shows the current METAR and the airplane on short final in extreme VMC conditions.I have been a loyal customer of HiFi and its wonderful products, but this release (ASX+ASG) is a major step backward and has throttled me from future purchases on release day. I don't care if it points to an FSX problem....state so in the product discription and quit misleading folks to think it is their setup/computer that prevents them from getting it to work right. Look at it folks, they respectfully/honestly try to help for a few replies when people have wx depiction problems and it always just resolves into no resolution. I have a high end system with the finest video card with all the latest drivers and I can get FSX to run in the 50-80 fps range...so it is not my system that prevents ASX from working. I have settled in with letting FSX download the weather for itself using the internal Jeppsen option and I get steady accurate weather.Steve

Man where were all you guys when I brought up the lack of true overcast conditions months ago. It seemed like I was a lone voice, there were a few people that spoke up on this topic, but I could have used the additional crowd jumping on the bandwagon. I to remember, on one earlier version of MS Flt Sim and Wx add-ons, a definite in the weather and out of the weather sensation that has now been lost for many years. Today's weather depiction methods seem to use more visibility techniques to simulate cloud layers rather than the actual overcast or broken layer causing you to lose complete sight of the ground (like in the real world). A thin overcast (250 -OVC) at 25,000 feet is different than a lower (050 OVC) overcast deck. The one at 5000 feet is not going to be transparant. The one at altitude can sometimes be transparant.Using FSX Jeppsen wx there have been times where I went into the weather and it went totally white around me and no ground in sight. With ASX I honestly cannot think of a time where I have "disappeared into" the weather. I've brush clouds, I've entered a cloud layer, and I've cleared the weather on top, but at no time do I lose complete contact with the ground somewhere around my aircraft. I think the visibility and the precipitation models in ASX are awesome and quite realistic but the overcast/cloud models (to be honest in all weather add-ons for FS9 and FSX) are still lacking.Steve

The registry tool did not fix this. The FS9 version still locks up and crashes to desktop on the AIRAC load. Went back to original FS9 version (v1.1?) without the FSX modified FS9 version and all is well again. So the new FSX patched version of the FS9 aircraft is not working for me.Steve

I cannot for the life of me find the pinned registry fix you are talking about. If you are talking about the one that modifies the location of FS9, I already did that manually and that worked for one load and when I came back to it a few days later it was back to crashing again. Can you provide the path to the Topic? ThanksSteve

I have this problem not on the FSX version, that is working fine, but if I load up the FS9 version it crashes to desktop on the AIRAC load. Posted this a few days back and have got no response yet.

I have the updated 747-400 for FS9 since I purchased the FSX version and now everytime I load the FS9 version it crashes on the AIRAC load. I have tried 07-11 and 07-09 and they both do it. I have also copied the 6 or so files from the FSX Navdata folder over to the FS9 folder and same result. HelpSteve

>Will it solve the overcast issues?Don't hold your breath on an answer to this topic. I am sure if they had a line on fixing this issue they would have announced it along with the wind shift fix.

Robert,Anything for us yet that are paid but without product? ThanksSteve

Robert,I sent you an email (AVSIM) with additional information...did you get it? Stephen Chappel