Gpruitt54

I am happy to see that others are using and having success with FSXWX. I will look at ASN in order to be informed, and for the fact that so many are using it.

Besides using the earlier versions of REX, I've never used a weather engine. With REX Texture Direct, I am trying a free weather engine called FSXWX. It is a small .EXE file that I place in a directory and provide the path to the file inside of REX. I ran FSX-SE and while running the weather engine interface in order to see what the weather engine was doing. I flew a route out of Portland toward Seattle. I was impressed at all the effects both visually and physically (in-cloud turbulence, clear air turbulence, gusts, etc) on the plane (Carenado King Air C90B HD). Above all, I liked the low use of system resources. I will read up on how to setup ASN. If it is as easy as using FSXWX, I may consider giving it a try. But, it is hard to beat an effective free option.

i recently installed REX4 Texture Direct with Soft Clouds. In the General Setting section there is a spot for the bath to a weather engine. I thought that is what Rex4 Texture Direct with Soft Clouds was doing. I once owned an early version of REX2, and it (so i thought) pulled weather information from external sources and generated weather in FSX. So then, What is REX4 Texture Direct with Soft Clouds if it is not a Weather Engine? I am not interested in buyng another tool because for weather. That is why I bought REX4 Texture Direct with Soft Clouds. I am looking at free options like FSXWX (http://www.plane-pics.de/fsxwx/home.htm) but I want to ask you buys about this specific tool or a better, easy, and stable tool that will work to generate weather for Rex4 Texture Direct with Soft Clouds. Any help you guys can provide will be appreciated. I am running FSX-SE.

I agree, and friend and I both recently purchased the 747-400X from Best Buy. To my total astonishment there it was on the shelf of Bestbuy. I had no idea that Best buy sold anything as advanced as the PMDG products. Yes, the product is cheaper at Best Buy. I would love to have the MD-11 as well. I like having the CD on hand. As it turned out, I needed to install and software a couple of times in order to get a good installation. There were issues with parts of the plane being see through. The solution was to reinstall the application.Are there other PMDG products sold at Best Buy?