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@Poppet!! Good to see you back on Avsim. JustFlight really is a quality developer. I prefer airliners, though that preview video is very tempting.

Possibly, although I noted from elsewhere that: "Professional certification is not decided yet for MSFS 2024, but ‘experimentation’ is ongoing." There's a reason why the more complex details (e.g. Garmin units) are being added to the platform and the expense incurred of creating a digital twin Earth. And it isn't for 'casual gamers' on Xbox.

I don't believe that. MSFS2024 has much more going for it for Asobo to worry about a 3PD weather add-ons. I think it's more to do with ignorance of less detail-orientated flight simmers (and I mean that in a non-disparaging way). People don't necessarily understand the benefits of multiple cloud layers, variety of cloud types and historical weather data. When I started out flight simming, ubiquitous big, puffy, visually-appealing cumulus clouds would have also suited me just fine. Now that I'm using complex aircraft, trying to get a long-haul heavy out of OMDB at noon just isn't going to happen, I'd need a 6 to 9-hour time revert. Neither is a bug-smashing VFR flight where the METAR is reporting +FZDZ BKN008 FEW015. The 3PD weather add-ons have demonstrated that they are more capable than MSFS2020's Live Weather in a lot.of respects, but (IMO) a lot of people consider it to be good enough for their less demanding needs.

That's key. If MS2024 Live Weather is still just a bunch of cumulus clouds everywhere, then ASFS, Weather Force, xEnviro, xMETAR et al. still have a future, as their raison d'être continues to exist.

While iniBuilds apparently has a much larger team than we're used to in flight simming, it does appear that acceptable volume products over fewer top-tier ones is iniBuilds' strategy.

From the product page: AIUI, this add-on (SimFX) will work with most user aircraft *with caveats*. For full functionality with a complex airliner, we would have to buy the specific Immersion Pack for the particular aircraft, just like we did in FSX/P3D times. Edit: The PMDG 737 *is* fully compatible, unless it was purchased through the MSFS Marketplace due to encryption reasons.

Fans of PrecipitFX and aircraft-specific Immersion packs in FSX and P3D may be happy to see a blend of these arriving in MSFS once SU15 launches. Parallel42 has created a 'A global "Visual Effects Utility" covering a range of immersive scenarios' with their upcoming SimFX add-on. Various features to bring aircraft effects and their interaction with the environment into the sim world, while keeping performance impact low via 'Dynamic Performance Tuning'. Personally, the price may seem a bit high (£25 incl. tax) and the effects aren't universal on all high-end/complex airliners (that's what the also upcoming Immersion Packs will be for). However, the effects created that little bit of extra realism for me in P3D and this add-on will be bringing more to the table this time round. https://parallel42.com/products/simfx

Yet, [hidden] agenda means to secretly try to achieve or cause a particular scenario to occur. The only way I can understand reddit and BTL commenters calling HiFi 'cash-grabbers' or 'lazy' is if their ultimate aim is to drive out what they perceive to be low and mid-tier devs from the market, in favour of perceived higher-quality devs, freeware or Asobo? I don't think I saw anyone here suggest that HiFi were somehow misleading unsuspecting simmers to buy a product that is a 'cash-grab'. Perhaps ryanbatc is right when he said that younger simmers are used to $5 rather than $50 purchases for game mods and everyone is fed-up of increasing costs. Compared to buying loot boxes, livery mods, level-ups, 'premium content', and the ability to bypass in-game adverts in mobile games, etc. HiFi's ASFS is (to me) a far superior value offering.

Have a read of this thread: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/what-solved-c0000005-for-me/638990 Only 7 posts in that thread and some good observations about RAM and XMP. If none of that works, perhaps you're right and a change of RAM to a different brand and/or die may work for you.

It doesn't though. 🤷‍♂️ ASFS depicts the same weather to the horizon. By the time you would reach it, the program updates with new weather data and performs a transition. Neither ASFS nor MSFS Live Weather is flawless. Some of the nitpicking going on about the failings of one over the other really is just the same as Apple vs Android, Intel vs AMD, PS5 vs Xbox, Ford vs Chevvy, Coke vs Pepsi, Oasis vs Blur...

Both of these comments show that everyone has their own preferences. What works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another. It's great that the choice between using MSFS Live Weather and ASFS exists. You don't need to browbeat anyone with a different perspective to yours – fact!

Did you buy RAM that was specifically listed on your motherboard's QVL? Did you update the chipset? Sufficient power from your PSU? Your signature is no longer up-to-date, so it's difficult for anyone to advise you on your chosen hardware configuration.

I hadn't seen this before. Live Weather isn't as trouble-free as just having semi translucent cumulus clouds everywhere: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/very-abrupt-weather-wind-transition-erratic-wind-behavior-still-present-after-aau-1/528975/417

Have you updated all of your liveries for the latest version of the Fenix A320? You need to re-download all of them as there were graphics changes to the model that made the liveries stop working.

Not convinced by that comment. Sure, there's usually variety and/or you can see a front. Yet, when you're over the middle of a particular area of weather, uniform looking clouds can stretch to the horizon in all directions.

Fans of KATL, KDFW, HAAB, HECA, RJTT, SBGL would beg to differ... T2G is now the only known developer working on LFPG. I'd really like to see a higher quality dev work on LFPG, as I'm not a fan of his work since his return from hiatus.

Yeah, but in our post-facts societies, what's more important are vibes, feels and narratives... Anyway, while MSFS has been a whirlwind that's made it extremely difficult for a lot of the incumbent/legacy developers, we have seen Schumpeter's economic concept of creative destruction in effect. Bold new devs, such as Pyreegue, Fenix Sim, FBW, WorkingTitle and FSLTL have led the way to even more realism. A2A, JustFlight, AIG, FSReborn and Jo Erlend Sund have all upped their respective games to make the most of the new tools available to them. A golden era indeed.

[Rant on] I'd like to see the terms 'scam' and 'cash grab' permanently removed from flight sim lexicon. 'Scam' = fraudulent. Not even CaptainSim meets this definition, the product description page tells you what you'll get. 'Cash grab' = a poorly made, expensive product. The definition now seems to have morphed into any payware product that isn't considered top-tier and cheap. This toxic bashing of any dev who creates mid- and low-tier add-ons for not instead creating complicated, high-quality and simultaneously cheap hurts devs and eventually hurts the community. It's worse now that the prevalence of such comments are ubiquitous on FS social media. Sure, there are products that can be considered poor. Yet, calling them scams or cash grabs would be considered libellous in the U.K. as there are very few that fall so low to meet the standard and certainly don't per MS who sell them on the MSFS Marketplace. [/rant off] Thanks to those who read my observations.

😄 True. Just wait until this thread turns into its own 20+ page thread, filled with repetitive comments. There'll be yet another new thread opened up!

Good summation! It doesn't have to appeal to everyone. I'm still not sure if I'm going to buy it, though it's good that there's the option for other people if it meets their wants.

MS is a business. Every product/service they sell needs to contribute to the net profit line, otherwise (unsurprisingly) it gets pulled. I hope you don't use a Google product/service: https://killedbygoogle.com/ – that's quite the list! Yes. Though there are some annoyances with the base sim, there's been more top-tier, boundary-pushing payware, a plethora of freeware, and more detailed and technical default content than we've ever had in flight simming.

"First Look" = we're getting an early preview. It looks stunning (when doesn't a Jo Sund led scenery?), though I don't expect this for another 2–3 months. Lots of AI traffic will, but Jo's EBBR scenery has been like butter for me. Expecting this to be similar.

Slow updates, but nowhere near abandoned. Currently on Technical Update 7.0 - Public Beta 3

No. Flight simming is über serious stuff for serious people... Remember, if it's not done how someone else thinks it should be done, it's just wrong. /sarcasm (but sadly not really). [Goes off to barrel roll the PMDG 737 under a bridge.]

Unless I'm mistaken, ASFS uses the GFS (Global Forecast System) weather forecast model to create weather detail outside of METAR reporting stations' radii. That sounds very similar to what MSFS Live Weather does. It's a free market and people don't necessarily want to wait 6 months or longer for whatever MSFS2024 may or may not bring i.r.o. the default Live Weather function.