Volumetric clouds not working on M1 Mac with V5 – causes crash

[adimelon]

Every time I try to switch to volumetric clouds, X-Plane crashes. I am running X-Plane 11.52r1 on an M1 Mac running Mac OS Big Sur. I'm using SkyMaxx Pro V5. My last download was the 5.0.6 version.

[sundog]

You are most likely running out of video memory; volumetric clouds use a lot of it. Try reducing the "cloud draw area" setting in SkyMaxx Pro and turning off anti-aliasing, and see if that helps. If so, you can start turning settings back up until you find a good balance between visual quality and memory usage.