Weird And Long Cloud "Redraws" (10.30b5)

[liamp51]

Hello all,

 

I have a weird issue with X-Plane. For some reason, especially when the weather is inclement, the clouds in X-Plane redraw ALL the time as I'm flying around/through them. To boot, these redraws can last up to 20 to 30 seconds sometimes. It's next to impossible to fly when it happens. It's not the weather updating (I'm using SkyMAXX Pro, and EFASS with real world weather), because it's set to update every 20 minutes. X-Plane just randomly redraws ALL the clouds even though nothing has seemingly changed. Like I said, this only seems to happen in inclement weather, or when flying through rain or heavy precipitation. I have fiddled with all kinds of settings and things to no avail.

 

Any help/advice would be much appreciated,

liamp51

[Ben Russell]

Post your log file.

 

Disable EFASS real world weather.

 

I have observed this behaviour when the cloud layer altitudes are changed even a miniscule amount. 

 

Your update rate may be low but who knows what the EFASS plugin is doing in the meantime. Disable it to be certain.

Edited July 2, 2014 by Ben Russell

[sundog]

SkyMaxx Pro will regenerate clouds any time:

 

A cloud layer is introduced or removed, or the cloud layers are suddenly assigned to different ID's

The local thunderstorm percentage changes by more than 10%

The top, bottom, or coverage of a cloud layer changes at all

 

In SkyMaxx Pro 2 we'll introduce a tolerance around the cloud layer top/bottom/coverage as well which might help if EFASS is the culprit, but for now see if disabling EFASS clears it up.

[liamp51]

Thanks guys. I will go without EFASS and just use the normal in-sim real weather option. 

[liamp51]

I think I may have fixed the problem. Maybe. I deleted the XSquawkBox plugin that was still in the plugins folder for some reason. I deleted the main part of it a long time ago, but for some reason one of the main files escaped my search. After doing so, I didn't seem to have any issue with the weird cloud redraws in areas with precipitation. I will keep testing to make sure. 

[liamp51]

Did some more testing. The problem still persists, but less often. I think it's a mix of EFASS and SkyMAXX not agreeing about the cloud layer altitudes. Hopefully in SMP v2 the tolerances will help overcome this issue. 

[Bernardo_Gui]

i came in here after i have experienced two times Nvidia opengl driver error code 9 with x plane immediate crash after clicking the error message box,  that's with Xplane 10.30b5 x64, nvidia drivers v340.43 and skymaxx v1.3.3

 

also, prior to the crash i also have experienced the long cloud draw change stutters/hangs during the flight as it was described by liamp51

 

 

i highly presume the current version is causing this,  im uninstalling skymaxx here until this is solved.

[sundog]

I've been looking into this more deeply - right now I believe this is a bug in 10.30b5 that SkyMaxx Pro happens to expose. Please do submit crash reports to Laminar when prompted so they can investigate more deeply.

 

I have some reason to believe 10.30b6 might clear this up, but meanwhile if you want crash-free flights you should stick with the current stable release of X-Plane (10.25). If you run beta software, you have to accept some things will be broken.

 

Based on feedback from our own beta testers for Skymaxx Pro 2, these crashes do not occur in 10.25.

[Bernardo_Gui]

Based on feedback from our own beta testers for Skymaxx Pro 2, these crashes do not occur in 10.25.

 

 

i had no knowledge skymaxx pro v2 ever existed

 

if so, please release and/or send, thanks 

[Cameron]

if so, please release and/or send, thanks

 

When it's ready.