SMP+ RWX+ NOAA

[ioliver]

Quite a few questions here :-)

Firstly  XP 10.45, Win 10 64bit, i7, Nvidia PTX970, SkyMaxxPro 3.1.1, RWC 1.0, NOAA (latest)

Question 1:

 I don't see precipitation anywhere, even when the METAR clearly has RA or -RA in its contents.

Question 2:

 Frame rates seem to have dropped significantly - I normally aim for 30-40, now I have around 20 (Peters A319 is the aircraft of choice).

Question 3:

 Is NOAA really required any more when running with SMP and RWC ?

thanks

Ian

[sundog]

1. Neither SkyMaxx Pro nor RWC have anything to do with X-Plane's precipitation effects. That is still managed by X-Plane itself, and we don't interfere with it.

2. You are probably running out of video memory (VRAM.) Check what's displayed in the SMP configuration screen. If the amount of free VRAM is just a few hundred MB or less, then you need to turn down some settings. Aircraft texture resolution works for some people, or you can reduce the cloud draw area setting if you increased it previously.

3. The main thing NOAA gives you when used with RWC is upper level winds outside of the US. If you don't need that, then you can probably just disable it if you're using RWC.

[ioliver]

Thanks. I seem to have about 1.3Gb free VRAM (out of 4Gb) according to SMP. Now just testing reducing the various settings through experiment...

Upper winds are useful, especially outside of the US :-)

 

t.

 

ian

[Vantskruv]

I still highly recommend NOAA plugin for me, actually I prefer it over FSGRW. Why is that? With NOAA you get turbulence and with FSGRW you get not. In future time probably FSGRW and X-Plane gives turbulence, but at this time no, and I do not know when.

[Hopkinsstevea]

Were do you get NOAA Plug in ?

[Defiance_co]

http://x-plane.joanpc.com/plugins/xpgfs-noaa-weather

Hope linking that doesn't get me banned !

And while you're there, take the win-net-install, easy peezy lemon squeezy

Also, on yt search for noaa install etc if you run into any problem/s

Tony

ps : You'll see the Requirements towards the bottom of the page, trust me, if i can install it and not mess up anyone can

 

Edited April 21, 2016 by Defiance_co
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[ioliver]

Quick update.  SMP 3.1.2 seems to have corrected a number of issues, particularly the framerates which are now in the region of 30-50.

Rain is still missing however...no idea about that still (but see another post about this)

 

t.

 

Ian

[Defiance_co]

Hiya,

I still get rain when it's supposed to be there with SMP 3.1.2 RWC and Noaa

If that's any help to you

Tony