diamonddriller

Am installing 4.8 later. I noted RWC is still at 1.1. The earlier posts seemed to infer that it might be RWC that needed the update, or was it the Gizmo bit that does the "work"?

@CoopThe link you posted on Sunday is XGS 2.0.2 - and you said this is the one that we shouldn't use - or have I got this wrong? Anyway, I decided to use a lua script for landing speeds instead. I was getting a CTD when I loaded the plane first (as opposed to loading it after I'd loaded another one - when it was OK). Xsaitekpanels was apparently the culprit. I investigated further, and found I needed to update that plugin, and it's OK now! BTW, I'm on an iMac and using OS X 10.14.4 and X-Plane 11.33

@kentwerickson Yes, as you know, XPGFS changes the weather from a METAR at the nearest airfield you are flying by, so the changes can be a bit abrupt. Sadly, I'm often finding that SMP is often slowing my frame rate down into single figures in XP10. Immediately I disable it and RWC, I'm back into the 50s or 60s fps...... Fast i7, 8GB graphics card..... shouldn't happen, but it does! I can often re-enable SMP later, and things are OK. Strange. I must have a go without RWC completely to see how that works. I'm also using XPGFS in XP11, but I may have another shot at things with the default weather. I originally thought that RWC was there to smooth transitions from one area to another as we fly, and didn't appreciate that it was injecting weather itself. It's all a bit irritating, but I'm pleased to read (from Cameron) that work is being done for those of us who still use XP10 as well as 11.

Hi Cameron. Thanks for your reassurance. After re-reading the RWC manual, and concentrating on how the settings work, I can better understand the problem. Because it was all so easy in "Automatic", I had mentally skipped the nuances of quite how RWC worked in its different modes, and particularly how it interacted with add-on plugins. Nothing in life is simple..........

At the moment, I'm using the NOAA weather plugin (XPGFS) instead. It's pretty good! I can use it with Laminar's clouds or SMP - and I de-activate RWC. I had asked Laminar whether they would be updating XP10 to get real world weather again (I now know that doesn't affect RWC....), as I could then use real weather with default clouds or whatever. However, they don't appear to have done anything yet, even though they had told me that they would! I'm not certain that my XP11.32 has things quite right either, but it's not really upsetting me

Thanks, Ben. No doubt, we'll hear something very soon!

As NOAA dropped non-HTTPS access to weather data the other day, does this affect the "Always" option in RWC? In your reply, could you reference this problem (if it is one!) to X-Plane 10 as well as X-Plane 11? Thanks.

Well done. I did notice the installation hiccup on a livery for 1.4, but let it go I hadn't had a chance to fly and notice the other bugs, so I agree with mmerelles!

Oh dear...... I can switch to using HDR (XP-10, just to remind you), and the blockiness goes. I've never had to bother to use HDR before with SkyMaxx Pro, and I've been a customer since v2.0. I've never been particularly bothered to get the extra eye candy of HDR, and it does put a bit more strain on the system - which heats up iMacs' GPUs a bit more! I'll continue to experiment, but maybe the coming v4.1 will somehow cure this.

I was sometimes getting a semi-transparent view of the vertical stationary prop (i.e the prop as it looks from the cockpit before one starts the engine) while flying, as the blocky clouds and visibility altered. As the weather cleared, this anomaly cleared with it. I had not seen this before 4.01, I'm pretty sure - I mean the original v4 did not do this - I repeat, I don't remember it doing this, but maybe I'm mistaken. Do you have a clue as to what sort of other plugins could cause this?

I'm getting the blocks more often now. Often have to disable SkyMaxx Pro. Also, this problem creates a few other graphic anomalies which I'd never seen in v3. I hope v4.1 cures this, else I will revert to v3.....

I had the same blocky effects in the clouds with X-Plane 10.51 and SkyMaxx Pro 4.01. Never had that with v3. Using a 5K iMac with the 4GB Radeon M395X. I wasn't using HDR, but clicked that on and the blocks disappeared.......

Looks fantastic. I thought v3 was good, so this is going to be remarkable

Thanks, Sundog. I'm no Sherlock Holmes, but the way this happened and the timing of the posts did give me a clue We will all be delighted that you have identified the bug, and that all will shortly be well!

Same with me today, on an iMac 5K running 10.11.5. 4GB graphics card. Seemed to be OK since I installed 3.2 of SkyMaxx Pro (with RWC). I use X-Plane's weather. I was flying along (and had been for half an hour) when the sim crashed. I was on PilotEdge. The sim repeatedly refused to start without crashing. I restored the "output" folder from Time Machine, but that didn't help. Then I looked at log.txt and saw the crash was from SkyMaxx, after parsing the weather. I deleted metar.rwx and the sim started OK. After a minute or two, it crashed again. Running it after disabling real weather was fine. Maybe X-Plane is currently downloading some corrupt weather, as we are all complaining at a similar time. Or something, somewhere, is not parsing the reports from NOAA or X-Plane's source. Very odd. After all, 3.2 was installed several days ago, and has been stable up till now.

I've had some odd crashes very lately (on loading XP, but very occasionally during a flight). Using XP on a 5K iMac with 32Gb or RAM and a 4Gb graphics card. I wouldn't have thought memory was an issue, but with a load of scenery and plugins, who knows? Today, it started happening again, and I noticed SMP was the culprit at the end of log.txt. I moved the SilverLining and Real Weather Connector folders out of plugins, and order was restored. I then deleted "settings.dat" in the SilverLining folder, and put each folder back. All seems OK again. We'll see.........

Looks really great. This will really make a difference with on-line flying on PilotEdge, etc. The sudden transitions of weather were annoying, and jarred with the otherwise very immersive experience. Finger poised to click on the purchase button!

This will really transform the experience. Well done. Can't wait

I like to use X-Plane's real weather options. Usually, SkyMaxx Pro reflects the METARS that are downloaded. Sometimes, however, it is completely wrong. For example, I had real weather showing pretty clear skies in S. California the other day. SkyMaxx Pro gave me a lot of clouds, lightning and thunder at the very airport that was supposed to be virtually CAVOK! I disabled SkyMaxx, and the weather I then saw in X-Plane was as per the current METAR for the field. Using 10.36 in OS X 10.10.4 (iMac). So, does anybody know why these discrepancies appear? Today, SkyMaxx Pro gave me exactly the weather that the METARs showed.

Speaking of the manuals, mine are still dated 2013, despite the 1.2 update. This means that none of the improvements or new features are documented in the package, but we have to read forums to know about them. A new customer would be disadvantaged, unless the manuals should have been updated when I did the installation, or X-Aviation has them on their website.

As a further, I have experienced a remarkable recovery. The iMac went to sleep with the stuttering XP running, and when I returned to wake things up 10 minutes later, XP was still running (of course) but the frame rate was fantastic, and there was not a stutter to be seen........ I have shut down XP and restarted it, upped the resolution, etc., and it seems OK so far. As for later, or tomorrow, who knows?

There are several of us iMac users, particularly with mid 2011, 27" , 16Gb ram and ATI Radeon 2Mb graphics cards, who are now getting stuttering and varying frame rates under Yosemite (even 10.10.1). These faults are making XP unusable. I'm praying for a resolution to this soon, and am having to use a Boot Camp installation while I wait, as well as (and it's slow...) booting from an external HD with Mavericks on it, and then using my internal HD's X-Plane installation. Not good