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I was more curious if it made a difference. I was not suggesting you run it with HDR off. I caught that and edited prior to your post, but I don't think you caught it. What monitor resolution?

Don, A few questions: 1. Did you dial rays all the way down in the UI? 2. Did you try with both HDR on and off? 3. This rendering settings image shows a load of 2GB...how much VRAM is on the 670 you have? Edit: sorry, I should have read...you have 4GB..

Don, Can you tell us your rendering settings? We'd love to try and help you more than anything. If you're keen on uninstalling: 1. There's an uninstaller in: X-Plane/X-Aviation You may also just rerun the X-Plane updater. It will replace JUST the files that have been altered.

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Sorry, I didn't see this post! Okay, first thing you should do is open up the UI. Grab the manual here if you haven't. Please mess with your config settings. We purposefully put crepuscular rays at a relatively high level, which can be demanding on GPU. I would start with this one toned down, and adjust from there until you find your happy spot. There's a lot of options to get you where you want, but I can tell you without doubt from a cloud/sky to cloud/sky comparison minus the rays with default X-Plane, SkyMaxx wins on performance for me every single time.

RealScenery products do not qualify. This is well known. All other products are free of charge for link re-activation, and always have been. This is nothing new for years now.

Ah, yes, that was going to be the next suggestion. Glad you got it figured out!

Hey, Geof, First, we're always happy to reset these downloads, so no worries there. Use the contact form on XA if you ever need that. As for the error you are receiving, I rarely see this one, but when I do it's on Windows and usually solved by using an alternate unzip solution. Let me know if that works out for you. Out of curiosity, what did you use to just unzip, and what are you running OS wise?

SkyMaxx Pro has been released! Enjoy! That will conclude this topic.

Captains, SkyMaxx Pro is now available in the store! Enjoy, and thanks for joining us in the pre-release party if you did!

We have some other fish frying, but they'll get posted.

We really appreciate the enthusiasm, Valentin. That said, life does go on, and this product WILL be here for you when you have the time to play with it if tomorrow does not fit into your plans. Maturity, guys. Exemplify it. We're excited, but here I am responding to you now instead of working...figures.

Be smart, Darius. Do you need to be proven otherwise twice? Read more.

You and 56 others in the scenery section of the store!

He's saying he feels like since it's not out by 'today' as of RIGHT NOW he's predicting some form of a delay. The concept honestly cracks me up. So many folks wanting to know "WHEN", but then when we give a relatively short timespan of "when", complaints come in for another reason. You can't always win, ya know? Anyways...no delays. We're keeping to our word.

Judging by the current site traffic at the store it's going to be a tough race to beat.

I don't exactly get what you're complaining about here. Do you have some form of an issue understanding the term "this weekend", or what?

It is a C compiled plugin.

No offense guys, but lets keep this on topic. Feel free to PM over it!

As has been stated, in essentially every test case we have seen FPS are much better with SkyMaxx Pro than that of default clouds This product works in both HDR and 64-bit mode. Almost all shots we show are with HDR off to exemplify that you do not need HDR working in order to get all the beautiful, visual effects this product offers. That said, I will shortly post some shots with HDR as well. With HDR on, due to the higher contrast of the sim in this mode, the clouds are at times noticeably brighter (a natural HDR effect on the sim as a whole). We are working with Laminar at this time to allow us more control in HDR to get this how we want it. To be more precise, the current interface for plugins in X-Plane doesn't allow a plugin to know what stage of rendering the sim is in when HDR is active, which makes it difficult to match the tone mapping of our clouds to the rest of the scene. It by NO means looks bad or horrible, and performance is not degraded, but from a personal preference standpoint I like it better with HDR off. In order to "fix" this, Laminar will be implementing special features in the plug-in SDK so that we may interact with X-Plane's rendering process after X-Plane has applied its own tone-mapping on the scene. This will then allow us to overlay our already tone-mapped clouds on top of the final scene without HDR trying to brighten them up with the rest of the world as it already does. As soon as Laminar implements the necessary items in the SDK, we'll be on it and release a free update to make HDR look even better! As John has now pointed out, X-Aviation.com will be selling this software.

Workweek = Monday - Friday "The weekend is a time period including Saturday and Sunday. Some people extend the weekend to Friday nights as well." Thank Wikipedia, not me.

Can you please make your signature smaller?

Now you're never going to sleep, and with a whole extra day left in the weekend for us guys in the US at that!

We're too busy flying around the skies and not working, of course.

All data comes from the same data you already use. It's how things are rendered that are made better, so any plugins (like NOAA) that you already use will work seamlessly with this add-on!