Cameron

Hey, guys, One more thing to add on top of all of this... I realize that everyone seems to have really fantastic FPS in version 1.1, and as such it's really, really easy to keep the settings at a very high setting with little to no impact. That said, in real weather conditions this may actually be contributing to this problem even more for you! This length of this pause will also depend on how many cloud puffs need to be generated to fulfill the conditions specified. So, if you've cranked up your draw distance and detail settings, set "overcast" to the max quality, and an overcast layer pops in - that's an insane amount of puffs, and it will take awhile to place them and upload their vertices to the GPU. For those of you reporting very long pauses in real weather situations, what are your current settings? This is a trade off that you ultimately have control over. To some degree, you can think of this pause as the price you pay for it being so detailed and fast at runtime, and this is why during a sim session when clouds are loaded you have faster FPS than default clouds. We will continue to look at optimizing this, but in doing so, if we figure out a way, it may come at a cost of losing FPS as you fly.

The updater you use when Laminar releases a new version of X-Plane.

Hi, there, This sounds as though the plugin may not have properly restored clouds as it's intended to prior to your exit of X-Plane. We'll look into this, but in the meantime if you're in dire need to run 32-bit simply run the X-Plane updater prior to launching 32-bit.

This makes me think you have another uninstaller hanging around. Do you have a DC-3 unintsaller potentially present in your default X-Plane folder as well?

See reply in other thread.

Jim, Go into your X-Plane/X-Aviation folder and delete the DC3 uninstaller.

...But you're not. 1.2 is not current.

If you're getting that error you're definitely not up to date.

Hi, Laura, Yes, you can re-load them at a later time so long as you save them and call them up by routing. This is also covered in the manual!

Great! Not a problem.

Yes, they work in HDR. Make sure they are actually marked as "ON" in the preferences checkbox, as well as with the slider turned up. Uninstalling was the proper way to go, and it's okay to keep those sky colors as is.

Hi, As the manual states, importing of standard .fms plans is not possible with this aircraft.

Please re-run the DC-3 installer. I have re-uploaded some core files, and the installer should auto-download these to get you back up to date.

I believe I have found the issue for this. Please re-run the DC-3 installer. This will force it to re-download latest components, and update what I believe to be the missing module.

Too much risk involved because you wouldn't buy it.

Makes sense. No METAR to load.

This is definitely not going to be chief among their priorities. By now they already know what's slated for X-Plane 10.3, it's already been put on delay, and anything else is entirely secondary to that. We're talking about a system that has been in place since X-Plane 5. I'm not sure they really see this as their problem. The answer will be in a weather injector. Not sure who, what, where, or when it will happen.

Glad to hear we could make it better for you! Enjoy!

Sounds like you're happy now.

Thanks for the compliments, Kris!

This makes me think that X-Plane is deciding to load new METAR data at this point. This is with real weather on?

Awesome!

I had a hunch, and my hunch was right. A little known fact about X-Plane....Water settings of 'Complete' and 'Advanced' are very expensive with little to no gains. Supnik and I have had discussions about this a lot over the years, and it's actually been considered for the chopping block because of how non-beneficial those two modes are, yet so taxing without people realizing it. Can you please try this at 'Default' setting and see what happens? Your workaround is to first install 1.1. No bug reports on 1.0 please!

Thanks, Geof! We're really happy to hear you enjoy it so much! Your compliments are well received and appreciated, so thank you!

This is telling. Can you please post a screenshot of your rendering settings in X-Plane?