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Happy to hear you're enjoying it, @Ralf Maylin! Thank you for your support.

Yes, I know you bought it. But, you unsubscribed from our e-mails in 2015. You left an explanation that you were unsubscribing in protest to the upgrade from v3 to v4.

My first guess is some kind of artifact to cloud shadows. Are these turned on in your SkyMaxx Pro config window? Can you turn them off and see what happens?

Hi there, This looks like some kind of rendering issue, actually. @sundog?

v4 customers, yes. Not v3. Looking at your account, you unsubscribed from our e-mailing system in 2015. Therefore, you were not sent a discount. Please e-mail support@x-aviation.com for assistance.

I'm pretty sure that's X-Plan's distant scenery outline. When it comes to the horizon, we blend into what X-Plane renders, so that MAY not be within our control, but @sundog will know best. Perhaps try a different sky color option in the SkyMaxx config? I agree though. That doesn't look pleasant.

Happy to hear it!

I'm guessing this is an artifact of having SkyMaxx Pro cloud shadows active. You may want to de-activate that for the time being.

Great to hear! Thanks for your patience today!

Thanks @Fab10!

@rawdmon We've discussed the mountain issue more and may have a potential path forward. I can't make full promises yet, but it's on our minds on how to tackle it. We are going to await feedback on performance of the 5.0.1 build before experimenting with the route I'm speaking of.

Please be sure to download the just released 5.0.1 patch and let us know how you go.

We have released v5.0.1 to address this issue. More information can be found here: I am going to close this topic now.

Hello All, This will serve as a formal forum announcement that we have released the version 5.0.1 update for SkyMaxx Pro. All customers who have purchased SkyMaxx Pro v5 up till now have been sent an e-mail by X-Aviation with complete instructions on how to obtain your update. We have made this a very simple process! For those that purchase SkyMaxx Pro v5 from today forward, your purchased download will already be updated to version 5.0.1 for you. What if I didn't get the update e-mail? If you did not receive your update e-mail don't fret! X-Aviation has updated our system to allow all customers to update with ease, regardless of whether you received an e-mail for the update! Here's what to do: 1. Login to your X-Aviation account here: https://www.x-aviation.com/catalog/account_history.php 2. Find your original SkyMaxx Pro v5 download and re-download the file. It will download as the latest version! IMPORTANT: Today we received numerous reports of terrible performance when it came to frame rates, and even crashes. Upon further investigation, we came to the realization there was a situation where XPRealistic and SkyMaxx Pro v5 would cause major issues in the depth buffer and create a big memory leak. After discussing the matter with the developer of XPRealistic, we have an understanding of why this is happening, but we don't know when he will have time to make any changes on his end. We understand there is a lot of excitement around release time, and there's nothing more disappointing than having clashes like this. Because of that, we are releasing an emergency patch to hopefully rectify this situation, at least temporarily. We are doing this at the risk of there being a bug or two, but we feel it's important to have you up and running for the weekend. It is also possible that any aircraft or plugins which made changes to datarefs used for head tracking, ground, and head shake simulations were also playing into this. As a side note, always remember to monitor your GPU and CPU times when tuning your X-Plane rendering settings. Evaluate your needs of antialias settings. We find a good setting if your GPU is running slower than the CPU is to set your X-Plane antialiasing to 2X SSAA+FXAA. There is not a whole lot lost in doing this. Here's what's changed in version 5.0.1: What's New / Changed: Core code changes to prevent depth buffer clashes with XPRealistic. As always, thanks for purchasing from X-Aviation! We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you more in the future!

Yes, this is expected behavior. As you are moving the time, you are causing the light to re-render what's happening with the clouds.

What happens if you go down one of the Antialiasing?

Wow, your GPU is really choking there. Can you show me your X-Plane rendering settings?

XPRealistic is the likely cause.

Go into the SkyMaxx Pro plugin menu items, then select the Cumulus and Overcast texture selection options. There you can turn on volumetric.

Assuming you can disable/remove XPRealistic you can enjoy v5 now.

Do you have some kind of firewall or something blocking this connection? Between the lack of server connection and that XPUIPC alert, something makes me things you have a firewall or antivirus block going on.

Sorry, but this post as a whole is pretty ridiculous. We are not responsible for things out of our control. We absolutely will own and find ways about things we CAN control (and this thread is evidence of that). You having unrealistic expectations, however, is not fair on any developer. I don't care if they're associated to me, or a can of worms. It's just about being real.

That made me laugh. LOL!

That's definitely been a long running bummer!