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Well well well I can see wide scattered clouds nicely at 12k, also a bit of turbulence :-) Lovin it Ohh and i raised my cloud radius or whatever it's called Amazing so far, badweather.c#m here i come Cheers Tony

M4cD, I found mine on my gmail promotions tab Hope that helps somewhat Tony

Thank Gawd i've done something right for a change lmao I use noaa so i chose WRC setting of Always (ignores x-planes settings) (middle option of the three) I can't see nooa in my dropdown plugins but i assume it's whatever magic yourselves have done with rwc I've just took off from KSFO inb random to KORD at the moment I see few clouds over KSFO, so hopefully it's working as it should Thankyou Have Fun Tony

Hiya's, Uncompressed rars for smp 3.1.1 and RWC onto c: desktop Installed smp then wrc Still got admin cmd prompt on rwc ! Could it be i left my Windose UAC on ? (i do run as admin though) Gonna fire it up again and see Thanks Tony

Hiya, Cheers for info, will redo properly now Thanks Tony

Hiya, Thank gawd it wasn't just me lol Cheers Tony

Hiya's, Installed smp 3.1.1 Went into game then exited Installed RWC Now i have my zip/rar file open from where i started the installer also a Admin Command Prompt is here, saying ........... C:\Users\Ant\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EXa0.122\RealWeatherConnector 1.0> Err, i have no idea lol I am going to press Enter/Return and hope for the best Well that just shows the same exact cmd line of text again I will close the cmd prompt and await a reply Dang it hehe Tony EDIT : Ok, i closed Admin CMD prompt, went into game, asked for email/pw, fired up fine n dandy So if anyone else has a Admin cmd popup, just close it then you're sorted Have Fun Tony

Price seems real decent to me Reduction code to be emailed also Win Win for a noob like me lol Question, will this be a plugin or .exe that i'm likely to cheese up on installation ? If it's hard for a noob to install i'll wait until someone does a vid etc lol, got my clouds perfect for my rig as of now, don't wanna fubar those hehe Thursday 09-24am here in ole blighty, not long now :-) Cheers Tony Edit : I figured how to use noaa, so i have that running with my smp 3.1 From reading Camerons link to buy page, i read the noaa etc can run with it ? I can see myself having to ask for help i think Tony

Nice Awaiting Friday eagerly Have Fun Tony

Hiya's, Before darting off to see some glamorous highly finnessed video, just get that notion out of your head lol I only upload stupid items that mean something to me, i am deffo not a YT vid guru, so Osamah/thomas to name a few don't panic you've nothing to fear hehe I just did a quick vid to show what i can get with a load of sceneries/free plane and a somewhat aged gpu Before the link, my rig specs as it stands today W10 Pro x64 Asus rampage v extreme 5820k @ 4.7ghz watercooled R9 290x @ 1267/1354 watercooled 32gb DDR4 3200 @ 3000 Only a very short vid, as said i'm no yt guru, just pause on settings on full screen and you should see them Maybe of help to see what actual lower-scale settings can achieve in this 3.1 version, sure blows my mind hehe Have Fun Tony ps : Lowest fps is approx 25/27 and in open areas maxed at vsync 60, average 30-35 in clouds and scenery on the deck

Another weird, I did remove the initial 3.1 update via the 3.1 installer After backing folders/files up just in case of course Well after uninstalling 3.1, i went into the game, checked fps etc Exited, then fully installed 3.1, hoping to the lord i wasn't going to waste another slot lol Well, i can't say my fps went up as once i get my head around lots of settings i tweak tweak n tweak some more til i've got what my system can handle, so for me as stated i've gained more eye-candy for the same fps i had previously But, and there's usually always a but, i did notice my bootup time is a fair bit faster as you stated on your testing Guy7 Windose pro x64 32gb ddr4 3200 @ 3000 R9 290x @ 1267/1354 watercooled loop 5820k @ 4.7ghz watercooled loop Asus rampage v extreme (replaced instantly as 1st one died !) So for me, no fps increase which really i wasn't expecting, but gained a speedier game booup time :-) Have Fun Tony

Heya, Nice info you've posted :-) I might just do a fresh install myself Cheers Have Fun Tony

Guy7, Drop your Min/Max Cloud Size down, slider to far left Check/Tick Fast clouds option, as i see it, Fast is like a minimum for my checking, then Crisp is full on yummy HD (my opinion from fps and eye-candy visual checking Uncheck/Untick Enable Cloud Reflections, these are only over water Shadows in any game are fps droppers, if you want, drop those down to off or bare min The Cirrus layer options i have down to Low and the force Layer ticked Now, from there see what you've got fps-wise Now if the fps is ok at this, start adding your eye-candy, cloud sizes/cloud area covered Now with more distance and sizes to play with, alas it's up to you to dig in n get dirty and find your ideal fps For me i love dshadows, but until i have a better gpu i forego these on high settings and have them on static (in game options) Always when given eye-candy/fps i start at default or low and work up/down For me the cloud rendering distance means i've had to give up some cloud size to balance the fps Just take your time, number each save, after a selection are done, go into some dense fps-lowering airport, check and see and fine tune Also a quick note on your rig cpu/gpu and ram amount might help If you want to overclock a cpu or gpu i don't mind helping, these alone even moderate oc'ing can yield more fps Have Fun Tony

Warmbrak, Working fine for me, did a fresh x-plane install, all scenery/mesh/etc etc, then smp 3.1, then rta lastly, not that i think the order really matters Have Fun Tony

Hiya, The initial defaults aren't bad as such ........ far from it, they just need adjusting like mine if not running a titan x hehe From my checking external view mode, the 'Default' seems way way more/dense/larger than 3.0 Imagine the 'Default' drawing a circle of clouds rendering in v 3.0, now 3.1 to my eyesight not only draws a larger circle but also the size/density/amount seems larger/greater, hence the fps drop Now it cannot be a pure like-for-like increase, as now i can alter my options to get my previous v3.0 fps rates but still gain a mass and i mean a mass as i'm snowed in by clouds, and it's brilliant So whatever optomization/s the devs have done it's paying dividends for me, more clouds around a larger rendering distance with v3.0 fps's Hope that makes sense, had little sleep as cloud addiction got bad way into the wee hours lol Ohh, make sure you save the settings as per normal option in the gui, then save your newly created settings, once saved, open the load or whatecer it;s called to check they've saved Hope this waffling helps somewhat Have Fun Tony ps @ Thankyou Sundog for the rep

Glad to hear you're getting the fps back I've only had smp 3 since march 25th, after wasting install slots etc then seeing how amazing the clouds are, i thought it couldn't get much better Well v3.1 came along as i got up to greet the day, and wowsa, just took off from lowi headed to eddf, jaw dropped as i was plonked on the runway at lowi Looked just like something on a pilots-eye etc, kind of misty and low ground hogging clouds, headed 77degrees from lowi to gain speed at 1k/min, banked left then on auto pilot to climb to 12k, inbetween the clouds the sun shining through, breathtakingly lifelike (not a pilot irl but i mean by seeing vids etc) Astoundingly good hehe Again, i am now swamped in a mass of clouds, i'd guesstimate double easy to previously, and now i'm back at fps rates i had with v3 !! Double the eye candy for the same fps, dang it, that's what i call brilliance from the devs : EDIT, just alt-tabbed and gone into chase view mode, damn, i reckon i am x4 the amount of clouds at least !! Have Fun Tony

Hiya, If still no joy with the fps loss ............. I could be wrong but the new defaults seem much larger/greater/wider than v3.0 I found now i have more clouds around me covering a further radius for the same fps i had with v3.0 I found it's a case of trial and error with the new numbered settings What i did brick about was my very initial fps loss, or rather what i thought was a fps drop, damn trixx hadn't loaded so my gpu was at stock lol Anyways, have a play around til your eye-candy is/as before, i think you may/should find a slight fps increase, i sure did and i'm still on a r9 290x ;-) Have Fun Tony ps : Goto external chase view, scan out with the < key (shift too for speed) and you should see just how much more cloud to the buck you're getting

Hiya's, Woohoo Woke up to this hehe Niceone All Many Thanks Tony

Hiya, Thankyou Cameron for the SMP v3 Reset regarding Ticket #9G12H I am using the second purchased smp v3 and it's fine So 3 slots on initial purchase and 2 on the second, even a noob like me has plenty of room now for gaffs lol Many Thanks Tony

Hiya's, The second smp v3 purchase went through fine for me Ben Used the gaffers (fiancee) email as i guessed the same one might cause issues Same card/billing address etc though I'm just happy my new replaced hw is solid and i have my new eye-candy back lol Thanks Tony

Hiya, This is a reply Ben gave me ........ 'We work on a "per computer" basis. Not per hard disk. You can install 100x on the same computer and it will only count as one. Re-install your operating system (Windows, Linux or OSX) and your computer is considered a different computer'. ############################################################################### Now me talking ..........If you are trying to have those two items on two machines it won't work, they are licenced for one machine, so if i understand ? you want the clouds and the plane on two rigs ? If that's the case, you need to purchase both again so you have two of each Tony PS : found this, i have never networked or wifi'ed !! so have no idea lol ............... One license will work on your networked setup. End of PS PPS : Gonna buy SMP v3 again, way i see it is waiting is doing my head in, and when initial purchase ever gets reset i'll have a spare set of attempts if pc cheeses up again lol Life Ehh Tony

Hiya's, Thought i'd best post a bit more To anyone thinking of the asus rampage v extreme and my post has maybe put you off a bit, then don't let it Mine was doomed the moment it had a psu connected to it :-( Not had a single hitch since rebuild :-) So don't have nightmares lol Have Fun Tony

Hiya, Thankyou Have Fun Tony

Hiya Ben, Thanks for the info Good to know about the change of OS Have Fun Tony

Hiya Bob, Sorry i can't help you as i'm new to this download/activate stuff myself I am waiting for my slots to be fixed i hope, but you i'm sure could answer something that's bugging me ........... I only have a lone pc, but at the moment 1xssd and 3xhdds, i asked about legalities of having x-plane 10 on main C: and another on a drive i use for testing sceneries etc, guys at x-plane said that's fine, and of course it works well Now, when i get my clouds back, i already have the initial file saved on several drives as i've had four die recently :-( I install the initial file, does that use 1 life up ? leaving me 2 obviously But this is what i wanted to know .......... After installing on what will be either C: or D: is it legal to use smp v3 in say x-plane 10 on both C: and D: ? Or will i need to buy it again for the second drive ? Somewhat confused Anyways, hopefully someone from x-aviation might be on the weekend (bet you're like me and missing the clouds hehe) Have Fun Tony