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Hello! I really enjoy the new AS2016 and ASCA but I get large (sometimes I lose half my fps) fps drops when I look at dense clouds... When I turn the EZDOK camera away from them the fps is normal but when theyre in my view I experience large drops. Does anyone else have this issue and is there a fix? Thanks in advance! EDIT: Textures are 1024 and Cloud draw distance is 80 in AS16.

Hi AS16 users! I'm trying to make AS16 autostart during WIN10 boot, by adding AS16 under "run" in the registry. Neither "current user": HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run or "all users": HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Worked! There's one more place to put the run statement: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run But I haven't tried it yet, since it should work for all user using the second path in the registry. None of the other autostart apps have this problem. I'm also running ASCA, and starting AS16, also start ASCA when I execut…

I have a windows 7, 64 bit PC. I use FSX. Whenever I attempt to open a flight plan, I receive a message saying " active sky 16 has stopped working. Windows will look for a solution". Now, I have created flight plans using PFPX, the built in flight planner in FSX, and even created a flight plan using the Active Sky planner. All three flail to work, the program always crashes with the same error message. Now what is a bit strange is that if I continue to use FSX, I find Active Sky 16 has loaded weather into the simulator. However, a message does come from active sky saying I should load a flight plan for better results. Any ideas how to fix this issue/ …

Ive been flying recently and ive noticed the METAR us completely different from what Active Sky Next is putting into FSX. Like the winds at SFO IRL were 270 at 19, but then in the sim, they were 180 at 22. That and the altimiter was way off. For example, IRL it would be 29.70 and in the game it would be 30.05. Anyone have an idea of how to fix this?

Hello! After updating for the w10 creators, the AS16 home screen opens incomplete! Is it a windows bug?

Hi there, I've been using AS16 for a while and have always been able to use the ATIS function when tuning 122.00. This has worked with both speakers and 3.5mm headphones. I've since started using a USB headset and I can get all sounds to work through this with no trouble but can't seem to get the ATIS no matter what I try. I have tried both USB headset option & default audio option in the AS16 sound options but with no luck. Using FSX on windows 10 & the headset is a Razey Kraken if this helps. Thanks in advance. Note - I did try and post this on the HiFi forum but the website keeps timing out....

So after putting up with it for a fair while I've decided to investigate and now bring it up online. AS2016, if you have minimum visibility set to 0, yet the METAR gives 9999, it irritatingly blocks out the vertical visibility too. I understand you never can see 100% clearly horizontally to horizon as there is so much dust and dirt in the in lower level air, however this doesn't block the beautiful blue sky above you. So how does one retain the setting so that if the weather drops AS will depict lower visibility, but when it's clear, it shows blue sky, not grey?

I love this, I was bored so I added a PIREP. Then I noticed another PIREP with "Not Delta Airlines"

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hello, I have a question with the weather addons. Can i create my own weather with those addons? (for example very foggy and rainy) or do i have to select a theme in the fsx weather section in fsx?

Hi, I am programming a small planning application for some friends and me. The application imports weather data from other weather engines (REX and FSGRW so far) and displays it on a map. Because several of my friends are using Active Sky, they asked me, if I can read these files as well. The problem is, that I can't find any documentation about this file format and that I don't own Active Sky (just REX). Therefore I cannot open a ticket or thread in the official Hifi forum. That's why I am writing here. I have a copy of the file current_wx_snapshot.txt and analyzed its structure. Stations, METAR and TAF are easy to parse, but I found no information about the fo…

Hello Friends Few days ago i encountred a problem with active sky next SP4 and even the update SP5 , the problem is resumed as following : -After take off with PMDG 737,747 or even aerosoft A320,A321 the TAT begin to be high , and after 2000 feet approximatly the TAT start to be low until reaching -70 or less at FL050 which is abnormal, and in some case the TAT reach a high number of +80 at FL280 wich stop the aircraft climbing and not able to fly normally . - The second problem is the high and crazy wind at different low level while the metar is fine . Since 2015 all thing was good with active sky next , i don't know what happen now , i hope s…

Hi There, AS16 is running on a second PC and since today AS16 is asking for the P3D Folder. The share (E:) is not visible within AS16 (like all other network shares). All shares are visible and usable in Windows Explorer and ProATC and ASCA. AS16 is the most recent version and is started with full administrative rights. The Network "Dropdown" in the "Browse for Folder" dialoge of AS16 is empty and the drive letters of the shares are not visible within AS16. I am running windows 10 pro on both machines, wired connection, firewall deactivated, as16.exe and installationfolder are excluded in windows defender. Any Ideas? Solved: PEBCAK (cost me t…

Hi, i have the problem that some cloud layers appears as black polygons. not always but a few times. i use fsx without dx10! all service packs for fsx and updates for as16 and asca installed. any solution? regards Marco

Its seems as they not making any statements, news, improvements, replay in the forum... they used to be very communicative before all the AS16+ASCA. The only thing i see from them now is ad's all over the flight simming websites. Again, i use the product each flight but we need some real answers about the future of the product with P3DV3 as its very limited at the moment. Even an amswer such as: "we stopped allocating resources for P3DV3 beacuse V4 is out soon" Will be good.

Greetings, During overcast conditions, I notice when flying on top, that there seems to be a hole underneath me. An example, I takeoff from Base X, punch through the clouds all is well. However, once I'm cruising along on top, I notice I can see the ground directly below me. As if the cloud deck is invisible. I can see the cloud deck all around me. It's just the "hole" directly underneath that's bothersome and seems to follow me where ever I go. I tried increasing the cloud layers to see if that was the culprit but to no avail. Has anyone else have similar issues? I'm using AS16 ASCA along REX 4 Essentials w/soft clouds. Thanks

Hi, Since the forum at HIFI website looks kinda dead and no one responding i will try here. the only way for me not to have foggy horizon is to use 200 upper limit, but then the clouds are not even close to cover all the way till the horizon... is there anyway we would see any improvement in the future ? Or as far as working with P3DV3 we reached the limit ? BTW dont get me wrong i love the product and wouldn't fly without it !

Hello, is there in the sim a limit to depict clouds in greater distance? i have set minimum and maximum in AS16 to maximum, also visibility upper and lower to maximum, but i get always a hard cloud limit, that every can see in high altitude flight. in the old FSX and FS9 it was possible to set the max cloud range in the cfg. but in P3Dv3 such entry not exist?

Hi I currently own ASNext and Rex texture direct with soft clouds,but I 'm now considering upgrading my P3d to AS16 but I'm wondering if I should also buy the ASCA addon as well Is it worth the upgrade over my current setup for weather ? When it came out I remember seeing a few people saying that the ASCA was no were near as good as the Rex textures is this still the case? I am going to stay with AS next and Rex for my FSX flying but would like to update P3d,but I 'm unsure weather to stay with the Rex Textures, or also buy the ASCA addon Any advice from current users that have had these options before upgrading. Thanks

I using the AS16 6255 in Prepar3d, I noticed I didn't see anything that looked like in-cloud motion effects. No swirling clouds around my cockpit.

Hi, I Have Active Sky 2016 version 6255 i am getting static crackling audio sound every 4 to 5 secs Regular weather that came with FSX steam Edition the problem went away. 1]updated to latest version of Fsuipc Version 4.964 2]rebuild fsx.cfg 3]update audio driver 4]reinstalled simconnect DPC latency checker show high Latency with Activesky 2016 and with audio static popping and crackling noise its very annoying with headset on.

Every time I fire up ASN I am plagued with messages teling me that an update is available that I have already downloaded and executed many times before. Is this a bug? I am running the latest version.

Hi there, Recently upgraded from ASN to AS16 and on occasion get some very weird clouds appearing. As I said its not all the time just randomly during flights the below appears. Any idea anyone?

Hi all, My ASN is crashing when I try to load a flight plan exported in the .pln format out of PFPX. This happens either via the ASN interface or if I load the plan via FSX and have it auto-loaded into ASN. Has anyone else encountered this and resolved it? Thanks, Alan

Hi- I tried to "delete" the sky texture folders in ASCA in order that the program only selects the other sky textures I have installed (for example, those folders that ENVTEX has installed as well as http://1coder.ru/SKY/ready.html ) ... but it causes the program to crash on startup. The problem is, when I have "sky colors" checked in the ASCA options, it seems to only select ASCA sky colors, and not the third party ones I want. Is there any way to prevent ASCA from using its own textures- some database file to delete so that it doesn't check for the existence of its own folders and crash?