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I love ASV, the first add-on weather program I have used and it is great. I have it downloading every 10 minutes to keep the weather up to date. But since I don't fly with a flight plan, it seems sometimes the software gets confused as to where I am. I am seeing major graphics performance decreases on my system with now lots of corrupted graphics flashing all over the place. I replaced my default texture folders to make sure I didn't have any corrupted textures. I have a new computer case that runs cool and quiet. I have a new CPU fan and video card fan.With ASV Enhanced this appears to be even worse. Am I doing something wrong here?

Hi Jim i have activesky as well as ASV installed i have a suspision that the old active sky should be deleted is this correct.Asv is just great i see now we getactive runways at destination airports.Although did a flight from eddm to lsgg (geneva) but the flight plan did not show active runway at lsgg.I suppose this may not be able available at times................regards robin

After making a few Across the Atlantic flights with the new SSTSIM Concorde, I noticed a problem with temperature changes above FL500.I have the Option "Force Constant Route Aloft Temp" checked, but I'm still getting drastic changes anyways. For example, it went from -55 to -48 Instantly, then back up a few minutes later. Over the next hour, temperature was varying quite a bit. This proves to be extremely frustrating, as anyone who is flying this aircraft knows, that she's extremely touchy to Temperature at this altitude, and higher.Am I doing something wrong? Is there a preferred ASV(Enhanced) setting or FSUIPC Setting that I need to check? Thanks in advance.

I have been flying the SSTSIM Concorde a lot lately and had several flights betweeen London and New York. Avoiding overspeeds and the aircraft not going up and down like a yoyo is almost impossible due to weather changes after each update. This got me thinking... Could it be that the difference beteween global weather and the pseudo(sp?) stations in ASVE is causing this problem?What I see is wind shifts of over 100 degrees and speeds between 10 and 40 knots. Looking at my flights I see changes of around 4k ft throughout the crossing. This really dont make for an economic flight :)I got registered FSUIPC and usually set wind to 1 degree/knot every 3 seconds to battle the o…

I have mine set at 4 currently to free up some frames but if its not at 5, is it correct to assume i'll never get a perfect 100% overcast cloud ceiling where i cant even see the ground at all while over the clouds?

What happened here everything was going well until i saw this?http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/129997.jpg

Hello. I'm wondering if someone can answer a quick install question for me.Is it possible to install the newest version of ActiveSky without changing any cloud textures? All I really want is the advanced weather features. I'm happy with the cloud textures I have.If it is possible can someone explain how? Maybe screenshots of the installer or something like that?Thanks!

Hello, I have a problem with FS that has started today, On starting FS I get the the startup screen where you can select a flight. when I select a flight and say "fly now" the sim crashes on installing textures on 0% after about 5 seconds with the usual error message from FS only saying unknown module error,I have just installed the enhanced AS and have Mip maps and DXT disabled and render to texture selected on. Could this be a problem with active sky and if so should I remove the program and if I do this will it put all the files back to where it was before the ptogram was installed?Any advice appreciatedThanks Timhttp://members.chello.nl/t.westnutt/realair.gif

after installing asv... i noticed that at the tail end of very long flights...7 or 8 hours...the atc voice demonstrates a pronounced stutter..ie. "d-delta 737 turn right..."...has anyone else experienced this?

Before landing say when starting the decent since the winds may have changed over time?

Hey ! i keep having trouble with winds changes and temprature changes. I want to use constant aloft temprature options and such. I just got one problem. I have Fsnavigator. I make a flightplan in FSnavigator as i want it then i try to important it into Activesky. But it wont work ! becuse it wont get into .PLN mode no matter how i do is there any way to fix this. Iam thinking of buying FSBUILD instead becuse maybe it can do .PLN mode for ACTIVESKY???. Also the original fs9 flightplanner use a very very old AIRAC cycle so theres ALOT of new names on waypoints and also alot of new waypoints and airways. How can i import to .PLN mode when fs orginial flightplanner use such a…

It seem vas does not do anything to my aircraft at crz altitude what can be the problem?

Guys, great job on ASVE! The 128x128 DXT1's saved the day on my laptop which was struggling a bit with the 512's, since I'm restricted to a 64MB X300 card on that PC. Simply the best weather engine out there right now.Keep up the excellent work!

Hi, new to Active Sky V. It's probably just me, but I have a problem with the "Active wx:" time, it does not appear to be updating - stuck at 12:19:50z. Have searched the forums but to no avail. I looked in current_wx_snapshot.txt file and it too reflects 12:19:50z. The z time at the moment is 20:45z.Great product - I'm having lots of fun with it.Any thoughts?Thanks,Mike

I seem to be missing the dxt.bat file - after installing the ASVE update and the 128x128 texture set I wanted to use DXT textures - no luck.Where can I find this file?

Hi Everyone,I am sure you all know how great the support at Active Sky is and I amparticular greatfull to Damien and Jim helping me with my ASVE installerproblem. They were outstanding and provide in my opinion the best support in the FS addon business.Thanks again,Helmut

I'm wondering if the VAS strength has been changed in the "latest" patch/update/enhansement? The reason I'd like to know is that I was having problems with the vas strength about v363 or 364. I found that at 40 strength some aircraft could not land without being thrown downwards almost to a point of crashing. I was gredually moving the strength down so I could get to a point where I still had some ups & downs but would not be thrown into the ground. If the strength setting has been changes in the last enhansement then I will most likely need to start my fiddling again.What settings do you guys use for what aircraft?

Strange anomaly I have seen since I bought and installed ASV-E, is sometimes I can be cruising at altitude, and it will download the latest METAR report, and viola the cockpit will all of a sudden go from showing 250 kts to 0 kts and the plane will speed up faster and faster, eventually it will pop back up with the speed (because the autothrottle speed is set at 250 kts when it comes back on it will be going around 400+ kts)I have never had this happen before installing ASV-E so I am a little perplexed. Dont get me wrong Im not blaming ASV-E and it doesnt happen to al planes either. In this case its some freeware A340-500, and its happened with a few others. Anyone have a…

I was trying to tidy my Hard drive up by deleting unused programs. I use ASV Enhanced but noticed I still had AS2004/2004.5 on my drive, so I mistakenly deleted AS2004 first then tried to delete the upgrade files but they wouldn't delete, a measage popped up saying AS2004 had to be installed.It looks like I will have to reinstall AS2004 then delete the update files first, problem is I don't have it anymore and its not on ASV's download page. Can anyone at Active Sky help please.ThanksGlen

New to the Forum and have read several pages of posts, but see very little regarding the Vertical Air Simulation feature of ASV Enhanced. Therefore, I have several questions:1. Are thermals topped by clouds, or are they all "blue" thermals?2. Can the size of the thermal be adjusted, e.g., can you set diameter to 1000m or 1500m? 3. Is lift in the thermal constant from bottom to top, or does the strength drop off as you near the top? Does the thermal have a "core" of higher vertical velocity than the outer part of the thermal?4. Is it possible for several pilots flying gliders in a MultiPlayer environment to experience thermals in the same locations and with the same…

I have 3Dclouds set to 100%, but they dont look 3D to me, any suggestions. Im using AS5 enhanced. Mips enabled + dxt3 textures, and render to texture enabled.OHN

Seeing i did not set the defaults this time around with the default button when i installed b367 was there any thing option wise that was changed from b366 to b367?Thanks!

I haven't found anything for these options/settings, what are they for?

What are the default values for these two options presently i have them all set to 30% are these comfortable values?EDITAlso where do i get the B367 and MIPS have to be enabled each time new textures are installed right, especially after asv enhancement?

Hi Jim & teamIs there an easy way to use the cloud textures of ASVe and just the water textures from FE? I have searched the forum but couldn't find this particular subject.ThanksPeterH