Best weather engine FSX

Hi,

 

during an event flight with my friends, i've notice much difference between ours winds on route.

 

So, in your opinion, which one is the best weather engine for FSX?

 

Active Sky Next, Opus, FS Global Real Weather?

 

I always used Opus but from yesterday I'm trying ASN. It looks more heavy for framerate... It is true or only an impression? The textures are always the same..

I'll be honest, the freeware FSRealwx isn't bad. Yesterday, we had heavy rain clouds and low visibility in Vegas, and this program recreated that almost perfectly. I took off and was immediately engulfed in clouds and couldn't see out my window.

Even more confusing is the face that there are multiple versions of the same software, there are several REX versions and they are not superseding, I assume they are different.

I have REX. It's not bad but have had to dial down much of the settings to stay away from potential OOM's. I would be perfectly satisfied with a good real world weather program without the $50 price tag. Live and learn I guess. Regards

I have them all and except for personal taste, Active Sky is my favorite. I think it might be on sale right now to.

The major SP3 update for REX Essential Plus and REX Essential Plus OverDrive was released a couple days ago. Free update on the REX forum! ;) Contains a brand new updated weather engine.

The major SP3 update for REX Essential Plus and REX Essential Plus OverDrive was released a couple days ago. Free update on the REX forum! ;) Contains a brand new updated weather engine.

 

Thanks for the info.

I did some reading on various Active Sky programs, apparently the lates version ASN uses default (or other addons') textures to generate the environment. Nowhere it explained how you get a good looking environment we've seen using default textures.

I think I'm gonna get myself AS-2012.

ASN has new features like microburst generation etc... I care about to a lesser degree, I would rather have custom environmental textures. Otherwise I must but F1 Flight Environment or other ton of addons that will come up costing a fortune.

Am I correct? Would like to hear some thought before buying.

 

As for REX, the comments I've seen so far make it clear the program has an artificial popularity (so much I understood from the comments).

After 5 days of trial license, ASN bought me and I.... I bought it ;)

The REX textures in my opinion are the best (just replace their fx_2.bmp effects texture with the default fx_2.bmp texture file for your afterburners and such) I like the Active Sky lightning better and their weather engine though I found the latest REX upgrade has improved their weather engine Active Sky still my favorite.