Real World Weather

[AlisterC]

Why not try a different weather source? Since the sim runs fine in all other regards.

This is an AWESOME weather program. And free!! http://www.hanse-coders.net/index.php?page=self&id=1

Also try this, I swear by it, also free!! http://www.razerzone.com/gamebooster

I run FSX piece of cake on a system most would write off as being not good enough. No crashes/ no out of ram problems.

[Dash8captain]

hi again - Just installed my new PSU - It does run a bit better but it still wont do real world weather and it still stutters when i change view - Iv just remembered now when my PC went to get a issue fixed the guy reckoned the Graphics card was on the way out so I am now looking at changing my graphics card

can anyone reccomend a new graphics card I have been running the Geforce 9800GT with 1GB of Memory

what would be the best upgrade?

oh yeah it will need to be DDR3

[Dash8captain]

QUOTE (Dash8captain @ Apr 1 2013,9:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

hi again - Just installed my new PSU - It does run a bit better but it still wont do real world weather and it still stutters when i change view - Iv just remembered now when my PC went to get a issue fixed the guy reckoned the Graphics card was on the way out so I am now looking at changing my graphics card

can anyone reccomend a new graphics card I have been running the Geforce 9800GT with 1GB of Memory

what would be the best upgrade?

oh yeah it will need to be DDR3

Would rather not spend over $250

something like this?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/compone...n-576772787.htm

[dbcunnz]

QUOTE (Dash8captain @ Apr 1 2013,10:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Would rather not spend over $250

something like this?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/compone...n-576772787.htm

Have a look here this is a GTX 650 - 2 GB GDDR5 - PCI Express
http://pricespy.co.nz/product.php?p=1408223

[Dash8captain]

thanks

[Dash8captain]

QUOTE (dbcunnz @ Apr 1 2013,10:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Have a look here this is a GTX 650 - 2 GB GDDR5 - PCI Express
http://pricespy.co.nz/product.php?p=1408223

well I bought this now so we will see how it goes - cant think of anything else I need to upgrade now!

[Dash8captain]

Hi people this is really starting to annoy me Real World Weather still doesn't go - Iv jst been using FSX without it but It would make my flying experience much more enjoyable if it worked

it still comes up with the following error when I try to select it:

''Your computer has run out of available memory, please restart Flight simulator and select different graphics, scenery, or traffic settings''

but the sim works perfectly otherwise with no errors or crashes

my computer is restricted to some sites, maybe if it cant connect to the site where it gets the weather details off, it would bring up this error?

What sites does FSX use for real world weather?

PC:

Windows XP SP3 32-Bit
AMD Athlon II X2 240 Processor 3.0 GHZ
4.00GB of RAM
Geforce GTX650 2GB of Memory GDDR5
Corsair HX650 PSU

[KiwiElf]

It might be related (slightly different topic), but have noticed it on other forums under a Google search:

Has MSoft/Jeppeson ditched real world weather?? My FSX has been giving me exactly the same real-world weather now for about the last 3 weeks, ie

Wind 141* at 4 kts Visibility 50mi

Zat vas NOT vhat ve hadt today for sure!

prior to 3 weeks ago I was gettin storms when we had storms, sun when we had sun etc.??

[spongebob206]

Bugger

Yeah, my real world weather hasn't work for months now Look out side rain and 20kts, flt sim clear and wind free

[AlisterC]

Has it crossed anyone's mind that as FSX support is now discontinued, the free weather download from Jeppesen might have been discontinued too? The "no reply" on the weather request might show up as an out of memory fault with Mr Dash Captain's FSX? I am flying right now, but will try the FSX default weather straight after this.
Honestly, I'm disappointed you haven't tried to download the FREE program I suggested which would you give you real world weather, and improved functionality and controllability. What's the use of coming here for advice if you don't try the free advice before going and spending money for a nil result?

For what it's worth, the weather is downloaded from here: WeatherServerAddress=fs2k.zone.com . You can punch that website into your browser, and get a result (check if you've blocked it somehow)
But maybe it has been discontinued?

Will try default fsx weather in about 45 min or so.

[AlisterC]

Just tested FSX default real world weather. Working perfectly (static and 15 min update options)
Just tested FS2004 default real world weather. Working perfectly (static and 15 min update options)

Win XP home 32 bit
Core 2 Duo 2.13
4mb Ram
Gforce 9800GTX 512mb

Lesser specs than you, no crashes.....

[Dash8captain]

Well Iv got mine going now I found it wasn't connecting to http://fs2k.zone.com/ -and its all good!

[KiwiElf]

QUOTE (AlisterC @ Jun 10 2013,8:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Has it crossed anyone's mind that as FSX support is now discontinued, the free weather download from Jeppesen might have been discontinued too? The "no reply" on the weather request might show up as an out of memory fault with Mr Dash Captain's FSX? I am flying right now, but will try the FSX default weather straight after this.
Honestly, I'm disappointed you haven't tried to download the FREE program I suggested which would you give you real world weather, and improved functionality and controllability. What's the use of coming here for advice if you don't try the free advice before going and spending money for a nil result?

For what it's worth, the weather is downloaded from here: WeatherServerAddress=fs2k.zone.com . You can punch that website into your browser, and get a result (check if you've blocked it somehow)
But maybe it has been discontinued?

Will try default fsx weather in about 45 min or so.

Hi Alister,

In my case it may be an incompatibility - I have tried the program you suggested, it's buggy on my machine and doesn't work. My FSX is connecting and downloading and updating real weather but it's still the SAME weather it's downloading from days & weeks ago. (based at Whenuapai anyway; Wind 141* at 4 kts Visibility 50mi - in both FS9 & FSX) which in reality it certainly isn't now or was yesterday), Would you be so kind as to tell us your airport location and let's see if we're getting the same thing or load your aircraft at Whenuapai and see if you get the above result??

I have read on other forums that Jeppeson are no longer supporting/updating it but no-one seems to be able to "officially" verify that info, ie many "maybe's" and speculation .

Cheers KE

[AlisterC]

Hi KE
To be honest, I fly in NZ pretty rarely, but a big help will be to select Vatsim weather servers in the program. I think by default it will use NOAA servers. There isn't many airports available in NZ in any real world weather program that I have tried. But try the vatsim servers and see how you get on.
By "other forums that Jeppeson are no longer supporting it" I assume you mean FS2004 and FSX default weather?
Seemed ok to me. But again, I tested it overseas.

I visited this site to check my weather was generating correctly. IE to go to an airport where I knew there would be bad weather.
I assume you have FSUIPC installed into FSX, but definitely flick over to the Vatsim servers and try again if you've not tried that.

Kind regards,

Just downloaded latest weather from Vatsim into FSrealWX and get the following metar:
NZWP 110802Z 23005KT 20KM SKC 12/11 Q1013 RMK VATSIM USE ONLY

110802z is about 1 hour old.

[KiwiElf]

QUOTE (AlisterC @ Jun 11 2013,8:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi KE
To be honest, I fly in NZ pretty rarely, but a big help will be to select Vatsim weather servers in the program. I think by default it will use NOAA servers. There isn't many airports available in NZ in any real world weather program that I have tried. But try the vatsim servers and see how you get on.
By "other forums that Jeppeson are no longer supporting it" I assume you mean FS2004 and FSX default weather?
Seemed ok to me. But again, I tested it overseas.

I visited this site to check my weather was generating correctly. IE to go to an airport where I knew there would be bad weather.
I assume you have FSUIPC installed into FSX, but definitely flick over to the Vatsim servers and try again if you've not tried that.

Kind regards,

Just downloaded latest weather from Vatsim into FSrealWX and get the following metar:
NZWP 110802Z 23005KT 20KM SKC 12/11 Q1013 RMK VATSIM USE ONLY

110802z is about 1 hour old.

Hi Alister,

Thanks for that valuable info. Yes, I have the free version of FSUIPC installed; do I need the payware version?. In frustration I've purchased Active Sky Evolution tonight altho not yet installed it - is past my bedtime (I want to fly thru a hurricane!). I will certainly try the VATSIM servers in any case. FS9 & FSX Real World weather used to do a pretty decent job until a month ago - more reliable than the weather forecast on the NEWS almost! I will do as you suggest in any case, and test the default weather somewhere overseas where I know it should be different!

Re the Jeppeson non support of the default weather, yes, that's what I'd read on other forums, apparently due to the age of the program, which if true, is kinda cheeky as FSX and FS9 are still being sold. But that's heresay - I can't as yet confirm that from MS or Jeppeson. It may simply be a glitch with NZ servers failing to supply Jeppeson with the updated info, ie an old cached version perhaps. We will see!

[jpreou]

QUOTE (Dash8captain @ Jun 9 2013,7:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi people this is really starting to annoy me Real World Weather still doesn't go - Iv jst been using FSX without it but It would make my flying experience much more enjoyable if it worked

it still comes up with the following error when I try to select it:

''Your computer has run out of available memory, please restart Flight simulator and select different graphics, scenery, or traffic settings''

but the sim works perfectly otherwise with no errors or crashes

my computer is restricted to some sites, maybe if it cant connect to the site where it gets the weather details off, it would bring up this error?

What sites does FSX use for real world weather?

PC:

Windows XP SP3 32-Bit
AMD Athlon II X2 240 Processor 3.0 GHZ
4.00GB of RAM
Geforce GTX650 2GB of Memory GDDR5
Corsair HX650 PSU

I suspect it has run out of memory in one of the 'system' memory structures, like the user heap or kernel heap. Been a long, long time since I dealt with those kind of issues, but it will give you something to Google on. That or the paged or non-paged pool. These areas of memory are fixed and used to load drivers and the like. It is also very small. The amount allocated has no bearing on how much overall memory the machine has; you could have a gazillion GB but the stacks / heaps will remain the same and can easily run out. Its all very technical. When the non-paged pool runs out of space then all sorts of weird things happen. Here's a technical write up: http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich...26/3211216.aspx

I know this post doesn't help much, but I hope that maybe your searching will bring forth an answer. With these kind of issues I generally start to remove software / kill processes or services and essentially revert back to as lean a system as possible. Then add bits one at a time until the issue re-appears. Which sometimes it never does. It is very frustrating to get these kinds of issues. Make sure you get rid of all drivers and devices that are no longer in use, and consider the use of a registry cleaner; I'm not a fan, generally, but I've heard reasonable reports about Ccleaner (or something like that) and I have an old laptop at home that runs as slow as mollasses that I might try it on.

Good luck, and I hope you get it sorted.

[AlisterC]

QUOTE (KiwiElf @ Jun 12 2013,1:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi Alister,

Thanks for that valuable info. Yes, I have the free version of FSUIPC installed; do I need the payware version?. In frustration I've purchased Active Sky Evolution tonight altho not yet installed it - is past my bedtime (I want to fly thru a hurricane!). I will certainly try the VATSIM servers in any case. FS9 & FSX Real World weather used to do a pretty decent job until a month ago - more reliable than the weather forecast on the NEWS almost! I will do as you suggest in any case, and test the default weather somewhere overseas where I know it should be different!

Re the Jeppeson non support of the default weather, yes, that's what I'd read on other forums, apparently due to the age of the program, which if true, is kinda cheeky as FSX and FS9 are still being sold. But that's heresay - I can't as yet confirm that from MS or Jeppeson. It may simply be a glitch with NZ servers failing to supply Jeppeson with the updated info, ie an old cached version perhaps. We will see!

Free version is fine, I use the free FSUIPC myself. I'm sure ASE will do well for you. My last version is Active Sky X (long time ago now) and have been using that for a while before moving to this free program. It just works better for me in a few different areas. Since it worked well I've not looked at getting a newer version from HiFi. I wouldn't be surprised if Jeppesen has given up on NZ weather stations. I tested the default real world weather servers overseas (USA and Canada) when I was testing the other night.

Anyway, enjoy the new program.

^^^ I use CCcleaner myself, a great program. And when I go simming I use Razer Game Booster to shut down all processes I don't need in order to give the best of my PC to FSX. Makes a difference. You'll be surprised at all the random things the usual PC has running in the background, like printer drivers, ipod drivers etc.. All things you don't need for a sim session. At the end of the flight Game Booster starts them all up again. Very cool in my opinion..

[Sonnyj]

Hi Alister, That site with the 4 worst adverse weather situations is pretty neat, Having lots o fun. Thanks :-)

[AlisterC]

You're welcome! I'm glad to hear it. Unfortunately only North America airports are included but if you want the same sort of features for NZ, I find the VATNZ weather page a good one. Significant weather is on the upper left, hover over the airport code and you can see what the metar is for the airport. A good site to check where to take off from (or land into!) in NZ.
Cheers

[KiwiElf]

Active Sky Evolution all installed into FSX without any hassles at all. Have only had a quick play with it, but interestingly, with everything defaulted I downloaded real world weather - haha - same weather I've been getting for several weeks LOL!

It has a VATSIM Download button as well, which I then checked and redid it - totally different result and as it should be.

So far it doesn't "paint" the clouds as "volumously" as the FSX default weather engine, but wayyyy more accurate (REX would do the trick I'm sure!). It has a WX gauge pop-up window which is a pretty good substitute for weather radar (with a lot more info), and the program can work totally independently from the sim. Cheap weather station! Apparently it can do hurricanes too, (yet to be tested) and can back-date all weather to 2007 (you have the default option of real-time weather now, or backdate lock to the sim's time). Not bad for a bit over $50! Me happy!