Hello Pete , I have a simple question I hope you can answer about FSUIPC & weather , on another FS board , I was getting stutters threw clouds especially overcast conditions with a 2.66GHZ C2D , 2GB RAM , 500 GB HDD , Overclocked 640MB 8800GTS , Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit , and a resident computer & FS expert called "NickN" gave me a fix , here was the fix he gave me:
1. Buy the latest version of FSUIPC for FS9
2. Buy Flight Environment (Flight1 website)
Download, Install, buy and register FSUIPC (open the sim, menu, MODULES - FSUIPC and enter the reg data... close and reopen the sim... open the registered version of FSUIPC to set it up... once complete you must close and reopen the sim:
Boot a flight, any flight. Hit the ALT key, Select MODULES - FSUIPC
Make the following changes for awesome weather and reduced hit on performance
Winds Tab – Smoothing settings:
Check in “Smooth wind changes” in the three boxes under that heading, input the following:
5
0
0
Uncheck everything else under the Winds Tab
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Visibility Tab
General Limits and Extensions:
Check in “apply vis limits” add the following numbers in the boxes in this sequence:
6000 4000 2000 1000
Uncheck everything below that and make sure “stop visibility going below” is @ 0
Smoothing Options:
Smooth Visibility
10% every 2 sec
But after weather is cleared, delay smoothing = 0
Smooth onfiltered= UNCHECKED
CHECK “Set Graduated Visibility”
Enter the numbers in the boxes in this sequence:
6000
25000
9000
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CLOUDS TAB
CHECK IN: Add light cirrus layer
EVERYTHING ELSE unchecked and don’t worry about any numbers
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TECHNICAL TAB:
CHECKS IN THESE BOXES ONLY:
Enable V/S Sign
Control Spike Elimination (all three)
Fix Control Acceleration
Additional Facilities area:
Check the first 5 boxes in that list. Extend Battery should be set to 0
CHECK IN: Smooth Pressure Changes
Enter the following in this order:
5
40
Flight (drop down box)
Click OK, close the sim
From this point on FSUIPC will integrate into your weather system and will not allow FS9 to pile on layers of clouds which you cant see anyway. This will show up in the sim when you boot a flight and go to set the weather.... you should notice the setting will usually be "user defined weather" no matter what it was set to in the prior flight. FSUIPC has control of the cloud layers and will optimize what ever weather scenario you choose
Install FLIGHT ENVIRONMENT
I only use it for clouds and sometimes the sky... water tends to be too colorful for my taste
When it comes to Flight Environment, IF all you want is the clouds and the extended contrails without the other extras, after you install the program browse to:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Flight One Software\Flight Environment\Data
Inside the data folder RENAME the following folders:
SKY – SUN – WATER
to
XXSKY – XXSUN – XXWATER
That will prevent the program from installing anything but clouds.
Run Flight Environment, select the following Cloud Set:
Solid Cumulus = Majestic
Stratus = Strong Opposition
Wispy Edges = Scene One
Cirrus = First Choice
On the main screen place a check in the following:
Create Lower Resolution Clouds
Create DXT3 Clouds
Extended Contrails
Save and Install
When you boot a flight in the sim NEVER set weather before you start the flight. ALWAYS boot the entire flight first, THEN once the flight has loaded, click ALT - WORLD – WEATHER and set your weather scheme. You will notice your weather screen will always have a bullet in “user defined weather” That’s normal… its just FSUIPC settings I gave you overriding the crap Microsoft setting… you can select any manual weather pattern or Real World Weather and FSUIPC will override the cloud layer bug without erasing your desired weather.
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Now I just recently got around to purchasing FSUIPC & Flight Environment , well FSUIPC I didn't purchase , my friend gave it me free and it's version 3.75 for FS9 so it's not the latest , anyway I set all the correct settings NickN said to set above for the FSUIPC program & Flight Environment.
I have just one small question though for you Pete, when I go into ALT - WORLD - WEATHER ,there's always a BULLET in User Defined Weather which is correct I know , though I can't select any of the Default weather shemes like Fair Weather , Fogged Out ,Winter Wonderland etc without taking the BULLET out of User Defined Weather , & when I do select a Default weather scheme it doesn't show up , example I set "Fogged Out" & it just selects the pre-loaded clear skies still.
But that's not the question , I'm glad about that as I always set my weather manually anyway via the User Defined Weather option ,my question is with there always being a BULLET in User Defined Weather and the visibility set to 40 miles by the FSUIPC settings , can I still just set my weather manually like I used to before I set the FSUIPC settings ,example I want 5 miles visability , 4000 ft to 8000 ft stratus ,then 8000 ft to 16000 ft columus ,with light rain as perticipation , and FSUIPC will still have control over the weather & cloud layers so I don't get stutters?
That's basically it.
Thank You