Which Addon Is Better Active Sky X or Real Enviroment X

Hi I have just read about Active Sky X and was wondering which one be the better between Real Enviroment X ie, for frame rates and overall results, Just that FSX takes a while to load now, and I have a few addons installed including Real Enviroment X, If anyone can help, its would be most helpful..

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Warren

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Permalink Reply by Tom Riley on February 8, 2010 at 3:41pm: Hi Warren....i had Active sky and Xgraphics before REX came along...although both were good at the time REX does such a better job (with no FPS hit) ...and for the price...well you can not beat it. With regards to FPS it does depend on what settings you have FSX on. I average 45-60FPS and that is everything set to high but i do have many tweaks in place to get it there. Regular defragging helps with the loading times..i set the defragger to make FSX priority so loading times become quicker. Some of the tweaks i have used can be found at http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=29041. Hope that kinda helps.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ian Wilson on February 11, 2010 at 10:45am: Hi Warren...... Long time no speaks.... Too long..... Just haven't had alot of time to get on here..... Hope you're well.....

About Active Sky and Real Environment. I can't speak for Real Environment, but I do have Active Sky X. As a package it's really comprehensive and initially it will seem a bit daunting, but I didn't let that put me off, Because to get the benefits from it, you don't actually have to use every nook and cranny of it. I just load it up before loading FSX; it then downloads the real weather information from all the Metar Stations it can contact; once it's done that, just ask it to load it's data to FSX and then ask it to start FSX and you're away. From a stand point of realism, it really does improve the weather big big time. Clouds are much more substantial and fluffier and wispier and loadz more of them.... It really looks much more like the weather outside. It also has extreme capabilties of hurricanes, but I must stress I haven't tried my capabilities on this level yet! There's also heaps better turbulance and wind shear - really makes your plane vibrate and shake. Frame rates are actually better than default!! So. that's my view of it. I think it's money well spent. The downside, which I don't think was to do with Active X, is Vista didn't like it :-(. But I think I solved that now too - see my comment/discussion in Tips and Tweaks.... Hope this is of help, Warren. Speak soon

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Permalink Reply by Tim Krahmer on February 12, 2010 at 11:59pm: I've had really good luck with ActiveSky and X-Graphics. The Real-World weather is vastly inproved over the default, and if you use the smaller cloud textures, your FPS don't take such a hit, but still look fabulous.

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Permalink Reply by Warren on February 13, 2010 at 7:28am: Hi thanks for the replies, its was almost the ultimate question time as to what is the best settings for gfx in fsx but ill refrain from that for now, who know's and depends on what setup,. What I have found is The Real Enviroment X is a very handy piece of kit as it has so many setting you can alter and again it can be a FPS killer if your not careful so if you have a mid- low range pc just play around with it, Real Enviroment X can be a little daunting at first with all the settings and you can stilll play around with the setting's in FSX just to confuse you a bit more but, I am slowing getting to a Balance of ying and yang within the settings so hope fully ill post some before and after shots....

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Permalink Reply by Nye Jones on February 14, 2010 at 3:26am: I was woundering about the real enviromrnt addons my self great question and anwsers want to know more my self _()_; ▶ Reply to This