REX ESSENTIAL **OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT**

[ZKIWI]

QUOTE (toprob @ Jun 9 2012,4:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Finally figured out how to access the Essential support forum, and spent some time reading through it this morning, so most of my issues have been solved. Whether or not it's 'real' weather around the South Island, I've had a couple of great flights today, and everything behaved really well.

Another wee bout of no NZ weather stations today, but it only lasted a short time.

I solved the annoying click problem by removing the 'start navigation' sound, which I don't think I'll miss. I had figured out how to restrict this click to when I'm flying only, but even then it annoyed me, so I was happy to get rid of it completely. I was leaving REX running so it would be quicker to restart FSX, which works fine except that I was leaving the WX running after a flight -- closing that down switched back to the Rex interface, which doesn't click all the time.

Thanks for that. It was driving me crazy and i had searched hi and lo thru the Rex folder trying to find it. Never thought of looking in the windows sound setup.

It never seemed to bother me when running on my FSX machine but once i started running REX on a client machine it became a pain in the butt. Especially when i was using that machine for Vatsim flying and had headphones on, the incesant clicking was unbearable.

[ardypilot]

Hmmm, downloaded the big update overnight, got it installed, it loads with startup like the old REX did with FSX, but I get this big white layer without any close clouds visible below 5000ft.

As you can see in the pic, you can see the bottom of the cloud layer just below the white layer on the horizon. Above 5k, it's all fine and pretty. What am I doing wrong?



EDIT: Read the manual and unticked "enable realistic haze layer" in the configuration manager to get rid of this

[Ian Warren]

You get weather so good in the real world , Andy , least you don't get square blocks floating past the FS5/6/98 would have made you look for other job options .. and again myself still have not d/loaded it yet .. Jeeez Ian .. what are ya doing

[Naki]

My framerates jump and down like crazy which makes FSX unusable with REX running. ...turned REX off and it returns back to normal FPS...also taking long time to load, although when I first installed loaded it was quite quick to load but this has deterioated.

[AndrewJamez]

Bizzar, I'm sure that REXe is actualy performing better than REX2 on my machine.

[toprob]

QUOTE (Naki @ Jun 11 2012,8:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

My framerates jump and down like crazy which makes FSX unusable with REX running. ...turned REX off and it returns back to normal FPS...also taking long time to load, although when I first installed loaded it was quite quick to load but this has deterioated.

Hard to rate the performance on my machine, as cloud cover has always been a hard hitter, and REX does tend to load more of it. I can choose to have good performance or weather, but never both. However I did need to tweak REX a lot when I first installed it, my very first flight gave very strange results, just because my system was overloaded.

Essentials does seem to have its share of issues, from the look of it. I had enough problems with REX2 to get to the stage that I no longer used it, which is why I was looking forward to this upgrade.

On their forum they talk about the increasing load times -- to fix this you should enable the data purge, apparently. This works for me.

[Adamski]

QUOTE (Naki @ Jun 11 2012,8:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

My framerates jump and down like crazy which makes FSX unusable with REX running. ...turned REX off and it returns back to normal FPS...also taking long time to load, although when I first installed loaded it was quite quick to load but this has deterioated.

What size textures are you using - 1024, 2048 or 4096? Have you edited your fsx.cfg to suit?

I used to run old REX at 4096 cloud textures, but dropped back to 2048 on REXE.

[Naki]

Hmm yes using only 512 textures I think..was using 2048/1024. I will need to do some more tweaking I think including the FSX cfg tweak which I haven't done and also have a look at what Robin suggests - I will have to wait until later in week (kids sports have taken over my life!)

[dbcunnz]

QUOTE (Adamski @ Jun 11 2012,1:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What size textures are you using - 1024, 2048 or 4096? Have you edited your fsx.cfg to suit?

I used to run old REX at 4096 cloud textures, but dropped back to 2048 on REXE.

Have you tried Microsoft Flight Simulator X - Texture Max Load Editor
It loads up when you open FSX and gives you the option of what size textures you want to use without going into the FSX.cfg file to change it
The download is available by doing a search for "Texture Max Load Editor" on flightsim.com

[Naki]

Great thanks wil give this a go

[Adamski]

QUOTE (Naki @ Jun 11 2012,4:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Great thanks wil give this a go

If you're using this little app, don't forget you'll have to load FSX first, then REXE, then hit the "Fly now" link.

If you launch FSX from REXE, it'll by-pass that app. Same dort of deal if you use "Shade" - which is redundant with the improved colourings of REXE (IMHO).

[Kelvinr]

QUOTE (Adamski @ Jun 11 2012,4:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

If you're using this little app, don't forget you'll have to load FSX first, then REXE, then hit the "Fly now" link.

If you launch FSX from REXE, it'll by-pass that app. Same dort of deal if you use "Shade" - which is redundant with the improved colourings of REXE (IMHO).

Lockheed has fixed this bug in the ESP code.

[ardypilot]

Ok- another question now I've solved my haze problem (just needed to RTFM).

When I installed REX Essential, I did it straight over the top of REX2 and thought it was working fine. This was untill I read through the manual yesterday and saw a screenshot of the new 'REXWX' WAsy weather engine that is meant to be running in the background with FSX.

I was had been doing all my configuring through the new essential 'REX.exe' front end and thought it was running correctly, however, it was still booting up the old REX2 ''WASys' weather engine.

Once I realised that, I uninstalled REX2 and REX Essential, then reinstalled REX Essential after a system restart. I was able to reload my settings I'd saved through the REX.exe frontend for REX Essential, however now even though I have 'enable autostart with FSX' checked, it does not autostart. Even if I run REX.exe manually before/after starting FSX, the weather engine does not pop up, nor does it connect with FSX and load weather for me. Also in the 'exe.xml' file inside the Roaming Data > Microsoft > FSX, there is no link to any weather engine .exe file, but still this segment:

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<Launch.Addon> <Name>Real Environment Xtreme - Weather Engine 2</Name> <Path>C:\Program Files (x86)\Real Environment Xtreme 2.0\rexwxengine2.exe</Path> <Disabled>False</Disabled> <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad> </Launch.Addon>

All I want to be able to do is have real world weather put straight into FSX with the lovely new REX graphics like I used to with REX2. Could anyone help me out here?

[Kelvinr]

QUOTE (Trolly @ Jun 19 2012,8:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ok- another question now I've solved my haze problem (just needed to RTFM).

When I installed REX Essential, I did it straight over the top of REX2 and thought it was working fine. This was untill I read through the manual yesterday and saw a screenshot of the new 'REXWX' WAsy weather engine that is meant to be running in the background with FSX.

I was had been doing all my configuring through the new essential 'REX.exe' front end and thought it was running correctly, however, it was still booting up the old REX2 ''WASys' weather engine.

Once I realised that, I uninstalled REX2 and REX Essential, then reinstalled REX Essential after a system restart. I was able to reload my settings I'd saved through the REX.exe frontend for REX Essential, however now even though I have 'enable autostart with FSX' checked, it does not autostart. Even if I run REX.exe manually before/after starting FSX, the weather engine does not pop up, nor does it connect with FSX and load weather for me. Also in the 'exe.xml' file inside the Roaming Data > Microsoft > FSX, there is no link to any weather engine .exe file, but still this segment:

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<Launch.Addon> <Name>Real Environment Xtreme - Weather Engine 2</Name> <Path>C:\Program Files (x86)\Real Environment Xtreme 2.0\rexwxengine2.exe</Path> <Disabled>False</Disabled> <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad> </Launch.Addon>

All I want to be able to do is have real world weather put straight into FSX with the lovely new REX graphics like I used to with REX2. Could anyone help me out here?

Hi Trolly,

REX 3 weather works much differently than its counterpart REX 2 in that the weather engine is no longer a separate component. It is all in one now. You will need to remove that exe.dll entry as it no longer has any relevance with REX 3. I would initially try reinstalling REX 3 in a different directory, i.e c:\Rex Essentials making sure it is a different directory than the one you have now, this way it can recreate all the directories it needs. You might also need to make sure the old REX 2 directory has actually been removed upon uninstallation. Strange one, let me know how you go.

[ardypilot]

QUOTE (Kelvinr @ Jun 19 2012,8:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi Trolly,

REX 3 weather works much differently than its counterpart REX 2 in that the weather engine is no longer a separate component. It is all in one now. You will need to remove that exe.dll entry as it no longer has any relevance with REX 3. I would initially try reinstalling REX 3 in a different directory, i.e c:\Rex Essentials making sure it is a different directory than the one you have now, this way it can recreate all the directories it needs. You might also need to make sure the old REX 2 directory has actually been removed upon uninstallation. Strange one, let me know how you go.

Thanks Kelvin.

I've managed to get the REX WX Engine up by going to Weather > Use Real World Data > then enter NZAA and click FLY NOW. However, this is only giving me blotchy stratus clouds around the place and I have to alt tab to the REX WX Engine, right click and select Load Weather for it to inject into the sim. This doesn't sound right?

As for the exe.dll, I've removed the section as you've suggested by it's making no difference at the moment. Could you perhaps copy and paste the appropriate segment from your .dll file so I can copy it and adjust the directory on my PC?

Thanks for the quick response by the way!

[Adamski]

QUOTE (Trolly @ Jun 19 2012,8:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I've managed to get the REX WX Engine up by going to Weather > Use Real World Data > then enter NZAA and click FLY NOW. However, this is only giving me blotchy stratus clouds around the place and I have to alt tab to the REX WX Engine, right click and select Load Weather for it to inject into the sim. This doesn't sound right?

The lack of a separate taskbar/app also threw me at first - so join the club

As to this injection thing. I think that's a bug (IMHO) - as even though I have the initial load/inject setting set to 1 minute, it sits there happily doing nothing (with FSX displaying some old weather) until I do what you describe - right mouse-click and force a manual update/injection.

My REXE is set to re-load every 15 minutes (and/or small area) so I suppose it would finally kick in after 15 minutes if I just left it there, but I'm too impatient for that.

To be honest, I get the impression there are loads of issues like that (looking at the forum) ... but there does appear a very genuine attempt to listen and fix things. Even with the GUI bugs - the clouds, lighting and haze are simply *awesome*. So many of us got this as a free upgrade that I sincerely hope there are enough new users or converts for them to recoup their development costs.

[ardypilot]

QUOTE (Adamski @ Jun 20 2012,12:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

As to this injection thing. I think that's a bug (IMHO) - as even though I have the initial load/inject setting set to 1 minute, it sits there happily doing nothing (with FSX displaying some old weather) until I do what you describe - right mouse-click and force a manual update/injection.

My REXE is set to re-load every 15 minutes (and/or small area) so I suppose it would finally kick in after 15 minutes if I just left it there, but I'm too impatient for that.

To be honest, I get the impression there are loads of issues like that (looking at the forum) ... but there does appear a very genuine attempt to listen and fix things. Even with the GUI bugs - the clouds, lighting and haze are simply *awesome*. So many of us got this as a free upgrade that I sincerely hope there are enough new users or converts for them to recoup their development costs.

Rightho, so what steps do you usually go through to get the REX Essential weather engine to pop up Adam? Do you have to run REX yourself, or does it open when you click the FSX icon? Then once REX is running, does it open the weather engine automatically or do you have to open it from a menu?

I submitted a question on the official REX forum, word for word as per my original post here in this thread, and the response I got was "Because of the new structure of REX Essential there is not a way to use it as the REX 2 weather engine was used, utilizing the exe.xml file." And then they labled the thread as 'ANSWERED'... I don't think so

[creator2003]

I just use the product :Active sky with REX or FEX which is the best weather engine and works combo with any cloud set and load times very quick ..

[toprob]

I just run REX when I plan to fly, and let it do its thing, then I click 'Fly' within REX. That loads FSX, and switches REX to the weather engine. But I have noticed Adam's issue, where I have to tell the engine to load the weather if I don't want to wait.
After a bit of tweaking (and reading the manual/forum) I'm pretty happy with the new way of doing things, and it does give consistently good results now.

[ardypilot]

Cheers for that Robin- it actually doesn't sound too hard to get used to.

Something must be wrong with my installation then, as when I load FSX through the GUI after loading Auckland's real world weather, I get clear skies and no wind change, even after waiting forcing the load, then leaving the sim running for 30 minutes...?