fs weather

[shinji Ikari]

Please can someone help. I have just installed fs2004 after using 2002 for years. Whenever I try to download real weather the program stops working and does not respond. Anyone know what's wrong?

[EHM-0361 Karsten]

I can't tell you what's wrong, but I can tell you it's nothing on your computer. I have just checked and I get to about 25% and then it stops, and it very slow. So it might be a server problem or a problem with the data. The only thing you can do is to wait and hope it works better in a couple of hours.

[EHM-1077 Emanuele]

I've had the same problem in the past few days.
I also suspect a server problem. Don't quite know
where to look to confirm this though. The data
comes from Jeppesen, isn't it?

I hope in a few days it's gonna go away.

I found a nice weather setting: "building storms".
Very nice visually, not too difficult technically.

Ciao ciao!

Manu

[shinji Ikari]

Thanks for the replies folks. It is reassuring to know that the problem lies with something other than my computer. Have a nice Yule

[EHM-0654 Murray]

Shinji

If you value your weather in FS, can I humbly suggest purchasing one of the add-on weather engines for FS?

I used to use FS-Meteo; not terribly expensive and current enough for most purposes, but I have now gone over to ActiveSky 5 Enhanced; more expensive, but they run their own network of METAR data servers (so when IVAO's METAR servers go down, I still have real-world weather) and the new cloud textures it gives are truely spectacular (have a couple of non-EHM screenshots taken during the IVAO VFR WT that demonstrate this beautifully)