MSFS 2020 VS Active Sky FS VS Xenviro*What Weather app has the BEST Performance & Cloud Depiction?
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- Testing Active sky FS & Xenviro against the in sim Microsoft Flight Sim Default Live Weather to find out which app give the Best performance and has the best interpretation of the weather . We will be testing 6 diff. ICAO's with varying weather to get a good base line on the performance meter in msfs. I also come across some incorrect weather depiction in some of the weather apps as well which i use navigraph to show the weather and cloud cover in the area so you can see for yourself what we should or shouldn't see in the sim. I also go over the developers websites and go over some of the features of both and the prices of both applications. I am not affiliated with either developer and my goal here is to help you from spending your hard earned cash and to help you choose which one to buy Or not. I was not able to get a shot of each weather engine perform at the same time at each airport due to Xenviro and Active Sky cannot be loaded into the community folder at the same time, In order to do it this way I would have to record ex-enviro and Microsoft flight simulator log out of the simulator Remove Xenviro from my community folder install active sky in the community folder reload into the simulator spawn back into the airport and then record what I see there. The time that it would take to do that is so long that I felt that was not feasible to do it in that manner therefore I chose to do it the way I show here. Please take advantage of the chapter section if you would like to go to a specific airport. If you have any comments or questions please leave them below in the comment section. Thanks everybody for joining us on the channel make sure if you haven't done so hit the Subscribe take the little bell and smash on the thumbs up button. A big shout out thank you to all of our Captain's Club Members for your monthly support and thank you to all of our subscribers and commenters. I asked if you like the video to also share with your friends as it helps get the video to a wider audience.
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*********Chapter Section****************
00:00 start
00:20 todays video
03:10 Xenviro website
04:08 Active Sky website
05:37 My in sim settings
06:09 RJCC active sky Vs msfs
06:58 ZGSZ AcTIVE SKY VS MSFS
08:04 LFGT ACTIVE SKY vs MSFS
09:19 KTAZ Active sky VS Msfs
10:26 KLQK Active sky VS MSFS
11:26 KHCA Active sky VS Msfs Thunderstorm
12:48 RJCC Xenviro VS MSFS
13:55 ZGSZ Xenviro VS Msfs
15:09 LFQT Xenviro VS Msfs
16:07 KTAZ Xenviro VS Msfs
17:01 KLQK Xenviro VS Msfs
18:33 SURB Xenviro VS MSFS
19:21 Credits
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Thank you, this is very helpful! Looks like a decent performance boost with AS over MSFS in most of the scenarios. Honestly as dramatic as MSFS clouds are, I don't think they're realistic in most situations. Love the soundtrack. Kind of like your video is being shown at Disneyland, and they commissioned John Williams to do the score 😁
Thanks for the comment... I tried to pick music that wouldn't be too unbearable to listen to lol
Still think MSFS beats both of those softwares in pure visuals. Thank you for the video. It's really great and informative as always 😊
msfs does have some great visuals thats for sure but if you need extra performance then there is a clear winner here but i want to let you be the judge of that .I was very surprised when i was doing my testing .. your welcome and thanks for the comment
I'm more leaning towards active sky.
Because the trade off of rendition to frames on the avg.
In certain situations the depictions of the same weather is vastly different from active sky to msfs. However the difference between xenviro to msfs isn't that great.
My issue is the rendition of what I think the scenery should look like at any given moment matches more with what active sky is doing. I'll have to go back through and look at avg frames on any given weather depiction between active sky and xenviro. It appears that xenviro has that, but I'll check.
I'll have to say though, all the addon weather Sims are getting closer to each other and that is absolutely amazing for all us simmers.
Such an amazing hobby for me watching the evolution for over 30 years. Many thanks to @2020 fs'ers. The work you do is exceptional.
Thank you very much . I am partial to active sky fs myself but you do see that xenviro in some cases does perform better than msfs but not as often as active sky. But looking back some cases active sky has a better rendition and some cases xenviro does . The consistency is the same across the board and that is there isn't much lol in terms of which one is better at depicting the data. The other thing you will notice is that Xenviro had weather popping issues, and that is common no matter what smoothing level you use, but with Active Sky I don't have that issue. There are pros and cons but I figured best to let the viewer decide .
Thanks for putting this comparison together. Great approach to showing each engine. Currently I have REX 2020 Weather Force. Anyone have any thoughts on how REX compares to the other two?
I also have Rex I decided to not include that into the comparison one because of the time that it would have taken and two I don't feel that it's up to the same caliber as the other two engines. It was better than the default live weather but since Microsoft up their game I think Rex fell behind. Thanks for the comment if you want to know my personal favorite it's active sky.
It would be good to compare it to reality. I know that’s difficult, but I want one that’s more true to actual conditions. Any opinions on that?
Yes I was trying to do that but I didn't want to compare exact placement of the clouds because that it cannot do. That's why I showed the radar and cloud cover on some of them so you can see which one is depicting the weather correctly.
I like some of Active Sky's representations. Like in MSFS I have never seen lightning, I've only seen the clouds light up. I know it does happen, people have told me. But I have never seen it. I also like during some storms the clouds have a defined bottom in Active Sky, versus MSFS they are always puffy bottoms. I live near the Great Lakes and the weather patterns here often have defined cloud bottoms, and MSFS just never looks like it is here. I'm not sure about the accuracty though. Others have shown MSFS usually is more accurate. And Active Sky doen't have any clouds above a certain height. They need to fix that, because obviously airliners can get to greater heights.
I saw the same thing with the clouds and having bottoms to them . Thanks for the comment
I remember seeing lightning in MSFS when I first bought it, but they seemed to take it out in later updates.
strange these fps differences, no matter what weather I use or live weather I have not even FPS differences?
It all depends on how you have your latency balance between your CPU and your GPU load if you followed my guide on balancing your system and you have both CPU and GPU about even once you add weather in it's going to increase your GPU and that's what you want. So if your GPU load is higher than your CPU load then it will impact your FPS but if your GPU load is lower than your CPU load then it won't impact your FPS as much if at all.
That's why I wanted to post all of my settings before I did the comparison so you see all of my settings that I'm using
why when i activate ACTIVE SKY, MFS2020 weather turn off itself ?
when you run active sky and using active sky depiction mode and not passive mode yes it will override msfs weather . i set the in sim to clear sky so i know when i see weather pop in that its working. when you switch to passive it then switches to msfs live weather(even if you have clear skys set in the sim) but uses active sky winds and turbulence .
@@2020fsers so what would you recommend me or suggested leave it off or turn it on on mfs2020 when ACTIVE SKY IS ON ?
I keep mine on clear sky's
Stopped watching as soon as you said you weren't going to test turbulence. MSFS built-in weather already looks good, but is known for letting you fly through thunderstorms and clouds with absolute impunity. I'm looking for which add-on best simulates the dangerous consequences that were left out of vanilla MSFS.
I can tell you that there is plenty of turbulence with active sky flying through mountains through thunderstorms it will definitely keep you busy on the controls. It is just very hard to try to show turbulence in a video and to replicate that across three different weather applications is almost impossible
Active Sky had a wind/turbulence engine that is fantastic! You can even just use AS for the wind modeling and keep the MSFS weather.