At the very least the overcast layer could gradually fade away or appear slowly like the other clouds generated by Skymaxx. The only way, it seems, to remedy this is to pay another $20 for the Real Weather Connector (RWC), and I don't see the point to this unless you have a supercomputer and are able to max out the cloud draw distance to be able to see the independent weather systems generated by RWC. One minute it there would be an overcast layer beneath me, the next there would be nothing. The manner in which the overcast layer would appear and disappear in a instant while flying along switching from METAR to METAR, really took away from the whole experience. While it did extend much farther than the cumulus clouds, there were times where where I could make out sharp corners to the layer, which did not have me convinced that it extended to the horizon at all. In reality it consisted of a thin layer of texture at whatever altitude the nearest METAR reported overcast. The overcast layer boasted about on the website was way too good to be true. The result of having a cloud coverage of 5000 km 2 above 20,000 ft, is a well defined box of clouds below the aircraft, not very convincing at all. However, setting the cloud coverage area to anything past a 5000km 2, which is not convincing at all above 15,000ft, resulted in a choppy experience of <30 fps. My computer is no slouch with an i5-4690k, 16 GB of ram, and a GTX 970, way more that the recommended specs. The better frame-rate did not happen, in fact, it got slightly worse. That is what I spent 40 no-refundable dollars on, but unfortunately, I do not feel like that is not what I got. I was excited to finally have convincing overcast layers, wonderful cirrus clouds, and a better high altitude experience, all with higher frame rates as advertised on the x-aviation website.
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