REX Essential PLUS and REX Essential PLUS w/OverDrive SP1 Now Available

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Friday, April 19, 2013

 

REX Game Studios is proud to announce the release of Service Pack 1 for the REX Essential PLUS product line. This latest update release includes many improvements, fixes and additions listed below:

 

Improved - Winds aloft data, especially southern hemisphere.

Improved - Weather station accuracy in WXPLUS mode.

Improved - Archived weather from REX EDGE servers.

Improved - Severe wind shifts during transitions with WXPLUS mode.

Improved - Added code to read Flight Mode or Dialog mode status of FSX/P3D before injecting weather in both Standard and WXPLUS weather modes.

Improved - Better handling of visibility below 1 SM.

Improved - Sped up weather process assembling in WXPLUS mode.

Improved - Adjustments to back-end database servers for better handling of archive weather processing.

Improved - “Download Center” button to menu bar and removed from the Textures area.

Improved - Process of transitioning cloud and visibility smoothing in WXPLUS mode.

Improved - Flight plans are now saved in the users FLIGHT SIM X Document folder.

Improved - Download time of weather from data servers.

Improved - Now receiving 100+ knots winds in the mid to upper levels of the atmosphere.

 

Fixed - Un-selecting the visibility smoothing does not uncheck the wind smoothing feature.

Fixed - Prepar3D header banner not showing if user has P3D activated.

Fixed - Accurate pressure readings.

Fixed - 24-hour METAR data for current weather.

Fixed - White screen on WASys in regards to computer regional settings.

Fixed - Disposed timer setting at close of Weather Engine.

Fixed - Archive weather settings and required date to be selected before saving.

Fixed - Database server structure for correct archive weather data.

Fixed - checkLocation error message from error logs.

Fixed - Disable option button if internet is not detected on user’s machine.

Fixed - Random weather mode now works when no internet connection is detected.

Fixed - Javascripting errors on WASYS tool. Dependent on the IE version installed.

 

Added - Various adjustments to the Micro and Synoptic weather station load features for more accurate visibility handling.

Added - New wind smoothing algorithm to handle wind direction smoothing during loading.

Added - FAOR, FALE, VTBS to database.

 

Expanded - Weather area of WXPLUS weather theme mode.

Removed - Green bar showing injection during WXPLUS mode loading.

Changed - “Create a Flight Plan” button to “Import or Create a Flight Plan”.

Moved - "Import Flight Plan" button within the Flight Center area.

 

The REX Essential PLUS line of products offers the most advanced, multi award-winning environment package on the market today. SP1 is available free of charge to all existing REX Essential PLUS and REX Essential PLUS OverDrive customers. Visit the REX product support forum for details and download. http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.com/forums

[britfrog 180]

just downloaded this and had a short flight with it

It seems to be a huge improvement, they are finally going in the right direction.

the only negative thing so far is the weather refresh rate which refreshes every 5 minutes no matter what you set it to in the config panel, still one can delete the green bar from appearing and the doesnt apper to be the pause when refreshing as before.

[Christopher Low 63]

When you say that this is a "huge improvement", are you just talking about the real world weather mode? Most of the fixes and improvements in the above list seem to be associated with that.

[britfrog 180]

yes the real world mode which is what i use all the time the only negative is that i get the weather refreshing anything from every 2-3 minutes to every 10 minutes despite setting it at every 30!!

[rob16584 42]

At least it was fairly simple to find th update file I needed for the version I have this time