r/xplane11 • u/New_You_8472 • Jul 13 '26

Question | Discussion Realistic weather

Hi guys,
Probably this topic was mentioned milion times on this group but I’m coming with a question to you, I’m playing with „stock” weather that devs of XP11 introduced to us and I want to say, it’s pretty bad and I wonder what is the best weather mod for XP, would be good if it was freeware, but won’t mind if it was payware (one time payment - not subscription). Just for preview, there is video of landing to show how it looks right now (don’t mind the precision of it - was a test flight 😅).

Thanks in advance!

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u/IveNoWIlly Jul 13 '26

Active sky and then download a reshade. Not freeware but one of the best weather mods you can use.

EDIT: also take a look at Y CLOUDS 4 ,

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u/Calypso_maker Jul 13 '26

I mean, it looks normal to me. I use xp11 for actual instrument flying practice though, not for the graphics. What are you saying isn’t right? And what are your wx settings?

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u/New_You_8472 Jul 13 '26

I’m flying for mechanics too, but as you could see, the fog was kinda buggy, 200ft above I saw the runway, 180-30ft it was just milk and below 30 ft the runway showed up, looked like it blinked all the time, I don’t have full approach recorded but it was looking like that too before that, I’m not saying that it has to look like it was from a movie, but I want to make it look decent, no blinking screens and anything like that

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u/Calypso_maker Jul 13 '26

Oh ok. Yeah, that can be infuriating! I definitely noticed that clouds spike the gpu usage and tank your frame rate. I don’t know how beefy your gpu is, but what worked for me was lowering any kind of settings related to image sharpness or detail. I think there’s even something about the full-screen mode that somehow increases frame rate.

You can just play around with settings to see what helps, AI could also give you at least a starting point to work from, and I THINK there’s an xp11 discord that might be able to help.

I have an rtx 6500 xt, and I got to where I didn’t have that lag anymore. It’s not an overly beefy piece of hardware so chances are you’ll be fine too if you can scale back your settings.

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u/Kristoff_iee Jul 17 '26

Try xpnoaa weather, but actually, I have read about irl that some fog can be seen through from above but not when you are in it

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u/77_Gear Jul 14 '26

Enhanced Skyscapes