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Post by Dennis the menace on Sept 13, 2020 22:45:39 GMT -5
FSrealWX lite - Just so you don't think its you, or something you might have done, it's not. I have the lite free version on my computer.
FSrealWX stopped working early Saturday morning, 12 September, 2020. I was using it around midnight Arizona time on Friday, the 11th of September, and it was working normally. By Saturday morning it was not working. Late Saturday night, after midnight, it did work. Then this morning, the 13th of September, it was again not working all day. About 7pm my time it did work, and now it is again not working.
Here is what it is doing. When you start the program, it will start on the screen, but only the upper part of the program will display. Usually a beige colored rectangle. At first this had pure black rectangles in it where the "word" parts of the program would normally be, then that just became open rectangles where I could see my desktop and the icons on the desktop. If you double click the shortcut to start the program again, the entire FSrealWX screen will appear, and will appear to download weather. But mostly you will get a string of errors and the stations will "load" extremely fast. In FS, only clear weather will display, no clouds, no anything. If you start Task Manager, it will say that TWO FSrealWX application are running. If you attempt to shut down FSrealWX, the program will exit, but that weird, beige little box will still be on your monitor. The only way to kill that is to use the Task Manager.
As I said, this started for me Saturday morning, and continues. Apparently Tom now also has this issue. I don't see anything about it on their forums.
Personally I think they are trying to change or upgrade how the program downloads and installs weather from stations. It was always slow - station 1, then station 2, then station 3, on and on. Could take 2 minutes to download and install the weather. The two times it has worked - late last night, and this evening - it downloaded stations for a 300 mile range from Chicago in just seconds, and it did actually put weather into FS. But, less than one hour later it was not working again.
So don't think its you, or something you did. Don't get rid of any windows updates or do anything drastic. Like I said, I think they are fooling around with it, and the issue is definitely on their end.
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Post by Pixel Pilot on Sept 14, 2020 6:24:44 GMT -5
This started for me on Friday afternoon. The only thing I had done was to allow Windows Defender to update. So I restored to an earlier time and turned off User Access Control. I got FSRealWX lite to start but just as you describe no weather loads into FS9. I got tired of it and quit trying to figure out a solution after working on it most of Saturday afternoon. Hope there is some solution because I do miss the real weather in FS9.
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Post by wolfgang69 on Sept 14, 2020 9:15:19 GMT -5
Same Problem here. I tried yesterday, and also the weather "loaded" very quickly, but in the sim there was only clear skies and ISA temperature and Altimeter Setting. I hope they fix it soon, otherwise I have to look for another weather program...
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Post by Dennis the menace on Sept 14, 2020 11:57:53 GMT -5
This started for me on Friday afternoon. The only thing I had done was to allow Windows Defender to update. So I restored to an earlier time and turned off User Access Control. I got FSRealWX lite to start but just as you describe no weather loads into FS9. I got tired of it and quit trying to figure out a solution after working on it most of Saturday afternoon. Hope there is some solution because I do miss the real weather in FS9. Hi,
I run windows 7. I also had a large Windows Defender update late last week - Thursday I believe. However on Friday I was using FSrealWX lite and it was working at least up until midnight when I went to bed. I did not roll back my update, and I saw FSrealWX lite working once on Saturday night very, very late, and at dinner time on Sunday. It was working normally AND it was loading very quickly. But I saw it install clouds, winds and temps at Chicago. Then, one hour later, it was back to not working and just putting clear weather into the sim. No mention of anything about this on their forum.
It can't have been the windows Defender update that is the issue, because you turned yours back, and it still didn't work, and I left my update in place and it didn't work except for those two times.
I just now tried it, it is still not working. Based upon how this program has been acting up/not connecting/failing to keep connected/etc. over the last six months, I will have to rate this product as unreliable.
Does their payware version work this horribly? If so, they will soon be out of business. Also, the business associate who works for them and addresses issues in the forum is often rude and very snappy with people. If there is one way to drive away business quickly and reliably, its to be rude and snappy with people, and to not have a very good product.
Mike
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2020 12:50:31 GMT -5
Same Problem here. I tried yesterday, and also the weather "loaded" very quickly, but in the sim there was only clear skies and ISA temperature and Altimeter Setting. I hope they fix it soon, otherwise I have to look for another weather program... fsmeteo.com/mphilibe/meteo/eng/default.htmIt's payware, and I use it. Bernard
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Post by Jorge on Sept 14, 2020 12:53:13 GMT -5
Not sure if you folks have seen this, but it may be worth a try if the FSRealWSLite folks have gone sideways:
Get Weather V4.0
It looks promising at first glance. I'm not at my rig for the moment, but if anyone wants to try this please let us know if it works. I'll try and install and see how it works on my end when I can.
The only thing that may cause it not to work is the whole Jeppesen thing since I think that's what was used in the default setup by FS9 to begin with, but I may be wrong on that. Anyone that knows more about Jeps and simming please chime in. Since the program is from 2006 it may well have the same issues as the built-in stuff.
Regards,
Jorge Miami, FL
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Post by phlyer on Sept 14, 2020 13:36:10 GMT -5
Like I posted in a previous post yesterday, I was able to run FSrealWX Lite with no problems and was surprised at the accuracy of how the weather was depicted. However, for my game computer, I'm using an old XP system so that might have something to do with it running reliably for me at least. Hopefully, no bugs will show up as I continue to use FSrealWx. It does take quite a bit of time to download the weather data so I limit the search radius to 100 miles or less unless I'm in a sparse region such as Goose Bay, etc where wx reporting stations are few and far between.
Phil
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Post by Jorge on Sept 14, 2020 15:11:20 GMT -5
Well, it was like pulling teeth but I managed to find this: FSRealWX Lite HelpI ran both the program and FS9 for about half hour with the C172 and it seemed to work okay. I had the same issue at first that you guys did, but was able to get it to cooperate with the instructions on the screen.
When I first started it I was getting the same "blank" stuff you guys were. I tracked it down to FS9 and the settings I had just changed to "None." Unfortunately FS9 kept setting the change rate to "Extreme" in the sim by itself for some reason. I finally figured out what was wrong. You have to change the dynamic stuff in the "Options" of FSRealWX Lite as well, otherwise it will over-ride what you do in FS9. 1. Go to the "FSRealWX" tab on the top left when you start the program. 2. Select "Options" in the drop-down. 3. Click on the "Weather" tab. 4. Look at the "Dynamic Weather:" on the left panel under the "General" heading. It should be set to "0" which is the equivalent of "None" in the sim. Otherwise the sim setting of "None" will be over-ridden. I'll try and run this unattended for a while and see what happens, but this seems to work during the short, half hour test using the default C172. I'll load up Manfred's DC-3/C-47 with the Norman Hancock panel and run that one unattended x-country later today and see what happens. Let us know if you can reproduce this. Jorge Miami, FL
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Post by Pixel Pilot on Sept 14, 2020 16:19:05 GMT -5
A couple of hours after my post this morning I did a little testing. I turned UAC on again, this requires a Windows restart. I downloaded the Windows Defender update. I then started FSRealWX lite to see if it would even run or get hung up. It started ok and allowed me to make two changes to the settings. The first was to change the server to go to from NOAA to Vatsim. The second was to a setting on the DWC and interface control tab. I changed the value in the pause at stations send field to 50 from 25. I have been playing around with this in order to get the load time down from 5 minutes or more to something resonable. This number defaults to 250. I then started FS9 and loaded the Skyhawk at Kstl. I then started FSRealWX lite which started normally downloaded the weather and loaded just the wind into FS9. I got the rest of the weather to load by clicking on the Set WX ICAO box. I then went to Kpbi waited a bit and after clicking the Set WX ICAO box it loaded the correct weather. What I mean by correct weather is the wind direction and speed, temperature, pressure, and clouds. So this afternoon I decided to go on a flight and flew the DC-8-20 from KBHM to KPIT. It mostly went ok. It loaded just the wind at KBHM until I pressed the Set WX ICAO box. After departure the weather reset back to default as I left the Birmingham area. I thought oh well there goes that. But without me doing anything fifty miles or so farther on the real weather was inserted into the sim and continued to update itself all the way until I landed at KPIT. So what does all this mean. Right now it's mostly working but I don't really know why. It could have been some issue with the weather data that came from NOAA. Also I have not had FSRealWX lite hang when I started it since Saturday. Starts and runs normally. I'm going to keep using it and try to isolate any problems. Thanks for everyone's comments.
Ed
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Sept 14, 2020 18:06:53 GMT -5
Yes, it seems to be working again.
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Post by Dennis the menace on Sept 14, 2020 18:42:00 GMT -5
It started working for me about 3PM Arizona time. I'll hold my breath!
Over a year ago using either the Vatsim or NOAA resulted in the same number of station downloads. Basically one station produced one weather download for that particular station. Then, almost a year ago, NOAA changed. Since then it would download and send weather to FS, but it would have multiple entries for each airport. So, if using the Vatsim option, I would download 60 stations or so from Monroe, Louisiana. I have a 300 mile radius set. However, as soon as I clicked on the NOAA option, it would download sometimes 10 or more "files" for each airport. You'd see KDAL load like 15 times, then Shreveport load perhaps 10 times, and the total station number in the tab would be like 400, or 500, or more! Go back to using Vatsim, and you're down to 60 to 80 stations.....or something resembling that.
So I took this time over the last few days to do some FS "housekeeping" and tidying things up, things I had been putting off for some time now.
I wonder what the problem was over at FSrealWS? A server problem? Hacked? Who knows....
Mike
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Post by Dennis the menace on Oct 24, 2020 20:53:37 GMT -5
It stopped working today at 11 am Mountain time. Anybody have it currently working?
Same exact problems as before, quickly loading, then producing only clear weather. Have to start the program twice using Task Manager to kill the first program that never fully loaded.
Any problems for anybody?
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Post by Defender on Oct 25, 2020 4:58:56 GMT -5
Here in the UK last night and this morning, it downloads the Metar instantly, confirms a FSUIPC link but refuses to upload to FS. Well actually it's loading the correct wind direction, but not wind speed nor anything else.
Bill
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Post by johnhinson on Oct 25, 2020 9:45:44 GMT -5
Not sure if you folks have seen this, but it may be worth a try if the FSRealWSLite folks have gone sideways: Get Weather V4.0It looks promising at first glance. I'm not at my rig for the moment, but if anyone wants to try this please let us know if it works. I'll try and install and see how it works on my end when I can. I would take care with that. My security programme has that site listed as a dodgy one, including dubious things built into downloads. Maybe that's why we haven't heard of it - when I was looking for another utility I was taken to another previously unknown piece of software and again it was marked up as dangerous. I think maybe inventing new "non-software" is the latest way of distributing worms.
. . . or it could just be a false alarm.
On the subject of alternatives, I use FS Global - you do have to pay for it but it is steady and reliable and is also neat and quiet without thousands of unwanted complicated settings. John
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Post by abbotsford on Oct 25, 2020 11:14:51 GMT -5
No warnings here re security. Using Defender and BitDefender. My concern is, nothing seems to be dated so is this very old and development ceased? there is no mention e.g. of FSXSE amidst the claim of supporting all versions of MS. How long has SE been around?
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