Fsxwx Not Working
Quinton Hebenstreit
I have been using FSXWX as my weather engine, and it worked lovely. Yesterday when I start it, it connects to FSX, but won't show anything after that-nothing is downloaded. I went to the FSXWX website -pics.de/fsxwx/home.htm, the website won't display. Is anyone also experiencing this?
Are you able to access the fsxwx site www.plane-pics.de/fsxwx/home.htm? I think the server is down which explains why I'm not able to access the website or download the wx data, but doesn't explain how you have no issues!
This development makes me very very sad. I downloaded and installed FSrealWX lite and tried it but no joy. I guess it's not supported anymore. I really don't have the money to buy a weather engine right now and with FSX's Real World Weather long broken (I can't understand why Dovetail hasn't come up with a solution for that) I'm really bummed out.
"FSrealWX lite" is not supported anymore but the current "FSrealWX v2 2.04.0854" also works as unregistered freeware. It's not as good as FSXWX - it doesn't have direct wind control if you dont buy the license and winds aloft do not match as good to winds from SimBrief's flight plans as those from FSXWX. You must first register to download.
Did you run FSrealWX as administrator (right mouse button and "Run as administrator")? I think it didn't work otherwise, or was it some other program, i'm not sure, haven't been using it for a while..
I have a problem with FSXWX, or I think it is the problem. I am running Windows 8 and FSX acceleration. recently FSX stops working and goes mack to the "free flight" page. this is usually after about an hour or so. I am also running Worldwide Virtual Acars at the same time and PMDG aircraft. this started after using updating to the new version of FSXWX 1.6.3 which was mandatory as the earlier versions wont work with their new server "apparently". the version 1.6.3 worked for a while but now these issues. I have the latest .next, FSUIPC (free version)
I tried the following. Ran without Acars but with FSXWX and PMDG and it crashed. Ran it with just Acars and PMDG and all was OK. I tried this with PMDG 744, 777, and 738 and had all the same issues. I tried the UIAutomationCore.dll 18000 version and the 16386 version but to no avail. So the next thing that i did was to install a new HDD into my PC installed Windows 10 Pro and duel booted my PC. A fresh installation of FSX and Acceleration. loaded my SA scenery, as well as PMDG and got the same issues. did all the above tests but to no avail.
I haven't used FSXWX for a number of years, so can't really comment specifically about your problem. I think that if I had a problem with it (an older version), then it was that the program stopped downloading or freezing, or something of that nature. I saw a comment about turning off 'Volumetric Fog' & there could be other settings such as amount of weather stations (radius) that FSXWX is required to receive data from that might be causing some conflict with FSX handling it. You could look at your FSXWX settings again to see whether there is any difference in your flights after turning some settings down.
When I went to the FSXWX Forum ( ), there was one post similar to yours but he had an Error Code show up: Error HRESULT: 0xC000014B. Have you checked in your Event Viewer > Custom Views > Admin Events, whether an error code shows up at the time of an FSX crash?
Otherwise, I would suggest trying out a similar weather program by Hanse Coders, if for nothing else, to see whether your FSX responds negatively to it as well. Their Site: Now, they only show their latest offering (FSrealWX 3.0), which is a try for 30 days & then buy. There is also a Lite version hidden in their Archives, which is free without conditions. Or, if you still want a slightly better version (I use this one), FSRealWXPro, this no longer appears on their Site, but I have the .exe file with me. Just PM me with an email address & I can send it out to you. Hope something works out for you & apologies in delaying my reply as I just couldn't work out what was going on at your end.
Thanks Chris. I also get the HRESULT: 0xC000014B error. I run all the programs in Admin mode and I also closed all the background programs/processes (mostly adobe Photoshop......) still with no glory.
Hello. I have a similar problem with you. When descending with both PMDG 737 and 777. FSX quits without any error message. Problem occurs after 1-3 mins later after TOD. With the other payware aircrafts there is no problem. This only occurs with FSXWX 1.6.3 and the problem has begun with the version 1.6.3 as well. Did you find any solution ? Thanks in advance. (My Operating System is Windows 8.1)
However, since this morning FSX crashes anytime I either try to customize user-defined weather or get into a flight and try to look around. The most suspicious thing is there is no "fatal error" notice, FSX just freezes, goes black and then closes. Event viewer says it's an "app-hang" issue, and I've tried all sorts of things I've found around for fixing this problem (clearing temp folder, using sfc, re-installing directx, clean-booting the pc, etc.), to no avail.
This is too weird since FSX was running perfectly just yesterday, and I haven't made any changes to the pc, the game or anything whatsoever between yesterday and today.
The only thing I am missing to do is completely uninstalling and reinstalling FSX, which would be pretty painful since I'd have to reinstall all of the addons I've got into the game.
Does anyone have any suggestions about what can I do for fixing this problem? Or do I definitely have to reinstall FSX?
Thanks in advance.
Well, if what you guys say about it possibly being wxstationlist.bin is right, then I think my problems derive from a change I didn't do yesterday or last night but several months ago.
You see, around that time FSX's real-time weather stopped working. It said something like it couldn't download the weather, when I had perfect internet connection, something, again, completely sudden since earlier on it worked just fine. I found FSXWX and, wanting real weather, installed it following its instructions. One of these instructions was to delete wxstationlist.bin, and I did, but dumb me, I didn't backup the file, and freakin' FSXWX, once installed, decided it wouldn't work and simply throw me an "Exception received: 5" error at me, which practically rendered it useless and left me with no weather stations on FSX, with which I had to rely simply on looking for weather forecasts online and manually configuring such weather to FSX through the user-defined weather customization, which now I don't have either.
So I'm already at a point where I have no option left. All of the systems I've used have began failing, one by one. And now FSX itself is failing.
So could the fact that this file is missing be what causes these crashes? It'd be weird, since I've had the sim work just fine even without it for these last months.
I have also installed FSXWX recently (only 2 days ago infact) up until now I have only used Orbx and /or FSX weather themes. I've been pleasantly surprised on how well FSXWX provides its user defined weather in place of (FSX's RWW disabled server).
I followed the instructions "btb" and made double backups before installing so still have the originals saved. Backedup & installed new wxmapping.bin, backedup & deleted original wxstationlist.bin (FSX to rebuild new stations), FSX.cfg settings adjusted, I Start FSXWX Client 1.6.1 As Administrator, setup paid version of FSUIPC 4.90 Winds and Clouds per diagram. Even watched an installation YT vid to be sure I had it right.
However I have had this same Black screen issue, fatal error CTD happen several times after setting up the new wxstationlist.bin and wxmapping.bin, it might be happening at some point after the injection or whenever DWC (DynamicWeatherControl) updates, FSXWX would stop responding for some reason with (a .NET AppHang) and then FSX would follow into a black screen freeze then crash offering the usual "Solution when available restart sim dialog").
However after a little research I discovered it may not be FSXWX but Windows Error Reporting where FSX is concerned, particularly the unhelpful MS popup offering to provide a solution when available. There never is a solution offered by MS to any FSX CTD crash or otherwise, but this does not stop the popup which causes the black screen crash from consistently wanting to send the sim into "Not Responding mode" CTD crash then offer to restart and send a report .
If you get stuck, FSX user defined weather should still work, as also FSX Weather Themes. RWW is now provided in your sim via FSXWX as User Defined weather. There is no need to click the FSX RWW weather options (neither static or 15min update) when using FSXWX.
When FSXWX Client is set to auto connect in "Current" or "Sim Time" will inject the right weather METAR from the loaded stations (I am using FSX Seasons Date Time settings for this, when FSXWX loads the time and date automatically correspond). You can also manually connect to FSX and reload the weather. It also helps if you put your Departure ICAO into the Route departure ADEP and Information box.
I don't know if you have Win7 or Win10 but the below suggestion should/may work for you.
The suggestion was to stop Windows Error Reporting for FSX ("FSX.exe") since it will always result in a dead end.
What I did - in Win7, was to open "Action Center" > Maintenance > settings > then choose - Select Programs to Exclude from Error Reporting - in the dialog, browse to the root FSX installation folder > select "FSX.exe" - and add it to the Exclusion list, click ok to close.
I am still testing if this works, but so far so good, MS FSX has been left to die (Unsupported) where not even GPU driver developers hardware or OS updates consider the negative impacts left for us poor FSX users to discover and find workarounds. Hopefully excluding FSX.exe from "WER" solves the problem for all other unidentified FSX crashes, freezes and wobbles in general.
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