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Freeware weather addon?

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Hey guys,

 

After having trouble with the real world weather in fs9, giving me a weather.dll error whenever using it i've come to look for a freeware weather addon that would do that same as the fs9 real world weather, something that would possibly update every 15 minutes.

 

I've looked at Active Sky, but unfortunately don't have the money to spend on an addon at the moment.

 

If anyone has an idea what i could use i would very much appriciate it!

Metar weather program...free ,available here in the file library under utilities.

Good or not? not sure.

As an alternative there is another free file that adds a whole mass of extra weather themes to the defaults available in FS9.

aNDY

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FSRealWX Lite. Available at http://www.hanse-coders.net/

Best regards,
Luis Hernández 20px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png20px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png

Main rig: self built, AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D (with SMT off and CO -50 mV), 2x16 GB DDR4-3200 RAM, Nvidia RTX 5060Ti 16GB, 256 GB M.2 SSD (OS+apps) + 2x1 TB SATA III SSD (sims) + 1 TB 7200 rpm HDD (storage), ID-Cooling SE-224-XTS air cooler, Viewsonic VX2458-MHD 1920x1080@120-144 Hz (G-sync compatible), Windows 11. Running P3D v5.4 (with v4.5 scenery objects as an additional library, just in case), FSX-SE, MSFS2020, MSFS2024 and even FS9! Lossless Scaling for all my sims. What a godsend...

Mobile rig: ASUS Zenbook UM425QA (AMD Ryzen 7 5800H APU @3.2 GHz and boost disabled, 1 TB M.2 SSD, 16 GB RAM, Windows 11 Pro). Running FS9 there .

VKB Gladiator NXT Premium Left + GNX THQ as primary controllers. Xbox Series X|S wireless controller as standby/mobile.

Yep, I second Luis's suggestion. I used it before I got ASE, pretty efficient.

I've also heard of something called "fsmetar" but I never could get it to work.

  • 1 month later...

Hi,

 

Can someone explain to me how to use "FSrealWX"?  I'm looking for a sequence, e.g., 1) start FS2004; ; 2) start FSrealWX: (or vice-versa) Or do I simply start FSrealWX and let it run in the background? 

 

Thanks.

 

John

Hi John,

 

I use to start at first FS2004, then FSRealWX. I recommend setting FSRealWX loading wheather at startup: Menu "FSRealWX" -> "Options", check "Download WX". (Wait a little after startup until you see the actual wheather as the program will have to send a lot of wheather station data to FS2004). I also have checked "Close when disconnected".

 

While I can load MS real wheather without CTD, it is now approximately one week behind the time. Maybe this is Microsofts gratulation to 10 years of FS2004...

 

Harald

   Harald Geyer
   Gründer der Messerschmitt Freunde Dresden v. V.

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