MS Store update - External programs not launching

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Hi

Since the latest MS Store update today(Gaminig Service and Xbox), no external program is starting with MSFS or working at all. Yesterday everything works fine.

It regards the following programs on my side
FS Realistic, FS2 crew, MSFS via FSUIPC and Simsound(Is waiting for simulator)

Any ideas?
Max

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Just updating Gaming Services now. Will update with results.

FSRealistic just fired up, and announced it was connected.

No issues with SPAD either.

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First try a computer restart and then try the sim.
If you are still having issues, from the Widow’s Apps & Features menu, find both the Xbox app, Gaming Services and the MS Store.
From Advanced Options in each hit Reset.
Try the sim again.

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Strange. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
It seems the autostart entries in the exe.xml doesnt’t start the programs for some reason.

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now i have found out some more strange.
If i deactivate my account in msfs and reactivate it, the sim crash. Then i fire up the sim in normal start mode, and everything works. shut down the sim and fire it up again and nothing works again. It seems this is not a problem on my side and happend since today. i can reproduce this the whole day and since the updates in the ms store.

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If it’s not on your side, shouldn’t it be affecting others as well?

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you right, but if it worked before the update and nothing has changed…i don’t know whats wrong now. Every system is different.

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It may be a bit of a cliché, but since I work in IT…have you tried rebooting your computer?

I just read back up the thread, and this was already suggested. :slight_smile:

Could you list the contents of the exe.xml file here? If you have paths to sensitive locations, that might contain a username, redact those.

Here is what I have:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<SimBase.Document Type="SimConnect" version="1,0">
    <Descr>SimConnect</Descr>
    <Filename>SimConnect.xml</Filename>
    <Disabled>False</Disabled>
    <Launch.Addon>
        <Name>FSRealistic</Name>
        <Disabled>false</Disabled>
        <Path>D:\FSRealistic\FSRealistic.exe</Path>
    </Launch.Addon>
</SimBase.Document>

The other thing you could do is just create a script to launch the tools you want, then the sim. I use a script to launch MSFS, skipping the intro videos:

cmd.exe /C start shell:AppsFolder\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App "-FastLaunch"

You could easily add some commands in front of that to launch any tools you want, including FSRealistic, FSUIPC etc.

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Yes i have rebooted several times. the strange thing is, all my external programms fire up 1 time, after i have logged out ingame and log back in.

Here is my exe.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>

<SimBase.Document Type=“Launch” version=“1,0”>
Launch
EXE.xml
False
<Launch.ManualLoad>False</Launch.ManualLoad>
<Launch.Addon>
FS2Crew Command Center
False
C:\Program Files (x86)\FS2Crew Command Center\FS2CrewCommandCenter.exe

</Launch.Addon>
<Launch.Addon>
False
False
FSUIPC7
C:\FSUIPC7\FSUIPC7.exe
-auto
False
</Launch.Addon>
<Launch.Addon>
FSRealistic
false
D:\Max\FS2020\FSRealistic\FSRealistic.exe
</Launch.Addon>
</SimBase.Document>
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Can you select all that text, and wrap it in the “code” tags?

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I’ve never touched that file myself, so I assume mine is standard, whereas yours looks custom? My document type is “SimConnect”, not “Launch”.

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you right but make no different. I have tried it with SimConnect. Seems FSUIPC does this and worked since i have it. So i have also never touched it.

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I’ve looked on the forums, and a few posts mentioned this file, and none of those have your formatting, but instead match mine.

I would perhaps rename yours so you have a copy, then copy my text above into a new “exe.xml”, and edit the path to the “FSRealistic.exe”. If that works reliably on its own, then tinker with the file to add additional programs to launch, between the <Launch.Addon> </Launch.Addon> tags

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And here is how fsuipc users exe.xml looks like
Same Type LAUNCH as mine
Never had a problem with it.
Something happend today. The strange is the login and logout procedure in SIM. Then it worked for 1 time only.

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Well, you have a choice to make it seems. I doubt those files are default ones, so I would suggest go back to defaults for testing purposes.

It is possible that the format of that file has changed over the last few years.

Actually, scratch that. I just found this:

https://sode.12bpilot.ch/?document=filefolder-setup/the-exe-xml-file

I wonder if that file represents what it looked like in FSX days, and not how it should be now? So some have copy/pasted that code into MSFS.

It’s up to you, but I’d try my file first, then expand on that.

Every reference to “Launch” seems to be from an FSX-era post.

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yes i make a backup and let it rebuild a fresh one. I will try first without fsuipc and fsrealistic only.

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I do a fresh exe.xml with fs realistic only, based on your file with the right path correction for my fs realistic. It is not starting…

Something wrong here since today

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Are you using the right folder for the exe.xml? No problems here with starting a few programs.

%localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache

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yes, same folder as yours.

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What is the folder to fsrealistic?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?>
<SimBase.Document Type="SimConnect" version="1,0">
    <Descr>SimConnect</Descr>
    <Filename>SimConnect.xml</Filename>
    <Disabled>False</Disabled>
    <Launch.Addon>
        <Name>FSRealistic</Name>
        <Disabled>False</Disabled>
        <Path>C:\Program Files\FSRealistic\fsrealistic.exe</Path>
        <CommandLine />
    </Launch.Addon>
 </SimBase.Document>
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mine is on D and the correct path in the exe.xml.