FWsim - Fireworks Display Simulator
Playing now
6−1 vs. yesterday
30%of peak
All-time peak
20Dec 2021
Playing now
6−1 vs. yesterday
All-time peak
20Dec 2021
| Published | Title | Build |
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| FWsim 4.4 - Motorized Stars, Better Performance, and new effects featuresmajor Check out update 4.4! Here's what's new: ⭐ Graphics improvements · More realistic appearance of stars · Accelerated Rendering (Settings → Graphics) — runs much faster and uses less battery at the same visual quality. Available on NVidia and AMD dedicated graphics cards. · Even without accelerated rendering, this new update should be faster on all systems. · More realistic water reflections ✨ Ef… | 23739277 | |
| Massive Performance Improvement In this update: · Better performance when editing your show, especially on large shows with many cues · New option: “Reverse Order on Timeline” (CTRL + SHIFT + R). Use this when you make a stepper out of single cues and you want to reverse the order. · The timeline now looks much better when you zoom out very far. Your show will look cleaner and it’s easier to make edits even at extreme zoom le… | 20000805 | |
| FWsim 4.1.1 - Show Editing is now much fastermajor Exciting news! You can now select your favorite effects and then insert them with just one click. This massively speeds up the show design process, so you can focus on your creativity. Furthermore: · Press TAB key to jump forwards to the next beat in the music · When you move the playback cursor, it snaps to beats in the music and to existing cues on the timeline. · You might have two cues over… | 19049151 | |
| FWsim 4.1 with Automatic Beat Detection Hi everyone! Exciting news: This is FWsim 4.1. · Automatic detection of beats · Real location downloading is more stable and faster. · New star size: XXS | 18841620 | |
| FWsim - Update 4.0.1.5 Fix: FWsim now always uses your high-performance graphics card (instead of onboard graphics) · Several bugfixes · Performance improvements · Updated Italian, Spanish and French translations. You can contribute to FWsim translations by clicking the Help menu. · FWsim now displays a correct waveform if you load 24-bit audio files. | 17866230 | |
| Announcing FWsim v4major With FWsim v4, planning your shows is now much faster & easier! Show Editor Improvements ➜ Better display of positions, with 3D cylinders - so you can better see where the positions actually are in 3D space ➜ Put steppers through multiple positions (this allows you, for example, to run a stepper in a circle) ➜ New “Fly Around” camera controls - more efficient & intuitive ➜ Comfortable angle sel… | 17056238 | |
| New Crackling Types, Strobing Ascent Effects Popping Flowers (Crackling) can now be adjusted in a much more granular way · Ascent Effects can now have strobing · 57 different kinds of crackling already included | 14373349 | |
| FWsim 3.4: Dark Mode, Fullscreen, Better Camera Controls, New Effects Samplesmajor FWsim 3.4 is here, and we are excited to tell you about it! · New Dark Design (you can go back to the old design by disabling “Dark Mode” in the preferences) · Improved Camera Animation System · Saving and Loading of camera positions · Topdown Camera View · Improved “Create New Effect” dialog with many more sample designs to choose from · Fullscreen Mode available (press ALT+ENTER to go fullscr… | 8246426 | |
| Online Fireworks Database now available Starting today, all Steam users will have access to the FWsim online fireworks database. This gives you thousands of new fireworks, made by other users, for free! Simply click Tools -> Online Fireworks Database to access. You can download collections of effects, or upload your own. | 7518170 | |
| New Demo show, more effects Version 3.2.0.16 brings a new demo show - which comes with a couple of new effects. It also includes bugfixes. | 6352865 | |
| Update Notes for February 27, 2021 This is version 3.2.0.10 and brings the following improverments: · In video export, MP4 is now the default format. · MP4 format details changed. It should now be compatible with most video editing software. (If the file doesn't work in your favorite video editor, please let us know) · Effect selection filters more comfortable to use · Bugfix: Crash when adding a new firing line at the same posi… | 6304774 |
| Date | Day | Time | Patch title | Build ID | Branch | Depots | Download Δ |
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| 7 Sep 2026 | Mon | 13:45 | No patch notes · unannounced build | 25168320 | public | 1 | — |
| 7 Sep 2026 | Mon | 13:44 | No patch notes · unannounced build | 25168320 | beta | 1 | — |
| 28 Aug 2026 | Fri | 09:43 | No patch notes · unannounced build | 24989488 | public | 1 | — |
| 28 Aug 2026 | Fri | 09:43 | No patch notes · unannounced build | 24989488 | beta | 1 | — |