In 2024 SU2 Beta 1.4.18.0 I was flying the f7 S100 Eagle from Ralph Wenz up to Cody, it was so nice for a long time until I arrived in Cody, then it stuttered until I could not taxi after landing. I quit for that evening.
On another day, I went back to 2020 for some flying, I must say it was so refreshing to be able to use drone camera, slew and external mode without worrying about a CTD. As it is mainly drone camera, slew and external mode that crashes 2024. They were no worries at all in 2020. They worked incredibly good in 2020. Plus, I was able to save mid flight also.
So I came back again later to the 2024 SU2 Beta and decided I would go for a flight in the Maule MX-7, it was a good run until I used drone camera for a bit. Then, it was stutter city. Plus, the EFB does not work in the Maule MX-7 so I could not refuel. So I had to go to options and set unlimited fuel. That hurts immersion. Because one of the points is to find airports to land and get gas. So I cannot wait until all of the 2020 planes get tested for 2024. I also really look forward to external view, drone and slew working flawlessly on XBox.
Today was weird. It was a short flight from KSQL to KSFO in the C172. It was slightly stuttery on taxi out and takeoff but the flying and PG seemed OK. The landing at KSFO went much better than a previous attempt but it was still stuttery with an odd , almost rythmic stutter as I made turns at the airport. I took off again and circled above the airport a number of times and then went on to look at downtown where the PG looked good after it eventually loaded but it was all slow to load – lots of morphing right in front of me.
overall Bad I would say. I checked my speeds and all was normal.
Im getting ready to ditch this beta.
I didn’t expect this overall, but I think this SU2 Beta 1.4.18.0 is a downgrade so I voted poor on the performance at least for my experience the last 2 nights.
Tonight I flew the Boeing 737 Max from KSAN to KLAX starting from cold and dark on XBox Series X. I was able to go through most of the startup sequence without too many problems but here are the problems I encountered on this airline flight in Southern California.
“I could not use the EFB in Cursor mode.”
I was able to go directly to the pad and point click on options though. But I could not use Cursor mode on the pop up EFB.
“There was no ATC option for a ground services pushback from gate 27 at KSAN.”
Though ATC worked for ATC Taxi clearance. I did get a pushback via a button sequence bound on the XBox controller though.
“In flight stuttering was very bad.”
Once in flight toward LAX, the graphics would only update every 5 seconds. In other words, it was frozen for 5 seconds, then it would refresh graphics for 1 or 2 seconds.
“I lost all instruments mid flight.”
First the instruments blacked out, then all of the instruments greyed out perhaps 15 or 20 minutes into the flight. So I flew the remainder of the flight in external mode.
“The Sim Crashed to Desktop upon final approach to runway 25 R at LAX.”
So with this experience tonight. And with last nights experience. I give this build a poor rating.
One note, I did use external mode tonight when starting the aircraft from cold and dark on XBox Series X. That probably did not help performance, but still external mode is supposed to work.
I did not use slew or drone on this 737 Max flight. I knew those would cause problems so I avoided using those modes.
Honeycomb Alpha and Bravo, XBOX controller, mouse, keyboard
F33A is a good flyer.
LOD for ground textures was 5/10, @8000ASL
ATC window was the worst yet - unable to get out of Nearest Airfield mode for the whole flight
Audio had clicking sound for most of the trip (1+ hours flight time)
PAPI’s still very blurry on approach
Gauges blurry when toggling from drone mode
EFB zeroes out altitude when sending to ATC and avionics.
Was hoping the ground texture thing would have been solved by now. 1.4.14.0 had the best LOD so far (in my experience, at least)
Frame rate stuttering when transitioning to outside view and when orbiting around aircraft.
Frame rate was decent on arrival though destination did not have photogrammetry textures.
The ATC is an immersion killer for me. When it ‘works’ the scroll section is a pain to operate and is mostly INOP if I’m honest. When there is overtalk or items can’t be selected it’s pretty frustrating.
Today’s flying was super enjoyable… not because it was perfect, no… in fact there were stutters and ground scenery issues and some not great clouds at times. But, overall, everything worked together quite well – the lighting in the cloudscape was very subtle and quite good imo. Clouds were fair to good 80% of the time. The PG worked OK out of Seattle (Renton), pretty good at Portland and it was still moderately OK when I got back to Seattle.
If you haven’t, fly south out of KRNT towards the volcano there and then on to KTTD. Land and then make the return if you feel like it.
I flew from Indonesia yesterday in the vision jet, taking off around 3 in the afternoon and entering Vietnam at sunset, landing at Danang at night. It was the best flight I’ve had since the sim came out. No stutters whatsoever, scenery absolutely beautiful. Final into Danang was awesome. Near perfect apart from a slight blur to the left lights on the runway on landing.
Had 2 mega freezes in the 747
One with the legacy bug megafreeze after pressing execute button after STAR transition select on approach
Rebooted consol respawned in exactly the same to spot to complete my flight and a slideshow kicked in at 500ft. Then it froze.
Have noticed and improvement in LOD but the stability is unnacceptable. In parts it works very well, then it breaks and falls apart very quickly
I find that photogrammetry looks really bad in FS24. Massive boulders in the middle of car parks, trees are hideous, buildings all look melted, ground is a jagged mess occasionally spilling onto airport taxiways, and to top it off, performance tanks with worse stutters than with it off
I agree. I thought it generally looks terrible even in 2020. Yes, there is the odd anomaly without pg on but generally I think it’s more immersive with it switched off.
I’m on xbox x currently flying the vision jet and loving it. Sometimes though the arrival in the procedure page on the mfd is different to arrival I have chosen in the efb and so it doesn’t input an arrival but once changed to the arrival I have chosen on the efb it inputs.
