[1.5.2.0] SU3 Beta Survey - Overall Rating (All Platforms)

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On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being best), what is your Overall Rating of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Sim Update 3 Beta build 1.5.2.0? This survey question will be used as a basis of comparison between different beta builds.
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System: XBOX X
Peripherals: Honeycomb Alpha, Bravo, Xbox controller, keyboard, mouse

flight(s):

CZBB-CYLW

CYBL-CYLW

CAT4-CYNJ

Conditions:
PST -12:00, live weather

Aircraft:
Carenado B60T msfs2020
Carenado F33A msfs2024

Issues:

CTD on 2 flights and 1 restart. I spent more time building flight plans than actual flying.

Activating the Nav button on Alpha throttle caused the first CTD (CZBB-CYLW, B60T). Required system restart because the crash just gave a black screen while the Xbox button cycled.

CYBL-CYLW
Honeycomb yoke and throttle cycling after Fly Now was selected and I was forced to exit the app and restart because the button cycling made the flight impossible. (F33A)

CAT4-CYNJ
Diverted to CYCD using direct to on Garmin 530 (F33A). Selecting the enter button on the Garmin, after inputting direct to airport (CYCD) caused immediate CTD.

I spent about 1.5 hours building plight plans, doing preflight and start up checklists only to have flight sim CTD while my departure airports were still in sight.

So far, this has been the least stable version of flight sim (2020/2024) I’ve experienced to date. Super frustrating. Read in the release notes that the update included a CTD fix - I don’t think it worked as intended.

Performance:

Transitioning from drone mode to cockpit view resulted in blurry instruments - the previous version seemed to fix that, though I didn’t check to see if the downloaded and installed aircraft I was using were still downloaded and installed. The aircraft acted as if they were still being streamed.

Last thing: while doing my walk around with the F33, I forgot to grab the pitot cover. Leaving this on makes it hard to determine one’s airspeed, haha (and was the reason for my diversion to CYCD). Woulda been an interesting side trip and story if the CTD(s) didn’t dominate my experience tonight.

Back to the drawing boards…

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Performance is stable, including consistent good FPS (60), with max frame rate set at 1/2 monitor refresh rate. 4K 60 Hz monitor. Everything else is satisfactory or better. i7-9700, RTX 4070S, 32 GB ram.

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I flew from EGHI to LOWI in the PMDG B736 and I have to say it was a pleasure.

Excellent, improved scenery; no lime-green mountains, really effective dusk lighting, good FPS…nothing to complain about here.

Using SayIntentions for ATC and traffic, Navigraph charts and Active Sky, it was a truly wonderful experience.

Nvidia RTX 4070 ti, i9, 64Gb RAM, Pico 4, Alpha yoke, Bravo throttle quadrant, etc.

Well done and thank you to Asobo.

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