Cannot even start a flight. Since 3 days. Slowly I am just ignoring this game. I know its Beta, but still it should not become worse with each update. Poor job from programmer side.
I left Beta. No idea how they want to get feedback if this is just unplayable. In Addition 2 CTD during waiting for Flight start.
Xbox X with live traffic and weather and multiplayer on. I’ve also installed the new 130 model aircraft library.
Flown for about 5 hours using Taog’s Lama mainly over large airports like SFO, LAX, Tokyo Haneda and Honolulu. Really liking the new AI a/c models. Data mostly matches FlightAware such as a/c type, flight number, a/c registration and location including gate. Quite a few real world liveries but still missing many of the main airlines. Good mix of mainly real world liveries in airliner parking areas. GA a/c reasonable mix but seemed limited to 2 or 3 types at each airport.
Performance and stability very good. Two CTD’s so far. One while streaming on Discord while over LAX and one at Kuala Lumpur after bouncing around a few different airports during a three hour session. Streamed for about 30 minutes over SFO after the first crash and that worked well.
Still some issues with AI traffic and models like:
A couple of sightings of the dreaded orange legacy liveried and pointed nose models.
A/c sometimes using the runway far end touchdown point.
Occasional flight number labelled a/c doing continual low level flyby’s.
Cirrus Vision Jet model has a default registration of AS-DIAMON. Should be AS-CIRRUS.
Some live traffic have no labels.
Some labels have no visible model.
Some labels remaining visible even with labels disabled.
Such a major improvement with traffic so I feel bad pointing these out. It’s very satisfying seeing representative models with so many aircraft visible at any one time.
Had a pretty good flight in the basic 172 last night. Flew about 45 minutes, landed then returned. Saw some live traffic, including the real life version of the plane I was flying in the sim, that was weird! I use the tail number of the plane I take lessons in.
Upon landing back at my home airport, I shut down and looked around to watch it come in to land and got a CTD while just looking out the window. Didn’t get to save the flight. This is the first CTD I’ve had in a while.
My experience so far is there are some stability and performance regressions in 1.5.x.0. I have had more stuttering. I have had only one good experience last Sunday the 18th with a Cessna 172 in SU 3 1.5.1.0 where I remained in the cockpit and was able to have 7 or so hours of uninterrupted flight. Other than that flight, every other General Aviation flight in the Cessna 172 or other aircraft while remaining in the cockpit or not has had very significant stuttering.
It kind of seems like you cannot risk going to the pause menu or settings menu during a flight for possibility of intense stuttering on XBox Series X even for any General Aviation plane except for that one 7 hour flight I had remaining in the cockpit in 1.5.1.0. I do not remember if I went to the settings menu during that flight. I do know I did remain in that cockpit view. I think we have some performance hits compared to SU 2. And SU 2 still had performance issues. It just seems these last couple of builds are really stuttering. With that said I know it is improving. These are performance regressions I think.
Some more quick points are that the EFB largely does not work in 1.5.3.0. It’s unclickable even in standard 2024 GA aircraft. The maps are also not zoomable.
Also, I have not downloaded any data yet. I have a 128 GB cache. And I did have 1 incredible flight back on the 18th.
Thanks. I really hope this helps. Because I love to see improvements of which I have seen many in the updates so far. This one just has some performance issues.
Actually I went back today to Beta. Don’t know what has changed, but I had 3 very nice flights with Comanche, each 1 hr flight Frankfurt - stuttgart .. Saarbrücken - Paris, and finally PC12 for a 2 hrs flight Paris - London. In the beginning 1 CDT when using EFB but hereafter really nice and smooth flights at about 4000 ft. Just the last flight with PC12 showed during approach and landing many stutters.
I downloaded all planes and all photogrammetries.
The first item in my library is called Air Traffic Aircraft and it presumably contains the 130 new models for the AI aircraft which probably also contain the various manufacturers and real world airline liveries. It’s set to streaming but I’ve downloaded and installed it locally.
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