737 Max VIP passengers Career Missions broken and unplayable

Had a lot of fun in Carreer mode so far …

until I reached those private VIP missions in the 737 Max - frames in VR dropped to around 0.3 FPS and it it is not playable. Jetways are broken and pax can not board - the latter has been reported in another thread. The service vehicles and tow trucks sink up and down into the ground and behave strangely.

Same plane, same gate in free flight mode - performance is very smooth and jetways attach as they should.

(Not sure if there may be a GSX conflict causing this although it does not seem active in career mode.)

Please fix the passenger boarding issues. Passengers do not get off the bus and into the plane.

What are your settings concerning 3D character ? Quality/quantity/variety ?

Aah, I did not even think about those. I am in the middle of a career mode flight so cant get to those setting right now. It is possible I have them on minimum. I will check and get back once this is over. I can see them all in the bus but they do not get off? Could that setting be the issue?

Yep it can be the issue, but the thing you can see them in the bus is weird..

Character variety = how many different 3D passenger model will be spawned, if low you’ll almost only get clones (for better performances)

Character quality should be the 3D quality model of each avatar but the last time I tried (on SU4 .19 something like that) it was broken, putting the setting to “LOW” = no passenger spawn so keep it medium or high

Character quantity = How many passenger will be spawn, exemple: on low if you want to load 180 passenger only 30 or 40 will be visible etc

Carrefull if you change your setting after passenger been loaded it will not take care of your changes, you have to spawn them again, so if you are on the middle of a flight wait for the next flight to test it

I filled a report about the really bad performance of this functionnality and did some test on video if that can help you:

Thanks, Ill have a look when I am done. Great advice :+1:

Ill also have a gander at your thread. :slightly_smiling_face:

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This is what I had

This mission with the max was all over the place with ATC esp. Also my ENTER key kept on cancelling my contact with ATC - every time “Air traffic control cancelled”. Jeez just at the critical time of contacting arrival airport and trying to land - what is going on with this. I stopped flying Career a couple of months ago because it was eating all my profits but it seems to have got worse!

I dont know if that is exclusively a 737 - 8 thing or just in general!

Anyway, my missing passengers don’t appear to be tied to my settings.
See this, I still got 60% for passenger satisfaction despite not having any :joy:

With this setting you should be able to see the avatar, so the problem is they are stuck in the bus, and how is it when you load via a jetway ?

Are you on SU4 ?

About the passenger satisfaction it doesn’t care if there is passenger or not, It’s just based on if you correctly do the cabin announcement en time

Not in SU4. Nothing loads in Jetway either - I never got one single request to chat to passengers - still got this rating! Nuts. I will try on Wed on Thurs again. Got to work :sad_but_relieved_face:

Do your test on free flight first with the same plane, by loading via EFB

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Yup, had the same joke played on me by the devs.

Pressing Enter to start boarding makes the ATC (which is a joke to begin with) go into a nonsense option.

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Oooooh, You have to TUNE to the field first, before [Ground services] list is populated with options, WOW! How intuitive!

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Now if only there was a way to contact some kind of ATC to request IFR clearance…

Which…. HGLD does not have…

Wonderful!

And alt-tabbing to update this forum on these shoddily programmed missions froze the sim!

Wow, how could that happen on an OS called Windows(multiple)…

Update:

Sending the flightplan to the avionics on the 737 MAX causes it to lock up.

Awesome, are we still cool to use throttles, or will you update that to cause sim lock ups too?

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It sounds like you’re in free flight. It’s still buggy there. In career it works fine.