While we are seeing massive improvements to performance and stability in the sim on Xbox and PS5 when flying in Free Flight. The same cannot be said for aircraft (specifically the Default Airliner Line up) in career mode. Below I have a test in KDFW trying to get Passenger Transport and Heavy Cargo Missions started with most ending in a Sim Crash, Load Time hung up, or WASM Crashes.
I’ll update this thread with other default locations on Xbox and PlayStation and let you know the results, but what I was experiencing so far on Xbox in Dallas was not ideal, so all clips below so far are filmed on the Xbox Series X with pretty much a full reboot for each clip as the sim was crashing quite frequently.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
Most spawns of any of the default airliners at a lot of the handcrafted airports in Career Mode leads to some odd situations like Sim Crashes, WASM Crashes, or just load times going forever and not actually completing the loading.
REPRODUCTION STEPS
Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:
Head to career mode and select whatever Airliner based Passenger or Heavy Cargo missions you’d like, so far, I’ve tested at KDFW. Other locations to test are in Schiphol (EHAM) and Heathrow (EGLL)
Once you try and load in on Xbox or PS5 you’ll run into most of the issues I show below.
Afterwards, try the same aircraft and the same airport in free flight and you’ll notice it’s the complete opposite experience. Fast load times, no low memory warnings, and no crashes.
YOUR SETTINGS
Xbox and PlayStation Set up:
I made sure to have the Xbox set up as vanilla as the sim can be to make sure these issues weren’t because of Add On’s obviously on PS5 its Vanilla as there isn’t any Add On’s at the moment, so needless to say no 3rd Party content to cause issues.
MEDIA
Boeing 737 load in caused a Sim Crash
Airbus A320 endless load
Airbus A321 caused a Sim Crash
Airbus A330-200 Loaded in Perfectly
Airbus A330-300 WASM Crash
Airbus A330-300P2F RR This was… interesting.
Boeing 747 Never loaded from the initial mission screen
We have created an internal ticket to see if our team already has this logged, and if not they will attempt to reproduce the issue and create a new bug report. This item is now marked as feedback-logged. If there is an existing bug report or one is created, we will move this thread to bug-logged.
With this new build I’m seeing massive improvements to the PS5 Pro version of the sim and the Xbox version is still showing signs of Memory/WASM issues. Both my tests on the Xbox Series X and PS5 Pro had been set to the same regarding settings:
Graphics: All Medium (The Highest settings available)
AI: Real Time Traffic
No Add On’s Installed/Enabled
Internet Speed: 1 Gbps
For these tests I just went into missions all at KJFK, backed out to the career menu and immediately selected another mission wanting to see how the sim was able to handle reloading things over and over again. No restarting of the sim unless the sim crashed, which only ended up happening once through the tests.
Xbox Series X Test Results:
KJFK Career Missions:
A310 | Low Memory | WASM Crash
A320 Neo V2 | Low Memory x2 | Avionics Working | Bandwidth too low
A321 LR | Low Memory & WASM Crash
A330GE | Low Memory | Screens on/screens off and back on. Mission Broke, skip to take off led to endless plane crashes. Just completely broke the mission 6x Crashes
737 | Low Memory | Sim Crash
747 | No Issues
787 | No Issues
Overall on Xbox Series X things appeared to make some improvements to where yes the Low Memory Pop up would occur but it wasn’t a WASM Crash each time as it did prior, allowing the avionics to fully load properly after 30 seconds to a minute of waiting. Boeing seems to fair better over the inibuilds airbus lineup.
PlayStation 5 Pro Test Results:
KJFK Career Missions:
A310 | No Issues
A320 Neo V2 | No Issues
A321LR | No Issues
A330GE | No Issues
737 | No Issues
747 | No Issues
787 | No Issues
Whatever changes you’ve made on the PS5 side of things is awesome to see! Handling Career Mode like it did in SU4, no long loads, no memory pop ups, just handling each mission like it’s supposed to.
Really happy to see the improvements showing up the new build, so much so I did some more PS5 Pro Career Mode spawns into KLAX, KDFW, and EHAM all in a row, no restarts of the sim and it handled it perfectly!