Months I think. I have no idea. I have zero mods, zero add ons in the game and not doing anything fancy. I play the game with the stock airplanes and liveries. Low graphics settings for better performance. Only thing I have is a Hotas joystick which isn’t even connected until Incan at least get passed the world map without CTD.
I don’t know if it’s your problem but setting A.I. traffic to Realtime Online and A.I. atc to off has worked for a lot of people.
I’ve tried that please give me your next suggestion. All online functionality is off, graphics set to low. Cleared all cache and folders after making changes and restarted the game. There is an issue just not happening to everyone. Zero add ons just stock msfs software. Powered USB hub is unplugged to eliminate usb issues.
Oh … there’s not much more I can suggest except root out and delete everything non Asobo in the official folder, e.g. FBW A320nx etc.
BTW it might not be enough to be offline, infact you should set traffic to Real Time Online
paid addons can cause issues too, sadly.
Well that was weird, got home today after work to finish off the final 7% needed and without changing any settings at all I got 200Mb and it finished in a couple of minutes… Must have been my problem eh? 
Having millions not all trying to access the same data at the same time is why.
Yes exactly my observations and comments elsewhere. Does someone have Greta’s whatsapp? 
That’s not sarcasm either, it is exactly as you state, corporate irresponsibility. Multiply up the power wasteage and that’s a few thousand tons of CO2 displaying a progress bar.
If you really cared about climate change (because its no longer global warming its climate change now) you wouldnt be there using that computer, you’d be off living in the woods somewhere completely off the grid. That is if you really cared.
I tried to bite my tongue. I really did.
There aren’t enough threads full of complaints all over this board, so someone had to come up with something totally new and ridiculous? How much energy a menu screen is taking?? It’s a peecee, it eats electricity and spits out video games, among other things. Get over it. Go in the menu, pick your plane, make your flightplan (though I strongly recommend using Simbrief instead), and hit the “Fly Now!” button.
Problem Solved!
As for the power issue generally, what we need to be doing is building more nuclear power, but that word scares people, so it doesn’t happen. Our loss.
You miss the point. The energy use is just the end result of a badly built menu system that hits hardware HARD. I don’t care about the energy use really, but I do care that my GPU is running at 90% to run a menu and updater.
The point is, there is no need for a menu to hit our hardware this hard. No other game on the planet sends your PC in to overdrive on the menu. It needs to be a launcher to update and a simple menu without stupid hangar renders.
There is no need to render fancy buttons and a 3d hangar in the background. The menu is essentially part of the game world and it is ridiculous.
Asobo need to address the issue. Maybe there is a reason it absolutely has to be built this way. I doubt it.
Shhh not to loud you might get canceled! ROFL
I dont know about nuke, one of my sons friends worked on the reactor on his sub daily operations and such, and now works here in the civ sector, and well I just dont know! lol
As far as that goes I know people I went to school with that helped build the plant and well all i can say is I dont know.
Oh no… “environmental protection discussions” when using a computer or switching on a light bulb like it was 1970.
Electricity is produced by water, solar panels wind turbines or nuclear power plants, none of these devices does any harm at all to the environment - and all the money one uses for electricity directly flows to the state economy.
So no problem at all 
please Intel AMD Nvidia give us even more powerful chips GPUs and hardware!
The more teraflops the better.
Good thread with regards to the general question/comment : can MS/Asobo be more efficient with energy usage in MSFS? I’m sure it is possible and I doubt they looked at it.
Working in the energy/climate sector, I think it has an impact but wouldn’t go in that complex discussion.
I wanted to post a thread on how MS/Asobo can promote at MSFS level energy transition in the aviation sector, without beeing too «environmentalist» but just showing the positive/innovative side of it.
The solution to this seems downright simple to me. If you are concerned about the impact the sim may have on the planet, stop playing it!
I personally will continue to enjoy this and other cool experiences that take full advantage of the power of my PC. But if you think this is a bad thing, get rid of the energy hogging gaming supercomputer sitting in the corner of your bedroom and rest easily, fully assured that you are not contributing to melting the planet.
You realise that there are already countries with close to 100% of energy produced by renewables, right? Maybe we should let their citizens go to the front of the queue for 3080s. I wouldn’t mind as my home country is one of them. 
Yeah well just because your country has green energy, doesn’t mean you should waste it. Dont you realize there are people out there that havent even heard of electricity yet alone seen it…
Bwhahahah kidding ?
No, you’re not looking at the whole picture. They might be melting the planet in one hand, but on the other hand, just look at the millions of trees they’ve planted in every city in the world since the last update. They must be at least carbon neutral 
Well you do know dont you all those wind turbines spinning in the wind are slowly speeding up the rotation of the planet as well as generating electricity. We better look further into that, someone issue me a 8.6 million dollar grant so I can study it further. 
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