Blinking clouds after patch 5

I have a 43in HD tv from our living room, that we replaced with a 49in 4K Samsung.

Big screens are great even in HD - sit close and the wide angle of view feels immersive.

My Xeon 4 core used to be a server at work (IT slowly replaced physical servers with virtual servers).
It works well but the motherboard appears to be PCI 2.
So I’ve started to research the latest AMD motherboards - the 550 chip set gives PCI 4 which is four times faster for the gpu. The 6 core AMD cpus look like they can beat the Xeons - the debug fps mostly says the cpu is holding back the render loop.

Es que aunque asi sea, cuando yo compré el simulador, desde Microsoft Store, me indicaba que mi pc era compatible con el simulador, y recibieron mi dinero, para un simulador que luego me indica que mi pc no está a la altura del juego. De este modo me siento estafado. Realmente espero que solucionen el problema con estas sere de GeForce. Gracias por leer y por sus comentarios.

The thing that they will allege is that it can run the game, but without clouds. Which we know is not a satisfactory answer as clouds were working simply fine before. I am running a GTX 770m on my laptop and I am getting some 25-30 FPS on medium so I thought that I should upgrade and buy a 980m for some $250 and call it a day.

But now since a possible DX12 update might make this 980m be below the new minimum specs and I don’t have the money to pony up a new computer (no gaming laptops this time) I might just wait and buy an Xbox Series S to use exclusively for MS Flight Simulator.

Now if, or when, the game because unavailable and you are in a country with good consumer law you can just file a suit against MS and demand your money back for a game in which you cannot play anymore.

I have today submitted Request #82249 Flickering Clouds

Hi everybody,
I send my Request yesterday and got the answer that everybody got. But the last part is different:

“… Our developers are aware of this issue and working on a fix, but we do not have a time frame of when the flickering issue will be resolved.”

So I think this is good news. At least they are working on it although they have no idea when they will bring it…
So keep on reporting it! :slight_smile:

And please excuse my bad english, I´m from Germany :smiley:

Please, check this out. It seems they’re aware and maybe doing something after all.
https://twitter.com/SuperJMN/status/1335137736211173376?s=19

If you’re on Twitter, it will help if you RT or comment there. It has wider exposure than this forum site.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to do this! The first response is identical to the one we had from a support agent earlier in this thread, but the second one is a lot more definitive than what we’ve had before. It is a good step forward from the “under investigation” status in the Feedback Snapshot.

Hopefully there will be a resolution to this in late December update.

Hi eric,

We have recorded the bug you have submitted in our internal bug and issue tracker.

To understand what will happen next, visit the Zendesk Bug Reporting FAQ

Best regards,
Microsoft Flight Simulator Support Team

Thanks. The more Zendesk reports they receive, the higher this goes on their priority list.

Same here, i create a ticket too. Fix the clouds soon! I can’t feel like a flight!!! :slight_smile:

Everyone make sure to upvote the thread I’m linking below as well, if you haven’t already. It has a place on the Feedback Snapshot, and increasing the amount of votes could help as well.

Where to write “fly”.
I didn’t understand where to write this

Ok … now I understand … I will do these procedures to see if the clouds are “normal”
Thanks

Just to clarify - “normal” is everything works, back to steady state - but there are no clouds at all. Flyable, just not as realistic or fun.

Remove only the clouds.
After do this you can flight without clouds.

Ja mir ist auch das gleiche Problem auferlegt worden. Dachte auch ich hätte die Mindest-anforderung mit meinem Acer Lap. 266 MHz. 16MB Arbeitsspeicher und GTX 860m erfüllt! Gehöre jetzt auch zu den Schönwetter-Fliegern. Schon dumm das ich auch noch das große Paket genommen habe :frowning:

Couple of interesting items to note ladies and gentlemen:

  1. After all the mega gigabyte sized patches… I’m up to latest version 1.11.7.0 and the sickening epilepsy inducing blinking continues…unless clear skies are chosen.

  2. Cyberpunk 2077 has had glitches and gamers have received an apology from the developer and refunds. One of the big concerns was epilepsy due to flickering lights

  1. A number of people I’ve spoken to that have older systems affected by this cloud blinking problem have said that after even trying to disable the clouds and looking at the blinking screen they have felt nausea and dizzy feeling. Microsoft have taken weeks to even acknowledge the issue and support staff have swept the problem as old hardware…let alone to provide a patch for older systems… I don’t know what it will take for them to fix it…someone having serious health condition like an epileptic seizure episode?

Anyone that is feeling unwell nausea etc after the vigerous blinking should mention this problem here.

According to the feedback snapshot, the flashing clouds have been FIXED!!! To be introduced in sim update 2.

Can’t wait to see this. Two surprises right before Xmas. Cloud fix and my Honeycomb Bravo Throttle arrives on Saturday 15 months after order… Hooray! :grinning:

We get our clouds back tomorrow!!!..hopefully… :worried: