I bought MSFS a couple of years ago, at the time I had a GTX1080. Even on minimum settings, like with no textures at all it wouldn’t run smoothly. Not only that it would CTD pretty much every flight. I spent literally weeks trying to get it to work. Over the course of the year I rebuilt pretty much my entire system from scratch apart from the 1080, same neverending CTDs, same as loads of other people.
Last year I finally got my hands on an RTX3080. Game now runs smooth, no CTDs. Great I’m thinking! Wrong.
Unfortunately, two and a half years later, the stuff that was broken when the game came out, and which I assumed would be fixed in reasonable time, is still completely broken.
I fly GA and have no interest in airliners at this time. The only way I’m aware of to populate the game with useful amounts of GA traffic that interacts with ATC is Offline AI, and it appears to be completely broken. No matter what settings I use (and I’ve tried everything I can think of) 9 out of 10 AI aircraft are completely invisible. All you can see is their nav lights in the sky and as soon as they touch the runway even they disappear. You can hear them taxiing on the ground but they are not rendered at all. And of the few AI aircraft that are rendered at all, half of them are either embedded in the ground or rotating upside down on their roofs!
Not only that but even stupid stuff like planes on the ground not rendering their wheels properly isn’t even fixed yet.
After 30 years of PC gaming I don’t think I’ve ever known a game to be in this bad a state after this amount of time. It’s atrocious and gut-wrenchingly disappointing. I wonder how long it will actually be before this basic stuff is fixed.