Custom Camera Views Not Saving

[gpbob01]

Subject: Bug Report - Custom Camera Views Not Saving in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Product: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Version: Microsoft Store Version

Description: I am experiencing an issue with custom camera views not saving in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. In MSFS 2020, I had no problems with custom camera views, but in MSFS 2024, the custom camera views don’t always save as expected.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Launch Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
2. Navigate to the camera settings.
3. Create and save custom camera views.
4. Restart the simulator or load a flight.
5. Attempt to use the saved custom camera views.

Expected Result: The custom camera views should save and be available for use after restarting the simulator or loading a flight.

Actual Result: The custom camera views do not always save and are sometimes unavailable after restarting the simulator or loading a flight.

Additional Information:

• I am using the Microsoft Store version of the simulator.
• This issue did not occur in MSFS 2020, where custom camera views saved and functioned correctly.

System Specs:

• Operating System: Windows 11 Pro
• CPU: i9-13900KF
• GPU: RTX 4070 Ti
• RAM: 32GB

Thank you for your attention to this matter. I hope this issue can be resolved soon to improve the overall experience with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

[REDHER0N]

I will agree here, as i have also seen a couple “liveries” of aircraft that have different custom cameras and no matter WHAT i do, there is a saved custom camera that is in some VERY odd position, that cannot be overwritten by my save. (seen it on the H125 and the Cessna)

[SpeedbirdTen]

Same problem here for A321 and 737 Max

[TouchablePizza]

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: The saved cockpit cameras work sometimes, other times they do not. Sometimes after you save a view and try to reload that view it puts you outside the cockpit. In one instance, I flew the DHC6 and saved some cockpit views and then ended the flight and loaded the Skycourier, which I had already set views for, and it was giving me the cockpit positions for the DHC6. Other times the views work fine. Please investigate this as it is an important part of the experience.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
Yes

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)? Intermittently, I think its worse after completing a flight and loading another

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

1.Load an aircraft
2.Save custom cockpit views
3.End the flight and load another aircraft

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using, if relevant: Alpha yoke and Bravo Throttle, Saitek peddles

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
No

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
RTX 4070

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[Lonemercs]

The custom views seem to work only for the Variant to save them on. They work for different liveries as well for that variant at least for the planes I work with so far. This is in no way a workaround or consider a fix the views should stick per variant it sucks to redo them 3 times or more in my case.

There maybe a deeper issue here with other planes but the 3 planes I setup so far the views are sticking as long as you dont change the variant.

[InFlight2020]

I have spent over two hours tinkering with this system and even tried creating custom profiles for a few airplanes. There are too many bugs in the settings that do not allow custom views to be retained from one flight to the next, and it’s unacceptable! The Daher TBM just won’t allow me to set a custom view ‘5’ with the Alpha yoke; the simulator reverts to the front of the plane. Why is this so broken? Why is this not being fixed, Asobo Microsoft? Is this what $140 gets us?

[Lonemercs]

Gonna load up 2024 and see what I got will post a screen if I can this does work but perhaps not exactly what your looking for.. Standby

Okay..

For a new cockpit view as pilot I use VFR Pilot View Save.

Then assign your binding, for me Alpha Yoke top left white button.

That view is my view each time I reset my pilot view. The saves work for other custom saves and loads as well the kicker is the variant must stay the same. You change for wheeled to float variant for example the float is considered a whole other plane needing its own customs, and it sucks.

Couple of these buttons are custom saves works all the time I load in plane this is my stream deck layout

Custom views below not the default left/right views, default right view goes right to my first officers Bum, understandably.

With all that I agree 2024 is a mess, seems like a whole other team from ground up refuse to even look at 2020 for all the good things and now we are back to square one fixing and patching 2024 for a long time to come. I dont mine new but this should have been MSFS2025 at least.

[musefan12345]

Just adding a vote to this topic. This is probably the most annoying bug I’ve encountered yet, and I’ve experienced a hell of a lot of bugs. It’s not going to be an issue for anyone if they stay in the same aircraft. But If you get into an aircraft and save custom cameras, then get into another aircraft and save custom cameras, it seems to recall the cameras from the previous aircraft when selected.

Only way I have found to “fix” it, is to restart the sim. And lets be honest. That’s not really an acceptable “fix”.

[BragRaindrop933]

Just to add my experience in. I was very used to being able to set custom camera views to ALT keys on the keyboard. I lived on these views in fs2020 and was keen to set them up in fs2024. So I was frustrated to find that ctrl+alt+1,2,3,4 etc were not functioning as I usually expected using the default fs2024 profile for keyboard.

Then I found that using the 2020 profile for keyboard map reverted that situation to where I could setup and use custom cameras again like I was used to.

However - and this is where it gets interesting, when you save a new keybind it doesnt save it to the default fs2020 profile keybinds it saves it to a new profile name eg. something like “my new keyboard profile”.

Now what I found was if you accept that default name instead of renaming it to something more obvious eg “my new keyboard profile - Twotter” every time you modify a profile again on any aircraft it will also use the default “my new keyboard profile” too. So for example on the Twotter I had set up custom cameras for the keyboard, but they seemed to work once then suddenly on next flight they would stop working. It took me ages to find that I had duplicate profiles all called the same thing, but only one of them had my custom camera views for the Twotter saved in it. I went through them and deleted all the extra ones (about 4 of them) with the same name and the one with saved camera views is now saved to have the word Twotter in it to make it more obvious as to what it is.

So it’s worth checking for duplicates if you are using the default new profile names instead of renaming them to somehting you will remember. I’m not sure if all these duplicates are a bug or not or just my inexperience. It’s very likely though that they came from other aircraft when I went in to customise their keyboard commands and forgot to give them a memorable name.

[MontgomeryB28]

Adding my vote. I have been able to define sets of save-load view keyboard combinations but this works only for some aircraft. In others, when I try to save a different view, the load command still gives me the default view (whatever was programmed originally).

[WingC3]

I think you’re right. It’s definitely something more nuanced than them not working at all, because they definitely are working for me in most cases.

[killerbsting16]

i agree, has this bug been fixed yet?

[musefan12345]

I haven’t had this issue since the last patch, but that doesn’t mean it has been fixed. I always got it randomly when switching to a new aircraft, and I haven’t really switched between aircraft all that much since the patch.

[musefan12345]

Ok, can confirm that they haven’t fixed it

[ThermicAlloy289]

737-800 MAX has an issue with loading custom camera 2–automatically loads the cabin regardless of your saved custom position.

[ThermicAlloy289]

I can confirm this is true as seen in my game with the default c172 livery and the green c172 livery given to you during the cargo delivery missions.

[Sartanius]

Throwing my vote on this as well. I am using the former MS2020 custom camera save keystrokes 9with a new keyboard profile), and they have been working great for the most part, but occasionally an aircraft will not allow saving a new Custom Camera 2 (CTL-ALT-2). Instead, the sim goes to some predefined view every time I hit ALT-2. This is particularly an issue with the Vision Jet. I hope someone can figure out where the view is hidden and how we can save a new custom view for ALT-2.

Edit: See my update a few posts below. Problem has been solved for me.

[MontgomeryB28]

The issue is still here after the latest update. Can’t define custom views with the chosen key combinations, the views selected when pressing the load key are built in and can’t change.

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: after creating key binds to save and load custom cameras, I do the cockpit glitch as per msfs 2020 to get outside the aircraft. I save the outside view and then continue to set my first custom view inside the cabin of the aircraft (for this trial I used the a321). First of all, sometimes you couldnt get into the cabin, and when you could there would be obstacles stopping you from getting to where you wanted the camera view to be. But the main issue is once happy with the view and once saved, as soon as you then load that camera angle, it isnt even the same as what you saved it as.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?

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YOUR SETTINGS

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