Interesting observation:
TLDR: the download speed ‘issue’ appears to be package dependent.
sigh, here we go again…
After setting my VPN to the US (Seattle) the download finished in seconds. How is this still a thing?!
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Thx for this hint. Tested with Seattle as well and is running like a charm
Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
Yes
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Initial game download from Xbox Gamepass app is fine, downloads in roughly 5 mins. Required update of ~125GB jus tdoesn’t install. Download speed fluctuates up and down, between 0 and 40Mbps, but no download progress ever made, even when left for hours.
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I refuse to get a VPN for flight sim to work. Everything else on my pc is just fine.
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still go 2mbita download speed for updates in content manager
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I think it depends on filesize. For me, larger files show the following behaviour: the download starts with low speed (around 2.5 Mbps) and when it is nearing a certain threshold, the speed quickly ramps up to around 100 Mbps, which is my maximum. It stays that way until the next file follows. Then the speed slowly dwindles down to 2.5 Mbps again - if it is larger file, with smaller files the dwindling stops before reaching the lowest rate. If a larger file follows, the dwindling continues down to around 2.5 Mbps again until said threshol is reached and it ignites again.
The same behaviour was shown with SU13 just now, here’s a video to illustrate it:
What it shows:
- it starts with fs-base-genericairports-0.1.48.fspackage ramping up from 2.98 Mbps to full speed, followed by
- fsbase-genericairports-0.1.50.fspatch with dwindling speed, but not fully down, probably due to smaller filesize, followed by a small file, then
- microsoft-aircraft-a310-300-1.1.12 fspatch showing the speed diminishing towards zero and ramping up until the next file follows, when the cycle starts over again.
Videospeed 3 times faster for viewers convienience.
I typed a few messages here and then deleted - as I thought being constructive is best. I decided to be positive after a few (ahem WAY more than a few) painful hours.
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MS 2024 being more in the cloud (if it works technically) is good.
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The concept of World Updates (nothing wrong per se) didn’t work when the curtain lifted on this particular sim update. Many don’t ever touch bush flights…perhaps we prefer to plan VFR real-world into exotically short back-country strips on our own (when qualified) or just aim to beat the Check Flight Exam next month and do as much as we can to prepare with our real-world emergency field choice and Navigraph / real world charts - whilst using our old fashioned ‘spinning slide ruler’ fuel calculators & stopwatch to impress the CFI next month. Maybe you’re ATPL & landing at a major hub airport next week for the first time and want to ‘get the feel’ of the STAR or taxi-ways. It’s all good. Maybe you’re a teenager who has never flown - that’s OK - we’ve all been there. I would like to be able to NOT download what I don’t use.
As a regular user of the sim I’ve got the main install of MSFS on my modest 500Gb NVME SSD with the base, pay-ware & aircraft files (including A310, FBW A320 Neo, A330 Headwind, JS Hawk, BBS Islander etc), various core avionic upgrades, Aircraft up-grades (eg DC3 enhanced), Navigraph & FSLTL) etc on this fast drive - but all of the free scenery & liveries from flightsim.to (approaching 2,000 files now) is parked on my 2 TB HDD courtesy of Add-on Linker. Until now that all worked out OK - but the inability to re-install each World Update then ‘cut’ the standard scenery files from SSD to larger HDD is proving painful now. I’m confident that this has been discussed by the team and is (to them) hopefully old news - but at the sharp end & watching my disk space - and file integrity - it’s still a major concern.
- Linked to above, we MUST have the option to ‘dodge’ anything more than a critical core sim update during the boot sequence. All those POI, hand-crafted airports, discovery flights (used once), training flights (never used) landing challenges (I won’t go there on this thread…but I love them when they work PROPERLY), we absolutely must have the option of installing these or not - using the content manager (NOT THE INSTALLER) without compromising the running of the sim itself. As I’m in the process of re-installing literally every World Update since the SU13 proved unlucky for me I think I’m maybe not the only one feeling a bit down…but optimistic we will eventually end up with the sim we all want.
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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
Yes
Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue:
Download extremely slow. I have 1 Gbit and i downloaded starfield throught MS Store in less than an hour. MSFS downloads on average at 2-3 Mbits with some peaks at 250 Mbits rarely.
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So after having had the honor to reinstall Win11 yesterday (which was already fun due to TPM errors and long known formatting issues during installation - thanks MS), I’m now in about 8 hours of MSFS2020 downloading and far from finished.
The ingame download speeds have never been great, but the current state is absolutely inacceptable.
I have stable 250Mbit cable connection which always performs at max, e.g. during Steam downloads.
But the FS2020 ingame downloader randomly varies between 0-40Mbit, sometimes suddenly peaking over 200Mbit for a short period… as many of you already described above…
If this is the tech they want to use in the background of FS2024 for “more cloud data” - then good night…
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I still don’t get more than 3MBit/s in content manager downloads, for example world updates. (On a wired 500MBit/s fiber uplink)
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I legit cannot even play MSFS. What is with these 1998 updates? I have been trying to download this update for two days now. It takes forever and freezes at 100%. I go exit out and have to restart the entire download again.
What the heck is going on here?
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Same problem here. 2mbit for 300Gb download. This could not be.
Same for me on Xbox and slow downloads in content manager and the downloads stay there even after I’ve downloaded. When I close down the sim and start again I’ve got yet more updates and going round in circles and still no comments from the devs regarding this 4 days after the sim update it’s beyond a joke.
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It’s a 3rd day I’m trying to install the updates (managed to dowload 70 of 120 GB) - I just uninstalled and started over - did not helped…
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Just decided to buy FlightFX’s Cirrus Vision Jet and see a pitiful 2.4Mbits/s. After about 2 minutes I see it ramp up to 64Mbits/s for about 40 seconds and then it drops down and fluctuates between 1.8 and 2.4Mbits/s.
This is an extremely poor customer experience for someone who bought it on Steam and is used to seeing 15MBits/s (megabytes, not megabits) per second download speeds for games on the Steam platform. Asobo / Microsoft should be ashamed of their Marketplace platform infrastructure performance.
FYI I’m in Manchester, UK on a Virgin Media M125 package. PC is a Intel i9 10900K, 64Gb Ram, 2080Ti.
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Exactly the same…
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The server side update deployed last weekend by the MSFS support team nor the mitigations (deleting local files) seemed to help with this issue.
A complete reinstall did also not help.
I really hope for a fix because downloading all world updates with this bug is a problem and literally takes forever.
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Well the issue has been present several times, and this times 6 months. I guess it just finally caught up to them with this update. I don’t think it will be any different than people find it now. It’s been this way a long time.
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