Feature Request: Comprehensive Global Settings Profiles (Cloud-Synced)

[GrzEagle13]

Description:

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 offers an incredible depth of settings, which are highly convenient due to cloud synchronization. However, depending on how a simmer uses the simulator for a specific session, the ideal configuration changes drastically.

Currently, users have to manually tweak dozens of options back and forth when switching between entirely different flying styles.

The Problem:

Different flight scenarios require completely contradictory global setups. For example:

Airliner Operations (with custom ATC & external traffic injectors): Requires internal ATC turned off, specific graphics settings to handle heavy airports, and external traffic sliders set to zero to avoid conflicts with injectors like FSLTL or BeyondATC.

Group Flights / VFR: Requires multiplayer turned on, standard nameplates enabled, and different graphic priorities.

Low-End Performance / VR: Requires quick switching of graphic and LOD baselines.

Manually changing these options every time is tedious and prone to configuration errors.

Proposed Solution:

Introduce “Global Settings Profiles” (or “Sim States”) that allow players to save and load their entire configuration with a single click.

Profile Saving: A snapshot of all current settings (Graphics, Traffic, Assistance, Sound, and Data) can be saved under a custom name (e.g., “Airliner Online”, “VFR Group Flight”, “VR Mode”).

Cloud Sync: These profiles should be saved to the cloud, just like the current single configuration is.

Quick Switch: An option in the main menu (or even a prompt during simulator startup) to select the desired profile for the upcoming session.

This quality-of-life feature would greatly enhance the user experience for everyone who uses MSFS 2024 for more than just one specific type of flying.

[SmotheryVase665]

@GrzEagle13
Have a look at this existing wish:

Add ability to save Graphics setting profiles

It’s nice to see the forums opened up. Applied for Alpha back in December of last year and didn’t get in, which I wanted to badly but now that it’s here I can’t wait for it. It seems to me there are a lot of graphics settings, and some that takes several flights to figure out. I would like a feature in this game to be able to create “profiles” of different setting combinations that I can use to quickly change settings depending on the type of flying I am doing, without having to manually go thr…

Would your wish fall within this? If so, I’ll merge yours into the above wish. Having separate wishes that are very similar tends to split votes, thus potentially preventing both wishes from reaching the threshold to make it into the Lifetime wishlist list that is often shown during the Development Livestreams.

[GrzEagle13]

"Thank you for the suggestion! However, I would prefer to keep this request separate, as it goes significantly beyond just graphics settings.

The thread you mentioned focuses specifically on saving graphics presets. My proposal, on the other hand, calls for Comprehensive Global Settings Profiles. This includes saving and switching entirely different simulator states—encompassing Traffic settings (essential for turning off AI traffic when using external injectors), Assistance options, Sound, Data limits, and ATC configurations all at once.

Since this touches almost every system in MSFS 2024 to accommodate entirely different flying styles (like transitioning from a heavy airliner setup with external ATC to a casual multiplayer VFR group flight), a simple graphics preset wouldn’t solve the core issue.

I hope we can keep this thread open to gather feedback specifically for a full-system profile feature!"

[SmotheryVase665]

No problem - we’ll keep them separate. What I will do is show a link above the first post on each topic pointing to the other.