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Hi, I have the same FlightBeams KSFO and have gone back to SU4 because of the settings issues. When I did try it had considerable stutters in VR, but hard to debug anything. FYI on the trees on approach into 28L or R on you left at 1000’ on the ILS is Coyote Point Park/Marina and there are some ve…

performance wise, has gone a bit worst than with SU4 not sure why. didn’t change anything still, not too bad, I still get mostly about 70-80 in flight except around big airports, when it can drop to 40-50 one thing I notice tho… it crashes more now. anything it doesn’t go it’s way - crash. I e…

[image] yungmartin6502: When’s the next build dropping? I think a new “survey” post just appeared, so I would assume the next Beta is imminent (i.e. minutes away :slight_smile: )

[image] BigCow74: the next Beta is imminent It’s already loaded on my laptop.

It’s not well known, but Nixon actually moved next door to MSFS’s content delivery network server in Redmond, WA, so he gets the Beta’s several microseconds faster than everyone else…

1.56 GB update via MS Store. Not sure if this would be considered a tip, but I seem to avoid trouble by checking for updates using the Windows MS Store app, and letting it update that way while MSFS is not running - rather than opening MSFS and having it update itself while open.

I’ve personally not had any of the issues in your post.

Generally bug wise, the SkyVan is still unusable.

Fixed some debug not correctly reset when closing the devmode Ha, so now when you turn off Dev Mode, the FPS overlay actually goes away entirely.

[image] Sim Update 5 Beta (1.7.7.0) Release Notes - February 20, 2026 Temporary fix for visual glitch on AMD Radeon RX 9xxx due to badly read exposure in divergent code path. I did a quick test, and the problem seems to be finally resolved. This needs to be confirmed by others with different a…

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Sim Update 5 Beta | MSFS 2024 SU5 Beta Discussion

Jummivana February 20, 2026, 9:00pm 685

A new beta build is now available:

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