Global Time Not Progressing at the Increased Sim Rate

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:white_check_mark: SIM INFORMATION

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  • Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 or 2024: MSFS 2024

  • Version Build Number (Where do I locate that?): 1.1.7.0

  • Game Platform (Example: Steam, Xbox, MS Store): XBox (Series X)

:white_check_mark: ISSUE DESCRIPTION

  1. Description of the issue: Give a brief description of the issue:

When increasing sim rate in MSFS 2024, time advances more quickly for the plane and pilot, but moves at the same rate globally. This functionality is bugged because increasing the sim rate should accelerate the rate at which global time moves, as was the case in MSFS 2020.

For longer-distance flights, most flight sim enthusiasts will increase the simulation rate in the cruise phase, allowing them to arrive at waypoints, fixes, and destinations in a shorter real-world time but at the same expected sim-time they would otherwise. For example, if it is 1700 UTC in-sim and my next fix is 40 minutes away, increasing sim rate to double should allow me to arrive at the fix at 1740 UTC sim-time after only 20 real-world minutes have elapsed.

This is how increased sim rate behaves in MSFS 2020. In MSFS 2024, increasing sim rate is bugged: global time does not progress at the increased sim rate. This creates all sorts of problems for the proper simulation of flight navigation, which requires a pilot to arrive at geographic fixes at specific times during the flight.

  1. Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue? No add-ons installed.

:white_check_mark: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you? (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)
Consistently

:white_check_mark: REPRODUCTION STEPS

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As can be seen in the video clip above, one can observe the issue by pulling up the EFB and selecting the stopwatch. When the stopwatch is started and the sim rate is increased, time on the stopwatch moves at an increased rate. However, global time shown on the aircraft’s clock continues to move at the real-world rate rather than at the increased sim rate.

:white_check_mark: YOUR SETTINGS

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  1. What peripherals are you using, if relevant: Standard-issue Xbox controller.

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

  3. [PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12? N/A

  4. [PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? N/A

  5. [PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share? N/A

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So crucial for long haul flights. This needs fixing!!

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• Exact same issue

Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue:
• Issue still present on version 1.1.9.0

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
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• Same issue and it’s a problem because the way to know which rate you’re using is by looking at the clock. If the clock doesn’t progress quicker there is no way to get back to standard sim rate.

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Not only that - changing the sim rate settings sometimes makes it impossible to go back to 1x. Its either too slow or too fast. The fact there is no option to reset to 1.0 and that the current sim rate is not displayed for a moment when you engage it is beyond my comprehension.

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Isn’t it a matter of decreasing the sim rate by the same amount you increased it to get back to 1? And if it’s not displayed how would you know it isn’t back to 1?
But yeah that’s a huge bummer that the actual time doesn’t increase as sim-rate work very well with the A330, even at 4x.

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• Exact same issue

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Thank you for the bug report.

We have created an internal ticket to see if our team already has this logged, and if not they will attempt to reproduce the issue and create a new bug report. This item is now marked as feedback-logged. If there is an existing bug report or one is created, we will move this thread to bug-logged

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• Same problem here

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• Sim rate works with some planes, but fuel consumption and in game global time don’t change.

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Exact same issue as OP, sim rate accelerates but not time accordingly (unlike MSFS2020)

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Same issue here
I found this problem when I checked the time if the time increase to see if the sim rate is higher or lower
Could be good to have on screen the sim rate as FS2020

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This!! I thought I’m going senile or so. Once you change the sim rate you seem to be either in 2x or in 0.5x mode. This is really annoying, obvious and I’m surprised that this made it to live. On the other side, one week later - nothing surprises me anymore lol

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Another thing that was perfectly fine in 2020 broken in 2024.

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thank the lord!!
i thought i was loosing it
i saw that too, and not only in 2024… i saw that in 2020 as well
changing the rate “two up” and then “two down” doesn’t result in the original rate, it results in some weird in-between rate, like 1.25 or 0.75
and also, no rate indicator in 2020, and no rate indicator in 2024
so, yeah…

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You can read the simconnect.simrate variable in any tool such as spad.next. I have actually mapped it to a radial led indicator on a midi controller as a workaround :smiley:

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This has been a problem with the sim since 2020 that for some reason has never been resolved. But in 2020, I used to be able to look at the in-cockpit clock and time the seconds to see whether I’d returned to 1x time. Now the in-cockpit clock always ticks at 1 sec/sec regardless of sim rate. In 2020, there were 2 stops below 1x, so you could spam the sim-rate down button until it had bottomed out and then click up twice. That doesn’t seem to work in 2024. Please dear god give us a way to reset the sim rate to 1.

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Same issue here, global time is not progressing with increased sim rate, worked perfectly in MSFS2020

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I also have the same issue. I also find that after the update the sim time stays stationary while the plane clock keeps ticking.

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This is still an issue after 1.2.7.0!
Please fix soon.

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I have assigned 2 keys to increase and decrease simrate and nothing happens when I hit them. Also It would be nice when you are in accelerated simrate, that sim rate factor should show up on your screen to let the user know if they are 2x, 4x etc and back to 1X.