the sim worked fine on the 2nd day after release for about a few hours and since then it has been an absolute catastrophy. It first felt like Microsoft really did gradually up their server capacity until they didn’t.
I have 32 hours logged in Steam and under 4 hours of flight time.
Never have I ever looked this long at loading screens in my life.
This made me buy a reputable VPN.
– It did not help. No matter what country and I’ve tried LOTS.
I don’t know what else to do. My internet connection is fast.
I had lots of patience and its used up now.
After the initial release, with everyone wanting to try it at once, things settled down during the week, but of course most people were waiting for the weekend to install it, so we’ve seen a second wave of server issues.
I’d wait a week or two before judging the performance, I suspect that their servers are set up for a ‘normal’ load, rather than everyone trying it at once for the first time.
Wow, can confirm!
Also in Germany, starting up the Sim changed from ~10min to ~6min after the flushdns, not that big difference but noticeable.
But the magic happens when inside the sim, mission load time is now dow to sub 1 min and i was also able to start the career! Yesterday afternoon i terminated the start misson after over an hour watching the turning circle with no activity on the network. After the flush i could load the initial career mission in under a minute and most importantly, the whole waitig time i had close to 100% of my IP provider bandwith of 100MBit.
So also a hearty thx from here as well!
I swapped my rolling cache from the default c drive to E drive which is my newest and fastest nvme drive. The rest of MSFS2024 is on a slightly older and slower SSD on drive F.
I also upped the size from std 16GB to 32GB.
Since I usually depart from the same airport, the game now loads in about 10 seconds and that is with inibuilds third party leeds bradford airport already installed.
Try a fresh install, doesn’t make much of a difference timewise.
Helped me last Wednesday morning. I guess if the first install attempt breaks something is permanently damaged.
I just had 10minutes wait for a simple career tutorial. This is just ■■■■, they need to offer a download for the data again immediately. It is clear nothing works really specially here in europe.