I have tried 11 times with different aircraft, and JFK will not load at all, it’s CTD’s every single time. I have no clue what is going on, but I can take a guess that since I have the SamScene3D New York City skyline package, plus the lighting package for New York City, and the RKBridger bridge pack for a lot of New York City that they just cannot load, obviously.
Anyone else have these packs installed and getting JFK to boot any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you very much.
Edit: Lucky number 13 loaded up with a Cessna Skyhawk 172 (G1000) and I was actually able to takeoff, however, as I flew over the airport the screens went black and then CTD’d. So progress!!!
Yes I had similar - can’t spawn from there at all no matter which plane - it’s the airport and memory issues - it’s shocking really - when do get to taxi around it takes too much time to load in scenery assets - it’s awful one of the worst I’ve seen. It can’t be well optimised - who tested this on x box?? I can usually land there but it’s not great taxiing around seeing buildings form from blank shapes around you. It needs some serious optimisation work.
Oh yeah, I guess it had to do with memory and the ram especially, I believe they updated it once and that update did absolutely nothing. Not quite sure why they cannot get this airport right when I have there LAX and Heathrow, among others, and they were absolutely fine?
Maybe it has to do with a majority of people having the SamScene New York City skyline, and a bunch of other add-ons. I mentioned I have the RKBridger bridge pack, which technically we are not supposed to download on Xbox because it will interfere with the SamScene New York City bundle, however, I found it does not affect anything really.
So let’s hope iNibuilds fixes this problem soon because I paid good money for this add-on, and I would like to use it.
My suspicion is if this addon was tested on Xbox, it was tested in isolation and other addons weren’t considered at all. I’d try just loading in with this addon and see if that works better.
Unfortunately it’s a situation where any particular developer has no incentive to think about interactions with other addons, which makes sense as they can’t control other developer products.
And MS has disavowed responsibility for this too despite running the marketplace and taking a cut of all sales with no warning of this problem and a limited refund policy. A shame all around for console users. It’s entirely buyer beware, which limits sales and the long run user experience.
For sure. I haven’t bought any scenery for over 3 weeks now. In those 3 weeks, there were A LOT of new additions to the Marketplace which I would have bought, if it wasn’t for the inconsistentsy with this Sim on Xbox regarding addons.
Yes you’re probably correct I have the additional adds like you for New York and I guess it takes it’s toll but it can be done - some developers (Pyreegue) for example are brilliant at optimising their very detailed and complex scenery!
Did a bit of my own testing here and found out a few things.
By itself, it works fine with few CTDs and minimal loading issues. Still could be optimized much better though, similar to what they did to their EGLL and KLGA.
RKBridger NJ and NY updates installed give no issues and loads about the same.
With Drzewiecki KEWR and FeelThere KLGA installed, it’s a bit slower but seems to still work with a slightly worse texture loading times, very few CTDs.
With only SamScene3D NY Times, it’s significantly slower, but still seems to work with minimal CTDs. RKBridger adds for NJ and NY are pretty minimal.
All of these installed without KJFK works fine and very smooth, but when installing everything together, that’s when I get constant CTDs. I think it just comes down to KJFK needing to be optimized much better, especially on XBox. Hopefully they will make those updates like they did to EGLL and KLAX and it should work fine after that.
Any update on iniBuilds KJFK? They have not updated it since they released it, and they must know it needs some tweaking. I have it uninstalled right now because it is basically impossible to load into it or fly into it without either blank screens or most likely a CTD on my Series X.
I believe there was one update a few months back, but since then nothing. I don’t think it really helped optimize it, so we’ll have to continue to wait for an improved version.
That is no good! I own KLAX, EGLL, KDTW, KPHNL (Honolulu), Hooper Heliport (in downtown LA), KBUF (Buffalo-Niagara), KSAT (San Antonio), NFFN (Nadi), LEIB (Ibiza) EGHI (Southampton), and the Venice Beach package they did with the fictional KLVB (right by KLAX) all work really, really well. It took a few updates for KLAX and EGLL especially, but they finally got them optimized very well in the end, so no excuses for KJFK!
Also, jeez…just look at the money right there I have put into iniBuilds/MSFS and that does not even come close to scratching the surface (good thing I am not married to my GF or she would probably set limits on how much I can spend on MSFS, even though it is my own money) of add-ons I have. I seriously did not realize I had this many iniBuilds products
The other airport I have from them is one they collaborated with iBlueYonder (or maybe they are part of iniBuilds?) on and that is KDAL (Dallas-Love Field) and that needs to be updated with some optimizations because I get more blank screens/CTD’s there than even KJFK, and I have no other third party stuff in the Dallas area like I do with the NYC area. KDFW is viewable (from the air) when departing/arriving KDAL, and I think because that is a detailed star airport that has something to do with it, and the fact that you get an enhanced version of downtown Dallas with KDAL. When it works, it is awesome, just like KJFK!
A lot of these companies sell us stuff, update it a few times (or never) and then move onto the next project and basically forget about the stuff they sold us which sometimes like KJFK is not in proper working order. I did not think iniBuilds was like that, but it appears at least with JFK they are, or for some reason it is taking FOREVER to get it optimized. I avoid companies that sell things that do not work and then do not update them, so even though iniBuilds has a great track record, I might pump the breaks on their upcoming stuff for a little bit.
Maybe it is time we all contact them (I did way back a little bit after the release telling them it was not optimized correctly…going to again after I finish this post) and let them know so it does not turn into a useless add-on we cannot use. The excuse will be it is because of all the add-ons we have in the NYC area, but that will not hold water since I have tons of add-ons for the LA area (as pointed out above) and all of them work perfectly fine, and honestly, the whole game (in my opinion) is working better in SU13.