Exactly, it was only just now I put two and two together for myself and I think understood their original thought process. That they ignored the other component is weird to me, but, whatever. I know they know that people want uncontrolled flights in game, too, and they are working through it. It’s an interesting problem to solve… What proportion of those flights? (is there a performance hit if too much traffic?), how does ATC interact with those flights? What kind of plane do you substitute and how? and so on.
And then you’ve got live MSFS traffic, too, so that’s three streams of data to track and control (controlled, uncontrolled, live players)
I will say, I came across 3 guys pretty obviously flying together around NH and Boston last week, and it was pretty fun watching them fly around to various airports and watch what they were doing Based on their names, it looked like they were from France? Maybe Quebec?
I haven’t had traffic for a couple of days now… but then, of course, I have been flying over remote Canada and Greenland and Iceland, so I was thinking it was just because I was in remote areas. But I am in Scotland now, so still no traffic. Weather started working today on every flight. Last couple of days weather was down after first flight. In flight planner it was showing real weather in origin airport, but destination airport had blank wind. It was resulting in clear sky and 29.92 for the flight. It all kind of fixed itself today and is working properly.
Weather has been working correctly like that for me for a few days now (no restart required). Not sure when it started, but it’s absolutely a welcome fix.
Now, they just need to fix traffic so that it’s more reliable, and I’d be a happy camper (more than I already am).
Lucky you. I tried mine again today and it only works on first session. Have to restart to get it to work agian. I have to use the ‘workaround’ to get it to work still.
I wonder how many people hit the little “Live” button and think that means live weather. What I saw in one instruction said that’s only for automatically setting live Time. Confusing it is for me, it should say Set Live Time, not just Live, with the button just over the weather type selection.
I’ve had live weather work for me ever since the last update. I’m positive it was working yesterday, I haven’t flown today yet.
You typically have to leave it sitting at that screen for a minute or two since last update before it populates itself with data. Only today, the big red Server Offline message tells a different story.
Does anyone think there could be a link between this and my GPU showing around 10% usage during flight? Everything more or less runs smooth with a fps around 40 - 45. I run a rtx 3090 & i9 9900 on a 1440 49" ultra wide - everything ultra. I don’t see anything different really, just that odd gpu reading - normally around 90%.
So, I just checked. Yep, no live traffic. Yes traffic of users. Winds in the map are totally incorrect, but, in game, the weather pretty much matches the live weather. Hard to say, winds are similar (calm, game says 5, which is basically calm), clouds are overcast 3300 ft at the moment, game says light clouds at 1500, light clouds at 4600, visibility 10mi, game visibility 10 mi…close enough for me, seems like Live Weather is working.
Yes, that’s seems like a likely hypothesis to me. Maybe they are doing something about live traffic and that’s why it’s down? They did mention that traffic was a big drag on the system.
Yes, that’s what they “fixed” (by reducing the radius of active AI), that doesn’t preclude the fact that perhaps Live Traffic also is a drag on graphics, he was just asking if it was possible. Maybe it needs fixin’ too?
Who knows, maybe they found that they need to reduce the radius or something about live traffic, too, and they’re doing maintenance on the server? Likelihood, eh, 50/50, you’d think they’d have said something, but, not impossible.
Based on their names, it looked like they were from France? Maybe Quebec?
