Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 General Feedback

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1816

I can agree with you about broken car comparison.
But today software is functioning like that.
I have a friend and cousin who are developers. I am also IT enthusiast, someone who isn’t professional in IT, but I have mediocre knowledge and interest in IT.
When I complain to them how today software is released with bugs and unfinished, but at same time developers have high salaries, they say it is how it works today. It is a complex thing, we can’t make everything works at 1st version and also depends from PC to PC, not all systems are the same.
And they are stuborn in that, they say it should be like that. I compared software to commercial aircraft, it is complex machine. So in 1st version it could get broke and crush, but untill next version is done, no help.
Also it flies in cold and hot weather, in rain, snow, day and night. What is even worse, it is not rare that after one updats, things that were working, gets broken.

But maybe developers aren’t to blame 100%, maybe 20%, I blame more those who are pushing them to release unfinished software.

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1817

My last rant for today

Well after a full clean uninstall (using Revo Uninstaller) and reinstalling MSFS2024 fresh there has been nil difference to the performance of the game. Didn’t mind having to rebind all my throttle and yoke systems and change some of the keyboard settings but what annoyed me is even with me doing this the game has a mind of its own and still applied bindings that I removed. As well as options I disabled, such as chat to txt, made no difference. I still had the AI ATC, that I had also disabled, pop up in front of my eyes constantly.

The worst part was I have spent the last 5.5 hours doing this and every time I tried to install and prepare a flight (right up to Push and Start) I kept getting CTD’s. (Using the Fenix A320 that is supposed to be compatible) I even removed all content from the community folder and still no difference.

I’m going back to 2020.

I feel deflated and ripped off. Heres the thing I was one of those that purchased the Aviator version on a pre order before release date and when it was released I installed it along with 5 million others and after several days of disappointment I requested a refund and it was paid back to me within a day.

So I kept viewing posts, updates on Youtube and this forum and mostly I started to get the view that things had got a lot better with the last major update, (thanks Sim…ger) with the caveat that there was a lot still to do to improve things. So I decided to give it another go. Instead I purchased the Premium Deluxe version this time.
Well I have tried for the last 2 days and have only been able to fly the Fenix A320 twice but have tried most of the aircraft in the game with all of them not getting off the ground. (about 50 attempts. yesterday I tried for 17hours to get it working.

My specs

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So i don’t believe its my PC causing this.

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1818

I agree and they should say that flight sim is experimental because it always has been. They have always pushed the limits. An upfront remark about this would be nice but aren’t most simulations experimental? Isn’t that what differentiates it from a game?

1819

Actually, they’re getting what they deserve, as relative as this statement can be.

1820

re bindings when you set them up you can make sure they don’t change again if you use the cog beside the setting name and select “set as default”, you can then make those changes propagate across every other aircraft by using the cog and selecting “apply to all aircraft”.
Same goes for is you want to select MSFS2020 bindings instead of FS2024. Just select the 2020 bindings and then do the same “set as default” and “apply to all aircraft”.

You have to do this for keyboard as well as HOTAS or any other peripheral you are using, as they are all mapped individually.

Be sure to give each setup a memorable name as the default one if you leave it as default can get multiple copies of the same name being auto generated if you change a binding. This I think is one of the most confusing aspect of the FS2024.

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It is, and I’ve been flying it pretty much continuously in FS2024. It hasn’t caused a CTD yet. I have an older generation of your setup. 5950x, 3090, 64GB RAM not using VR though. Latest NVidia drivers, Win11 24H2.

Also are you using the latest Fenix uodate as it’s had a few patches recently for FS2024.

I’d say with CTD’s make sure you are not adding too much content into your community folder. Just add in a small a amount at a time. Also if you have local 3rd party copies of some of the premium airports in fs2024 be sure to remove the premium ones in the sim (you can do this now since last update).

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1821

This sounds good in theory, but I have done this innumerable times and I still get the default bindings most times when I begin a new flight. Or even “None” on occasion.

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1822

yes it’s hard to get on top of admittedly especially if you change aircraft. I ended up repeating it on several aircraft and it finally seems to be fine. You do have to go hunt for the auto saved version of control profiles and delete all of them so there is only one remaining. (Apart from the default ones that you can’t delete). You also have to go set up helis the same way, but separate from aircraft. It’s admittedly not a very user friendly system. Took me two whole weeks to get used to it, and I still have questions about it!

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1823

On further investigation it seems an issue with German Telekom customers and there is a work around.

1824

Hi Microsoft and Asobo Team

it’s the 15th of December 2024 end after a few days of trial and error with a few reinstalls I finally have a running MSFS2024. Even my “Telekom” Bandwith issue is gone. And man is this a stunning grafical experience. Honestly the the new lighting system is awesome, just had a flight towards the upcomming sun. WOW just WOW. Yes it might not be all perfect yet inside the simulataor but it’s working kinda alright for me. Many thanks MS / Asobo for the latest Patches. I know they not working for some folks out there but thats just the nature of the beast.

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1825

Can we please have a light expience, where all the “bells and whisles” are turned off? The walking around, removing house size covers over the engines, the INSANE ui made for visually impaired people and 3year olds, the camera movement going out of the plane anytime i want to open te menu to change a keybinding.
You wanted to make the client light, but instead its a circus.

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1828

I know how product release works. My former job at a low level in a big company where we usually got it right due to good management. Management naturally is pushing to release - I have to believe there were some heated arguments about the release date within Asobo management with lower level folks who know the actual state of unreadiness arguing for a few more weeks to fix the most glaring bugs.

Just one example: I can’t even fly some of these planes in RL weather since the visibility of gauges in dark weather is so bad. Any developer involved would certainly know that. I assume they take a look at the results of every minor code change since their jobs depend on results. But before they can fix it they are directed to work on some other aspect that management thinks is more important. Game things like “Challenges” instead of realism.

Whatever happens, I hope the financials are a great sucess for everyone involved since future support of this product depends on profitability.

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1829

Absolutely love what they’ve done with the airports, jetways look great! (Kansai Aiport) Must be the power of AI.

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1830

Which wont work for everybody. Tried several things, including all mentioned workarounds.

As soon as the game starts

→ Download Language 2%
→ Jumps to "Donwload packge 7%
→ 7% still stays but switches to VFS activating package and starts to mentioned, the bandwith is to low.

After that point, my DL-Rate (in the performance monitor goes down to zero from something around 5mb/s to 0kb/s). I did a speedtest with ookla while this happend and had 0 issues reaching 117mb/s. So there’s clearly an issue with the servercommunication.

After 38 minutes, i reached “16% VFS activating packages”. Then all of a sudden, it starts to download world data within a couple of seconds and stops at 85%. Needs some additional 2-3 minutes until I’m in the game (the first time after 4 days).

Flight has been loaded but no textures were loaded. So i was in a cockpit with just the frame and the middle console-polygon. World Textures were also not really loaded and a blurry, washy mess.

After 3 Minutes, i tried to “restart flight” which was leading the game into loading circle of death and since then, I’m again not able to join because it’s stuck at 7%.

FYI: The machine is completely fresh installed (win 10, newest build).

FS2024 has been completely reinstalled. All drivers are at current state, dns flushed, network connections reset, no mods, no nothing. Just the plain sim.

Either if DNS is 1.1.1.1 / 1.0.0.1 or automatically choosen there is no difference in what has been choosen there.

Also, anything else runs perfectly fine. Steam downloads are at 106mb/s etc.

It’s just the sim that is behaving like a dead possum…

At this point, im just 100% dissapointed and this is the worst thing you can do to a customer that was always backing you up. So..yeah, you did great if that was you goal.

None the less, I’m happy for all you guys that are able to experience all of this. Enjoy it, flying is such a great thing and it for years, we dreamed of a sim like this (regarding the graphics :wink: ).

It’s just that i dont really trust you in fixing this. It’s not that i dont like you or dont trust you at all but at this point, you severaly have to deliver to get back you reputation and trustworthyness. And maybe, with luck, in 6 or 12 Months, we have a sim that is great in both terms: Graphics and reliability/accesability.

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1831

How big is your rolling cache? Mine is 100GB and I don’t have that problem.

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1832

It’s been better for me streaming in wise since setting mine to 128GB.

1833

Is there a reason that a 2X factor (16, 32, 64, 128) is a better option, other than it being bigger than an arbitrary number like 100GB?

I have plenty of disk space, so I could bump mine up to 128GB (or even 256GB if that’s even more desirable.)

TBH, I’m not having any problem streaming data, although that might be due in part to having a 1Gb fiber connection and a good VPN.

As far as the VPN is concerned, I firmly believe it contributes to the overall good performance I’m seeing. ISP’s don’t like us to use massive data streams, and they will throttle downloads from known sites - despite their denials. A VPN can ‘confuse’ them in this regard.

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1834

Asobo said that they have addressed the bandwidth issues with the latest patch release. Even after I uninstalled the original version and reinstalled the new patch version I STILL GET BANDWIDTH WARNINGS from the sim. My internet connection according to Speedtest by Ookla is just fine.

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1835

I doubt it, I’m just stuck in my binary digital universe. I just kept doubling it.

I’m not either, despite really my slow broadband. But I’ve been doing a lot of flights to same areas on same non streamed aircraft and non streamed airports, which makes a huge difference as you would expect.

I always wondered if this is what they did with marketplace downloads. ALways slow for 1.5 years and never got to the bottom of it. Downlaods anywhere else just fine.

1836

I’m afraid it’s far from the real buildings (shape, size, jetway rotating joints sink into the building … ) spoiling immersion.
please refer to the photo from KIX(RJBB) web page …

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1837

I found in FS2020 that my download speeds increased dramatically when I used a VPN. I never used it during flights because I didn’t need to. But with the streaming model FS2024 uses I feel like using a VPN (to a US server) contributes a lot to the good performance I’m seeing.

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