From Italy, 25 Mbits/s line and 23 GB downloaded after 14 hours running! Speed is going up and down from 24 to less than 1 Mbit/s, continuously. I’ve XP11 too, but from the point of view of installation and upgrades time is really another approach, more professional and user oriented…
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I wanted to report “success” in apparently downloading the update after three days. Interestingly, I got a series of weird messages (what is a 0x803F800?) error, including one message on the opening screen something to the effect “you’re nearly there.” The program even loaded and then stopped and said that it didn’t have all of its elements.
Finally, with about 9 gb left, the download finally performed at about 25 mbs or so. It seems clear to me that the fault was not with my machine nor with my ISP provider. Instead, MS must be overloaded when they are publishing such a large update.
If I were MS, I think I might consider fewer updates until I solved my download problems.
That being said, MSFS 2020 is a wonderful attempt to give the public a new kind of experience.
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I’ve requested my refund from Steam today, we’ll see if they process it as I’m outside of the playing time limit - although 35 out of the 39 hours has been downloading!
Almost 2 days to download 4GB out of 148 is just ridiculous. Back to XP11.
I had hoped that after the initial rush on launch day, which always happens, that this would have sorted itself out by now. I guess not. As I said earlier, I had to resort to a VPN to get it downloaded. IT was slow for most of the process but reduced to 1Mpbs when it hit the CGL files. That was the proverbial straw for me. What I should have done, instead of choosing Portugal, was to choose somewhere in the UK for my exit point. If MS are having issues with the servers I usually access in the UK, this should make no difference, in theory at least.
If however it “fixes” things, then this may point to ISP throttling, and they can’t now they cannot see my traffic, just the tunnel.
Yeah I thought the same thing. I’m pretty sure it’s not an ISP throttling issue - I’m a video editor and I’ve just downloaded 30GB video footage over the wifi in about 20 mins flat.
Also just ran a different Steam download which is about 9GB and did it in 10 mins.
Tried the MSFS download again - stuck at 15Mb/s and crawling down the pipe.
It’s crazy that so many people are having the issue and there’s been no formal response to it. But also… 148GB with no option to selectively download content?? Ahh Microsoft. Wish I’d read that bit before I stumped up the 60 quid.
But why would your ISP throttle that traffic? My point was that if its an overload MS server causing the slow downloads, my VPN should make no difference. Although to be fair, I’m in the UK, and I chose Portugal as my endpoint. If I had chosen the UK instead, it would have been more applicable.
If it’s MS, the VPN should make no difference, as the MS servers don’t care where you are coming from.
If its the ISP, then they only care about where you are going, and if they cannot see it due to the VPN, then they can’t throttle it.
I went from 1mbps to 250, simply by using a VPN tunnel. If the MS servers are where the issue was, then it shouldn’t matter how I get there, excluding the UK/Portugal thing.
I’m half tempted to remove that “fs-base-gl” folder, which seems like a good chunk of these updates anyway, and start it off with no VPN, confirm the speed, then quit out, engage the VPN to terminate in my own country, thereby hopefully I get to the same MS servers for my geographic location, and see what difference I get.
No I agree completely.
Anyway, Steam just issued my refund. Winners.
Btw, I don’t know why but using a VPN tunneling and selecting France the speed went from 14 (without tunneling) to 140 Mbps, while using VPN on italian server (I’m in Italy) the speed was 30.
Hi
I don’t think speed has anything with MS server to do. First do we talk about at Dynamic (DHCP) or a “Fixed” IP address. Second, it depend of your provider and his “backbone”. So in fact you have a lot off places were you loose speed. (it dosn’t matter or help with VPN).
Third your own equipment . Harddisk , RAM and/or SSD, your CPU and speed etc.
IIn my case, with 1 GB connection I only got 150 MB download undtil I was direct connected to router
and PC was running in “DOS” mode I got 900 MB (min programs to slow down speed) . It means for my first installation it togs “only” 12 hours.
Hello everyone,
How i found the problem is below.
The tricks to improve the first download - careful it is illegal, but you have an original licence, so i think it’s not much illegal as it is. Download MSFS 2020 via torrent, currently (may 2021) we found on web the version 1.14.5 and the official release is 1.15.0. - unzip “official” and “community” archives in the future folder where you want to install the legal version. Do not launch the illegal version, because it is illegal. Then install a new fresh and legal version MSFS2020 from MS store or steam. Once launcher is installed (more or less 2 go ) , start it then when it asks for update and location, select the folder where you unzipped “official” and “community” packages folder. It should now downloading remaining packages almost 15 go - with the limit bandwitdh, but 15 go is faster than 165 go. IF it keeps to say that there is 165 go to DL, then quit MSFS 2020, look into installation folder, and to move “official” and “community” folders into the subfolder “steam” or “onestore” created by the launcher.
The problem:
After 2 weeks of download, research on web, stupid command to launch on my cmd etc.. i finally found the ultimate solution : there is a parameter inside MSFS 2020 that limits bandwith. You can access to it if you have done with the download. You are not able to access to it before… thx for the logic..
When i finally installed MSFS2020 : i changed limit bandwidth to unlimited, unsintalled the game then reinstalled it after from 0. The limit and slow download disappeared. So yes, I can confirm it is this specific parameter that causes slow download speed. Hopefully, this parameter isn’t deleted on uninstallation. We should be able to find it somewhere in the computer after the launcher is installed, but no one found it for the moment.
example of installation folder with steam :
- steam
- official
- community
must be :
- steam
|->official
|-> community
I was limited at 5mbits now i downloading at 80 mbits.
PS: delete illegal content after that.
cheers.
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I had fast downloads up until SU3, 200-300MBps on my 300Mbps connection.
Since then I have put up with downloads appearing to be capped to about 30Mbps.
Lastnight I started the SU5,and sure enough I got about 15-30Mbps.
Realising it was going to take ages I had time to think what might have changed since SU3, why was it so much slower etc…
Googling around I spotted the netsh command prompt command which I’m sure I’d tried before with no effect but thought I’d give it a go again just in case. This time however it worked, after a few minutes my download speed picked up to over 200Mbps.
That was at about 7pm UK time so probably right in the peak downloads period.
After that I downloaded all the extras in the content manager and marketplace and was getting close on my 300Mbps.
Somewhere along the line I must have messed up a setting or some other piece of software had messed them up for me.
Open your windows CMD as Administrator
2- Enter this command and press enter:
netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal
3- It will display an “Ok.” when everything is done.
speed picked up after a few minutes of me doing that
with vpn 25 mb/s
This download performance is a joke, 1GB line and very unstable download speeds. Microsoft needs to do something about it!
It’s really weird.
I had no speed issues downloading in the past but I’ve been trying to download to update to current for 7 days now.
I’ve done everything recommended. From using netsh to Netlimiter, and using VPN to try downloading from at least two dozen different countries.
And my speed ranges from .3 megabits a second to 3 megabits a second.
And because the files constantly restart partway through the realistic bandwidth speed is even lower.
I’d love it if they added a built-in Torrent feature for the packages, similar to what DCS world’s updater offers. Sometimes it’s faster than the official content servers ED offers.
Same for me, in France, it seems that servers are saturated and download speed is around 1.5Mb/s instead of 9.5Mb/s with my ADSL configuration. This problem also introduce alert with the bandwith for photogrammetry in the simulator.
MSFS is the greatest testimonial for Azure servers. I have a gigabit internet and with Steam I can often reach the expected 100MB/s speeds but MSFS has since release been super slow. Similar to other users have said it’s between 10-15MB/s. Is this really the peak of MS infrastructure?
I have to say after I got true 1Gb up and down for my internet provider. I’ve never experienced a slow download every again.
Could be you ISP or at updat times server overload.
Make sure your settings are on unlimited in your downloads. If not it’ll download at that speed.
It’s backed up into the cloud when it loads so if you don’t change it before your update then you will have that issue.