The “Options | General | Data | Data Consumption” section is confusing to me. It appears that you should be able to set a maximum amount of data to be consumed over the course of a month - this is implied by the “Data Tracking Reset Day” setting. You can set a limit, and a warning level as you approach that limit. That all seems to be ignored. The “Current Data Consumption” value appears to be how much data you have consumed for the current session. It resets each time you restart FS.
It looks like the intent is for a slider bar to show the total amount of data consumed for the month, starting on the “Data Tracking Reset Day”.
The topic description on the far right says “See how much data is being used by Flight Simulator on a monthly basis.”
Is this a bug, or do I have it set up wrong?
Lee
Yeah, I think it’s pretty dubious. But I don’t think my current data consumption resets everytime I start FS. To me it seems like it stays and accumulates. But it will probably reset after a month.
I would always like to know how much of the reserved rolling cache size is already in use.
It definitely doesn’t reset each startup. I was seeing relatively small amounts of data usage - typically < 1 Gb per session. I had the “data tracking reset day” set to 1. I think this means that it resets the counter to zero every day. I change this to 10, and here is what I have at the moment:
So quite a lot of data - I can see why you might have to limit that if you have download limits.
I think I must be close to the 10th day - although I don’t see how I can tell that. The description says day of the moneht…but today is the 11th…
The description of the data tracking reset day (shown off to the right when you select that field) says that it is the day of the month that the data counting resets. So you can reset when your data plan resets.
Mine never accumulates. My current data consumption is always a low number - in the megabytes - unless I’ve been flying for a hour or more. It resets every time I start the sim. I wonder if the persistence problem is because I installed to a drive other than the default.
did your Current Data Consumption clear with the new update?
2 months with 48 GB of data consumption and i flew 30 minutes, the data is not resetting
