Please revert the loading screen back the way it was on 4k screens. The zoomed in view of the loading screen video looks low res now which looks bad ESPECIALLY on 4k monitors. Also the larger text doesn’t look sharp.
I don’t know why this change was needed.
I actually would prefer just a simple load in screen. It’s quite obvious the sim is doing a lot (loading world data) and even on my very high end system the intro video stutters in a few random spots each time. It’s the marketing video, and I’d prefer to turn it off, or have a choice for a simpler experience.
I replaced the video by a loading image from flightsim.to. way better.
Honestly the loading screen is just a tease, I’d be surprised if it ever looks like that on Xbox and thus it should be removed. But yes agree with OP I’m not sure the change was intentional or not it’s a bit weird with the loading count font so huge
Funnily enough, with the beta the video no longer stutters for me. But it also feels like it’s now running at 30fps. I prefer it this way though!
The more I think about this… If Asobo can’t get the intro video to play smoothly and consistently across devices - from the Asus Xbox handheld thing, to Xbox S|X, to Low, Med, High PC monitors and larger TVs… what hope do we have of getting the sim itself to display consistently?
I’m starting to see it as a litmus test.
Fixing how the intro plays - or more to the point, fixing whatever bottlenecks happening during loading that are causing the intro video to stutter - would be an ideal place for them to root out some of the rendering issues, and data bottlenecks that are affecting / causing issues in the sim as well.
There’s a mod on FS.2 that replaces the video with a static image. Problem is that it has to be redone with each update. I used to use that mod but I couldn’t be bothered after awhile, it’s annoying.
Thanks, I’m trying to stick all default items for testing
As I reload the sim a bunch of times (testing, of course), this intro video is obviously remastered at a much lower refresh rate
The microstutters / strobe effect are actually causing my eyes to hurt. This is bad.
So they have tried to fix the intro shudders and judders by making the video smaller - but the video itself was not the problem… it’s all the world data loading the background that is the problem. If they smooth THAT out, it will make the intro - and the sim - better!
You could just check the file itself to see if it’s been changed, it’s stored locally.
Limitless\Packages\fs-base-videos\Videos\PressStartVideo-4k.mp4
I’m on SU3. It’s 2:04 long, 296MB in size. 3840x2160, 20057kbps data rate, 59.94FPS.
Thanks for that; I found mine here: Y:\XboxGames\Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024\Content\Packages\fs-base-videos\videos\PressStartVideo-4k.mp4.
Runs great as a video; first time I’ve ever seen it with no stuttering! 
OK thanks, I see it. And it runs smoothly on its own.
So here’s the issue: “Scheduling” … Asobo needs to improve the scheduling of what is being processed to preserve smooth and consistent display. When the video is loading, a bunch of things happen in the background: loading world data, spinning up you cloud instance, loading packages, preferences, etc, etc. So when the Sim gets a bunch of stuff all at once (data over network, from disk, to/from GPU) it should have better scheduling so that it’s not bottlenecking. Background processing shouldn’t stop foreground motion.
Agreed. Please put it back the way it was! On 4k monitors it definitely looks worse.
If the loading screen is one of the “big” issues, I’m going to take that as a positive sign that SU4 is on the right track. A loading screen is such a minor thing, considering the depth of the changelog. 
Neh FSR3 FG not working in connection with DLSS is a big one so I didn’t got much further than the intro screen 
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When loading sim, the loading screen stutters really bad, in game no issues, very smooth
There are a few threads pointing out issues with how the loaing screen is performing in SU4:
Not only the flickering, but the scale. In fact, it’s just an MP4 video file on disk that plays very well on its own - but playback is being negatively affected in various ways by the abrupt way things are loading in the background, it seems.
Now the letters are so big. Is it now for blind people or grand dad’s?
They should just ditch the video all together. It’s full of content that’s not even in the sim much less not how the sim looks.
While they are at it replace the splash screen that shows up when launching the Windows store version as well, it’s a bad look for the sim.
Yes this is HUGE and a very big step backwards! Cmon MS/Asobo
I’ve noticed that with G-SYNC enabled the video is very choppy. If I ALT+TAB to another window, the video goes to 60fps as before. So there’s something weird going on with G-SYNC and the loading screen in the SU4 beta.