[Polls] World Update XVIII: Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Have you considered this speed problem msy be a bottleneck somewhere between the Microsoft servers and your house, not necessarily the speed the server is putting out at?

I didn’t install EDDM, but have kept LOWS (for now). It’s quite sad they couldn’t take that final step and set these airports up for AI traffic. LOWS is completely deserted.

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The loading times are exactly the same before and after the update for me: 8 minutes 
 on an SSD 


An SSD should be fast enough to fill up my entire ram multiple times in those 8 minutes (144 Gigabytes at 300 MB/Sec). I really would love an indepth explanation of what the heck Flight Simulator is doing with all that time! What is being loaded and why, if most of the sceney is being streamed only when a flight was loaded anyway and a single aircraft is perhaps 6 or 8 GB at the most
 which also should only be loaded once a flight is being started.

Yep I’ve seen this. Quite disappointed by the maps given how much MSFS 2024 has been played up, and these are the maps to be used in there. Was rather hoping they’d come up of some clever way of removing all that kind of stuff and baked in clouds. Also was hoping they’d found some solution to the areas where there is no data and you get the generic stuff, but still all the same sadly.

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Quick clean dl no issues , had a whip round germany , then the alps , lots of trees that shouldnt be there , i am sure .to will have a mod soon .

Colorimetry problem of satellite photos in Switzerland and particularly in the Alps (Cervin, Zermatt)

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What’s with this at EDDM. No terminal for these jetways?
Note I am on xbox and installed the new WU

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not directly related ,but out of curiosity, why do so many European airports have these massive concrete boarding buildings connecting the terminal and jet bridge? & OR parking stands for busses, unlike in the US where it’s primarily just the jet bridge directly attached to the terminal?

It took no time in SAFE mode though. So there is something going on with the community folder I suspect?
Even launching aircraft takes forever to load.



Following the Donau towards Vienna I came across some purple POI’s.

I’m not sure what’s going on but when I load into EDDM with the A320v2 the terminal buildings are missing
when I load in with the PMDG 737 the Buildings are back. Wonder if the inibuilds A320v2 is causing some kind of conflict at EDDM? I’m on Series X.

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Awesome sharpness of ground textures and colors
 thanks MS and Asobo!

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Your first screen shows the Aggstein Castle. I was flying there yesterday and for me it displayed totally fine.
Your second screen is the SchönbĂŒhel Castle. Was also displayed fine for me.

Have you cleared your rolling cache? Have you restarted after installing the world update? Any mods that could interfer?

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Totally agree. No understanding how this WU can be internally tested and be considered ok at least in Switzerland. The DEM is great, but Satellite photoground and photogrammetry are two steps back to what we had before, even if the imagery is more up to date. Colour mismatches and hard lines all over the place, the annoying snow coverage bug still present, photogrammetry looks like zero handcrafted refinement (tons of solid, colour mismatching «trees» ruining the whole city of Berne e.g) and and and. Not to speak about the ground of LSZB which is closer to turquoise than green. All in all a total fail for Switzerland, what a bummer


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I like the update from a visual standpoint but it absolutely kills performance for me. Photogrammetry in particular.

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It’s MSFS, what do you expect. Sim was beautiful on release. Gets downgraded pretty much every update.

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Well, it has been like that since the beta back in 2020. Not going to lie, MSFS looks beautiful (maybe better a few years ago, idk), but it still has serious issues, and the main one, since the beginning, is the lack of quality control for updates.

I left MSFS for a few years, but as far as I have read these days in the forums, updates haven’t changed at all.

I’m happy for those who enjoyed this sim since 2020, but I can’t trust MS/AS for now. And I will be a lot more skeptical about 2024 than I was with 2020. Unless 2020 was a beta for 2024, but that’s another topic.

/end of rant, and enjoy

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According to this bug report: “No AI traffic of any kind will spawn at LOWS Salzburg by Gaya post WU18, because all parking positions are defined as ‘DOCK GA’.”

Unfortunately not - all the POIs for Germany, Austria & Switzerland are in a single package.

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I’m not seeing this on my PC - all terminals are present:

It’s there - make sure you are in the list view:

Just a guess: for content stored on the server, there may be an option to enable / disable it rather than install / uninstall.

Yes, I see the same as your screenshot (I spawned at gate 215A). The right-hand jetway at gate 214 is also disconnected from the terminal:

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That will go nicely with my neon yellow trees that have appeared 


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Good to know that it looks fine in your sim.

I think I know what might have caused this issue.
Could it be that I have some files damaged?
It just so happened that I had a CTD on the final 20% of the download from the WU.

Maybe a simple uninstall and reinstall will resolve the issue?

Cheers Mark