For some time now there has been a bug in the DATA BANDWIDTH selection in options that has caused problems for people downloading updates.
It seems that if you select a data speed limit while in the DATA section in OPTIONS then that data speed limit will be enforced when updating the sim. As you cannot enter the sim to make changes to your settings until the download is complete, this can cause extremely slow downloads even if the user has fast internet.
In discussion with other members, we suggested a selection in the installer that would give the option of overriding the data speed limit selected in-game while doing updates.
This would also apply to the DATA LIMIT as having a cap on your total data will stop your download if that cap is reached.
I believe this is already happening, if you have the simulator Data Options set to Unlimited or 40/20/etcā¦ then the installer also uses that setting.
I had problems with the installer always restarting half way through a big file, if I had 20MB/s set in the Data Bandwidth limit option in game. But today, itās set to Unlimited and my installer is running at 130MB/s just fine.
RECOMMEND: leave Data Bandwidth on Unlimited during installs.
FINAL THOUGHT: Allow the installer to have different bandwidth settings than the in-game experience.
I have unlimited set, and I still got throttled to 1Mbit/s during the download of WU3, but only at the end for the āfs-base-glā archive. VPN was the workaround for me.
It had happened before, for previous updates, but never as bad as that.
Me, too. I have no cap and my download was getting 1 Mbit/sec, as well.
(And I downloaded the patch days after it was released, when there should not have been many people downloading it.)
in my opinion it is more a bug and not a āfeatureā ( or at least wrong thinking in design ).
I assume that absolutly nobody in the world expect that a in-game data-limit setting ( data- , bandwith ) affects the update-process/downloader.
I voted for, but I think more the developers not need to implement a checkbox, instead implement what all installers/updaterās in the world do: "the updater have nothing to do with in-game settings and thus it have allways āno limitsā
PS.: of course there exists also limitations where seemingly the ISP limit data-traffic. But this is not meant within this topic.
When it comes to overall data limits, it sometimes is forgotten that there are users out there that have VERY limited data available on their plans. Overages can be expensive. Those users should be tracking their use and need to make a decision about doing a download or not.
At least if there was a step involved during updates that gave them a choice to override their selected data cap maybe they would give it some thought. Might have to hang up MSFS and do the update next month if they are near their data limit. Or explain to the family why they canāt stream Netflix for the rest of the month so they can do the update now.
yesā¦ this is a new possible feature āpostpone an updateā. But I assume, because possible side effects with multplayer-code, this might be not allways possible. Then users have only the choice to stop the update and can not play.
"You have 50 GB selected as your Data Limit.
You are currently at 45 GB.
This update will consume 25 GB.
Do you want to continue?
If you select, YES , your Data Limit will be ignored and you may incur additional charges from your service provider."
then the user can decide if they want to blow through their data or not. Currently the update is just going to go ahead. If the data limit is exceeded the update will fail. If it automatically ignores the preset limit the user may not even realize they have smashed their limit until the monthly service provider invoice shows up.
PS.: I realy wonder how many users have in 2021 a data-limit.. I assume I need per month 1 TB ( PC with all the updates, game updates, games itself, the all the video stuff, handy, ā¦ )
With some MMO the loader provides you a chance to change your (Options) in-game graphics and other settings before you launch.
With the download bug they have going on that locks your download speed to whatever you had set last has resulted in it taking THREE and FOUR days for some people to re-install with no way to āclearā their previous settings stored in the cloud first. They have to just endure it until they can get back in and change it.
This is a known bug on Zendesk.
Anyway it has me thinking that is probably WHY other MMOās in the past have also added in the āOptionsā in the launcher.
No idea if they will fix the download bug but having the ability to make sure your download speeds are max first would sure help.
How long does it take to download the new update? So far its taken about 23Hrs and it has only downloaded 4.65GIB out of 22.22GIB. My internet download speed is 85.90 Mbps and my DATA is set to unlimited
On My 4th day of re-downloading, searched high and low in the install folder and I canāt find the setting file with the data cap or speed limit. Can set the graphics up for the game I canāt yet play though. Awesome.
Tried pulling ethernet out but get an error off xbox and a loop denying access to settings.
Cleared store, deleted cloud data, which refreshes anyways as selecting ālocalā downloads something and keeps the 20Mbits/s cap. Iāve tried all the netsh commands =disable makes speed start at 0 and climb to 20 then cap, =normal makes it start at 40 then crawl down to 20 cap and bounce up to 30 and down to 20 and up to 25 and back to 20. So stupid. Somewhere thereās a ā20000ā limit that I can increase to stop the bungeeing.
Iāll probably install it, crash once, and uninstall as my patience is gone. Worst installer Iāve encountered since home brew cassetteās.
I canāt believe it has been nearly a year since I first downloaded this sim, and downloads are still a miserable experience. MS wonāt actually assist with the problem as theyāve pawned it off to communities. Why canāt I download an airplane I purchased that is a mere 579MB? It starts downloading, stops, starts again, stops, starts again then completely stops. Why doesnāt it remember where it stopped downloading and start again? I have about 10 items Iāve purchased and am unable to download them. Why canāt MS fix this awful system?
Good luck. It took me literally 7 days of trying to finally get the latest update. I had to uninstall, turn off anti-virus, firewall, flush cache and do a dozen other command prompt items and it still took more than 18 hours to download 171.22GB. I have about a dozen items purchased in the marketplace that wonāt download. MS wonāt help. They only point me here or to another forum and expect me to read dozens of user generated entries and figure out which one applies to me.
I thought the ācrash on general settingsā issue was related to the simās ability to write to your hard drive (permissions). There were two solutions, first, reboot and go straight in, no problems. Otherwise, start the sim as Administrator to see if itās a permission thing.
Oh god I thought I was the only one. Canāt believe itās been a year and no fixes for this. Iām making an install on my new PC and I just canāt remove the speed cap because I need to update before I can edit the settings.
I canāt delete the save file either because xbox will download the cloud save right after I open the game.
Anyone got a workaround or know a way of deleting the game pass cloud save?
Had to finish the whole download to access the settings and change the dowbload limit. Super frustrating.
Since the fresh reinstall of Windows and MSFS20 clicking general settings crashes everytime. Canāt access general settings to try changing rolling cache path or graphics settings.
Got a flight stick and both it and xbox pad have a mind of their own as if there is always some force being applied pulling the stick back and left.
The game starts, i can fly with whatever settings its downloaded from the internet - settings created 6 months ago on an older CPU and a 1080p monitor.
Now running 1440p monitor, faster CPU, doubled up my RAM, moved everything to gen 4 nvme drive.
None of it matters as the game CTD on clicking general settings
Tried adding the US English language packs, EVERY possible fix on the CTD Troubleshooting steps, have run up 450gb of downloads, have clean windows installs and so on.
Can we edit the settings file outside of the game?
