Unable to change VR graphics settings

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:

I can not change the graphics settings for VR. The 2D settings can be changed like before.
I noticed it after doing a clean installation for .24 beta. After switching one setting it immediately drops back to the value it was before. However I can switch between the preset settings, and all the settings switch to their according value. But not if it try to adjust them manually. Anyone else experiencing this?

FREQUENY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?

Every time I try to change the settings. Only VR graphics setting but happens when I am in VR or when i am in 2D.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. Boot the sim

  2. go to VR graphics settings

  3. try to change value of the settings further down after the preset selection

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What VR headset and peripherals are you using: Crystal OG

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? No

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share? 5090, 9800 x3d

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Same here. Can not change the settings for characters, aircraft traffic, airport vehicles, passive aircraft, fauna, etc.

Again have to do it via manually editing the usercfg.opt file.

It’s great they added all the options, but a shame they did not make them work.

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Yep, same here. They switch back to medium.

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what fresh hell is this :sweat_smile:

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Thank you for the bug report.

We have created an internal ticket to see if our team already has this logged, and if not they will attempt to reproduce the issue and create a new bug report. This item is now marked as feedback-logged. If there is an existing bug report or one is created, we will move this thread to bug-logged.

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Hi folks,

For clarification, is it just the new graphics options added in 1.5.24.0 that you can’t change from Medium or all graphics options?

Thanks,
MSFS Team

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I’m getting a horrible feeling about this as I’ve not yet updated.

Does this mean that we’ve got to manually edit the UserCfg.opt to configure the settings or does that not even work? Does it overwrite after each reboot?

Anyone figured out what curse they’ve thrown at VR users now?

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It is all the graphic options after the preset selection

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So if I save my old UserCfg.opt before I update and overwrite the new one that should work? Yes?

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Wouldn’t hurt to make a backup. I was to late as I expected the UserCfg to be left a the install directory, but everything was gone after uninstalling from Xbox.

Edit: Settings have changed and so has the structure of the .opt file.

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Yeah, saving a backup might cause other issues as new settings are introduced and change the structure of the file.

It might serve as a reference though. Just make sure to backup the default file as well before you give it a try and potentially nuke your install. :joy:

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OK gotcha thanks..

Looks like back up and use the settings to edit the new one.

Can’t believe the ■■■■ they unleash on us I know it’s beta but this is pretty basic stuff right…

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Yikes .. I haven’t installed .24 yet, but I think I might wait until .25 or whenever they fix this.

This started with .23 with the passive aircraft setting missing from VR graphics menu and requiring us to edit the UserCFG file to adjust or turn off. We brought it to their attention then, but rather than fix it in .24, they made it worse! You have to wonder if they even internally test betas in VR before release with glaring oversights like this. :woman_facepalming:

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Confirmed.

The new graphic settings stucks on MEDIUM (only in VR).

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If anyone needs help locating their MSFS2024 UserCfg per platform then you can use this (choose the MSFS 2024 tab)

Where in the World is My Config?! for Microsoft Flight Simulator | MSFS (or get it from github)

To turn stuff off it’s the VR section (so second set of config) and something like this:

	{Traffic
		AircraftTrafficQuantity -1
		AircraftTrafficVariety 1
		AirportsServicesQuantity 2
		AirportsServicesVariety 0
		ParkedAircraftQuantity -1
		ParkedAircraftVariety 0
		RoadQuality 2
		SeaQuality 2
	}

EDIT: To make go off use ‘-1’.

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For me, this is still a problem in release version .24, affecting the Characters, Aircraft and Airport options as above.

Surely this will mean at least one more update to fix it before final release?

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Services dont disable with the airportservices set to off. Its still the little GA pushback tug.

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Same here.

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Some of the graphics options in VR will no longer stick, when attempting to change them they flicker to the next value and then return to the current one. This seems to be isolated to the quality settings at the bottom of the customization screen for Traffic, Characters, and Fauna.

Notably the same issue is not present for the General Graphics options UI.

FREQUENY OF ISSUE

Always

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. Open the VR Graphics Options

  2. Attempt to change the value for Fauna quality

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using: Honeycomb Alpha and Bravo, Pimax Crystal, Thrustmaster TPR pedals

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? No

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? RTX 5090

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
9800X3D, 64GB RAM

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I can add that attempting to change those new settings in VR will change the corresponding settings in 2D mode! Please fix all this.

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