So before about 10 mins ago all I was able to do was load into the menus - no flying and then today I joined the 97% club.
Downloaded free proton VPN and boom - loaded up so quick and had my first flight.
First impressions, its okay - yes there are some visual differences and flight model certainly improved over 2020 but overall it’s just a shame we have to deal with this streaming rather than a locally downloaded sim.
Soon as I get to even a small airfield and land in a Cessna its so stuttery.
VPN i used was a free USA server, I don’t think I will pay for a VPN at the moment but it was good to have a fly.
There is no way you can select which server delivers content (scenery, aircraft, weather etc.) The servers are internally chosen for you based on the geographic location of your ISP. The only way to change the CDN servers is by using a VPN which makes you appear to be physically located in a different geographic location.
The selectable server in the UI is only for multiplayer - nothing else.
Had a great flight from Heathrow to Edinburgh in the A330-300RR tonight. Used Perygee Edinburgh V2 from msfs2020 as well imported from MSFS2020 via the new add on linker from flightsim to.
Things are starting to improve in UK I think. Im on 1gb virgin connection.
Oof, people are up early It’s Friday - I bet it will be absolute bedlam by the time early evening hits, dragging on through the weekend.
“We are seeing significant improvements to the capacity and access issues. We plan to gradually increase capacity while we monitor the situation. We are feeling optimistic that players will be able to access the sim and take to the skies. We thank you for your ongoing patience and will provide another update on Friday.” will be put to a test
If can not start at 5 am it will be mayhem later in the day (Friday); unless a miracle happen; servers are not responding; sim stuck while activating packages or just after you click fly now when get trough the loading phase.
But it’s fine - there will be an ‘update’ on Friday, and because teams work round the clock to resolve issues, we will have ‘update’ on Saturday and Sunday
Okay, so after 3 days of not being able to play I am finally in. Quick helicopter flight this morning because I have got work for the next 12 hours but jesus! the graphics are insane, especially the night lighting. Will test more tonight. Hope everyone finally gets to fly around
This is becoming beyond a joke now! It’s now Friday, and haven’t been able to load into one flight yet since release!
They keep saying that they are increasing server capacity, but I don’t see any improvement. I was hoping to have a binge on the weekend, when I actually have more time, but this is looking very unlikely now. I understand a new release can be a bit rocky sometimes for the first day or two, but this is completely unacceptable.
In UK, Xbox Series X. Managed to load in at launch then crashed out at the Customize Identity screen. Was then stuck on 97% for 2 days and gave up. Went backwards yesterday and didn’t progress passed 12% loading until late in the evening when I managed to get to the menus. Free Flight hangs on the map screen, Career mode says servers aren’t working. No Activities or Training missions load. Multiple crashes to home screen but I can consistently load into the menus quite quickly now. Managed to load into one flight before giving up again, but had some untextured avatar floating around and untextured map covered in rainbows, no trees, buildings, sound or anything playable before the inevitable crash to home again.
Yet the banner at the top of the forums, says issues are resolved? Walk a mile in our shoes in the UK Jorg!
This morning it seems to be (temporarily?) working as advertised. I’ve finished my character and flown the Optica on a 15 minute flight from Sandown to Southampton without a glitch. I hope this is not a false dawn!
Second flight, all working as advertised. Now have a Chinook for the first time. My controls were still reversed, despite sorting that out yesterday, but it’s a small price to pay!
I can get in from Belgium after a few min wait. But it seems to only load the faraway fototelemetery textures and not the ones you get when you get closer to buildings in MSFS2020.
I did try last night, and what I observed was game started fine, I was able to browse the world map to choose my location and was pulling fast speeds well over 250-500mb/s but the min I pressed on Aircraft and then trying to configure it connection sort of dropped of below 56kb/s, there was just no way for me to actually download the plane to use. If plane doesn’t load in configuration window now way will load on airport.
3day and yet to be able use fully functional plane and actually fly it with textures and sounds ect.
You can see on this screen shot what happened
Specifically, regarding the sim hangs after hitting “FLY”, I’ve had that issue (in the UK) since day #1 (now day #4), and as of this morning 8am for the first time the sim has taken me through to the airport I selected & spawned me on the runway. Looks ok, & I’ll test from here.
(IMHO posting just “my sim’s working, MSFS looks great” is understandable at this point but it’d be more useful to summarise what problem you had that’s now fixed, as there’s probably multiple issues e.g. the ‘stuck at 97%’ issue).
It’s Friday - I bet it will be absolute bedlam by the time early evening hits, dragging on through the weekend.
