Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 announced.

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What are the best of the default airliners to fly in the sim until third party devs migrate? I’m guessing it will either be the A310 or the A320 v.2?

I usually fly the PMDG 737, Fenix A320, TFDi MD11 and have been starting to learn the FBW A380.

I’m away on a work trip at the moment, so won’t be able to try the sim again until I get home tomorrow evening. Hope it’s sorted by then.
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No chance this will be fixed by tomorrow evening or even the weekend. It's not hyperbole when I say this is in an alpha state. As for which airliners to try - hard to say, I haven't tried any of them but I would caution you that at least several of the default light aircraft have broken avionics. So it wouldn't surprise me if some of the more complex aircraft are in an even worse state.
 
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Such a shame I was so looking forward

Here's hoping fixed soon but I'm beginning to wonder if the move to the cloud whilst addresses some issues like huge install sizes and just having to keep the server version up to date, is actually fundamentally flawed

It seems a huge amount of data to be streamed so what happens major holidays, new updates etc are we going to have the same issue

Anyone know why so much reliance on cloud like why the planes etc

Tried on Xbox and no better

A400m crashes immediate when start a flight

If you crash or restart a flight completely hangs with controller vibrating
 
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willhub said:
Apparently they only expected 200,000 people and that's why there were so many problems.
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To be fair they said they tested it with 200,000 pretend connections. Then presumably thought: "Yeah, that's working fine and it'll manage ok with ten times as many." Followed by lots of Gallic shrugging from 4pm Tues.
 
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Anybody else fondly remember the days when big online games used to get a few days or even weeks of massive stress tests to highlight these issues before release? :D
 
Dano said:
Anybody else fondly remember the days when big online games used to get a few days or even weeks of massive stress tests to highlight these issues before release? :D
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I remember buying boxed games from computer shows, complete with maps. manuals, medals, other assorted goodies, and they worked out of the (literal box), they had to, no internet then!
 
Have to admit working much better now than earlier have been in 2 flighta with no issues seems to have better chance of loading etc if pick a simpler plane
 
I managed to get in this morning at 6am, of course, no sounds from teh aircraft.

The game has sound as the menus etc work, but no aircraft sound, at all.....

Apparently its a common issue.
 
Shame because when this game is in a working state it should be good. Here is my village, its pretty good from that distance, obviously if you get really close you can see its generated etc - but from that distance if I coulld get a real photo from teh same angle it would be pretty spot on.
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The only exception being that circled building, that isnt actually a building at all, its a tarmac multi use games area, but I guess from a sattlelite it might look like a building.
 
BUDFORCE said:
The only exception being that circled building, that isnt actually a building at all, its a tarmac multi use games area, but I guess from a sattlelite it might look like a building.
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Apparently the photogrammetry data is at least 10 years old ... some people have commented in various forums that they are seeing old buildings and features that are looooong gone from their local areas.
 
xaldub said:
Apparently the photogrammetry data is at least 10 years old ... some people have commented in various forums that they are seeing old buildings and features that are looooong gone from their local areas.
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The age of the photogrammetry is area specific, some parts are quite uptodate, others are very old. This was the case in MSFS2020 as well.
 
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Managed to get another 30 minutes just now at 11am.

I guess at 6am and 11am the load is reasonably low because most people are either as sleep/at work at those times.

I managed to fix the sound issue by deleting a whole ton of files in some folder (google search).

I really want to give this a proper go tomorrow when I have a lot more time plus my 6 year old son wants to play, but I bet it'll be overloaded.
 
I finally got in this morning, did a few of the training exercises and got my PPL. Also had a flight around my local area. I had no engine sound for the entire time.
 
Trifid said:
I finally got in this morning, did a few of the training exercises and got my PPL. Also had a flight around my local area. I had no engine sound for the entire time.
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If you Google it you'll find the answer easily, you have to delete a whole ton of files out of your appdata folder, but I can't remember the exact path, just google it, it did work for me.
 
I also finally got in. Only managed to play for 15 minutes to make sure it was all working. I've only ever played FS2020 on Xbox, so to play with 140+ FPS was good! I only have a mouse and keyboard and had no idea what the controls were so just kept crashing. I'm hoping I can easily set it up so I can use my mouse to control the plane rather than keyboard keys. I'm be trying VR over the weekend as well, hopefully the performance is OK.
 
For me the biggest bug bears are the streaming, rather than local installing of all the game data. I know this is done to help the Xbox users, but on PC we generally have a lot more space and for those with slower connections, I'd much rather utilise my SSD space, than a slow internet connection.
Plus, the controls. Woeful at best and the most irritating part is trying to use my Xbox controller and all it wants to do is switch to head look when I trying to steer the plane, and the drift when my controller doesn't have any. :(

I know game dev is very difficult and complex, but this feels rushed and not much of a huge upgrade over 2020.
 
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