**** Official Microsoft Flight Simulator Thread ****

Stu999 said:
It's so annoying that you couldn't download this outside the game itself. Is the download bar the one with the plane in the background and nothing else? It doesn't even tell you what it's doing, percentage or rate of download?

EDIT - That wasn't it, just didn't launch properly the first time. Had to close it and restart to get it to start the download. Starting at 8am, lets see what time it finishes :D
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As has happened to others, the same happened to me, just closed it and restarted and the download bar popped into life.
 
VincentHanna said:
As this uses streaming data, would a fast FTTP connection make any difference to asset quality?
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As opposed to a 56k modem, probably. I doubt you'll see any difference between a 30mb domestic line and fibre, your PC will likely be the bottleneck before the bandwidth.

About 50% downloaded here...zzz

Pretty annoying it chewing up all the GPU while downloading.....I need that GPU to work!
 
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picnic said:
When mine was downloading last night if I minimised the FS window the GPU usage went up to 99% :rolleyes:
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yeh minimised, 100% load, ive shrunk the window down as small as it goes, but GPU load is still 20%. Could have made a better download manager!
 
I was planning to use my parents internet connection by signing in to Xbox game pass and downloading onto a external HDD then connecting it to my PC at home and transferring the files, I’m guessing this can’t be done?

Otherwise it’s gonna be a long wait downloading on my 35mb connection!
 
phatboy said:
Oh please don't let them have made such a simple mistake where it only likes being installed on a C:\ drive and all the dependencies are screwed if you don't.

When it did the setup to the main download I was bit confused, it was stated c drive appdata location as directory but stating my 2tb drives remaining space? I purposely created a new folder and aimed it at that to make sure.

Let's see if it works.....
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I installed it on a different drive as I still have an old 60GB SSD as my C: drive, have had no issues at all.
 
Does this drive play ok with HDD, I'm installing it onto an SSHD. Downloading now on Xbox Game Pass.

Not holding much hope for a 2070 max q at 1080p given reports of a 2080Ti crawling to 20fps in cities.

I kind of hope I can just cruise around and the detail is that good I can scope out nice places to visit in the UK or go on holiday :p
 
Forgive me if I've missed the post but when is it available via game pass? I've got a live subscription but it will only allow me to buy it for £59.99, not play it as part of game pass.

*Seems that if I click on the Flight Sim tab on the game pass page, it doesn't give an install option. If I go through store > simulation > Microsoft Flight Sim, it lets me install.*
 
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Before I forget, I remember reading on a forum about reducing the Terrain Level of Detail, to 80 down from whatever you have it set to. It's the bar near the top that can go to 200. He said 80 was a good value as it barely impacted the look and can potentially gain 8-10fps.

@DanTheMan I got this https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/pc-games/ last night, and browsed the games and clicked the game pass option. There should be too, play with game pass or purchase.
 
Anyone else having trouble with the A320 on approach? Just had to abandon my flight to Edinburgh because I couldn't get the autopilot to work - I left the flight plan to automatic approach but the flight computer didn't do anything with it so the flight plan just flew over the airport instead of loading the correct STAR for 24 from EDN. Then when I managed to get it to load it, it wanted to fly me all the way back to Southampton to the start again and I couldn't figure out how to skip waypoints. It's like they've made it too hard for newbies (not that I'd really call myself one - just not to the level of wanting to sit and program the computer for half an hour) but not in depth enough for people accustomed to Aerosoft's airbuses.
 
Installed and running great ony system.

1440p it is using 16gb ram and card is using 9gb, usage around 90% on GPU

On first training mission I was 40-50 FPS on ground and then 60 in flight high settings

Edit - loaded the next mission and it's crashed to desktop lol
 
I may do a video sometime showing my specs, graphics settings and how it runs. Haven't done one of thee but looks like it will be helpful. Don't forget those on Nvidia they have a driver out for this.
 
MichaelAwkward said:
Anyone else having trouble with the A320 on approach? Just had to abandon my flight to Edinburgh because I couldn't get the autopilot to work - I left the flight plan to automatic approach but the flight computer didn't do anything with it so the flight plan just flew over the airport instead of loading the correct STAR for 24 from EDN. Then when I managed to get it to load it, it wanted to fly me all the way back to Southampton to the start again and I couldn't figure out how to skip waypoints. It's like they've made it too hard for newbies (not that I'd really call myself one - just not to the level of wanting to sit and program the computer for half an hour) but not in depth enough for people accustomed to Aerosoft's airbuses.
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Hard to say, other than we may have to wait for the study level aircraft to get released and accept that the default aircraft will be a bit buggy.
 
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