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

For those who are having issues installing via Xbox game pass - myself and a friend encountered a issues both of these we fixed after a fair amount of frustration.

Issues - installer was stuck on splash screen with blue bar not moving indefinitely.

This bizarrely fixed it for me , logout of xbox game pass , use a vpn to connect then log back in.

A friend of mine had the same issue however the above didn't fix it, he found out that his virus checker was causing the issue.
*bear in mind only try this if your using something other than the standard microsoft defender virus checker. i.e. Avast , Mcaffee

The only way he could fix it was to do the following :

  • uninstall FS2020 , delete from game pass.
  • uninstall the xbox game pass client
  • uninstall his virus checker.

re-install xbox game pass client then install FS2020.

It turned out his virus checker was causing some serious problems and even disabling it didn't fix it; he had to uninstall fully!

Ofc I can't guarantee this will fix it but hopefully it may help out someone.
 
Watching DOC play this last night on youtube with his system which is the best of everything, yes he was on 4k but still he was getting 25fps!!! :)
 
I saw a YT clip of the 747 climbing at 9600fpm which is totally absurd. Read elsewhere you could probably get 4000fpm In real life with minimal fuel and cargo, but most passenger aircraft climb at between 1500 and 2000fpm to maintain passenger comfort. Sadly not just the GA aircraft that are way off in performance. Just hoping it won’t be too long for some decent third party stuff.
 
Rroff said:
I don't know much about it I just found it amusing on a few shorter flights - you do literally climb aggressively and then almost immediately start descending - I suspect it is cost related but I don't understand the mechanics at play.

EDIT: From a quick google seems a big factor is safety in that altitude gives you more options if something goes wrong i.e. selection of alternative landing sites, etc.
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You last point is probably true in some way, but I do know that airlines always have one eye on how much a flight will cost them in terms of fuel.

A lower cost index, the more the airline is trying to save fuel, climb slower, slower cruising speed, and therefore presumably lower cruising altitude.

A higher cost index places more stress on the mechanical components of the aircraft - burns more fuel, climbs quicker and likely higher cruising speed.
 
rchads89 said:
Watching DOC play this last night on youtube with his system which is the best of everything, yes he was on 4k but still he was getting 25fps!!! :)
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I managed to run on my 2070 Max Q laptop at "4k" - I reduced the rendering scale to 70 however, and knocked back some settings based on recommended from a link in here, visually couldn't see much degradation but it was a night flight. Was getting between 18 and 30 fps.

Definitely need a 3090 for my desktop :(
 
willhub said:
I managed to run on my 2070 Max Q laptop at "4k" - I reduced the rendering scale to 70 however, and knocked back some settings based on recommended from a link in here, visually couldn't see much degradation but it was a night flight. Was getting between 18 and 30 fps.

Definitely need a 3090 for my desktop :(
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Im not even going to bother trying this game. It seems a heart breaker on any newly built system peoples put a bit of cash into haha
 
I wonder if the game actively targets around 20 FPS (up to a point) with some kind of dynamic quality/performance adjustment? as I noticed a lot of people saying it was running around 20 FPS in flight with varying hardware and settings.
 
physichull said:
Even chocoTaco was playing MSFS last night, albeit badly!
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Dunno if MS is pushing it but noticed quite a few YT gamers/streamers are playing it that normally don't do that kind of game with rather mixed, though to be fair quite entertaining, results. It is popping up in my YT recommended feed heavily.
 
I think this version of flight sim seems to be aimed at a broader range of people than previous versions and is catching the attention of a wider spectrum of gamers.

I think it's probably as its the first iteration of a flight sim that I can remember where the ground and environment is worth admiring in the base game.
 
So, hard core flight simmers alert !!!!!

Has anybody given any thought on how to utilise the navblue data, or subsisted with their Navigraph subscription? Its too early days for me to consider flying the large airliners until their systems are all working through 3rd party devs, so just GA flying for me for now.

But am interested to hear what people are thinking of doing?
 
Participant said:
Installed this yesterday via the £1 per month game pass and I'm trying to assess whether or not it's worth upgrading my PC for, my PC being a 4690k and 970 with 8GB of RAM, but with a fast SSD and 200Mb internet.

At 4K medium settings it's borderline unplayable as you might expect, but I've already seen enough to know I'm going to spooge on an upgrade once all the next iterations of hardware are out later this year.

Installing it was a little painful (had to manually delete some files) but it seems like a great game.
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I'm in a similar boat, but with a Vega 56. I had a quick jaunt around my local area in a TBM930 and it looked amazing, but definitely jumpy in frame rate. Need more time on it to get it running smoother at whatever level I can. I'm planning the upgrade later in the year when AMD release next gen.
 
Vern1961 said:
Black screen even if you auger in at 200 knots. Obviously to spare the sensitivity of the ********** and potential shock horror BBC/DM headlines.

TBH game has more pressing issues...
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Yeah I only downloaded it to fly into/blow up my house. Much disappointed, after all the effort I went to following a youtube video to find it/do it. :D

Hopefully its fixed/enjoyable to flight sim fans soon. :)
 
Vern1961 said:
Black screen even if you auger in at 200 knots. Obviously to spare the sensitivity of the ********** and potential shock horror BBC/DM headlines.

TBH game has more pressing issues...
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I think I remember reading that it’s more of the fact that the plane manufacturers didn’t want to allow people to smash up the models - probably for sensitivity reasons also, but alas I don’t think it was necessarily a decision Microsoft made.
 
PaulR75 said:
Thanks Michael. Do you hear the ATIS or does that working go hand in hand with ATC? I hear nothing through the radio at all. People report clicks etc.. but I haven’t heard that either.

can I just confirm that your default language is still Uk english and under speech it’s still uk English? You just have the US English pack installed as well?

thanks again!
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These are my language settings, and then in-game it's just set to Windows Offline instead of Azure.

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rchads89 said:
Watching DOC play this last night on youtube with his system which is the best of everything, yes he was on 4k but still he was getting 25fps!!! :)
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Not surprising if people are struggling to get 60fps at 1080p, 4k is 4 times the pixels.
 
Vern1961 said:
I saw a YT clip of the 747 climbing at 9600fpm which is totally absurd. Read elsewhere you could probably get 4000fpm In real life with minimal fuel and cargo, but most passenger aircraft climb at between 1500 and 2000fpm to maintain passenger comfort. Sadly not just the GA aircraft that are way off in performance. Just hoping it won’t be too long for some decent third party stuff.
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Sorry but a 747 is perfectly capable of a 10k fpm climb rate.
 
DanTheMan said:
I think this version of flight sim seems to be aimed at a broader range of people than previous versions and is catching the attention of a wider spectrum of gamers.

I think it's probably as its the first iteration of a flight sim that I can remember where the ground and environment is worth admiring in the base game.
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It also helps that there not really been any other AAA games released on the PC lately
 
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