Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)

This may have been covered already. When I load a flight plan that's imported from SimBrief, MSFS wants to start from the runway. When I choose a parking spot for the start position, MSFS dumps the SimBrief plan and wants me to choose it's own crazy flight plan. Any ideas how to stop this? The runway isn't the best place to start when on VATSIM or while in multiplayer mode! Ed Henry

Does anyone know how to get an accurate in-flight report of the actual weather in the sim? With live weather, you can't get any weather info from the sim and external software like Simtoolkitpro shows real world weather, which isn't always the same as live weather in the sim. In my FS2004 days I used a program called FSdat for this.

I just received my new MFG Crosswind rudders🥳 and to break them in I decided on a little tour in Alaska. I first wanted to go from PAHO to PAVD but discovered that airport doesn't exist (yet) in MSFS, so I went to PAYA instead. For aircraft I decided on the Cessna 172 (classic, with steam gauges). I wanted to fly with live weather which forced me to go IFR because of the clouds enroute. As for the route, I decided on PAHO MDO IDAME OCULT LLMAR PAYA, at 9000ft with an ILS 11 approach to finish things off. After completiing the pre-taxi checklists I enjoyed the control these new rudders gave me on the ground. Smooth and without a centre detent like my CH rudders. A…

remember how we used to be able to (used to have to?) adjust the number of trees and buildings per LOD radius so you could get stuff out to much further distances but spread it out more so performance would still be good? is there anything like that yet for the new sim? I ask because I just upped my LOD radius to 200 and encountered...stutters...so...it looks great though.

Honestly, I didn't even know they were there. I started playing with all the settings on the startup screen. It was already set to show clouds, but you can view precipitation and winds at several levels. Has anybody verified that the information is accurate and up to minute?

There are a number of freeware Mega Packs for liveries available. If I wish to install say 6 of the 98 A320 Neo liveries that have downloaded in the Mega Pack, is there a way to do that? Thanks T45

Maybe to give the servers some more RAM!! 😄 Sept. 1 from 07:00-08:00 UTC, online services will not be available due to scheduled maintenance on #MicrosoftFlightSimulator Live Services

anyone else seeing half the performance during night time ?

Jummivana Community Manager [Z-7] 38m Tomorrow 3:00 AM , online services will not be available due to scheduled maintenance on Microsoft Flight Simulator Live Services (Live Traffic, Multiplayer). This maintenance won’t prevent you from accessing MSFS2020. Thank you for your understanding! post from official forums

Hello, I'm generally getting decent framerates simming in 2k, 40 or so in urban areas. I'm simming on the high preset despite the suggestion I should use medium. While my FPS are ok I am getting a lot of stuttering. I understand from other thread that increasing RAM from 16 to 32 can help greatly with this, but in the meantime (and until I can get my new build to stop imploding on itself, see my thread in the CPU/MOBO forum) I'm wondering if anyone has done any experimenting and has any initial thoughts on what sliders impact smoothness (as opposed to pure FPS) more than others?

Initially I didn't really care about the multilflyer aspect of the game but now that you do see other people flying about, am I the only one wishing there was a way to interact and they would introduce an in-game chat/voip? When flying in the middle of nowhere I would like to say hi to some random passer by! I know 3rd party solutions exists but in-game chat would be neat, no!?

The reason that so many people are frustrated with lousy FPS, bad stutter..with state of the Art innards...is this: (and even on my modest system) is that there definitely is a bug in the sim engine that has the MAIN THREAD pegged at overload. If you have unlimited FPS (not locked down by an external app such as the nVidia Control App..., you will indeed have stutter and if you run the internal FPS meter...it will show a constant RED LIMITED BY THE MAIN THREAD. This is an engine bug, that is not using (when there is no limiter) all your cores, equally. Now, I suggest you try this...go into your nVidia control app, and set the FPS lock to 30 FPS...for a rea…

I'm trying to setup the sim to practice approaches and while I can click anywhere on the map to start a custom "airborne" departure, I don't appear able to choose starting altitude. If I choose a "landmark" as a starting location, it almost always puts me at something like 150 ft. Has anyone had any luck with defining what "altitude" you want to start at when choosing to start a flight "mid flight"? Thanks in advance.

Have you guys done any test with this setting? For AMD cards it should be "Flip queue size". https://gfxspeak.com/2019/08/26/nvidia-speeds-rendering/#:~:text=Back in 2015 or earlier,The default value is 3. This is the number of frames that the CPU can render ahead for the GPU to process and values range between 0 and 8 in nVidia Profile Inspector. Zero corresponds to "Ultra low latency" in nVidia control panel and it is recommended to minimize input lag, at the price of a reduced framerate. Higher values (1,2,3...) should improve the framerate and the smoothness (frametime consistency) at the price of an increased input lag, which is not that importan…

What I mean, is there a way to set a limit on people you can see online? It seems when I'm in a plane, I've got labels from people 100+ miles away, which doesn't seem realistic to me. I thought I remembered this was possible in FSX, so I'm curious if anyone's found this possible in FS2020 yet?

Just downloaded the liveries pack for the TBM 930. Dropped the folder as per instructions into the community folder. Started MSFS 2020 and, bam, every single livery was there. No fiddling with folders, adding this or that. Another great step forward-

I have the mega livery pack and the a320nx mod installed. Everytime I go into external camera the sim crashes. I havent flown this bird in a while, but it operated perfectly last time I did. Today I installed the Altitude pilot software for Ivao, and it installed the AI aircraft library in my sim. dont know if that has anything to do with it. Edit: just did a new testing with the cessna longitude that worked all day. It also crashes now in ext view. Seems the Ivao software fooked up my sim.

Hi, I think DME is an essential part of the Navigation. In the MSFS classic C172 there is no DME Gauge. I read that that is not unusual because pilots use the GPS-devices to get the distance to a VOR Station. Does anybody know how th do that? I use the GPS for flying a planned Flightplan. But the second small GPS is not independent from the 530 large one - so I cannot dial in a „Direct to“ a VOR. Is there a way to navigate properly or is the default equipment not appropriate for that? Thanks.

Game is amazing, but I still have some questions about the physics, and YES crashing / damage was enabled when I pulled this off...

Ok so I just stumbled upon this watching one of Drawyahs videos from yesterday. Apparantly it significantly reduces the fps loss from simconnect when using the ivao pilot client. I haven't tried it yet. Anyone know if something similar is available for vatsim? I haven't really been using ivao ever before 🙂 If not, I guess this is a great chance to try it. However, using Teamspeak 2... ewww http://forum.ivao.aero/index.php?topic=350218.0

First of all, I want to say how impressed I am with MSFS shadows. The scenery shadows are mindblowingly good when compared to X-Plane. But there is a technical issue. While scenery shadows are superb, they're lacking in the cockpit. X-Plane works around this by having a separate shadow res. inside the cockpit. In MSFS however, shadow map size seems global, hence the problems with cockpit shadows. So, the settings dialog offers 2048px shadow maps, however the UserCfg.opt will accept higher values. I dialed in 4096 and boom, cockpit shadows are sharp. However, my sim CTD'd within minutes. I only tested this once, but since I don't have any CTD's in MSFS (unless I disco…

I would like to remove the annoying captions on screen does anyone know how to do this?

Does anyone know whether or not FSUIPC 7 can be used to install and configure Goflight modules in MSFS 2020? I have pretty much all of them, with the exception of the MCP. If not, is Pollypot GIT the solution? Thanks, Brian

Does anyone know how you could increase the ambient environmental sounds (wind etc.). My sliders are on max volume but thought there may be a config file somewhere to be modded

I played around with the SDK and development tools a bit and noticed that the files in my LocalCache\Packages\Community folder get encrypted (little lock symbol on the file) as soon as I copy files into that folder. Is that normal or is there something wrong on my system?😲