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Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)

This forum is for discussions about Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020 and 2024).  Website:  https://www.flightsimulator.com/

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  1. This forum is for posting tips and techniques relevant to getting the best out of MSFS (2020).   This is a staff-managed forum--all posts must be approved by a moderator.

    PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO POST QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION ITEMS HERE, as they outside the scope of this forum and will not be approved for publication by the moderator staff.

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  1. The Saturday update left the nav1 gauge not working properly on ILS approach, the glide slope was not showing and the heading was way off. This has been fixed with 30.05.2021 update. 😀

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  2. Since SU5 I’ve been been getting a complete shutdown.. I wish I was getting a CTD, oh no this is whole other level. I’ve even done a clean reinstall today so nothing in the community folder and I’ve not reached the main menu once… checked temps with HW monitor.. CPU an GPU both reasonable.. Is anyone else seeing the same.. No idea what to do now!

    • 30 replies
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  3. Started by Rocky_53,

    I do try hard not to moan or grunt, although my wife says I do too much of it, but it's only because I really hate things that break or don't work. My frustration isn't aimed at individual persons but more like situations, but in this case it's MSFS. I mean, for crying out loud, is there any time we have an update that doesn't break something else in the sim? Since the release of MSFS I still haven't managed to have a comprehensive and intelligable camera/views setup. This, added to other frustrations, I decided to completely uninstall MSFS and reinstall after the latest release, hoping, naively, that everything would be fine. But setting asided all the CTDs that others a…

    • 2 replies
    • 768 views
  4. Started by Dominique_K,

    I see that some of us complaining not having air traffic. Just off Geneva airport with a dozen of aircraft around me in the skies. MP is off, only Live traffic. EasyJet, Sunturk, Air Hop etc. I am on the North Europe server. (a note here, it seems that I cannot choose anymore my server). If all your settings are OK in the traffic and data panels, could it be that some servers are faulty and not SU5 ?

    • 7 replies
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  5. Started by Alpine Scenery,

    Seems to be subtle changes in the reflections and smoothness of the gradient in bounce lighting transitions. Cannot duplicate exact angles precisely, but lighting in both scenes is a clear sky. Notice in both cases the reflections appear a bit smoother and more complex and fuller in the PRE-SU5 images. Pre-SU5 Notice that I originally even took the above image at a closer ZOOM and it still looks higher resolution than the SU5 one. SU5 Something else STRANGE, I used one of Asobo's own dirt mound textures, and look at the ground in the second image, the texture is destroyed, it's not rendering correctly. I have no idea why that is, so …

    • 25 replies
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  6. Am I the only one that cannot get the FBW A320nx to load with any 3rd party livery since SU5. The default livery loads fine, but other liveries cause a CTD. I went to the FBW discord site but there's not a mention of anything like that. Perhaps someone can shed some light on this for me. Lee

  7. Started by harpsi,

    Hi, 1. About adding sceneries manually: - With FSX we had scenery.cfg to do this procedure. It seems with MSFS we just need to put folders in the right places, right? 2. About adding liveries manually for Fly-By-Wire A320N: - I tried to do the procedure via the normal way to add liveries to the stock A320 and then convert all of them with the right livery installer. However many liveries don't look "exactly" like they are in real life. How can I add them manually? 3. Removing liveries manually: - I know that many of them serve as AI aircraft because MSFS is more or less assuming that I will always play in a sort of multiplayer session. I wou…

  8. I've got the Thrustmaster Airbus sidestick and have noticed it is very sluggish turning the nose gear when I twist it. In the controls section I can see it deflecting full both ways on the Z axis and it does move the rudder. But I still get very limited nose gear movement (tried on the default A320 and 787). Thanks

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  9. To anyone who feels the graphics look degraded as compared to before SU5 ... this is an interesting finding: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/settings-do-not-stick-since-su5/432211

    • 124 replies
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  10. I just came off a long 'tour' flight over the PNW, and also as to what other people are reporting, this is what occurred on my flight in the Cessna Float: There are propeller blade white line artifacts in this, and many other props at high rotation I believe that we need to give the custom shipping venders a break. I believe that the A.I. in SU5 is seriously broken, and here's why: I have been at only 1,000 feet over A.I. boats and ships, and they will disappear 'poof!' right in front of your eyes. You are not 1, 000 feet from them, and they will simply vanish. I also believe in the pursuit to cull back assets, to bolster FPS, Asobo really hit up the A.I…

    • 26 replies
    • 2.8k views
  11. Started by Isaiah53six,

    Noticed one of the largest cities in Texas (Dallas) is missing photogrammetry textures but Fort Worth is not. Wondering why Dallas might have been skipped in the USA update?

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  12. Fix the graphic settings, plane customization settings, world map settings, airport history, so that they will actually save. Give me sliders and or options so that I can make better use of my hardware that I invested in. Fix the horrible looking clouds when using live weather. Fix the overexposed looking clouds and terrain. Bring back volumetric lighting. Fix the horrible laggy loading of photogrammetry trees, coastlines, mountains and textures. Get rid of the pop-ins or find a better technique altogether. Pre SU5 I never had this problem. Most of these problems are because of the X-Box release, they had to make it more conservati…

  13. Update 4/25/21 Full Airport reconstruction of runways, Modelling is now more detailed than the old Ultra Version V8.0, i just have the huge task of making the runways/taxiways/aprons/parking bays/painted lines.. The airport is now operational with lots of updates coming AUTOTUNING ILS OK CHECKED AND WORKING WITH WORLD UPDATE 3 UK Waiting for Blender support for custom Jetways 🙂 100% DO NOT USE ANY APRON Texture ENHANCEMENT MODS WITH THIS SCENERY, Due to the complexity of parking bay arrangements. This will cause overlapping problems and possible CTD Gatwick Airport EGKK Ultra Full Edition:

    • 25 replies
    • 7.1k views
  14. Started by David Mills,

    Good evening, Ladies and Gentleman, and welcome to America's hottest new game show, the Flight Sim Quiz Show. Here's how the contest works. You'll be given a quotation, and you have to decide whether that quotation comes from a user of MSFS, P3D, or X-Plane. Answers are down at the bottom, but don't look until you've mentally chosen an answer. A few of the questions may have more than one answer. Good luck, Captains. Post your score below. "I think these Orthos make the sim look better, but they sure take up a lot of disk space." "It's Thursday, so we should be seeing the new screen shots any minute now." "How come the development team never communicates…

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    • 1.1k views
  15. Started by pilatuz,

    Is anyone else seeing this? Earlier everything was as it has been (broken temps etc) now I cannot even select live wx. Maybe an update us being done in the servers and they're locking people out during?

    • 6 replies
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  16. Started by AlexA320,

    Since the last update, it's no longer possible to use my mouse, in particular the right click. Does anyone have this problem? I've tried everything, but it doesn't change a thing.

    • 16 replies
    • 6.7k views
  17. Started by PDX Flyer,

    So after the last upgrade (number 5) when I click FLY, the application just closes down and completely disappears? Never had this problem before. And yes the hot fix was installed. Maybe it is time to reinstall the program and hope for the best? Any Ideas?

    • 12 replies
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  18. Guest abranpuko
    Started by Guest abranpuko,

    I have been making time for two whole days so that, every hour, there is the hope that Asobo will communicate to its users the reason for so many errors in the new update. The clouds have a worse definition, the traffic does not exist and does not inject more than 12 models (¿?), .lights are not volumetric. I have 8 CTDS on a day when the game is loading (without even being able to start powering the plane). What joke is this? We want, at least, what we had before (which already lacked good performance as well). Who has decided that this is an update and why? It is unfair, that you have paid an amount of money that you cannot enjoy the product.

    • 0 replies
    • 506 views
  19. A heads-up for those who may be purchasing a Stream Deck payware plug-in from a site named Flight Deck. A developer named Nguyen Quy Hy, who's plugins are freely available, claims some people stole his plugins from GitHub, and packaged them as Flight Deck, with some pre-built profiles. I purchased the payware from this site, on a recommendation from a fellow simmer from Avsim, who was also unaware of the controversy. I thought I was supporting the work of developer, Nguyen Quy Hy, but the funds went to those who supposedly stole his work. As I am not an attorney, I can not speak to whatever legal or ethical issues may be involved here, but if you wish to support the work…

    • 3 replies
    • 653 views
  20. Started by Fielder,

    Most other forums I'm on allow any message to be a poll. With 4 or 5 options to vote for. The percentages of responses are tabulated. I would be interested to know how positive or negative most people are about SU5 and the Hotfix.

    • 3 replies
    • 551 views
  21. RTX 3060 Ti with 8 GB memory - Prior to SU5 the Developer Mem Budget was always > 6 GB and MSI AfterBurner consistently showed more than 7 GB in use (GPU usage > 90% most of the time) while I was seeing about 29 - 32 FPS on my fixed test flight in coastal San Diego County and 19 - 22 FPS while landing at KSAN with LFVR KSAN installed. Almost all settings are at Ultra with scaling set to 120. After SU5 & HotFix - Dev GPU Mem Budget is always less than 4.5 GB and AfterBurner confirms that is all the GPU memory used and GPU usage is never over 75%. The framerate is always > 55 except when landing at KSAN it drops to 35 to 40 FPS. i7-9700 with 32GB m…

  22. Started by Epgd,

    What Asobo did by introducing su5 is a drama ... bugs, visual deterioration, ctd etc, you can find a problem in every aspect ..... I`am asksing why there was no Q @ A for the first time, like after every release update ... We have too many questions, don't be afraid of us 🙂 🙂

    • 4 replies
    • 660 views
  23. Sorry if this isn’t an appropriate post but I am hoping someone from the MSFS Development team will read this. Since I and other people are having problems with the program not working or opening up after the SU5 update, a popup or some type of message should inform users that if their program doesn’t open the problem could be a bad modification in the Community folder. Also what to do about it. Not everyone is aware of or looks at this and similar forums. Especially newbie users. I bet there are a lot of frustrated people out there that are completely in the dark about this. I am very frustrated with the lack of communication on the part of Asobo/Micros…

    • 2 replies
    • 589 views
  24. Started by Rocky,

    I have the DELUXE edition, so I don't have the Boeing 787, Cessna Logitude, Cirrus SR22, ... Nevertheless, the automatic update downloads and installs livery for these aircraft. Even if I remove them manually to make some free space on my SSD, MSFS reloads them as an update at the next start. How can avoid this? It is ridiculous, why am I forced to have liveries for aircraft that I don't have?!? Any idea is greatly welcome. Thank you.

    • 14 replies
    • 1.9k views

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