8 minutes ago, Bdub22 said:

Can anyone confirm the weather radar tilt, please. 

From my understanding it’s now a WIP for the developers. Previously they had no way to implement a tilt function in WX RADAR. Now that Asobo has give the developers a path forward, the developers must now pick up the ball and carry it across the finish line. My take at least. YMMV. TANSTAAFL. Blue skies,

-ab

1 hour ago, CFIJose said:

Have you ever restored a drive before?

Yes, using a variety of methods … some worked well, others not so well:

1.  Windows Backup and Restore (Windows 7) not so well (restores often failed).  

2.  Acronis (to local external storage not cloud).

3.  One Drive … definitely NOT, just for data not a full system.

4.  M.2 replicator device, super fast, super simple, super reliable but requires removal of M.2 from PC.

If I need a good system image backup today, I’d go with Acronis.  I don’t consider my Flight Sim PC as “critical” so currently don’t have a backup solution.  My other workstation (a more serious computer) I do backup to my NAS and if I’m doing a serious upgrades to my workstation I will replicate the M.2’s.

4 hours ago, CFIJose said:

My "C" drive, where msfs v2024 is located, is fully backed up with an image that takes less than 10 minutes to restore. If I do decide to try SU5, I can withdraw if I do not like the results, then just restore my drive.

I don't think that's a very good idea at all.

Bear in mind the whole idea of the beta is to give feedback to the dev team. Features that you might take for granted can be broken and how you leave the beta can potentially mean a full reinstall of the sim and the reconstitution of your community folder. 

With that in mind read up very carefully how you enter the beta and how you leave it.

No one - including the devs - know when the beta will end at the moment.

Most importantly; If your sim is installed to the default location - i.e. your C drive, and you are  still in the beta when it ends and SU5 official is released then you will be forced to reinstall SU5 and your community folder and graphic settings will be wiped.

Bear in mind the notice that the beta is ending is very short and many people have been caught out by this.

In this case having a back up of SU4 is meaningless. Even if you load the backup the sim will still wipe this and reinstall the full sim as SU5 - with a fresh, clean, empty community folder.

The Cloud however will retain your control settings...and that's it.

 

Edited April 7Apr 7 by DD_Arthur

It takes 5 minute to reinstall MSFS 2024 unlike 2020 which takes 5 days.

dd

1 hour ago, Sky_Pilot071 said:

It takes 5 minute to reinstall MSFS 2024 

Only if you save your content.xml. 😀

It took me a couple of hours to install v2024 SU4, but the last time I had to re-install v2020, it did take me a few days to get everything working again.

5 hours ago, Sky_Pilot071 said:

It takes 5 minute to reinstall MSFS 2024 unlike 2020 which takes 5 days

If you stream everything yes, but not if you download and install to local … that takes a long time.

On 4/6/2026 at 5:21 PM, ryanbatc said:

Sometimes your controller profiles get reset, or in my case my profile assignments got reset... so I had to click the little arrow to re-assign each controller binding per plane.  That only happened with SU5 so far

I moved everything over to FSUIPC7 and have a backup of the config files. I got burned a few times with beta updates.

51 minutes ago, SayAgain said:

If you stream everything yes, but not if you download and install to local … that takes a long time.

Good point because I do stream everything with an empty community folder.

I do have a 64gb cache however.

dd

Edited April 8Apr 8 by Sky_Pilot071

VR performance is much better in the beta. To a lesser degree, so is the 2D monitor fps and stability. 

Controller profiles were an issue with me. They seem to require retweeking, unlike the release version of the sim. (Remember the sim allows you to back up your profiles to your local disc in any version of 2024). 

I sometime revert back to the non beta and then back to beta maybe the next day. It has been very fast, 15 minutes tops.