MSFS Updates/Patches

Flight Sims Microsoft Flight Simulator
42

I had something like that in mind (as opposed to just repeating “so smooth” and “silky smooth” all over and over again):

I believe there will be more analytic videos out there soon from some more down to earth simmers. I am looking forward to them.

Got my own simple “pancake” test ready - a flight from Speyer over Mannheim to Mainz representing the kind of flying I usually do in MSFS. Two days ago I measured Sim Update 4 performance, was downloading Sim Update 5 yesterday, and will hopefully run Sim Update 5 test today. Once done, I will post the results (so far, just sitting on the runway quickly this morning, the perf boost was about 15-20%. Wow).

I should have run the test in VR but yeah, there we go…

EDIT: Another one, now in 2D

2 Likes
43

I hear you. It was an initial impressions video, and his impressions was just that :slight_smile:

But there’s an important point as well, as just looking at the frametime has its limitations too. It’s easy to get caught up in the numbers instead of how it looks and feels.
But number are easier to compare.

1 Like
44

I managed to complete the update yesterday evening, today I tried a short flight. Had one CTD and two multi-second freezes . How is the stability for everyone else?

45

Updated today. Stability while updating was bad, but in flight all seems to be fine. I do suffer from some weirdly jumpy aliased edges around things, might just be how TAA works or I messed up some setting somewhere? It looks a bit like heat blur.

Trying to download some of the World Updates, and the sim keeps crashing in the content manager too… Very annoying

46

Hm… Updated and I’m disappointed.
If anything, performance is worse. Now the movement is jerky, like moving around in steps, even if the motion is fluid between the steps. Really strange.
When I started MSFS the first time after the update, it crashed to desktop. Tried again, and that worked.
I wonder if something is the matter with my installation? Or maybe the update? Shouldn’t Sim Update 5 improve the world map so that you get textures all the way down, instead of the grey surface? I still have the grey land surface.

1 Like
47

VR or flat?

Did you restart the PC after update?

When running the sim for the first time after update, the World Map was grey but now it shows bing maps. Maybe an issue with their servers.

1 Like
48

VR

Yes.

49

Does it show the same issues also in 2D?

50

I haven’t tested 2D.

I wonder if the CTD when I started it the first time may have messed something up…?

51

Dunno, tbh. Perhaps. Though I am not sure whether there is a function to verify files… maybe when on the Steam install.

There is a long thread on MSFS forum about issues in Sim Update 5. Posting here in case you have not seen it.

1 Like
52

Despite some yelling out there that the update is a catastrophe I am seeing good things…

1 Like
53

At the bottom of the map page you have to select what type of map you’d like to see.

1 Like
54

In case the problems happen in VR only, maybe try also to play a bit with the OpenXR Developer Tools - like switching on/off “Use latest preview OpenXR runtime”, Motion Reprojection or perhaps to use SteamVR instead of OpenXR.

Then I am running out of ideas…

season 1 friends GIF

2 Likes
55

That fixed the map! Thanks!

Yeah, I will.
I tried MSFS again. Fresh PC start and Windows boot. Worked great…for a while. Suddenly the headset blacked out. Esc to pause. Ctrl Tab out and into VR and all was good again. But the stepping/stutter/pausing was evident.
Shut MSFS down, opened OpenXR dev. tool and set Render Scale to 100% and motion reprojection to always on. Started MSFS…CTD.
Will try some of your suggestions to see if I can find a root cause. If not I’ll just let it sit for a while. Update 5 is big one and is bound to break some stuff. Plus, there was an OpenXR update, recently… Going to see if I can copy somebody elses settings too.

Another issue I found was the elevator trim in the Cessna 172. It’s bound to an axis and jumps between center and max up/down. Works fine in the Cessna 152. Go figure!

56

You’ll notice when you zoom down now, you can pick parking spaces.

1 Like
57

Also, is there a way to avoid having to watch the Asobo, Blackshark AI and latest world/sim update animations, every time MSFS is loading?

58

I believe there was some sort of hack on Flightsim.To, but I wouldn’t trust it…

1 Like
59

I see some comments on the MSFS forum about deleting the contents of the community folder, to avoid CTD… Where do I find this folder?

60

It depends on if You have the Gamepass version Or the Steam version.

For the Windows Store install:

C:\Users[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\Packages\ Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\

For the Steam install:

C:\Users[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\Packages\

Microsoft.FlightDashboard_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\

As an aside, a lot of people use addon linker, that allows you to clear that folder with one click and add all your stuff back in with another.

1 Like
61

In case you installed also the SDK, you can fire up the sim by “fsdevmodelauncher.exe” located in YourDrive:\MSFS SDK\Tools\bin". This will launch the sim without all the vids at the beginning. I am using this launcher for almost a year with no issues.

1 Like