Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 gets a new patch to address ongoing stability issues — Microsoft suggests users install 1.1.9.0 patch, relocate Community Folder to mitigate long loading times
The game is slowly but surely approaching a playable state.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by a handful of issues and clunky backend infrastructure designed for just 200,000 players. To somewhat alleviate this situation, Microsoft's latest patch for its flight simulator addresses a few common stability problems and advises users to relocate the Community Folder for better performance.
MSFS 2024 (Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024) incorporates a unique design to reduce initial download sizes - streaming assets from the cloud on the go as you play. This has several implications, the first being bandwidth on Microsoft's end and the second being game preservation, but that's a topic for another day. Microsoft's design did not factor in the large swarm of players at launch, and even now, it struggles to keep up with demand. Talk about suffering from success.
In its release notes, Microsoft suggested users transfer the Community Folder to another folder before restarting the game. According to Microsoft, outdated packages in this folder can impact your framerate, so this small step might boost your performance—to a certain extent. A handful of other bugs have also been addressed, as you can see in the list below.
- Stability & Performance
- Fixed a crash when you selected "As Arrival" in the EFB.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when closing and invoking the Camera menu after changing the Drone focus mode option to a value other than undefined.
- Fixed various crashes across the title.
- General Bug Fixes
- Fixed missing cursor on Xbox Live sign-in popup
- Fixed an issue where you could lose focus when creating a new input profile.
- Aircraft selection is accessible via the control menu, but can only be changed from the home page.
- Fixed an issue where you could get stuck when accessing the menu bar from any help page.
Users have expressed their frustrations, an example of which is Steam - seeing MSFS 2024's rating drop to "Mostly Negative." Admittedly, while server capacity issues still plague the flight-sim, initial testing should have taken these considerations into mind. Global player counts are still on the rise - offsetting Microsoft's best efforts to mitigate ongoing bandwidth problems.
As we speak, Microsoft has not rolled out a roadmap of any sort to address the community's concerns. This sort of ties into the increasing player count problem we mentioned above. A game heavily reliant on cloud streaming is bound to run into these issues. The idea is new and innovative but also restricts data and bandwidth-limited users from accessing the game and then you have the obvious subject of game preservation. Nonetheless, MSFS 2024 has been a hit - in all sorts of ways but we expect Microsoft to find solutions to these issues shortly.
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kaalus I think Google Maps in 3D mode still looks more realistic than MS Flight Simulator. And remember, it is written in interpreted JavaScript, with WebGL, which is about equal to DirectX 9. It runs lightning fast on an integrated GPU and CPU from 2010 with 4GB RAM. And it loads instantly, even though it's 100% streamed from the cloud. Not to mention that the data is more up to date too.Reply
If only Google wanted to sell a flight simulator, they could just add some physics and it would sell millions. -
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A 3D map of a few locations, without weather, without physics, without flight, does not become a full flight simulator of the entire Earth in 3D just by adding some physics. The amount of work that goes into making a flight simulator is incredible.kaalus said:I think Google Maps in 3D mode still looks more realistic than MS Flight Simulator. And remember, it is written in interpreted JavaScript, with WebGL, which is about equal to DirectX 9. It runs lightning fast on an integrated GPU and CPU from 2010 with 4GB RAM. And it loads instantly, even though it's 100% streamed from the cloud. Not to mention that the data is more up to date too.
If only Google wanted to sell a flight simulator, they could just add some physics and it would sell millions.
Also, Google Maps in 3D mode does not have the number of concurrent users that Flight Simulator 2024 has.