I am very happy that they have noticed the bad maps of the north, especially in my home country Sweden where I fly the most, but it is surprising that they did not notice the Lod difference compared to how it was at release, the difference is like night and day to me.

19 minutes ago, devgrp said:

Never had any problems downloading the game or updates. I've installed the game on release day and have updated it problem free every time and I'm on a wifi connection 

Don't think anyone suggested you did have a problem.

2 hours ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

This ^^ could be one of the most important things. 

I thought he said 6 to 10 FPS improvement!? 

I have a reliable 100 MBit/s connection and never had a download issue with MSFS. This is in Germany via Deutsche Telekom and using the Steam version.

Thus, it's certainly not "their servers are bad". I suspect the server network is comprised of servers with varying reliability and capacity, though. This way it's certainly justified those affected to inform them via Zendesk, preferred including country and carrier. Maybe those suffering might even find bad spots via a dedicated thread in the official forum.

Kind regards, Michael

I've been saying for months that the sim was not optimized properly leading to the retail release and it proves to be correct. Optimization improvements coming in Update 6 and there's room for more. Good news here. 

3 hours ago, mickatmian said:

Lucky you with your I'm alright jack.

Spare a thought for those of us that have internet line speeds that do not support much above 20Mpbs.

Mick, my point is that people are spending serious money to actually slow their connections down to be able to run updates and the installer. That is just crazy. That is not solving the problem and as a work around, a terrible solution too. I get the frustration, I would be too but it is not directly an Asobo or MS issue. There has to be another local issue at play.

People talk about an endless loop. That is symptomatic of a download happening ok and when it comes to writing that data to the disk, it is failing and restarting. Things such as the system disk has gone to sleep or a file string is breaking the Windows 250 character limit, orphaned registry entries from a previous or failed installation. There is a need to look deeper.

4 minutes ago, RaptyrOne said:

Mick, my point is that people are spending serious money to actually slow their connections down to be able to run updates and the installer. That is just crazy. That is not solving the problem and as a work around, a terrible solution too. I get the frustration, I would be too but it is not directly an Asobo or MS issue. There has to be another local issue at play.

People talk about an endless loop. That is symptomatic of a download happening ok and when it comes to writing that data to the disk, it is failing and restarting. Things such as the system disk has gone to sleep or a file string is breaking the Windows 250 character limit, orphaned registry entries from a previous or failed installation. There is a need to look deeper.

If that is the case why does it fail at the same place on the download every time without even getting to write to disk? also if there is no problem why have Microsoft addressed it in their FAQ's?

As I have already said my initial download and 2 subsequent updates went without problem I did not change anything and had a clean community folder so there must be something else at play. Too many people with the same problem.

Mick

 

Agreed Mick and the last couple of pages of this thread reek of the "I'm alright Jack", "It must be your hardware." lynch mob.

I have all sorts of games installed on my PC, most through Steam and some that require being on line to play and never had an issue with looping files until the 1.8.30 debacle. If it's not Asobo/MS servers and it's not hardware on the user/comms end then maybe, just maybe, the download code within the game is flawed. That would explain why, once you get back in and set speed to unlimited, the problem did indeed seem to go away. However, the point is the software should have no issues if you choose to set a lower download speed rather than let it rip - just as back in the day when you burned CD-R's it was always considered prudent to drop the burn speed to 2x or 4x rather than the maximum 16x or whatever.

4 hours ago, Drumcode said:

LOL, now you're pushing the scenarios. Asobo is very well alive and kicking and still hiring during the pandemic, seems to me like they're pretty busy and staying on course to ship the updates according to the timeline. 

I understand where you come from, but we (in france) we were going throu the pandemic just like everyone else. Difference is now, we've gone back to lockdown, wich further limitate freedoms. Now, it is true that development kept going during the first lockdown from march to june,, so you could be right. Im just saying that maybe its a new parameter to take into account. 

1 minute ago, leprechaunlive said:

I understand where you come from, but we (in france) we were going throu the pandemic just like everyone else. Difference is now, we've gone back to lockdown, wich further limitate freedoms. Now, it is true that development kept going during the first lockdown from march to june,, so you could be right. Im just saying that maybe its a new parameter to take into account. 

One could argue that they will produce updates quicker, now that they are locked down, nothing to do but work.

It didn’t affect them during the first lockdown either I believe.   

1 hour ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

One could argue that they will produce updates quicker, now that they are locked down, nothing to do but work.

It didn’t affect them during the first lockdown either I believe.   

well, we dont really know that. And i doubt the reason the updates are slow is because they were procrastinating 😄