40 minutes ago, andy1252 said:

Cleared rolling cache, quit, rebooted PC, restarted and all ok again. I feel like adding some "offensive initials" at this point.

How do you clear the rollin cache? I fly good but lack computer knowledge.

1 minute ago, Stratocruiser1 said:

How do you clear the rollin cache? I fly good but lack computer knowledge.

This has no effect on Azure server performance.  If the remote servers are offline and/or slow you can dump local cache all you want it will have no effect. It would be like kicking your seat at an airline terminal to get your connecting flight to arrive quicker.

OK, my reset hadn't worked. When I came back up I just looked at the airport first, and it was ok. When I got up and out it was still FSX mode, so I guess the airport was ok as it was built in. Doh!

Rebooted again and started a flight mid-air just over the GG Bridge and it's definitely FSX down there!

So I don't know what's going on, but I am definitely not being served here.

49 minutes ago, Stratocruiser1 said:

How do you clear the rollin cache? I fly good but lack computer knowledge.

https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019202439-How-to-delete-the-Rolling-Cache-and-the-Manual-Cache

I’m not a fan of running around screaming the sky is falling, but this certainly has my attention. Promises about offline abilities made during marketing should certainly be kept.
 

@Asobo it would be very helpful if you could chime in with some reassurance here… I for one am unsettled.

Ta- C

 

PS- So, are the servers back up and running?

Edited July 20, 20214 yr by cavaricooper

Just now, fppilot said:

Would you please better explain this?

Nah, the thread will be really derailed if I did that.  Go look up my other comments, I have discussed this extensively in other threads.  Not gonna repeat it in this thread because it may derail this thread.

1 hour ago, abrams_tank said:

The consensus is, streaming satellite/photogrammetry data is really cheap for Microsoft.  And with the X-Box release of MSFS, it makes it even harder for Microsoft to pull the plug.

But that's only good for Microsoft, says nothing about what is good for the users experience who could not tolerate such interruption when they need consistent reliable service for their flights especially in VR if they didn't know the outage was coming. 

Edited July 20, 20214 yr by BobFS88

Small server interruptions are par for the course nowadays. Almost everything has some form of online connectivity. Yeah it kind of sucks when it happens but that's just the reality we have to deal with now. Frankly it's more likely that it's an issue with your ISP than anything else. 

I would say that this issue is the MSFS red herring (not a massive one mind you, but a red herring indeed) and for many of us it has crossed our minds - "what if the servers go down, then what?"  I'm glad I'm at work right now so I don't have to go out and cut grass because I can't sim at the moment.

Well I was going to risk melting my GPU in the heat by doing a little MSFSing this evening. Seems I won't be now.

That's probably something to get used to. Are there even service providers which would guarantee 100% availability in anything web server/streaming/content management? Still from MS a quite high availability is to be expected, I'd say.

 

2 hours ago, liamp51 said:

Small server interruptions are par for the course nowadays. Almost everything has some form of online connectivity. Yeah it kind of sucks when it happens but that's just the reality we have to deal with now. Frankly it's more likely that it's an issue with your ISP than anything else. 

My ISP 😄, when every other website/web feature works except Azure.  That's a good one... 🤨🙄

I don't mean this to be personally condescending but I'm sure all of us reporting on Avsim had internet access at the exact time the situation was going on with Azure/the Xbox servers.

Edited July 20, 20214 yr by Dillon

42 minutes ago, rka said:

That's probably something to get used to. Are there even service providers which would guarantee 100% availability in anything web server/streaming/content management? Still from MS a quite high availability is to be expected, I'd say.

 

Very true that's why we were promised dumbed down access to the sim should Azure be interrupted for some reason.  What we actually have is a locked game we can't get into if the sim can't reach an Azure server.  

I'm going to love the next one where XBOX users can only use content from the Market Place (not the vender's websites). I can see this one a mile away...  If you want gun turrents on the Milviz Corsair or the Spitfire your out of luck on the Xbox.  Some are going to disagree but a sim shouldn't even be on a console.  I guess as long as you can figure out how to plug in a keyboard, mouse, yoke/peddles, VR headset, and access to the community folder (oh, only Market Place titles need apply), then your good.

The thing is the control and actual usage is different than what was sold to us.  That doesn't bold well for the future to me. I hope I'm wrong.

Edited July 20, 20214 yr by Dillon

11 minutes ago, Dillon said:

Very true that's why we were promised dumbed down access to the sim should Azure be interrupted for some reason.  What we actually have is a locked game we can't get into if the sim can't reach an Azure server.  

I'm going to love the next one where XBOX users can only use content from the Market Place (not the vender's websites). I can see this one a mile away...

The thing is the control and actual usage is different than what was sold to us.  That doesn't bold well for the future to me. I hope I'm wrong.

I'm not really worried. This thing will yield them enough money to go for the next decade. And if they achieve 98,5 availability, I'll be happy.

But just imagine Steam would be gone tomorrow...

And about the dumbed down access: Will probably come with sim update 17 in 2025 😛

Edited July 20, 20214 yr by rka

I may be mistaken, but I thought I read awhile back that MSFS could be configured to run off line, but you had to do that somewhere in the setup menu. Maybe somebody else knows if this is true or not.