February 3, 20224 yr FEBRUARY 3RD, 2022 DEVELOPMENT UPDATE Posted by: Microsoft Flight Simulator Team Screenshot by jienbacktory2 (Twitter) We hope you’re enjoying the most recent World Update 7: Australia! Thank you for the recent feedback on both the free update and our new Local Legend aircraft, the Fokker F. VII. Next on the list for us is Sim Update 8, which focuses on bug fixes in the sim. This update is targeted for release on March 1st. As mentioned on last week’s dev Q&A, we are planning a public beta period for this update, which will include all platforms (that means Steam, too!). Stay tuned for how to join that optional flight soon. Next Wednesday, February 9th at 10:30am PT, we have our third SDK Q&A live on Twitch. Our SDK Team is ready to answer your questions and meet with you. We hope to see you there! – MSFS TEAM – DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP Click here for the web-friendly version. FEEDBACK SNAPSHOT Click here for the web-friendly version. To learn more about Accessibility in Microsoft Flight Simulator, click here. We are working on revamping our Bugs & Issues section to better reflect the top bugs in our Feedback Snapshot. More updates to come! SDK UPDATE DevMode: Work is continuing on the weather API for WASM (exposing same bitmaps that are available in JavaScript). We improved the management of memory for the Undo stack. We fixed the interface of buttons in parking scripts. Scenery Editor: We fixed a memory leak in the Scenery Editor that could cause severe drops of FPS on some airports. Visual Effects Editor: We fixed a crash that happened when trying to open the object selector, while the scenery editor has not been initialized. SimConnect Set FUEL TANK QUANTITY now converts unit to gallons. RequestFacilitiesList now returns the entire list of facilities. 3RD PARTY UPDATE As of 01/30, we have now approved 228 (+0) third parties into the in-sim marketplace and – so far 133 (+0) have released 881 products on PC (+15) and 575 on Xbox (+14). In total, 1,763 products (+26) have already been released in 3rd party stores and the in-sim marketplace. Beyond that, another 476 products (+19) from 3rd party developers are in production (287 announced, 189 unannounced). In total, over 2,237 3rd party products (+45) are either released or are in development. Airports: 1307 airports (+17) are either released or are in various stages of development. 1084 airports (+14) have been released on the platform so far in various stores. 624 airports (+11) have been released in the in-sim marketplace. 113 airports (+1) beyond the released airports have been announced. 110 airports (+2) are not announced, but the dev let us know that an airport is in production. Aircraft: 282 aircraft (+1) are either released or are in various stages of development. 103 aircraft (+0) have been released on the platform so far in various stores. 69 aircraft (+1) have been released in the in-sim marketplace. 157 aircraft (+3) beyond the released aircraft have been announced. 22 aircraft (-2) are not announced, but the dev let us know that an aircraft is in production. Scenery: 570 sceneries (+25) are either released or are in various stages of development. 498 sceneries (+8) have been released on the platform so far in various stores. 107 sceneries (+5) have been released in the in-sim marketplace. 17 sceneries (+1) beyond the released scenery have been announced. 55 sceneries (+16) are not announced, but the dev let us know that scenery is in production. Mission Packs: 78 mission packs (+2) are either released or are in various stages of development. 76 mission packs (+2) have been released on the platform so far in various stores. 8 mission packs (+0) have been released in the in-sim marketplace. 0 mission packs (+0) beyond the released missions have been announced. 2 mission packs (+0) are not announced, but the dev let us know that they are in production. MARKETPLACE UPDATE There are 39 new and 30 updated products in the Marketplace today. 39 NEW PRODUCTS: 17 ON PC, 22 ON XBOX New on PC and Xbox ✅ New on PC and Xbox ✅ New on PC ✅ New on PC and Xbox ✅ New on PC and Xbox ✅ New on PC and Xbox ✅ New on PC and Xbox ✅ New on PC and Xbox ✅ New on PC and Xbox ✅ New on Xbox ✅ New on PC and Xbox ✅ New on PC and Xbox ✅ New on Xbox ✅ New on PC and Xbox ✅ New on PC ✅ New on PC and Xbox ✅ New on PC and Xbox ✅ New on PC and Xbox ✅ New on Xbox ✅ New on Xbox ✅ New on Xbox ✅ New on Xbox ✅ New on Xbox ✅ New on PC and Xbox ✅ 30 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 19 ON PC, 11 ON XBOX Updated on PC ✅ Updated on PC ✅ Updated on PC ✅ Updated on PC and Xbox ✅ Updated on PC ✅ Updated on PC and Xbox✅ Updated on PC and Xbox ✅ Updated on PC Xbox ✅ Updated on PC and Xbox✅ Updated on PC and Xbox ✅ Updated on PC and Xbox ✅ Updated on PC ✅ Updated on PC✅ Updated on PC and Xbox ✅ Updated on PC and Xbox ✅ Updated on PC ✅ Updated on PC and Xbox ✅ Updated on PC and Xbox ✅ Updated on PC ✅ TWITCH UPDATE We stream weekly on Twitch.tv/MSFSOfficial! Stock up on Tim Tams, Arnott’s Shapes, and Vegemite! To celebrate the release of World Update VII: Australia, we will be hosting a flight in the Land Down Under for this week’s Community Fly-In. Joining your regular stream hosts will be several members of the Orbx team who helped create the updated Australian POIs and the Fokker F.VII airplane, our second Local Legend. All are welcome to participate! Click here for details. COMMUNITY VIDEO Located near Mount Everest high in the Himalayas, Tenzing-Hillary Airport, also known as Lukla (ICAO: VNLK), is considered one of the most challenging places in the world for pilots to takeoff and land. In this video, YouTuber TFS2020 attempts many takeoffs from Lukla in a variety of different aircraft types including a Boeing 747! SCREENSHOT CHALLENGE You can now submit your screenshot via Twitter with #MSFSchallenge or the Weekly Forum Post! This week’s screenshot challenge: Australia This past week our Screenshot Challenge was “Lunar New Year“. Here are our runner ups this week: Screenshot by ArcanePython931 (Forum) Screenshot by NonSmallJohn (Forum) Screenshot by ScenicAtol37419 (Forum) Screenshot by DarlingCandy910 (Forum) Screenshot by simok0 (Forum) Screenshot by tomlaut1980 (Forum) Screenshot by zkdos (Forum) Screenshot by isaiahnparadise (Twitter) Screenshot by KnightHawk0ne (Twitter) Screenshot by pommes_l (Twitter) NEXT DEVELOPMENT BLOG UPDATE – February 10th, 2022 Sincerely, Microsoft Flight Simulator Team Edited February 3, 20224 yr by ChaoticBeauty
February 3, 20224 yr Thanks for posting this 👍 5950x3d 5.4-5.7 GHz - Asus ROG 870 Crosshair Apex - GSkill Neo 2x 24 Gb 6000 mhz / cas 26 - MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC - 1x SSD M2 6000 2TB - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 1Tb - Corsair 5400 case - Corsair 360 liquid cooling set - 3x 75’ TCL tv. 13600 6 cores @ 5.1 GHz / 8 cores @ 4.0 GHz (hypterthreading on) - Asus ROG Strix Gaming D - GSkill Trident 4x Gb 3200 MHz cas 15 - Asus TUF RTX 4080 16 Gb - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 2TB - 2x Sata 600 SSD 500 Mb - Corsair D4000 Airflow case - NXT Krajen Z63 AIO liquide cooling - FOV : 200 degrees My flightsim vids : https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
February 3, 20224 yr Administrators I feel sorry for anyone trying to pull this up on a phone! 😳 Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
February 3, 20224 yr I'm on my phone but on WiFi. Seems fine here. | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
February 4, 20224 yr This time we poor Steamers might have a chance. I have a few pet issues on my list which I'll certainly report if not resolved. BTW, Ryan's phone via WiFi may be fine but my PC on Ethernet struggled...😉 Kind regards, Michael Intel i7-13700K / AsRock Z790 / Crucial 32 GB DDR 5 / ASUS RTX 4080OC 16GB / BeQuiet ATX 1000W / WD m.2 NVMe 2TB (System) / WD m.2 NVMe 4 TB (MSFS) / WD HDD 10 TB / XTOP+Saitek hardware panel / LG 34UM95 3440 x 1440 / HP Reverb 1 (2160x2160 per eye) / Win 11
February 4, 20224 yr Foveated Rendering for VR = Not VR Specific Pico Neo3 Link VR - Windows 11 64bit, Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Elite Mobo, i7-10700KF CPU, Gigabyte RX 9070 XT OC 16gb (AMD GPU), 32gig Corsair 3600mhz RAM, SSD x2 + M.2 SSD 1tb x1 Saitek X45 HOTAS - Saitek Pro Rudder Pedals - Logitech Flight Yoke - Homemade 3 Button & 8-directional Joystick Box, SNES Controller (used as a Button Box - Additional USB Numpad (used as a Button Box)
February 4, 20224 yr 15 hours ago, ChaoticBeauty said: As mentioned on last week’s dev Q&A, we are planning a public beta period for this update, which will include all platforms (that means Steam, too!). Stay tuned for how to join that optional flight soon. Anyone willing to wipe out its sim again? 😅 Cheers, Ed MSFS2020 Steam // Rig: Corsair Graphite 760T Full Tower - ASUS MBoard Maximus XII Hero Z490 - CPU Intel i9-10900K - 64GB RAM - MSI RTX2080 Super 8GB - [1xNVMe M.2 1TB + 1xNVMe M.2 2TB (Samsung)] + [1xSSD 1TB + 1xSSD 2TB (Crucial)] + [1xSSD 1TB (Samsung)] + 1 HDD Seagate 2TB + 1 HDD Seagate External 4TB - Monitor LG 29UC97C UWHD Curved - PSU Corsair RM1000x // Thrustmaster FCS & MS XBOX Controllers
February 4, 20224 yr 2 hours ago, edpatino said: Anyone willing to wipe out its sim again? 😅 Yep. Didn't happen last time (I'm on Steam) and probably won't happen this time either. Then again, I do know what I'm doing. Even if it does, I have full disk backups going back 15 days. An external USB disk array and Macrium Reflect synthetic full backups are a wonderful thing. ...jim ASUS Prime Z790-E, Intel i9 13900K, 32Gb DDR5 Ram, Nvidia 3090 24Gb, Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500 GB and 1 TB, Samsung Odyssey G9 Ultrawide 49" G-SYNC Monitor.
February 4, 20224 yr 16 hours ago, Konterhalbe said: "Get rid of snow on runways, taxiways, etc" is rose up to #47 which is goood!!! But does it not say "investigating"? Really??? That investigation should last about two minutes! LOL! Perhaps the dev team is "snowed under"! Edited February 4, 20224 yr by fppilot Frank Patton Corsair 5000D Airflow Case; MSI B650 Tomahawk MOB; Ryzen 7 7800 X3D CPU; ASUS RTX 4080 Super; NZXT 360mm liquid cooler; Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5 4800 MHz RAM; RMX850X Gold PSU;; ASUS VG289 4K 27" Display; Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, Crosswind 3's w/dampener. Former USAF meteorologist & ground weather school instructor. AOPA Member #07379126 "I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me." - John Deere
February 4, 20224 yr 3 hours ago, JimBrown said: Yep. Didn't happen last time (I'm on Steam) and probably won't happen this time either. Then again, I do know what I'm doing. Even if it does, I have full disk backups going back 15 days. An external USB disk array and Macrium Reflect synthetic full backups are a wonderful thing. ...jim Did know that lots of people wiped out their sims during the last beta, both when opting-in and when leaving... Conclusion: you have to know what you're doing. Anyway, a no go for me, would prefer to wait for the official SU8. Just want to avoid more betas, after one year and a half, I'm done. Cheers, Ed MSFS2020 Steam // Rig: Corsair Graphite 760T Full Tower - ASUS MBoard Maximus XII Hero Z490 - CPU Intel i9-10900K - 64GB RAM - MSI RTX2080 Super 8GB - [1xNVMe M.2 1TB + 1xNVMe M.2 2TB (Samsung)] + [1xSSD 1TB + 1xSSD 2TB (Crucial)] + [1xSSD 1TB (Samsung)] + 1 HDD Seagate 2TB + 1 HDD Seagate External 4TB - Monitor LG 29UC97C UWHD Curved - PSU Corsair RM1000x // Thrustmaster FCS & MS XBOX Controllers
February 4, 20224 yr Currently (SU7) the XBOX app shows 2 versions of MSFS. One is the GOTY version. Both give the "Error On our side message" but was wondering which one I should try to install. TIA ns AMD RYZEN 9 5900X 12 CORE CPU - ZOTAC RTX 3060Ti GPU - NZXT H510i ELITE CASE - EVO M.2 970 500GB DRIVE - 32GB XTREEM 4000 MEM - XPG GOLD 80+ 650 WATT PS - NZXT 280 HYBRID COOLER
February 4, 20224 yr 8 hours ago, MarcG said: Foveated Rendering for VR = Not VR Specific ?? AMD 7800X3D, Windows 11, Gigabyte X670 AORUS Elite AX Motherboard, 64GB DDR5 G.SKILL Trident Z5 NEO RGB (AMD Expo), RTX 4090, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 2 TB PCIe 4.0, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 1 TB PCIe 4.0, 4K resolution 50" TV @60Hz, VR: Pimax Crystal Light + HP Reverb G2 @ 90 Hz, Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant, be quiet 1000W PSU, Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black air cooler. 60-130 fps. no CPU overclocking. very nice.
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