I mean everything. It forced me into a menu and wanted to set everything to ultra. I reset everything as well as I could remember, and then it stuck at step three with something about streaming data, and would go no further. What a major PIA.. 

 

 

 

 

I mean everything. It forced me into a menu and wanted to set everything to ultra. I reset everything as well as I could remember, and then it stuck at step three with something about streaming data, and would go no further. What a major PIA.. 

Edited February 22, 20251 yr by Bobsk8

Gosh, that is awful. Real sympathies.
-M

Wow, that's frustrating sorry Bob. 

No way to escape out reboot and try again hoping it was just a glitch?  

Ugh, frustrating.

I am going to start a flight now, and before I begin, I am taking a screen shot of all my settings, graphics, scenery, etc..It happens again, I can reset everything in a few minutes instead of an hour. 

I found this guide, which helped me get my settings back to what I think they were before Asobo decided to wipe everything out today. At least it gave me a starting point.  

 

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/fs2020-graphics-settings-and-performance-guide-su12-update-7-26-2023/132407

I didn't get any prompts, but yesterday after a compulsory update I found all of my graphics settings changed and everything on ultra. Luckily my controller settings were not changed.

I got the same messages one time. But I can't remember if I chose Customize or Next. But at the end nothing much was altered. The controllers were on Default, but all the ones that I had created were there too and I just selected the ones I had been using and was back to normal. Not a big deal, it turned out.

This happens a lot with 2020 and 2024.  I thought it was down to the fact that your settings were stored in the cloud rather than on your PC though I sometimes start up with a warning that my local settings are newer than my cloud settings, so not really sure what's going on. 

I do find that controller settings can be retrieved, but graphics, sound and assistance settings are all gone, annoyingly.

No application should ever be marketed that delete your settings just because it can't connect to the internet, whether it is due to a fault at your end or theirs.

18 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

forced me into a menu and wanted to set everything to ultra.

Are you using steam or ms store? As far as I know this never happens with steam so it would be important if it was. 

When you started was there a 'mandatory' update applied or no mention of an update or extra download at all? 

Its changed a few of my settings again last week including my multiplayer options which it wouldnt let me change back until I opened some of my privacy setting in my XBox account.

I hardly ever look in there and certainly never changed any settings in XBox, so did Microsoft change some privacy policies with no notification?

TBH Microsoft and its whole XBox and cloud thing is beginning to pi55 me off

P.S. I assume the steam version still requires an XBox account?

3 hours ago, sloppysmusic said:

Are you using steam or ms store? As far as I know this never happens with steam so it would be important if it was. 

When you started was there a 'mandatory' update applied or no mention of an update or extra download at all? 

Ms store for me, and no mandatory update. It started with an audio announcement like I had just installed the SIM and it needed to be set up.. Weird...

The strangest thing is this pop up recommened I set everything to Ultra. With my PC, that would have resulted in a FPS of a round 5...LOL

Edited February 23, 20251 yr by Bobsk8

22 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

 

I mean everything. It forced me into a menu and wanted to set everything to ultra. I reset everything as well as I could remember, and then it stuck at step three with something about streaming data, and would go no further. What a major PIA.. 

 

 

 

 

I mean everything. It forced me into a menu and wanted to set everything to ultra. I reset everything as well as I could remember, and then it stuck at step three with something about streaming data, and would go no further. What a major PIA.. 

Darn, just went in for a flight and its done this one to me also, all my graphics settings changed including enabling photogrammetry which I never use.

I wish they would stop messing with users data

Ouch!  Graphics and Assistance settings are a piece of cake to setup but controller settings is a big hassle.  Fortunately in 4.5y it's only changed Assistance settings twice.

All you have to do is keep a copy of your user.cfg file on another drive and just restore it when MS make a change to your internal settings.