Just now, psolk said:

certainly no down side to having the option!  

except in avsim threads 🤪

I think it is great that there is an option and there are certainly some use cases where this option will be useful. But to describe it as "game changing" seems a little too strong. It is a feature that may be helpful to some people sometimes. Much ado about little.

16 minutes ago, turbomax said:

except in avsim threads 🤪

The sky being up and ground being down, sky being blue, sun being hot, North pole being up, South Pole being down, rain being wet and night being dark are ALL debatable on Avsim.  LOL

Heck, if I said what I had for breakfast I'm sure SOMEONE here could argue that I am wrong and that is NOT what I ate 😂 🤦‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️

1 hour ago, turbomax said:

so where is the problem then?

Did I say there was a problem?

44 minutes ago, BrammyH said:

The a21n cockpit was blurry for about a minute every time I spawned in SU2. 

Downloading it solved it  

I do have good internet also. 

Yup, this was a problem when MSFS 2024 was released. Some people were getting blurry cockpits, or extremely low polygonal plane exteriors, because the data wasn't fully obtained from streaming.  Downloading planes one's hard drive should solve this problem.

46 minutes ago, psolk said:

The sky being up and ground being down, sky being blue, sun being hot, North pole being up, South Pole being down, rain being wet and night being dark are ALL debatable on Avsim.  LOL

Heck, if I said what I had for breakfast I'm sure SOMEONE here could argue that I am wrong and that is NOT what I ate 😂 🤦‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️

No. They would tell you that a real simmer wouldn’t eat that, but a gamer would for sure. 

1 hour ago, abrams_tank said:

Yup, this was a problem when MSFS 2024 was released. Some people were getting blurry cockpits, or extremely low polygonal plane exteriors, because the data wasn't fully obtained from streaming.  Downloading planes one's hard drive should solve this problem.

wasn't that down to the appalling infrastructure issues they had?

7 hours ago, St Mawgan said:

Thanks I had no idea that was possible. So I really don't need to download anything. I have great internet connectivity and already very fast loading times. I would gain nothing by downloading assets and just lose disk space. 

Edit - that actually looks way too complicated if you just want to edit a couple of cfg files!  

The virtual file system is not hard to navigate..

I guess for me i have never been fully onboard with the 100% streaming aspect of 2024 that client is a touch too thin for my liking. I have the space for the files and nothing is faster than the files being on your PC. I downloaded the base files alone and yes the game startup is longer but the sim loaded the airport and the aircraft instantly. Goodbye to that initial blurry mess and wondering if truly everything has been properly loaded in. Right now im In the middle of downloading every scenery file Asobo will allow me to. The default aircraft i could do without and the AI aircraft im not even touching (AIG user). But I'm extremely happy right now.  

 

Will downloading things have any impact on the low level stutterfest on short finals and while taxying?  I simply do not get that on 2020 using more rigorous settings.  

17 minutes ago, Maxis said:

I guess for me i have never been fully onboard with the 100% streaming aspect of 2024 that client is a touch too thin for my liking. I have the space for the files and nothing is faster than the files being on your PC. I downloaded the base files alone and yes the game startup is longer but the sim loaded the airport and the aircraft instantly. Goodbye to that initial blurry mess and wondering if truly everything has been properly loaded in. Right now im In the middle of downloading every scenery file Asobo will allow me to. The default aircraft i could do without and the AI aircraft im not even touching (AIG user). But I'm extremely happy right now.  

 

MicroSoft is increasing it's cloud/datacenter capacity in the UK by 40%.

dd

5 hours ago, Cognita said:

I understand that is basically a physical impossibility, you would need to download a petabyte of data. Every aspect of MSFS is bound to servers so if Microsoft every decides end MSFS that is it, there is no continuing on with it. Same as for my Office suite, PowerBI, Slack, and a dozen other programs I used regularly -- no server, no service. Companies come and go, priorities come and go, that is just how it is.

I don't see this as much of a game changer, to be honest. Maybe if you use a lot of default airports and aircraft or purchase everything from the Marketplace this may make a small difference, but that is yet to be seen. For those of us who use principally third party aircraft and airports installed in our community folder, this feature makes no difference at all. 

This isn't entirely true.

To have a functional, flyable sim wouldn't take petabytes of local data any more than it does with Prepar3D or X-Plane.

Presently, my Rolling Cache isn't functional for some reason, and I can tell ya, it's not a great experience to reload the same streamed airport and streamed airplane cockpit from the very last flight I did.

I had set the RC to 100GB and it worked just great...

Sometimes the scenery in 2024 makes you shake in your boots. 👊

dd

Wow.... just .. wow..

Yeah... its starting to feel like a solid sim now. (Just need to work on that VRAM hit). If it wasnt for VRAM issues i probably would switch sims today.

For me this is a MAJOR step forward. I finally feel like i got a true full install of MSFS2024 and not the version required to satisfy the limited space on the console platform.

 

Those happy with streaming everything. Hats off to ya .. not for me ..

Edited May 17, 20251 yr by Maxis

4 hours ago, psolk said:

Heck, if I said what I had for breakfast I'm sure SOMEONE here could argue that I am wrong and that is NOT what I ate 

The breakfasts in Xplane are much more realistic. Asobo has had to put lots of sugar in the MSFS breakfasts to appeal to the Xbox gamers.