2 hours ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

I never run via wifi, never have. My tests have all shown speeds of just under 1Gbps. Doesn't matter if it's 3pm or 3am, same holds true for line noise, just about non existent.

I've been running High Speed WIFI since 2020 days and now in 2024 and don't have the popping or melted buildings since SU3. SU5 have been running great for me so far and I just use streaming. Only thing that I gown load are the 2024 aircraft that I purchased from marketplace.

4 hours ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

I'm wondering if this will help with photogrammetry (I have a fast internet connection via fiber optic) showing half melted buildings as well as objects popping in while cruising the friendly skies.

No. Photogrammetry cannot be downloaded. It remains streamed.

1 hour ago, Bigmack said:

I've been running High Speed WIFI since 2020 days and now in 2024 and don't have the popping or melted buildings since SU3. SU5 have been running great for me so far and I just use streaming. Only thing that I gown load are the 2024 aircraft that I purchased from marketplace.

Hi,

This will be my first beta run, so I hope I have the same experience!

1 hour ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

Hi,

This will be my first beta run, so I hope I have the same experience!

Wish you all the luck in the world. Happy flying

Looking forward to your findings. We have been told that downloading the data to the harddrive is useless, but no one seems to have tested this theory.

2 hours ago, Ron Lefebvre said:

Looking forward to your findings. We have been told that downloading the data to the harddrive is useless, but no one seems to have tested this theory.

I have tested. See above.

Edited February 16Feb 16 by Nemo

3 hours ago, Ron Lefebvre said:

Looking forward to your findings. We have been told that downloading the data to the harddrive is useless,

Pure streaming mode is faster in execution. That's my observation and also was said by Mr. Sebastian Wloch in one of the last dev streams. Unfortunately, I don't remember in which one exactly.

20 hours ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

Space is cheap now-a-days... years ago I would of agreed for streaming if we had the capability, but today anyone can store amazing amounts of data for offline use at low cost.

That's very soon a thing of the past, unfortunately. Example: WD is completely sold out for 2026, others will follow, HDD prices soar. 

Short quote from the linked article (Tom's Hardware):

'The company’s VP for Investor Relations, Ambrish Srivastava, said that 89% of its revenue came from its Cloud business, while its consumer business only delivered 5%. Because of this, it would make sense for the company to focus more on enterprise clients — similar to how memory chip makers decided to focus production on the more lucrative HBMs that are in demand from hyperscalers. The cost efficiency of hard drives has especially become more apparent now that SSDs are skyrocketing to more than 16x the price of an equivalent HDD.'

Edited February 16Feb 16 by MaGer1965

17 hours ago, Stearmandriver said:

The only solution to the bad photogrammetry is to turn photogrammetry off.  Every single place I've ever tested looks better with autogen.  I don't know why MS/Asobo even bothers with the photogrammetry.  It's a performance suck for worse visuals.  (Gig Internet here).

Same here, 1 Gbps cabled and photogrammetry off.

The last time I checked, FS2024 was only pulling ~30 Mbps so the bottleneck is elsewhere, likely limitations placed on the Azure infrastructure to keep costs down. I bet PG works fine in Asobo's lab.

18 minutes ago, MaGer1965 said:

That's very soon a thing of the past, unfortunately. Example: WD is completely sold out for 2026, others will follow, HDD prices soar. 

Short quote from the linked article (Tom's Hardware):

'The company’s VP for Investor Relations, Ambrish Srivastava, said that 89% of its revenue came from its Cloud business, while its consumer business only delivered 5%. Because of this, it would make sense for the company to focus more on enterprise clients — similar to how memory chip makers decided to focus production on the more lucrative HBMs that are in demand from hyperscalers. The cost efficiency of hard drives has especially become more apparent now that SSDs are skyrocketing to more than 16x the price of an equivalent HDD.'

Hi,

I don't use hybrid drives, I use NVMEs and for about $200 bucks you can get 2TB NVME. So the pricing hasn't changed that much just yet. I haven't used Western digital in ages! 

1 hour ago, MaGer1965 said:

Pure streaming mode is faster in execution. That's my observation and also was said by Mr. Sebastian Wloch in one of the last dev streams. Unfortunately, I don't remember in which one exactly.

That depends 100% on the server and server load!

7 minutes ago, flyingscampi said:

bottleneck is elsewhere

Antivirus realtime scan exclusions for 'StreamedPackages' folder and rollingcache.ccc applied?

2 hours ago, Nemo said:

I have tested. See above.

How were your test conducted. Most I've talked to never changed to offline mode in flight sim.

46 minutes ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

How were your test conducted. Most I've talked to never changed to offline mode in flight sim.

Mike:

There was a thread here, I recall, from a short while ago, where the predominant conclusion was that, in MSFS2024, the off-line mode is not the way to go, if that’s  where you’re heading…

I looked but could not locate that thread now.

5 minutes ago, P_7878 said:

Mike:

There was a thread here, I recall, from a short while ago, where the predominant conclusion was that, in MSFS2024, the off-line mode is not the way to go, if that’s  where you’re heading…

I looked but could not locate that thread now.

Just about done with getting everything downloaded, with the exception of photogrammetry. Since I don't run a 3D panel it's going to be interesting to see the difference between the two, if it just eliminates the building popping... that in-and-of-itself would be a win.