Got it through MS Store, as usuual.

RELEASE NOTES Sim Update 5 Beta - 1.7.16.0

 

Stability & Performance

• Fixed Model Instance being potentially destroyed upon a Build Package while reloading active LODs (could crash the sim when building the package of the currently used aircraft)

General Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the mission steps panel and the discovery objective panel could be truncated after switching between full screen and windowed using the ALT+ENTER shortcut
• Fixed text in logbook that was not correctly translated

Aircraft

• The PERFORMANCE_DATA section of the flight_model.cfg has been moved to the flight_performance.cfg file. It will still be loaded from the flight_model.cfg if it is missing from the flight_performance.cfg to ensure backwards compatibility.

Boeing 737 MAX 8

• Fixed an issue where the flight director could sometimes command the wrong pitch/bank angle immediately after turning the flight director on or when activating a flight director mode when no mode was previously active.
• Adjusted FLC mode to more closely adjust for target speed.
• Fixed an issue where the FMC message TAKEOFF SPEEDS DELETED could be shown in flight.
• Improved Glideslope tracking to reduce pitch oscillations.
• Improved autothrottle response and tracking in SPD target modes.
• Improved autothrottle tracking accuracy in thrust target modes.
• Fixed an error during automatic PERF INIT when the plane spawns in the air.

Aircraft Core Systems

• Added VarSet capabilities for Hydraulic and Pneumatic valves’ target positions, to replace their respective malfunctionning Key Events.
• Simvars are: HYDRAULIC_VALVE_TARGET_POS and PNEUMATICS_VALVE_TARGET_STATUS
  • ModelBehaviors: To reflect this change, new “EX1” parameters have been added to functions “ASOBO_Hydraulic_Valve_Parameters” and “ASOBO_Pneumatics_Valve_Parameters” that uses proper simvars to set the targets positions of valves.

Glass Cockpits

G1000 NXI

• Fixed an issue where the flight director could sometimes command the wrong pitch/bank angle immediately after turning the flight director on.

Garmin G3000 / G5000

• Fixed an issue where the flight director could sometimes command the wrong pitch/bank angle immediately after turning the flight director on.

Garmin G3X Touch

• Fixed an issue where the flight director could sometimes command the wrong pitch/bank angle immediately after turning the flight director on.

GNS 430/GNS 530

• Fixed an issue where the flight director could sometimes command the wrong pitch/bank angle immediately after turning the flight director on.

Primus Epic 2.0 Integrated Avionics System

• Fixed an issue where the flight director could sometimes command the wrong pitch/bank angle immediately after turning the flight director on.

Pro Line 21 Integrated Avionics System

• Optimized the PFD’s artificial horizon for memory savings.
• Fixed an issue where the flight director could sometimes command the wrong pitch/bank angle immediately after turning the flight director on.

UNS-1Ew SBAS-Flight Management System

• Fixed an issue where the flight director could sometimes command the wrong pitch/bank angle immediately after turning the flight director on.

EFB

• Fixed an issue where stale chart data could sometimes overwrite chart data from a newly selected airport.
• Planner App - Fixed an issue where stale chart data could sometimes overwrite chart data from a newly selected airport.

Career

• Changed misleading name of the Super Heavy specialization and Heavy certification to Oversized

General Bug Fixes

• Fixed taxi to gate clearance sent twice when infringed
• Added “Stop after holdshort line” step validation if overpassed but not infringed
• Fixed Announce taxi to helipad flow not available.
• Fixed acknowledge frequency change not automatically completing when infringed
• Fixed ATC broken after taking off without clearance
• Fixed part of the flightplan not displayed in some IFR missions

Free Flight

• Modified the ‘Fly Now’ button to be grayed out when selecting an helipad while an airplane is selected

• Fixed aircraft fuel resetting to its default quantity when selecting a fuel amount then exiting and going back in the aircraft configuration screen

Airports

Generic Airports

• EGLC : Fixed missing water around airport
• KHRF : Fixed wrong ICAO : 6S5 to KHRF
• KGRR : Fixed missing terminal
• KGDK : Fixed wrong ICAO : I19 to KGDK
• KGDA : Fixed wrong ICAO : 5M9 to KGDA
• KGDA : Fixed missing buildings
• KDVO : Fixed misplaced beacon tower
• KPDG : Fixed misplaced beacon tower
• KGLN : Fixed airport needed to be closed according to real life
• OKKK : Fixed wrong ICAO : OKBK to OKKK
• KDWA : Fixed missing runway designators
• KMII : Fixed airport needed to be closed according to real life
• KJRO : Fixed wrong ICAO : I43 to KJRO
• KBRG - Fixed wrong airport altitude
• 01V : Fixed airport needed to be closed according to real life
• 02K : Fixed airport needed to be closed according to real life
• 02MU : Fixed airport needed to be closed according to real life
• 02ND : Fixed airport needed to be closed according to real life
• 02NE : Fixed airport needed to be closed according to real life
• 02OR : Fixed airport needed to be closed according to real life
• 02PS : Fixed airport needed to be closed according to real life
• 02Y : Fixed airport needed to be closed according to real life
• 03FD : Fixed airport needed to be closed according to real life
• 03I : Fixed airport needed to be closed according to real life
• 03IN : Fixed airport needed to be closed according to real life
• 03NE : Fixed airport needed to be closed according to real life
• 03PS : Fixed airport needed to be closed according to real life
• 03WY : Fixed airport needed to be closed according to real life
• 04F : Fixed airport needed to be closed according to real life

Traffic

Air Traffic

• Fixed Offline AI Traffic. We have fixed and reactivated it. It wasblocking some traffic add-ons.
• Traffic that can be in “sleeping” state for various reasons, will now be ignored by the traffic conflict system to avoid lock ups.
• Various traffic behavior improvements when taxiing onto the runway and taking off.
• Fixed an issue that had Live Traffic planes spin when holdingshort.
• Traffic will now have NAV and TAXI lights on during daytime also.

Virtual Reality

• Fixed loss of inputs sometimes occurring when launching the Preflight training in VR
• Fixed an issue that caused the Yoke/Collective highlight not to be active in VR on some aircraft.
• Fixed an issue sometimes causing the yoke/collective to not be grabbable in VR
• Fixed an issue that caused the yoke/collective interaction to fail if the second controller was targeting a collideable glasscockpit.
• Fixed an issue that caused the yoke/collective interaction to fail if the second controller was targeting a collideable glass cockpit.
• Fixed lighting issues with clouds fogging (fixes cockpit glass flickering through clouds, and lighting differences using Quad Views)

Peripherals

• Remapped “VR - camera Reset” on gamepads to RB+Menu / R1+Options

Various Peripheral Fixes

• Fixed DualSense wireless controller scroll axis in menus.

DevMode

• Removed option to select old LOD curve

General

• Fixed AutoSet filter disappearing from the console after Build
• Added “Debug biomes” and “Debug surface type” in the “Debug > Terrain” menu

Scenery Editor

• Fixed VectorPlacement no longer in groups when loaded by the editor.

SimObject Editor

• Added missing hydraulic actuator types LiquidDroppingDoor and ThrustReverser
• Fixed edit in place mode + live reload wrongly saving files
• Updated cockpit.cfg params in the editor

SDK

• Changed the way status update message are sent when the user enables/disables the addon camera through the ingame panel
• Fixed SimVarWatcher documentation links
• Few Camera API changes:
  • Added functions to load some parts of the world
  • Changed the way position and rotation referential are handled
  • Added the possibility to focus a SimObject and follow its movement based on its object Id
  • Keep the world arounf the arocraft loaded while using the Camera API and going far away of the aircraft to avoid it to fall under the ground

Samples

• Fixed SimVarWatcher debug build in SDK samples

WASM API

• Fixed fstat for stdin, stdout and sterr
• Added “fsMapViewSetWeatherRadarTiltInRadians”, “fsMapViewSetWeatherRadarStabilization”, “fsMapViewSetWeatherRadarPitchLimitsInRadians”, “fsMapViewSetWeatherRadarBankLimitsInRadians” and “fsMapViewSetWeatherRadarScanRate” in MapView API

Exporter Blender

• Fixed landing gears animations in DA62 Sample.
• Fixed invalid vertex normal on skinned meshes.

Edited March 27Mar 27 by Blueline308

I played it and it was the smoothest release so far.  Things are looking good.

Edited March 27Mar 27 by Blueline308

31 minutes ago, Blueline308 said:

WASM API

• Fixed fstat for stdin, stdout and sterr
• Added “fsMapViewSetWeatherRadarTiltInRadians”, “fsMapViewSetWeatherRadarStabilization”, “fsMapViewSetWeatherRadarPitchLimitsInRadians”, “fsMapViewSetWeatherRadarBankLimitsInRadians” and “fsMapViewSetWeatherRadarScanRate” in MapView API

Weather Radar tilt finally?

  

31 minutes ago, Blueline308 said:

Added the possibility to focus a SimObject and follow its movement based on its object Id

That could be useful for plane spotting

Edited March 27Mar 27 by Tuskin38

Personally I like reading it to determine whether I want to join the beta or not and to see the progress of the beta.

Lack of fog/low vis still not fixed

and the usual DLSS swapper 310.5.3 update routine reminder, after each MSFS update, update has reset it back to 310.1.

42 minutes ago, turbomax said:

and the usual DLSS swapper 310.5.3 update routine reminder, after each MSFS update, update has reset it back to 310.1.

only if you're on MSstore. Beta updates on Steam don't touch it.

 

Edit: Well actually, this patch seems to have done it on Steam too

  

56 minutes ago, magdrop said:

Lack of fog/low vis still not fixed

did you make a bug report?

Edited March 27Mar 27 by Tuskin38

I'm glad they fixed the slowly spinning AI planes. It used to annoy me but I kept quiet about it.

Have anyone noticed the Simbreif icon is missing from the default EFB. And when you try ti import flight plan or .pln from folder, sim freezes. Is this just me or should I file a SU5 complaint.

Is there a detectable reduction in VRAM requirements with the SU5 beta? I visited EGLC London City for the first time today in MSFS 2024, and it was also the first time where I have experienced real problems with hitting the VRAM limit. The scenery seemed to look OK, apart from a handful of "squares" in the ground textures after loading that disappeared after a few seconds. However, when I started to accelerate down runway 09 for take off, I experienced major (unflyable) stutters. I had to make a couple of adjustments to the graphics settings (the main one was disabling displacement mapping) before I could get a smooth departure.

Central London is almost certainly the most demanding scenery area in MSFS 2024 for me, so this was not entirely unexpected considering that I only have 12GB VRAM on my RTX 4070 Super GPU. That being the case, any improvements at all with respect to VRAM allocation would be very welcome! My flights are currently in broad daylight with clear skies, so adding clouds and night lighting could cause major problems.

Edited March 28Mar 28 by Christopher Low

47 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

Is there a detectable reduction in VRAM requirements with the SU5 beta? I visited EGLC London City for the first time today in MSFS 2024, and it was also the first time where I have experienced real problems with hitting the VRAM limit. The scenery seemed to look OK, apart from a handful of "squares" in the ground textures after loading that disappeared after a few seconds. However, when I started to accelerate down runway 09 for take off, I experienced major (unflyable) stutters. I had to make a couple of adjustments to the graphics settings (the main one was disabling displacement mapping) before I could get a smooth departure.

Central London is almost certainly the most demanding scenery area in MSFS 2024 for me, so this was not entirely unexpected considering that I only have 12GB VRAM on my RTX 4070 Super GPU. That being the case, any improvements at all with respect to VRAM allocation would be very welcome! My flights are currently in broad daylight with clear skies, so adding clouds and night lighting could cause major problems.

Chris,

not to derail this topic but have you tried the Autofps app by Reset XPDR?

it’s an absolute game changer , I can fly into the places like London and New York for example and let the app handle increasing or decreasing settings to keep fps and VRAM under control. It’s definitely worth a try.

cheers

Steve

Thanks for the suggestion, but visual quality is very important to me. Letting a utility have control over my detail settings in the simulator is not something that I really want.

So there's still no ATC Toolbar Window Performance Drop fix? crikey Asobo come on 🙄

50 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

Thanks for the suggestion, but visual quality is very important to me. Letting a utility have control over my detail settings in the simulator is not something that I really want.

Same here. That's why Autofps is so important to me.

It's honestly worth reading up about and giving it a try.

Back on topic; yay! They've fixed the missing water at EGLC 🫡

3 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

Thanks for the suggestion, but visual quality is very important to me. Letting a utility have control over my detail settings in the simulator is not something that I really want.

You'll actually gain visual clarity with auto fps.  Default TLOD sucks imo.  It's a downgrade from 2020.(Yes I'm saying that as a diehard 2024 fan).  In 24, TLOD 400 is similar to 200 in 20.

With auto fps you have total control over how far settings can drop.  Generally speaking outside of tht busiest airports I run a very high TLOD maybe 600 with great performance still.