Sim Update 6 Beta is now available.

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Release Notes - SU6 Beta 1.8.5.0 - July 6, 2026

RELEASE NOTES Sim Update 6 - Beta 1 - 1.8.5.0 If you are playing on PC, outdated packages in your community folder may have an unexpected impact on the title’s performance and behavior. If you suffe

Looking forward to see the night lighting implementation at generic airports!

Edited July 6Jul 6 by Maxis

Key takeaways for me -

• Added DLSS 4.5 support (used as default native upscaler), and Dynamic Frame Generation with ingame VSync support.

• Improved Texture/LoD popping inside the cockpit

• Fixed Raymarched Shadows at far distance

• Added FSR4 support.

10 minutes ago, Maxis said:

Service Update 6 Beta is now available.

Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums

Release Notes - SU6 Beta 1.8.5.0 - July 6, 2026

RELEASE NOTES Sim Update 6 - Beta 1 - 1.8.5.0 If you are playing on PC, outdated packages in your community folder may have an unexpected impact on the title’s performance and behavior. If you suffe

Looking forward to see the night lighting implementation at generic airports!

That was faster than expected. Downloading now…

1 minute ago, St Mawgan said:

• Improved Texture/LoD popping inside the cockpit

I really hope this means what I think it means 🤞

1 minute ago, McCrackenAir said:

I really hope this means what I think it means 🤞

I'm already seeing reports that it doesn't, unfortunately.

4 minutes ago, St Mawgan said:

I'm already seeing reports that it doesn't, unfortunately.

Hmm i think you will have to test for yourself and see if it is an improvement.

I know that there is a little delay when switching views and there is a frame or two that is typically garbled especially in high resource moments but the video the guy posted doesn't reveal any issues to my eyes. Perhaps im going blind?

• Aligned ILS localizers and glideslopes with runways when they are not intentionally offset.

• Added threshold crossing height for glideslope.

• Added GBAS/SBAS path points and GLS facilities (but not yet GLS approaches).

Interesting 👍 will have to test

Oh happy day!

Wow, performance using DLSS is incredible. I have my frames capped, MFX x4 and not a single stutter on my 5080.

59 minutes ago, St Mawgan said:

I'm already seeing reports that it doesn't, unfortunately.

Do you know from those reports if the slow redraw of airport objects with severe drop of frames while changing cockpit views was fixed or improved?

forgot to sign out of the beta! well, the usual stuff is broken (chaseplane, flow, etc). I was excited from FSExpo about the atmosphere model so tried it out. Some storms around miami. Sad to say, even with turning turbulence to realistic, it's still very mild. Not sure if that is officially in yet, but yeah.

For the record, I have never had any delays changing cockpit views. It has always been perfectly instantaneous (except when the sound settings got messed up).

I just now went to Youtube and searched on "msfs delays changing views". And got no videos showing examples of this problem.

I did not expect SU6 beta so soon, being the summer, a lot of devs will be off work.

Edited July 6Jul 6 by Tuskin38

1 hour ago, usernamerequired said:

Wow, performance using DLSS is incredible. I have my frames capped, MFX x4 and not a single stutter on my 5080.

Did you ever use the new dlss files (dlss swapper or from the nvidia app)? If not then yes you would get much better performance than with the original RTM dlss file.

It is nice they natively support the new file though.

3 hours ago, rick celik said:

• Aligned ILS localizers and glideslopes with runways when they are not intentionally offset.

• Added threshold crossing height for glideslope.

• Added GBAS/SBAS path points and GLS facilities (but not yet GLS approaches).

Interesting 👍 will have to test

Can you let us know what this really means? Is this for the default airports or all airports? I find sometimes the PAP/VASIS are nowhere near a 3.0 degree sloped even if its published that they wont completely line up.