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Do you have any overlays enabled? Like MSI Afterburner, GPUZ etc? I had an awful time just like this in 2020 when I switched PC hardware. Sometimes I just miss the CD-ROMs LOL. edit: Wait, did you try to Delete your Cloud Saves? This is what fixed it for me a while ago https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/17060350083612-How-to-delete-a-cloud-save-to-fix-some-loading-or-crashing-issues-Crashing-on-the-identity-screen-spawning-inside-buildings Since you lost your Community folder anyway at this point I'd just uninstall it, make sure everything is gone and reinstall. (I wasn't sure if you meant that you already uninstalled and reinstalled the Xbox app or MSFS itself, but I'd just nuke the sim and start over)

Hey, can you pass this tidbit onto all the scenery devs you know? It's really common that addon airports break instrument approach procedures. Michael from WorkingTitle wrote to me on Discord a while back about why: "The scenery is probably deleting the waypoints. Unfortunately it's quite a common problem. The dev UI was improved in SU5 so it's a bit more obvious that the checkboxes delete navdata, but that doesn't help existing projects. The only thing you can do to get it fixed is contact the scenery dev and ask them to uncheck the delete* checkboxes relating to navdata" Additional info here: https://docs.flybywiresim.com/dev-corner/other/scenery-developers/

It's crazy they released this for free. It's massively updated. Takes a ton of hours! Dreamflight is awesome. I also have their KTEB (and some of their legacy USA stuff like KCRQ).

Yep

Carenado 206 - will it have a working TDS GTNxi glide path? I'm guessing, not if they do Aspen as an option. All their panels look the same... C182Q/RG, C210, C206. Like maybe try a more modern panel for the 206 or something. It's not a junky C172 lol.

The new Bendix is pretty nice

Better FPS and Performance: at a HUGE cost of downgrading visuals. This is what has been happening and it's terrible. We know how LODs work (maybe some don't) but they didn't mention that they've killed the distances server side. 400 used to be 400 and now its like 200 at best, even though it's still labeled 400 in the GUI. They mention more optimizations in SU7 beta and beyond. I'm not interested in running a FSX-looking sim in the year 2026. I don't want better FPS with less visuals! I understand console is why there IS a sim. But why in the world should me and my 4000 USD system be penalized because someone running an Xbox from 6-8 years ago can't run it at the same quality? A 4000 PC and a 600 USD xbox will NEVER look the same (now it's more like 7000 USD and 1500 USD thanks to AI.... sigh). People have too high of expectations. We need totally separate GUI for consoles and PC. Or they need a way to grey out high end options for consoles. EDIT: I stood by MSFS 2024 upon release, but right now its severely downgraded visuals are a MAJOR issue. XP12, which I've flown quite a bit in the last week, looks FAR better for scenery (freeware XPME), clouds, atmosphere than 2024 is currently at. Anti aliasing has been improved but it's not quite as nice as TAA or DLAA in 2024. There's just a major lack of addons in XP12 - it's really why I stay in 2024. But at the rate of killing off visuals in 2024, I can't say I'm going to support 2024 moving forward. EDIT v2: But then the Praetor... DANG IT... I'll have to stay for the Praetor...looks in depth!

They also had some nice pics in that announcement that looked tiny on the page but I opened them in a new tab and they are lovely at 4k This IS an airliner I'm interested in

Good to hear they've worked on performance. If I bought this I'd fly it once lol. It's quite a feat of engineering though. I've worked a few "supers" in my career so far.

I'd be curious how many are the freeware one. Clearly though ini made a lot of sales.

I tried that but it doesnt work as well as it did in 2020 due to the downgraded 256x256 texture tiles

What mod?

Probably need a RTX 5090 to run Dubai v2 and their A380 lol But I'd be curious what the actual vram usage is...with AI traffic it's gotta be rough.

I do similar flying to you Bert. I only have Bijan at the moment. But from previous comparison pics, it seems that BB has far fewer trees than Bijan. I really prefer seeing lots of trees, especially in forested areas like my local area, or PNW etc. Do you think the trees are sparser with BB vs default?

I watched this video again... this is like MSFS 2020 initial release. You know, back in covid when the sim was selling reallllly well because everyone was indoors. And I look at what we have now in 2024 - it's quite decent. We know that some stuff had to be downgraded visually due to console support. But you get turbulence in storms, you get lighting, varying levels of precip (including virga, and weather radar with tilt etc). You get God rays, cloud shadows, you get icing, (and when coded correctly by aircraft devs, it can be detrimental). That's a lot of solid aviation-related weather phenomena. Could it be better? Sure. I just don't think its in the scope of the sim anymore for them to go insanely in-depth with weather. It's pretty decent in 2024 as of today. Without console support, there wouldn't be a msfs version at all. So even though I'm annoyed (a lot) by texture reductions and aggressive LODs (it's been a tiny bit better of late), it is what it is. I think for you, XP12 would be the sim you'd want to pursue. You'll miss the really amazing quantity of addons we enjoy in msfs, but XP12 focuses on aviation, period. It's really good for weather, flying, systems, etc. The atmospheric lighting is better than 2024 by a bit as well. You can use ortho for free for medium resolution (great for high altitude flying, passable for general aviation stuff). Just pick a few payware addons and you're set. You'll miss out on airport scenery - MSFS has a plethora of that, payware and decent freeware. XP12 really lacks but there are some gems.