TacomaSailor

I am very long time flight simulator addict and, like others here, own a vast library of ORBX products. I guess I am naive, or maybe just word not allowed, about piracy of individual addons to streamed games. How much of that kind of thing occurs. How many sales of ATL or any other Orbx product are lost to people buying "prirated" or being "gifted" addons? What is the scale of the problem?

Benjamin - thanks for reminding me. You were correct. I used to have a little batch file with a desktop icon for resetting the host file. I'll have to find it and put it back on the desktop.

FS2024 (1.7.27.0) was running perfectly in the latest Beta. Flow Pro was working as expected. I decided I would reinstall ChasePlane (experimental). Chase Plane had been working well several months ago but I uninstalled it so I could work on native controller profiles. Before I installed Chase Plane I used the MFS Cleaner Fixer app to clear all the shader caches and my rolling cache. I then installed Chase Plane and started FS2024. Loaded at normal speed to 87% (about 90 seconds) and then stalled. During the next five-minutes loading got to 96% but never progressed from there. I verified there was no rolling cache, I deleted all the steamed packages, installed the latest nVidia driver, rebooted the system.' Started FS2024 (1.7.27.0) and it stalled at 89% and then never got past 97%. Same result with FS2020 (1.39.12.0) The programs seem to be stuck trying to find Default_Global_XEN_Supperresolution and Default_Global_XEN_TrueHDR in the registry. They just keeping trying to read the key and not finding it. Apparently I deleted something somewhere but have no idea how to fix it. Supperresolution seems to be an AMD thing. I have an AMD 9800X3D but neither monitor is connected to it. TrueHDR seems to be a downloaded thing to give more control of the HDR process. I turned all HDR references off but the sims still try to load it. What to do?

Sitting on ramp cold and dark. I had just updated a control profile and hit save & back - got the screen I expected but on the entire left side was a mystery box with all kinds of performance and usage measures. What app or process is producing the mystery box ? How do I kill it? I could move the cursor but clicking or scrolling with mouse did nothing. ALT + F4 did not kill anything. I had to use task manager to kill FS2024. Win 11 / Beta 2024

It has happened to me twice but not in the last couple weeks.

win 11 25H2 Sim 1.6.34.0 I am having very poor performance at an airport (any airport) which in the prior sim session (same day) I had excellent performance. For example empty Community folder KBFI (Boeing Field, Seattle) with Asobo Baron G58 cold and dark on a GA medium ramp. Sim starts at 60 FPS (FG and sim locked at 30). If I stay out of cockpit and pan around I see a steady 60FPS. Enter cockpit, turn on systems, start engine, CTRL+Z and pan - the frame rate drops to 1 or 2 and sometimes freezes for 15-seconds. Return to cockpit and frame rate slowly climbs to 60. Move view outside again and poof! back to one or NO FPS. If I let the sim sit for several minutes the frame rate climbs to 60 and stays there. But, as soon as I try to start taxing - FR goes to 1 again. Changing sim settings to LOW - no increase in frame rate. The VRAM usage stays below 95% (~11 GB) and the CPU usage, for each processor, never exceeds 30%. When the frame rates is less than three I find every thread in the sim is in a wait except for Main which is using about 1% of the CPU. Stop sim and restart it, with the exact same scenario as above - FPS never deviates from 60. This happens at many airports and makes SU4 less than enjoyable or even useable. Did not have this problem in the last couple SU 4 Beta updates

On Dec 12 I received an email reply from AeroDynamics support that said: "Currently, the manual is being created, but not complete. " Where did you find a bundled manual?

I am very disappointed in the reliability of SU4! I've not had a single problem and now must cope with flying airplanes rather than dealing with computer issues. I am much better and happier with computer problems than airplane stuff. OH - Woe is me.

I can't remember in detail what I did. I tried several of the ZenDesk suggestions and they fixed the problem for a day or so then it would reappear, eventually changing from 1047 to 2047. I know I tried a complete Steam deletion of FS2024 and reinstall. That fixed the problem for a week or so but the next Beta update brought the problem back. Eventually I deleted anything to do with Clouds, Saves, Caches, Indexes in various orders. That helped for a while but then problem reappeared. I reverted back to plain vanilla SU3 after deleting everything. I think that solved the problem am not sure. All I really know is the 2047 error occured after reinstalling SU3. I got word not allowed off and quit the sim, turned off the PC and went off to saulk. When I next started FS 2024 SU3 - no error messages and none since, about three weeks I think.

At the official MS Flight Sim web site put 2047 into the search box https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/cloud-save-error-error-code-1047-and-now-2047/738971/131 127 entries since September 9. Many users - many different solutions. Some work for some - some for others. It took me five tries over three weeks to solve the 1047/2047 issue.

A: Drive - you brought up a subject I had forgotten all about - when I created the A drive it did not occur to me it might be a problem. Ignorance is Bliss!

OH - Never mind! While writing this message I remembered that I had physically moved the original Steam installation to the A:\MicrosoftFlightSimulator2024 but then reinstalled the sim and forgot to tell Steam to use the custom folder. Thus I have the split over two main folders. And, now Steam will not allow me to move the default steamapps folder to the custom folder despite there being 930GB free space on the A drive. The Steam Move Folder option only shows three of my six drives and none of those listed are A:

FS2024 SU4 Beta 1.6.31.0 Steam .cfg Installed Packages Path: A:\MicrosoftFlightSimulator2024\Packages Win 11 25H2 I am very confused about the location and structure of my sim folders. I find sim folders split between two primary folders on the same drive. The sim reads the same file from both folders. When I follow the .cfg pointer to A:\MicrosoftFlightSimulator2024 I find the following folders (date is the last modified) Missions Custom CustomFlight 3/22/25 Packages - empty Packages SteamedPackages - 980 files 11/28/25 which is the last time I ran the sim Official2024 Steam Asobo-passive-beech-18 11/17/25 Official2020 - empty Community2024-empty Community - as built by AddpOnLinker Scenery Indexes - 156 files 3/22/25 SimObjects - empty and all the saved .pln files On the same drive I find: A:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common, which contains folders: Limitless Packages fs-base-ai-traffic 5/17/25 fs-base-videos 11/6/25 MSFS2024 cache empty 11/21/25 Minimalcache 996 folders 11/21/25 D3D12 11/6/25 Packages 11/28/55 136 files Publishing Groups 36 files 11/2/25 a bunch of other folders I would expect to see Flightsimulator2024.exe 1.6.31.0 11/28/25 All the necessary .dll files The sim seems to work perfectly but I am puzzled about the folder structure. I do find (using ProcMon64) the sim first reads the A:\MicrosoftFlightSimulator2024\Packages and finds a series of simobject files. The sim then reads the minimalcache folder in A:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common for the same series of simobjects. That dual reading occurs with thousands of sim objects and thousands of other files. Is it "proper" or "normal" for the sim folders to be split between those pointed at by Installed Packages and the Steam Library\steam appsfolders containing the executable and other packages?

It is so easy to deal with Shift+C, Cloud Save Errors, CTD under strange circumstances - just use the stable version! I have had several problems with various SU Betas. When they get to be too much for me I let Steam run the stable SU3. After a few nice relaxed flights I reload the latest SU Beta and do some problem solving. Having been a software developer and support person I am pretty sure they know about the problems, some self inflicted I am sure, and will get around to fixing them when they have the time and resources and the problem reached the top of the priority list. Our nagging and criticizing their management of a very complex system and eco-system is really not useful. SU3 it solves many problems.

I went to the links as described, logged into My Account/Orders and found my discount code - but when I I don't find the "Buy Download now" box to click. I only see a blue box with "email me when available" Were you able to buy the bundle?