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Just tried it and I see it's still the same process, MS Store update followed by that painfully slow single-threaded downloader you can't trigger until opening the game. Doubtless there's a bunch of hidden updates waiting in the content manager too. Ah well. I'll have fun for the next few days and then go back to playing something else when the next few GB drops from Asobo. 😬

I gave up playing MSFS last summer because the never ending flow of MS Store updates and hidden updates in the content manager meant I spent more time waiting for unnecessarily large downloads than playing the game. How has it evolved since, have Asobo and Microsoft fixed that awful updates flow or do you still need to download 20GB from 3 separate locations before you can take a 20 minute pre dinner hop in a Cessna?

This topic reminds me why I've all but given up on MSFS, Asobo's inability to write a proper update process. I switched to DCS and haven't really looked back - twice since August I've had a few hundred mb to download, maybe a GB or so, and then I carry straight on. No MS Store problems, no gotcha when you open the game to be faced with another 30 or 40 GB of downloads, no hidden content manager updates. One simple and clear process and then you can get on with gaming.

I do hope they get what they need from Asobo. Their Spitfire was magnificent in P3D. Performance modelling was accurate to what the pilots' notes said about its performance right down to height lost in a loop and how to induce a flick roll. Even the time to altitude (20,000ft) was bang on. I really hope their flight dynamics team got a fat bonus for every successful aircraft project they delivered. A2A's aircraft life modelling was utterly immersive. I cared about my airframe much more over a series of flights and the performance degradation if you abused it was such a game-extending feature I'm surprised nobody else copied or licensed it. Here's hoping they come to MSFS2020.

I've been flying the DCS Mk.IX solidly for the last few weeks and obviously it's chalk and cheese compared to the FI Spit in MSFS. I think that's down to the physics engine in MSFS rather than anything else. The FI one isn't a bad aeroplane, and they've been reasonably quick with patches to fix whatever the Asobo sim updates break. It's a bit unconvincing in places but no more so than other taildraggers in MSFS, and the lack of prop drag is a well known bug. Of course, none of us here have ever flown the real thing so we can't really say what feels right and what doesn't. Personally I take the P3D A2A Spitfire as the benchmark, seeing as Boultbee Flight Academy asked them to make a Mk.IX version for their certified fixed-base Spit sim.

When SU5 first came out every single attempt I made to load the game resulted in a freeze or CTD. I gave up trying for a fortnight. Since the August Windows update to Game Mode, stability has improved a lot. Unfortunately for Asobo I used that 2 weeks to get into DCS so now I'm doing very little MSFS!

Something I noticed in Iris' FSX releases / P3D ports was that the control sensitivity was always at the extreme end of twitchy. Maybe their flight model guy needed a new joystick. I like the idea of a Tutor for MSFS but I have a feeling this might be a port rather than a full MSFS build. Holding off buying until there's more info from reviews.

G-force is more important than the fpm value. There's a free app called Gees which records a bunch of data whenever you land, it's very good. I try to aim for no more than 1.2G in whatever aircraft I'm flying. Somewhere I remember reading that Airbus' A320 autoland is supposed to give a descent rate in the flare of ~150fpm to prevent aquaplaning at touchdown on a contaminated runway. Literally, smash through the surface water.

I also noticed something similar in daylight, Vatsim aircraft simply aren't visible unless you're on the ground at an airport. I wonder if the SU5 performance degradation included cutting aircraft draw distance?

I'm very glad that knowledgeable people are posting in this thread to debunk the usual tinfoil hat conspiracies. It's a refreshing change from the usual silliness. Thanks very much, folks, it helps keep this place an interesting and useful source of information.

Same card here. I have an aggressive fan profile, over 75 C my fans ramp up very quickly to 100%. I've been wondering about reversing the top fan in my case so it's pulling hot air out instead of pulling cool air in. Try turning off the sim's Vsync and framerate limiters and then hard set those limits in Nvidia Control Panel. Remember that the ingame "framerate limiter" doesn't do what its labels say, iirc from posts on here it's 1/2 refresh rate and 1/3 refresh rate instead of 30Hz and 60Hz. What resolution are you running at? I've found that running at my native 3440px resolution, even with render scaling down to 50 or 60 per cent, thrashes my card. The only way to recover 5 or 6 degrees of thermal headroom is to run the sim at 2K (resolution irrelevant).

Bristol is well served by low cost airlines that never use jetways because airports charge for their use. I'm guessing the management thought there's no point spending money installing something their customers will never use.

It's the stock A20N with the retro A319 BEA paint job British Airways applied to one of their fleet a few years ago.

Just picked up DCS, working my way through the tutorials. So far I've managed to fly into my own bombs and bent a landing gear leg.

I've reached the end of my tether with the SU5 CTDs. I've tried everything I can think of, including a full reinstall. I've stripped out all of my addons from the community folder, marketplace purchases and even the MS/Asobo content updates. The straw that broke the camel's back for me was encountering repeated CTDs while trying to install the World Updates from the content manager into my fresh new installation of version 1.18.14.0. If the software is too unstable to download and install its own updates, I'm not wasting any more of my time trying to get it to work. It runs the Just Flight Warrior on a clean installation, and even seems to handle a pre-SU5 freeware addon airport, but I've had enough of random CTDs and unlogged freezes. This is a game, I want to play it to have fun. Not to fire it up wondering if it's going to dump me back to my desktop just when I've settled into a flight. Windows Event Viewer captures the CTDs, surprisingly, and all of them cite exception code 0xc0000005 and fault offset 0x000000000180bda9. The 005 exception seems to be a memory access violation, I can't tell from a quick search what the bda9 offset means. For you lucky people whose MSFS SU5 installs are stable and playable, enjoy yourselves. I'll probably come back if there's a proper hotfix in the next couple of weeks or if SU6 gets us back to SU4 levels of stability. Until then I'm going to see what DCS is all about.