Paolo Jackson

They may not be as pretty as GAIST ships, but MS ships are BIG

I ended up here searching for the same thing. Thanks to your SDK link I think I've cracked it. You don't mention your hardware but I am using a Velocity One Flightstick I published the profile on SPAD.next (ID:12750). It doesn't include throttle as I haven't found that necessary - the heli governor thing seems to deal with it. The collective needed the range -16384 to 16384 (contrary to what the SDK says). And the trick with the trim was to bind the hatswitch held events not the button pressed events. I hope that helps you or anyone else doing the same search.

Yes it can look like data overload. Scary how much stuff is being sprayed around. The trick I have found is to let it run for a few seconds as you do nothing, then stop it. Then there is an icon next to each event that lets you ignore it. Ignore everything you see, then restart. Repeat if it's still spamming. Now do what you want to monitor. That usually narrows it down. I have not heard of this. But the online snippets are worth looking at however they are of very variable quality and completeness.

For me it's behaving as follows. C208 cargo, 'Lock' interaction mode. PFD - left click FPL button, cursor is immediately active and scrollable with FMS wheels. MFD left click FPL, need to to left-hold and right-click FMS button to activate cursor.

First time in this morning, yeah it was slow. So I thought it was probably a patch. Subsequently, back to 2 to 3 minutes. Nothing to see here folks.

This is puzzling. Here's a snapshot of my meagre ADSL internet connection, via Wifi, during a flight across the UK, switching views. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i-wMYFUwXepqAkV-hWfZqEUrcNzPGtNy/view Subjectively, it's smooth as silk. Of course things can be slow at times, but so far (60-odd hours), always on loading in menus, never in-flight. All this proves of course is that my experience is different from yours, and that whatever is causing your problem is not inevitable.

Thanks. I'll try these. But mostly the career mode has me for now. I look forward to more types being available. I understand the delay though; there's quite a lot of work in implementing the attachment points for hoists etc and the granular damage system, also the variants for the different specialisations. Once the 3rd party developers catch up...

I can confirm the Comanche is great in 2024. And their stolen walkround system still works too. Of the 2024 natives I've tried, the GF Zllin Norden is good fun, and it's available in career mode. Landing at 30 knots with fowler and and flaps hanging out feels like a stroll in the park. I'm looking for suggestions for decent steam gauge options though. After more time than I would like in the C172 career missions, I am heartily sick of all that Garmin glass. I get enough of that from my watch.

I know I am too. That may be why there are so many negatives being aired. I'm too involved in career mode to spend much time venting about glitches. That and hopping around old haunts in a helicopter and being amazed at the level of detail - yes, down to individual rocks. I've even taken a few of the photographs - Stonehenge, Easter Island and the Sphinx are places I wouldn't have visited in previous sims - now it feels worthwhile. And nice to land, get out and stroll around. If you take a step back and have a look at what we have, it is an incredible achievement. At this point after the 2020 launch I was still struggling to install and then fly anywhere without CTDs, or blue screens. I grew to love 2020 - around 1,200 hours logged, but wild horses would not drag me back there, even if nothing more was fixed in 2024. Maybe if your focus is exclusively airliners, it's different. But for GA and exploring the world from air and ground, it's incredible. Personally I am glad it was released in its current state - the complexity is such that comprehensive beta testing is probably impossible. In a sense the game is being punished for vaunting ambition. And don't forget the target audience is wider than the audience here.

Incidentally the first mention I heard of the term 'digital twin' was in fact aviation-related. In connection with the digital twins that Rolls-Royce maintain of their engines that are updated with telemetry from the actual engine (the analogue twin, if you like) for pre-emptive troubleshooting.

To get back to the original question, I did a quick test. The A400 M is an aircraft I haven't used before. I loaded it to runway startup at EGNS in the land of my birth and timed it. I was in the cockpit looking at blurred partially loaded instruments in 3:05. The thing was completely loaded at 7:18. My internet not's quick and I could see it at about 8Mb/s during this time. Exit to free flight menu and did the same thing. The plane was fully loaded in 0:32. Exited sim, restarted, same thing, in the fully loaded plane in 1:10. This proves to my satisfaction that the rolling cache is being used for aircraft data. That's why I increased its size. As to the digital twin name, certainly MSFS2020's implementation merits the name: it's just to a much lower level of fidelity. The point is that internally 2024 has a single model that is used for the world map in the menus, and in-game. 2020 had separate models that had to be loaded and unloaded separately. This is inefficient.

Yes. Increased mine to 96GB (on a NVMe SSD drive). I notice downloads since my internet is slow - 8Mb. Definite improvement on second and subsequent times into new aircraft and areas. I have career FBOs in 7 widely separate locations and all those areas and aircraft seem to be cached. Loading times after that initial access are a fraction of what I had in 2020. And I don't miss the wait while 2020 laboriously loaded and unloaded the world data between menu and flight. Having that single so-called digital twin is a huge step forward, especially if most flights are relatively short. It is not credible to suggest that a network download could be faster than accessing even a massive cache on an SSD drive.

Me too. I just let the NVidia app thing do its optimize thing. Glad to concentrate on flying not fiddling with settings and PC internals.

Perhaps it's fexked, but the original installation (on release) took about 2 weeks because of slow internet and the download looping bug. I have no appetite for going through that again, especially since I am having such fun in 2024, and my favourite aircraft (A2A Comanche) already works there.

i5-13600K and RTX 3060 Ti, 32 GB RAM, Samsung SSD here. And a not great 8MB ADSL. 2020 had become unplayable due to stuttering. Nothing helped, certainly not dialling down graphics even to low-end and I wasted hours tinkering - the old main thread thing I think. 2024 is smooth and chilled at Medium and just useable but choppy at Ultra for tasty screenshots. Yes I have less than ideal LOD popping sometimes (especially in dense urban areas of course, but I'm a country boy really) and I need to be patient with the streaming when entering new areas. The performance improvement for me has been staggering. I'd all but given up on 2020 and went for 2024 on a whim and a one euro PC Game Pass. I'm sorry that's not been everyone's experience but if your system is like mine, I'd say it's worth a go. I don't do airliners, not yet anyway, so if that's what you want you can ignore me. I'm 50 hours into career mode, and there have been a few glitches, but overall I love it. Especially the fact that it provides opportunities to fly planes you'd never pick to places you wouldn't have thought of. As an example I was tasked to deliver a Robin DR400 to EGET Tingwall to FEA Fetlar as the sun was setting. Only a 5 mile trip but very memorable simming. It took me a few tries as you can see (25-30 knot winds and a runway built on a sort of berm). I had barely touched the DR400 in 2020, finding it sluggish, but this version is fun to fly. LNM tracks https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MzaaCeppy6AaZ-bRi2oBtmk7_YpeHELl/view?usp=drive_link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jaxvyoIjWrFJQzvKE_oQB28uRXO3XkAT/view?usp=drive_link So those are my thoughts ETA Sorry I'm having trouble with images