Game Discussions Microsoft Flight Simulator

[Deleted member 182079]

Yeah, that's way too high.

The point of rolling cache is that it's constantly updated - so 1) an SSD helps massively on this point and 2) you're not going to be flying over 1TB of data at any point. You're just wasting hard drive storage, because it pre-allocates the entire file. 20GB is more than sufficient.

Pre-cache is slightly different as that provides a bucket where you can download cities into - and they can get quite large (by quite large, I mean 10-15GB for the larger ones). So the temptation there is to use a really high ceiling - but again, no real need. For one thing, you can increase it later when you need to, and for another - mine is set at 75GB and I already have New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, London, Paris and Tokyo in there (so far) and it's not even half full.

I've set mine to 200GB on a secondary HDD, and have been suffering awful hitches and performance drops today (and partly yesterday). I just removed the file and will create a 20GB sized file on my primary SSD/M.2 now, where FS2020 is installed. Really hope this will improve things a bit as I haven't been enjoying this today due to the constant freezes during flight. Could also be a server problem, so maybe it's best if I give this a rest for a few days worst case. It's not like I don't have anything else to play in the meantime.

 

[Old Duck]

I'm tempted to uninstall it.

Why is this the knee-jerk reaction that everyone defaults to? I only uninstall things that I have ZERO interest in playing ever again, except on PS4 where my storage is truly limited, and even then I'm more likely just to move games to an external drive. Unlike you, I don't have 10 gigabit fiber to download these things on a whim

 

[askavir]

Welp...downloaded at last. Spent a good 20 minutes setting up rolling and manual caches just to realise I set them way too high at 200Gb...now I need to go through the pain of resetting them to something sensible

Apart from that, massively disappointed with Orkney scenery...looks like a badly stitched duvet cover even at Ultra settings. Perhaps if I moved to a city then flew over my house I'd be more impressed...right now with the way it looks, I'm tempted to uninstall it.

My house was not so bad, but my favorite football team stadium was just a colored pancake... But at least the rival team stadium was a pancake as well

Now seriously, there's en entire magnificent planet out there, forget about seeing your own house, you already see it all the time anyway

 

[Fishy]

Apart from that, massively disappointed with Orkney scenery...looks like a badly stitched duvet cover even at Ultra settings. Perhaps if I moved to a city then flew over my house I'd be more impressed...right now with the way it looks, I'm tempted to uninstall it.

Sounds like standard ortho scenery. That's disappointing, I'd have thought that the smarter and image based autogen would make a universal difference for the typical "rest of the world" scenery. Ah well, it feels more and more like FS2002 in its days: not as perfect as you'd have wanted it to be but still a generational leap scenery-wise.

 

[askavir]

I've set mine to 200GB on a secondary HDD, and have been suffering awful hitches and performance drops today (and partly yesterday). I just removed the file and will create a 20GB sized file on my primary SSD/M.2 now, where FS2020 is installed. Really hope this will improve things a bit as I haven't been enjoying this today due to the constant freezes during flight. Could also be a server problem, so maybe it's best if I give this a rest for a few days worst case. It's not like I don't have anything else to play in the meantime.

My performance isn't bad but it isn't exactly stellar either, today I'll try fiddling a bit with graphic settings to see if I can achieve a more pleasant framerate.

 

[Fishy]

Had an installer crash here ("download error, see 499" message). Had to kill and relaunch it, little bit stressed about how much might have been lost. Thankfully it picked up where it left off, just with an additional 4GB to the required download which is the additional aircrafts/airports. Phew!

 

[Old Duck]

I finally get flight simulator installed, and now Steam is broken!!!! WTFF!?!?!?!

UPDATE - got steam working again, but had my first CTD in FS. Still have yet to get to the actual plane... This worries me because it takes this game FOREVER to load..

 

[Mengy]

So I finally got to spend a few hours with MFS this morning before work. Hot Damn am I impressed!

Took some time to configure my yoke and controls and such, needed to set deadzones and reduce sensitivity but then everything worked great. I locked the sim to 30fps and it flies buttery smooth. Spent a few hours in the C152 just VFR sightseeing around where I live, this is freaking awesome.

Still need to get TrackIR working and set up the drone controls and such, tonight will be a late night. Feels good to finally have it installed and flying!

 

[askavir]

I finally get flight simulator installed, and now Steam is broken!!!! WTFF!?!?!?!

UPDATE - got steam working again, but had my first CTD in FS. Still have yet to get to the actual plane... This worries me because it takes this game FOREVER to load..

You may still need to check your bindings before starting flying... My default bindings had weird stuff like fuel mixture bound to the exact same axis as engine thrust, had to start binding stuff from scratch. It would have been quite a surprise after taking off though!

 

[Old Duck]

I finally got it working.

HOLY FREAKING COW DOES THIS GAME LOOK AMAZING!!!!!!

Now I just need to figure out what I am doing

 

[Hairychest]

From some of the comments, I'm glad half you lot aren't allowed anywhere near a pilot's seat!

I don't have a Private Pilot's License but I have been up in a few light aircraft on a good few occasions and taken the controls (don't tell anyone) and have been on Flight Simulator since the 1980s so can find my way about. I can taxi, take off, fly and land pretty well, it is the procedures I am not familiar with. That's the great thing about it, you can say, to hell with the procedures, I'm off flying!

 

[Mole HD]

To give you a better idea of what a patchwork quilt based on the Orkney islands looks like...maybe there's some magic settings option to get rid of it. I've cached the whole of the islands so it's not that. But...the infernal flashing as the tiles draw in in varying shades as you fly along is pretty horrendous. If anyone is a bit wiser as to what's happening there, please...do tell before I bin the thing.

 

[Momatty]

First impressions... cool. Had some hiccups first time running it was hanging at the checking for updates screen. I hit escape after some time and it went into the options screen. After that no problems. Load times are long initially but it seemed shorter after that. Then I took off from Buttonville airport and headed south to do some night flying over Toronto. CN tower was a little glitchy and I wasn't familiar with the controls but it felt like flying an actual aircraft.

 

[Glen Fiddik]

Dont look good Mole, but there could well be a graphics setting that would sort it.

 

[Hairychest]

To give you a better idea of what a patchwork quilt based on the Orkney islands looks like...maybe there's some magic settings option to get rid of it. I've cached the whole of the islands so it's not that. But...the infernal flashing as the tiles draw in in varying shades as you fly along is pretty horrendous. If anyone is a bit wiser as to what's happening there, please...do tell before I bin the thing.

What are your GRAPHICS settings set at for various elements, try bumping a few up and see if you get away with the frame rate hit... It may be using a generic setting at certain levels to reduce strain on graphics... Although my video was at dusk, I didn't notice this, I can go up and take another look!

 

[Deleted member 182079]

My performance isn't bad but it isn't exactly stellar either, today I'll try fiddling a bit with graphic settings to see if I can achieve a more pleasant framerate.

I have no idea whether it's the location setting, but I've tried Donegal (in live weather conditions, very moody with mostly heavy clouds, man the weather is fab in this), solid 60fps, somewhat unsurprisingly given it's not a densely populated area, and Cairo (also live weather, mostly clear but at dusk so quite atmospheric also), where it only tanked as expected once I got to the busy area and rather low - no more really bad jerky frame drops though, unless I was just lucky. I suppose busy areas will always be more taxing; still, 35-50fps above Cairo isn't too bad, and you don't want to be too close to the ground anyways as the illusion of photoreal scenery starts to crumble.This is still at high default settings.

One thing I don't quite understand is - if I look the framerate at 30fps (which most of the time doesn't actually work, it seems to want to default to 20fps instead) it's really not very smooth at all - unlike other games such as GTA5 etc. which do 'feel' much smoother at those frame rates. Something with pre-rendered frames perhaps?

 

[Ralph Vargr]

Where I come from "hard drive" and "SSD" are synonymous.

Seriously, who uses spinning platter drives anymore?

I do.

 

[Ralph Vargr]

Yeah, Scotland isn't great for me either so far. Took a trip along the coast from Arbroath to Dundee, and the road bridge is there - but the railway bridge (longest passenger carrying rail bridge in the world, you'd think they'd have thought a bit about it) is just absent. Not there at all.

Which is kinda funny, because the rail tracks are there on land...

Given how the Yanks feel about Scotland, you have to wonder if they're saving it all for a super-deluxe "Scotland DLC", a mere snip at $49.99.

As a Scot, I don't think it's deliberate. They just don't see anything north of Hadrian's Wall...

 

[Juniper]

As a Scot, I don't think it's deliberate. They just don't see anything north of Hadrian's Wall...

Indeed, but as a Scot, I know that for many Americans - Scotland is their favourite part of England , and since this is funded by an American company...

 

[Ralph Vargr]

Indeed, but as a Scot, I know that for many Americans - Scotland is their favourite part of England , and since this is funded by an American company...

Written by a French team, and implemented by Microsoft, means there are many, many, many places awaiting DLC's...

Since I'm waiting for the Steam Sale, I wonder if I'll have to pay extra for St. Louis...

KCPS is my home field.