**** Official Microsoft Flight Simulator Thread ****

[TonyTurbo78]

It took me about 5 hours on a 42Mbit line. I just left it running overnight.

Through Gamepass mate?

 

[andy_mk3]

VPN and remote desktop into my PC from work to keep an eye on it. It started at 7.45am, it might just be finished in time for when I get home! 30mb connection certainly shows its age doing this type of thing.

 

[Brutal biff]

30gig dloaded since 7 am


This game should be a good test for my new rig that was put together on Sunday

 

[TonyTurbo78]

Install size vs download size... as mentioned the download is around 91gb or something in that region.

smaller than COD!

I don't have COD installed for that exact reason, it's bonkers how big the COD directory gets with the constant updates. I mean, it's big enough out of the box. Must be over 200GB now.

 

[Morfinel]

Lol, from steam

 

[Digital X]

If you're struggling with performance: https://www.pcgamer.com/microsoft-f..._source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer-pcgamertw

Not a massive impact but worth a shot.

 

[McGraw]

I’m at full speed download now. 6.3mb/s

 

[VortexA1]

Lol, from steam

? How come it looks so bad?

 

[Dave85]

What a disaster this is from gamepass. Crashes galore then you need to run as admin and delete folders as it gets stuck on a blue bar then you get debug errors download at 20gb then 50gb I gave up at this point not that bothered about it tbh. If i had paid for it i would be raging.

 

[AMB73]

Has anyone managed to set up a HOTAS?

Cannot for the life of me get my X52 to work properly - It acts like a Dpad, all or nothing type of scenario....

 

[Zeeflyboy]

odd, I installed from gamepass and zero issues... wonder what is causing your problem.

 

[willhub]

I'm having issues with downloading, it just stops, have to restart pc, then start flight simulstor, close it as it crashes, restart it, it then lets me play without all files, I then have to repair it and it then starts downloading again for about 5gb.

 

[mid_gen]

Finally got it downloaded. Pretty choppy at 4k but I jumped in a Bonanza and flew out of East Midlands and checked out the house. It's really nice to have easily readable ground detail for VFR flight anywhere on the globe. Flys alright on a controller too.

Sounds seems pretty borked though, it does weird things to my sound controls, makes volume mixed stop responding.

 

[Morfinel]

? How come it looks so bad?

I suspect there is a old plane parked and game detects it as a building.

 

[smr]

How's the game running on your rigs and what hardware have you got ?

I'm looking to buy a new computer, the CPU, RAM and Mobo are easy choices, it's the graphics card which isn't, is it best to wait now until the next gen cards come out in the Autumn?

 

[jamief]

Zero problems here with the game pass version. Playing at 1440p on a i7 8700/1080ti and currently on the ultra preset, seems to be fine. Not sure on framerate but definitely playable.

 

[tracertong]

odd, I installed from gamepass and zero issues

You are one of the lucky ones. Reddit is raging over the install problems.

 

[mid_gen]

You are one of the lucky ones. Reddit is raging over the install problems.

It's taken about 5-6 restarts of the game to get it to finish downloading. Quite a few crashes going on. Seems ok now it's finally finished though.

 

[Morfinel]

How's the game running on your rigs and what hardware have you got ?

Ryzen 2600 16gb ram, rtx 2060 super gaming x, very smooth on almost ultra settings on 1080p few frame drops from time to time.

 

[theboyrob]

Mines ok on medium but anything above and it chugs, think I need a better graphics card! World detail looks ok at medium setting but not amazing when you're close to the ground. Ryzen 7 3700X, 16GB, RX480 4Gb.