Download

[dnpaul]

So my download got started last night. My connection is only 6 MBPS (DSL). So after an hour or so, it was at 8.7 GB complete. I decided to pause the download, and reboot to see if the download resumes at that last point.

 

Nope.

 

It started all over.

 

It seems like they could have allowed a partial download to survive a reboot.

 

Ugh.

[gingertips]

its soooo slow. I started this morning at 8am, only 27gb downloaded so far. on that basis thinking its going to be close to this evening before its downloaded. And I took the day off work! Bad planning!

[tiger1962]

Slow here too... The first download got stuck so I quit the App and re-launched it at 7.20am, when the Content Manager kicked in and began downloading again. It's downloaded "38.77GiB" since then so I'm finding other things to do, such replacing a headlamp bulb on the car and taking the wife out to dinner for a change. So far this new flight sim is great for domestic harmony...

[Kapitan]

Mine completed in about 5 hours

[stretch]

I will have to wait for a disc version. 127 gigs, that is a bunch of bytes man!

 

Cheers all,

Aaron

Skysong Soundworks

[kingnorris]

It’s day one of an extremely anticipated sim. All over the country and the world folks are downloading it. Of course it’s gonna be slow. Bottlenecking the system.

[g7rta]

Internet speed & time of downloading clearly makes a difference.

I have VM 200mbps & I started the download at about 4am

It took about 1.5 hours! (direct from Microsoft)

 

Regards

Steve

[Kapitan]

mine took 5 hours, down in Brazil

went to sleep at midnight and by 5 all installed

[Elvensmith]

About 4.5 hours here - a few minutes for the Steam host files, the rest for the Asobo stuff. There's a period of about 10 mins after the D/L completes and you get a black window but still unravelling stuff as the HDD light on almost continuously. Then it dropped me in the welcome screen. So no real drama (yet...).

[plainsman]

About 3 hours for me. Then another hour getting the settings input.

[stusue]

Going on 12 hours for me in Toronto. I have download speeds of 50 MPs or greater on all devices but when this flight simulator is downloading at a snails pace. Still have 10 percent to go.

[gingertips]

9 hours in - doesnt appear to have downloaded all the updates. Its crashed, now back into game and running through settiing the experiences.

 

No control presets for Saitek Pro Flight X-55 Rhino Stick & Throttle which is a little annoying. Wife just arrived home, so wont be playing today now...

[CBILL737]

What is your internet download speed?

[CBILL737]

Mine is currently 210 Mbps, and it looks like it is going to take about 2-2 1/4 hours.

[dnpaul]

Argh. Just got home from work. 41 percent since 2am. Maybe it will finish tomorrow.

[BrylanYendor]

I have a high end computer and fast internet, so it took around two hours for me. Unfortunately, I have spent more than that fiddling with getting the controls set right.

[stusue]

So I finished downloading at 22 noon yesterday. Which was 12 hours after I started. I pulled my laptop into an ethernet line and that gave me a little burst of doped for a few minutes and seemed to get me over a hump.

After downloaded I set some parameters and stated up the game. As soon as I was loaded and on a runway the game froze several times so I closed it and shut down my computer and restarted it and restarted the flight simulator. I loaded up downsview airport in Toronto and it froze once or twice more and then I got it going just by waiting. Since then it's been smooth as silk. I've flown over Toronto, Ottawa, Florida and Bermuda. It's amazing. Photo quality like I can't believe and very smooth. Seems like the custom joystick settings come undone once in a while and I reset them. But overall it's a true masterpiece.