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Have you tried the alphas internal calibration. ?

Haven't got a link to hand at the moment, but there's instructions on their website and some vids on you tube

OK, at this point in time some folks justifiably regard the latest MSFS update as a disaster, while others think it is fabulous. To some degree, this seems to happen after every update, though in this case the comments appear more extreme -- as in "TOTAL disaster" -- even if the trolls are discounted. I personally have had a foot in both camps. I spent over two frustrating days trying to get the update installed, with the process stalling over and over as files tried repeatedly to load but without success; each time that happened, I re-started and it resumed, only to stall again.Note: this was with an empty Community folder; no addons. The last straw was when the upload reached 99% and stalled with only a couple of MB remaining-- at that point my wife heard language she had never heard me use before! The solution, finally, was to go into OneStore and delete the last couple of update folders, forcing them to reload. That did the trick and the sim was able to start.

 

This transformed my experience from a disaster to almost unimaginable joy. I am seeing performance unlike anything I've had up to now in MSFS (and light years beyond any earlier sim). With pretty nearly all settings at ultra, numerous addons, real weather, live real-world traffic, Bing data on, and the frame rate limit at 60, I am seeing absolutely smooth flying with 50-60 FPS (occasionally dropping into the 40s) in the TBM930 everywhere I fly, including some of the most scenery-dense areas such as London, New York, LA, Washington DC, and other places notorious as frame rate killers. The graphics look terrific. It is hard to believe I am not dreaming.

 

That said, it is really unfortunate that so many people are having problems, and I hope that most of these will soon be resolved -- hopefully with the soon-to-be-released patch --so that everyone can enjoy this incredible simulator.

 

Alienware Aurora R11, Intel® Core™ i7-10700F, GeForce TX2080 Super.

I flew over New York last week (SU4) using the Icon plane, took a tour round the surrounding area and landed on the water close to the Statue of Liberty. I was getting a nice smooth 35 fps with very little stutter and the photogrammetry scenery looked superb.

Tried the same trip today with the Icon and it looks just awful, most of the buildings are popping into view as I look around and look nowhere near as good as before.

The draw distance is now hopeless (I have every setting I can set to high or ultra apart from Render at 100) and flying NW over the East river with central park in front of me I can just see a desert with no buildings rendering past the Hudson river. Last week I had buildings out to the horizon.

London is just as bad, looks like a desert, anything over 2 miles away is replace by a sandy flat landscape into which scenery magically appears as you get closer.

So for me SU5 = 5 more fps but totally immersion breaking scenery redrawing with lower quality textures and over exposed whiteout clouds.

Are you seeing buildings out to the horizon and not popping in and out of existence when you fly over New York and London?

Sounds more like a spiking potentiometer in your controller.

Also check that you have calibrated the controller, either in it's own software if available or in the windows joy.cpl app.

If it it a spiking pot you might be able to clean it with some electrical connection cleaner but I'm not familiar with that controller so I don't know how easy/difficult it is to get access to the pots.

Some of the more expensive controllers use hall effect devices as they are more reliable than potentiometers which are quite prone to spiking with a bad connection.

If it's not spiking too high you could try adding a larger deadzone in the sensitivity settings in the sim as a workaroound.

So my advice, make sure it's calibrated, if it's still a problem try cleaning the pots or maybe replacing them if you are up to a bit of soldering. Might not be cost effective though.

As I posted originally, my Invoice says available on the 17th. I just checked the Microsoft store Page and it now shows me available on the 18th at 00:00 so I'm assuming that might be midnight of the 17th?

Interestingly it shows as Installed already which it clearly isn't as it would have taken up about 100GB of my hard drive space.

It does have a number of files and folders related to flight sim but all of them are Zero Bytes.

Just hoping that's some sort of automated preload thing and that I don't get issues with it thinking it's already installed when it isn't.

Just got an email with an Invoice for my pre order of the Premium Deluxe version.

I noticed it says available on the 17th of August, does that mean the pre ordered version is available a day early, or just that it can be downloaded at midnight on the 17th ready to run on the 18th?