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Oh that's too funny. On a side note: I signed up for the discounted $1 trial month of Xbox Game Pass just to try this game out. The download and installation p

Oh that's too funny. On a side note: I signed up for the discounted $1 trial month of Xbox Game Pass just to try this game out. The download and installation process was ridiculously slow and causing my CPU to ramp up to 80-100° even while undervolting it. On a brand new i7 9750. Not sure what that was all about. I put the process on pause... I am looking forward to giving it a try, though. Anyone else have any difficulties?

crysin 6y ago
I'd check your CPUs heatsink mounting and make sure the thermal paste is applied correctly. Installing and downloading shouldn't cause your CPU to ramp up to 100C.
- 52-6F-62 6y ago
  Hm. There's no other context in which it ramps up that high, no matter what I've thrown at it. And unfortunately, it's a new laptop so I'm hesitant to crack it open for want of invalidating the warranty just yet.
- chrisandchris 6y ago
  So you never used Microsoft AutoUpdate on a Mac, right? Because that‘s the only thing this tool does apparrently. Full 100% CPU while downloading, no matter how slow your network is...
  - radegast 6y ago
    ah, you are holding it wrong. Gaming on Mac? Ts ts ts...
  - whywhywhywhy 6y ago
    Weirdly common I mean look at Dropbox, 100% processor while syncing. No idea why this is acceptable from such large companies.
naavis 6y ago
I also had a weird issue where minimizing the Flight Simulator window during the download/installation procedure bumped GPU usage to 55 % on a GTX 1070 until unminimizing the window again. GPU usage was hovering around 5-10% when the window was not minimized.
- lfowles 6y ago
  That's really interesting, I'm currently installing it.. minimized and my GPU fans immediately spun up with utilization at 100%!
- 52-6F-62 6y ago
  Oh weird. I'll have to check on that. I was at 0-5% GPU usage maximized on an RTX2060 but CPU was just cranked. I tried minimizing it hoping it was just some startup process that caused an initial CPU burst, but when it didn't calm down and was causing everything else to come to a halt that I shut it down for the time being.
- tpmx 6y ago
  I got that too. Generalized - this is a consistent theme across the game. All sorts of random buggy behavior. Stick a USB input device into the PC while the game is running - it may well crash. I recognize these kinds of bugs. They come from the developers not having a bottom-up understanding of the platforms they are working on. Instead they are working from the easiest possible code path and then try their best to squash all of the bugs, without really understanding the fundamentals.
  - naavis 6y ago
    I was able to crash the game once by turning on my Steam controller while the game was running. Couldn’t reproduce it though.
    - tpmx 6y ago
      Just found my 3-month-old post where I posted a cautious note against the hype: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23133623 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23133623
tpmx 6y ago
There's an insane amount of outright bugs, jankiness, frameskipping, random framerate slowdowns, etc etc going on. I recommend reading this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftFlightSim/comments/ic3o90/bugs_issues_megathread/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftFlightSim/comments/ic3o90/... (read both by best and new) And for the non-suckers who didn't buy the game yet: wait a few months. The shipped before actually making it work. I almost feel suckered because I paid $5 or so to re-activate my Xbox-PC-gamepass-or-whatever-they-call-it account so I could try it out.

crysin 6y ago

I'd check your CPUs heatsink mounting and make sure the thermal paste is applied correctly. Installing and downloading shouldn't cause your CPU to ramp up to 100C.

52-6F-62 6y ago
Hm. There's no other context in which it ramps up that high, no matter what I've thrown at it. And unfortunately, it's a new laptop so I'm hesitant to crack it open for want of invalidating the warranty just yet.
chrisandchris 6y ago
So you never used Microsoft AutoUpdate on a Mac, right? Because that‘s the only thing this tool does apparrently. Full 100% CPU while downloading, no matter how slow your network is...
- radegast 6y ago
  ah, you are holding it wrong. Gaming on Mac? Ts ts ts...
- whywhywhywhy 6y ago
  Weirdly common I mean look at Dropbox, 100% processor while syncing. No idea why this is acceptable from such large companies.

naavis 6y ago

I also had a weird issue where minimizing the Flight Simulator window during the download/installation procedure bumped GPU usage to 55 % on a GTX 1070 until unminimizing the window again. GPU usage was hovering around 5-10% when the window was not minimized.

lfowles 6y ago
That's really interesting, I'm currently installing it.. minimized and my GPU fans immediately spun up with utilization at 100%!
52-6F-62 6y ago
Oh weird. I'll have to check on that. I was at 0-5% GPU usage maximized on an RTX2060 but CPU was just cranked. I tried minimizing it hoping it was just some startup process that caused an initial CPU burst, but when it didn't calm down and was causing everything else to come to a halt that I shut it down for the time being.
tpmx 6y ago
I got that too. Generalized - this is a consistent theme across the game. All sorts of random buggy behavior. Stick a USB input device into the PC while the game is running - it may well crash. I recognize these kinds of bugs. They come from the developers not having a bottom-up understanding of the platforms they are working on. Instead they are working from the easiest possible code path and then try their best to squash all of the bugs, without really understanding the fundamentals.
- naavis 6y ago
  I was able to crash the game once by turning on my Steam controller while the game was running. Couldn’t reproduce it though.
  - tpmx 6y ago
    Just found my 3-month-old post where I posted a cautious note against the hype: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23133623 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23133623

tpmx 6y ago

There's an insane amount of outright bugs, jankiness, frameskipping, random framerate slowdowns, etc etc going on. I recommend reading this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftFlightSim/comments/ic3o90/bugs_issues_megathread/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftFlightSim/comments/ic3o90/... (read both by best and new) And for the non-suckers who didn't buy the game yet: wait a few months. The shipped before actually making it work. I almost feel suckered because I paid $5 or so to re-activate my Xbox-PC-gamepass-or-whatever-they-call-it account so I could try it out.