Just something neat I stumbled upon
I hate that updates wonāt download in the background like EVERY OTHER STEAM GAME! Sitting here waiting to download 9.5 GB because I want to practice some touch n goes is NO FUN.
I canāt wait for there to be a nice Trimotor for MSFS. Do some real vintage flights then.
It annoys me as well. Having to boot into the game which is very resource heavy, then wait ā¦ and wait ā¦ etc.
Yeah, I really donāt understand why some of the patches are so big. If you do a binary diff against the updates, theyāre usually a good bit smaller than what you end up downloading. It probably could do with some improvement for the benefit of user experience.
Because patching takes forever on my PC I had a little look into it, and concluded that the patches are broken up into files that are, for christ knows what reason, downloaded into RAM first before being written to disk. And if that process is interrupted for whatever reason, the download has to start again.
And yes, the process is interrupted frequently, and I have no idea why. Steam can max out my bandwidth without issue, but the MSFS download not only uses no more than half of my bandwidth, but cuts out regularly.
The only solution I have found is to use a third party tool to throttle the already slow download. Thus a 9GB patch is going to take all day to download despite the fact that I have 80Mb/s for literally everything else.
I dread patch day.
Well look at that. Comparing your images to my experience I discovered I didnāt have the photogrammetry packs downloaded. Much better now :)
I am seeing announcements that the WorkingTitle team has gotten hired by Asobo as full time developers. Congrats @schurem ! Im using your G1000 mod and itās a definite improvement.
Hopefully this will prompt them to make some actual improvements to the engine and Sim rather than FSX liveries and contrails. The most recent update seems to have made performance much worse, once I could get it working at all.
huh? wha? I never made no mod, mate.
Thanks, yāall! Iām so fricken excited, this has been a long time coming and itās been hard keeping a lid on something youāre stoked about for so long. :D
The short version is that Working Title is now Working Title Simulations LLC. The core founders (5 of us) are leaving our jobs to work on this venture full time. We have a contract with Microsoft to do work on the sim that can benefit from our strengths. (I canāt talk roadmaps at this point, but I can say that we and MS are in agreement on the sorts of areas that can most benefit, and itās the things weāve already been doing.)
We expected a lot of questions about this, so we prepared an announcement document as well as a FAQ with what we figured would be the most useful information. Iām happy to answer any questions not covered there that Iām allowed to. :)
Awesome things are coming.
Congrats, @kaosfere !
Great to see and sends a good message about the long term health of the sim.
Hope the job to job transition isnāt too stressful, good luck!
Hey, a HUGE CONGRATS to you and the rest of the WT team. Well deserved and Iām sure we have some great stuff on the way based on everything youāve done already. Seriously man, well deserved to all of you.
Wow thatās incredible! So happy for you :)
Itās sudo make me a sandwich.
sudo apt-get install sandwich
So does your stuff get officially integrated soon without the need for the mod?