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For years GTA V had these insanely long loading times. Someone eventually figured out that this was due to amateurish programming: the loader would index all the loaded files, at the beginning finding nothing. then it would load something, and then it would start scanning again, but from the beginning. So the more files it had loaded, the more time it was busy uselessly scanning files it already had scanned hundreds or thousands of times. A really dumb version of Zeno's Paradox. This was discovered by a player, and subsequently fixed, like 6 years after the game first releases. So it's not just the niche companies that do this jank.
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Considering the clusterfuck the netcode is in that game (i.e. remote script execution), I'm not surprised.
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Cojawfee posted:A bunch of tiny files compounded with the fact that Windows sucks rear end at transferring small files. I have an email from customer support that has two commands to put into powershell if downloading flight sim starts failing. One is for if small files fail, one is for if big files fail. It's insane that such a workaround is needed when literally every other game platform has solved downloading games. Can you uhhh… Share that? Support hasn’t gotten back to me in more than a week now.
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MrYenko posted:Can you uhhh… Share that? Support hasn’t gotten back to me in more than a week now. quote:Download stuck on big files
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Dec 9, 2021 04:41
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For other big idiots like me, looks like Asobo's made the Sim Update 7 beta available to Steam. Just have to pick it out of the Beta menu, no password or anything. Let's see what this deletes!
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Didn’t help, but thanks very much!
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Cojawfee posted:A bunch of tiny files compounded with the fact that Windows sucks rear end at transferring small files. I have an email from customer support that has two commands to put into powershell if downloading flight sim starts failing. One is for if small files fail, one is for if big files fail. It's insane that such a workaround is needed when literally every other game platform has solved downloading games. It's brutal. Every time you copy a file you have to: Create a new file at the destination Open and lock it for writing Write data Unlock and close the file Of those three things, only the "write data" step depends on how big the file is, the three fixed time steps add up very quickly. Other operating systems suffer from the same basic issue, but NTFS is particularly bad at dealing with it.
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Lord Stimperor posted:For years GTA V had these insanely long loading times. Someone eventually figured out that this was due to amateurish programming: the loader would index all the loaded files, at the beginning finding nothing. then it would load something, and then it would start scanning again, but from the beginning. So the more files it had loaded, the more time it was busy uselessly scanning files it already had scanned hundreds or thousands of times. A really dumb version of Zeno's Paradox. That's impressively stupid.
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Most of my steam time playing MSFS2020 is really just updates and loading.
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sigher posted:That's impressively stupid.
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guidoanselmi posted:Most of my steam time playing MSFS2020 is really just updates and loading. Given my recent issues, I am absolutely certain that I have now spent more time with the downloaded than I’ve spend in the sim. And I STILL can’t loving play it. Sorry if my griping is getting old, i just need somewhere to vent so I don’t get banned from the official forums.  Unrelated Content: https://youtu.be/xrL-uGGwgtg MrYenko fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Dec 10, 2021 |
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I haven't followed your issues closely, but have you taken the plunge and tried a windows RE&RE? The install manager/updater is hysterically awful.
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I myself had to do a Windows rebuild before MSFS stopped eating poo poo constantly. Hell, might've even been slidebite that suggested it. It legitimately helped, and I'm still angry about it.
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MrYenko posted:Unrelated Content: quote:The reveal takes place at I/ITSEC 2021 in Orlando. Come visit us in booth 1348 and fly the F-16 in VR. So we're probably not getting that as a game?
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What’s funny is I installed at launch and have been relatively problem free (for things like crashes and “application/update” problems, as opposed to sim bugs.) Then two weeks ago windows got hosed up and flight sim was the only game on that drive. Now on a fresh install of windows and barely any community addons (and further, the ones I have being updated to current versions) the loving thing crashes constantly whenever I open the sim.
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Ironically it seems to run pretty well under Proton on Linux There are some rendering artifacts on distant trees though so I wouldn't say it's 100% yet but it does load noticeably faster than on Windows. Also no voice synth and launching something like vpilot inside the proton container is a pain Other than that it works great!
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My initial install went fine, and a few updates. Then I think the UK or Euro update hung up, totally screwed up the install, and needed to uninstall the entire thing. So far I've been lucky and my Windows install has never needed to be touched but I'm waiting for that shoe to drop
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slidebite posted:I haven't followed your issues closely, but have you taken the plunge and tried a windows RE&RE? No. I’m not wiping windows for a piece of Microsoft’s own software when everything else is working fine. I’ll try a rebuild this week, I suppose. The updater manages to be worse than basing their geo data on Bing maps. Didn’t think that was possible. Lord Stimperor posted:So we're probably not getting that as a game? DCS started the same way, and didn’t have a proven consumer market presently being poorly served by a mediocre competitor.
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MrYenko posted:Unrelated Content:  https://i.imgur.com/jjdqSsb.mp4 how are flight sim people so GODDAMN STUPID every GOD DAMNED MINUTE of the DAY
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Sagebrush posted:
Onboarding a (self-proclaimed?) American defense contractor to a (formerly?) Moscow company would cause hilarious media coverage tho
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This not gonna be a public product, is it?
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Flying DCS C-101: Haha stick go brrrrrrrrrrr
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skooma512 posted:Flying DCS C-101: Haha stick go brrrrrrrrrrr Yes, but only when you try to take off, gain altitude, not crash into the ground, maintain speed, pull G:s, or generally avoid things. If you're just diving or turning gently, it stays mostly quiet.
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In MS Flight Sim, is there a way to listen to other players talking over voice? Or is there a Discord or somewhere else you can join to listen to player voice chat during flights?
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Does anyone else have the throttle slam full forward after landing? I thought it was a weird thing with the F18 but I just had it happen on one of the new little cub prop jobs. I land, start to brake, and then the throttles slam forward even though I haven't touched them. It's almost like the copilot ai is trying to do it or something but I don't have that's selected.
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Do you have any buttons bound to "toggle reverse thrust" or anything similar? I think Asobo broke something with that in the last update, so that may be part of it.
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I said come in! posted:In MS Flight Sim, is there a way to listen to other players talking over voice? Or is there a Discord or somewhere else you can join to listen to player voice chat during flights? There isn't an in-game thing as far as I know. There are Discords for that sort of thing, yes. I found a few in the past but they never really clicked for me. Mostly just 14 year olds in the Civil Air Patrol trying to show off and jacking themselves off about how they were going to be fighter pilots someday. I kept trying to find the server that the Airforceproud95 YouTuber was on, cause he seemed fun, but never managed to. If you want a real radio simulation experience, VATSIM is the way to go, but then you have to learn to talk and fly like a real pilot.
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Eh, you can just connect in observer mode and you don't have to talk to anyone.
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If I just want to hear radio traffic I just have https://www.liveatc.net/ streaming in the background.
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azflyboy posted:Do you have any buttons bound to "toggle reverse thrust" or anything similar? I think Asobo broke something with that in the last update, so that may be part of it. in other news, I have an alpha and bravo still sealed in their boxes that I haven't been even looked at yet. 
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I can't see any bindings, but for some reason after I land in every plane I've tried lately, the throttles slam forward. I play with the throttles afterwards (up/down) they still want to go up, almost like some autopilot thing, but I have no flight assists on. I've calibrated, increased dead zones, no clue as to wtf is going on. It's regardless if it's a piston or turbine.
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slidebite posted:I can't see any bindings, but for some reason after I land in every plane I've tried lately, the throttles slam forward. I play with the throttles afterwards (up/down) they still want to go up, almost like some autopilot thing, but I have no flight assists on. I've calibrated, increased dead zones, no clue as to wtf is going on. It's regardless if it's a piston or turbine. I know this is a pain in the rear end, but have you tried wiping out the profile for the yoke/pedals/stick/whatever you use, and restarting from a clean slate? There have been various reports of bizarre behaviors in MSFS that end up being an axis or command somehow being assigned to something completely random on a stick, yoke, or pedals, so maybe MSFS somehow assigned the (currently) broken reverse to an axis in one of your controllers. If you're using MSFS Addon Linker, try un-linking all the 3rd party stuff in your community folder, since there's a chance something there might be interfering and causing issues. The only other idea I have is to make sure that if you have input you don't use with MSFS (like a racing wheel or Xbox controller) that you try unplugging them and seeing if that helps, since it's also possible MSFS somehow assigned something to a controller you aren't actively using.
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I have nothing else plugged in to my USB at all, other than my stick/controller and keyboard/mouse. I'm not against wiping it out and see what happens, but I really think it's almost an AI thing. I might unplug the USB controller next time just to see what happens. I need to do some more digging here. It's so weird.
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Is it always a specific landing step it happens? I know last time you mentioned it's typically when starting braking. IIRC there are TOGA toggle binds that pin throttle to max regardless if that toggle physically exists in the cockpit or interlocks with the throttle position. So I'd also expect overlapped binds with that or similar toggles.
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If you didn't already, you can also do a search by input in MSFS, you could try that with every button and axis on your controllers to see if anything got double assigned, since MSFS doesn't seem to prevent you from assigning multiple things to one input.
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My wife dropped hints that I may have a Honeycomb A+B set coming at Christmas, and I'm obnoxiously excited and just wanted to tell the only other people who would even know what the hell I was talking about. I feel like I'm inching closer to buying instrument panels like some kind of crazy man, though. I hear mournful bells in the distance.
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Squiggle posted:My wife dropped hints that I may have a Honeycomb A+B set coming at Christmas, and I'm obnoxiously excited and just wanted to tell the only other people who would even know what the hell I was talking about. Live your best life
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Post your setup Stim
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Nothing specialized, but good allround stuff. VKB Gladiator Pro and Rudder pedals, both half a decade old. Used to have an X55 throttle as well but that one died. Oculus collects dust at the moment. I've been mulling over a update for a while now. Those replica Garmins are among at me. But so are throttle units and yokes. If I expand my setup, I think it'd need to come in the shape of a portable sim cockpit. I have a tight space. And it'd need to be generic enough to work across multiple games in VR.
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Squiggle posted:My wife dropped hints that I may have a Honeycomb A+B set coming at Christmas, and I'm obnoxiously excited and just wanted to tell the only other people who would even know what the hell I was talking about. drat that throttle quadrant looks sick
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