Microsoft Releases Sim Update 6 for MSFS 2024
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Sim Update 6 delivers new content including bush trips and World Photographer mode enhancements, plus a walkaround mode toggle option. The update focuses heavily on stability and performance: it fixes numerous crashes across ATC, radar, CFD simulation, airport systems, and procedural generation (particularly PS5 crashes), optimizes grass rendering and input systems, and improves CPU threading. The changelog is extensive, covering gameplay features, graphics settings (including seatbelt toggle on consoles), and under-the-hood refinements to traffic, scenery culling, and flight planner systems.
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Microsoft has recently released the long-awaited Sim Update 6 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, adding bush trips, a new option to disable the walkaround mode, stability fixes, performance improvements, and much more.
Sim Update 6 (1.8.14.0) overhauls the visuals of the reward screen in World Photographer mode, adds an exclusive section for guided tours, adds an option to disable the walkaround mode, reduces loading time related to buildings when restarting a flight or mission, fixes a PlayStation 5 crash occurring due to procedural generation, fixes a significant number of bugs, and more. The complete changelog follows below:
New Content and Features
The collection page of the World Photographer mode now only displays the title of the hovered objective
Added loading spinner in avatar creator page
Added a new graphic setting on consoles to display or hide seatbelts
Added helicopter vortex ring protection assistance
Stability & Performance
Fixed a rare crash during boot video when using FSR
Optimized grass rendering.
Performance optimization of input system.
Fixed a crash in the tissue simulation.
Fixed a crash in the tire mark and footprint system.
Performance optimizations on airport, ATC, aircraft, and scenery.
Performance optimizations of boat and road traffic.
Performance optimizations of the sim flow code.
Fixed a crash in the world map.
Fixed a crash in the ATC system.
Fixed a crash in the smart camera system.
Fixed a crash in the AI path following system.
Fixed a crash in the flight planner.
Fixed a crash in the airport vehicle simulation.
Fixed a crash in the radar system.
Fixed crash in the ATC tower system.
Fixed a crash in the special effects system.
Fixed crashes in the navigation graph system.
Fixed a crash in the airport taxiway simulation.
Optimization of main CPU thread.
Optimization of the main CPU code for event display.
Added a new parameter in SimBase.Document : ” SimBase.DependOnSettings”. It takes a string for an option’s name. IT allows the xml to be read if the option is true (works only with on/off options). Added the param to the Seatbelts.xml to have seatbelt only when the new option “Seatbelts” in graphic settings is true
Optimized scenery objects culling compute.
Optimization of graphic user interface (menu pages).
Fixed CFD not compatible with inverted flight.
Fixed a crash in the copilot system.
Fixed a crash in the airport system.
Fixed a crash in the CFD simulation.
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