Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024’s Sim Update 5.1 lands with crash fixes and PS5 tweaks

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has received Sim Update 5.1 [1.7.35.0], and this update goes straight at a few of the rough edges players have been dealing with. The patch focuses on memory pressure, crashes, glass cockpit resets, Career mission timing, traffic add-ons, audio delay, and several PlayStation 5 fixes.

PC players should also keep an eye on the Community folder. The team said outdated packages there can affect performance and behavior, and if stability or loading times are causing trouble, those packages should be moved to another folder before relaunching the game.

Patch Notes

Here is the official change list for Sim Update 5.1 [1.7.35.0].

Stability & Performance

• Improved handling of texture mip streaming quality during high memory pressure conditions.
• Improved terrain degradation when memory is getting low.
• Fixed various crashes and improved memory usage.

Glass Cockpits

• Fixed an issue with the electrical system that caused some avionics & systems to think that a circuit had been powered off periodically causing some reboots and loss of function.

Career

• Mission availability times now take runway lighting systems at both the departure and arrival airports into account, allowing missions to start or end at night when adequate lighting is available.

General Bug Fixes

• Fixed burn ground effect in firefighting missions.
• On PlayStation 5, fixed an issue that would prevent to launch heavy cargo missions.

Traffic

Air Traffic

• Fixed 3rd Party Traffic add-on problem with pushback not working.

SDK

• On PlayStation 5, fixed HTTPS request failure from Coherent due to SSL handshake error.

Audio

• Fixed attenuation factors being calculated with a one frame delay for legacy sounds (based on WAV files)

WASM API

• Fixed base address for virtual allocs of WASM modules linear memory on PS5 (avoids crash with the Aerostar 600)
• Fixed WASM failures on PS5 when modules have been built with SDK 1.6.9 and higher (avoids crashes with the 2024 version of the ATR)
• Added support for dynamic VFS on-demand files to avoid using too much memory when accessing streamed files through WASI

JS API

• Fixes swapped parameters in new JS map listener weather radar methods added in SU5.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Developed by Asobo Studio

Pursue your dream of an aviation career with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. This brand-new simulator is designed to take advantage of the latest technologies in simulation, cloud, machine learning, graphics and gaming to create the most sophisticated, immersive and awe-inspiring flight simulator of all time. To achieve this unprecedented level of accuracy, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is powered by the significantly evolved Asobo Studio engine.

• Genre: Simulator
• Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation VR2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
• Modes: Single player, Multiplayer
• Release: 2024-11-19
• Publisher: Xbox Game Studios
• Age Rating: PEGI 3 / ACB G / GRAC ALL / USK 0 / ESRB E / CERO A / CLASS_IND L
• IGDB Rating: 70.8/100

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