Route Planner / Autopilot Issues

1st Official Post

    Hi there, newbie here:)

    I was a long time user of the original Aerofly, so when I switched from PC to Mac recently decided to treat myself to FS4, and absolutely love it. I seem to have run into a little issue however which I have reported to Support but wondered if anyone else has experienced it or might know what was going on? I have looked on here but couldn't find anything similar.

    General flying is issue free, but I've run into a problem when using the route planner and autopilot. The programme frequently crashes, seemingly at random at various points on the flight. On restarting the plane is usually at an earlier location or even back on the runway and occasionally nowhere at all. Putting the plane back roughly where it was sometimes works, other times it behaves randomly or the programme won't reopen at all or just gets stuck at the go back / reset location screen.

    I've tried deleting the main.mcf file but that hasn't made any difference, nor has dialling back the graphics quality. I've also run the file validation in Steam with no reported issues. Any ideas? It's the MacOS Steam version running on a Mac Mini M4 Pro with 24GB of RAM.

    • Official Post

    The crashes have probably nothing to do with the route planner or autopilot. I'm guessing it's running into memory issues after a while. Please post the graphics quality settings that you use.

    If you exit the flight and go to the main menu, the sim saves that location. When the sim crashes at some point you'll be back at that location where you last left the sim to go to the main menu. That's not really random at all.

    Regards,

    Jan

    Hi, thanks for the response. I've experimented with the graphics quality and run the programme with the Activity Monitor open. Running at the lowest graphics settings with minimal weather does seem to eliminate the crashes. These happen using the ultra settings along with more complicated conditions.

    However even with everything maxed out there is still at least 4GB of RAM free according to the monitor, so any overload resulting from flying a planned route is presumably happening somewhere else.

    Quote from Jet-Pack (IPACS)

    When the sim crashes at some point you'll be back at that location where you last left the sim to go to the main menu. That's not really random at all.

    This isn't what's been happening in this case, I've been flying continuously from take off, the programme has crashed and then when I've restarted it's placed me at a position earlier on in the route.

    In any event if it means I just have to dial down the graphics settings a bit if I want to fly airliners it's not a major issue:)