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Please keep in mind, Utah is part of the UTAH DLC and not the South West Hi Res DLC!

Ok, bug is confirmed. We have fixed it internally and will publish an update within the next 48 hours.

As you are using an AMD CPU and AMD GPU it might be an issue specific to your system as we do not test Aerofly extensively on AMD CPUs.

Can you give us steps on how to reproduce this issue, if possible, step by step?

Just delete the cache and completely delete Aerofly FS 2 and download from scratch. It should be finished in less than a day.

Again, lets repeat our recommendation for you: Get a 4 TB HDD and you will be good for the upcoming updates.

Please check if in your steam installation, that you see the following file:

Steam/steamapps/common/Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator/scenery/places/usa/ut/monument_valley_airport/monument_valley_airport.tsc

Can you find this file?

The issues most users have seen were related to the fact, that for some reason, files in the Hi Res texture pack and the base package of Aerofly FS 2 were duplicated. This caused Steam to continously update those files as they were different in both packages. However this should have been fixed.

Also, as mentioned before, we virtually replaced every aerial images in Aerofly as we used a new algorithm to generate them. This saved us around 5% of storage and makes future updates easier but it required us to create such a big update.

The example DLL has a code snippet in it that modifies either Rudder, Elevator or Aileron. Ensure this is not messing up anything, its best to remove the DLL for test purposes!

Again, if you want to be safe for a while, follow our recommendation of getting a 4 TB or more hard drive. They are cheap but have high transfer rates. Install all your Steam games on this drive. The performance drop is probably not noticable.

SSDs are of course faster, but this comes at a price and a compromise as well. High capacity SSDs are way more expensive than HDDs so users tend to buy the biggest drive they can just afford.

Follow our recommendation and get a 4 TB drive. You won't be disappointed.

The base package still requires only 34 GB of data. All the other optional DLCs have separate system requirements. If you install all of Aerofly FS 2 you end up with around 130 GB of data.

Well, how the Aerofly FS 2 update is delivered is up to Steam, there isn't much we can do. Like we said, getting a big HDD really doesn't cost anything these days and you won't suffer from very long loading times as well. So if your budget is low get a good quality 4 TB HDD and you will be set for many updates to come.

If you want the benefit for a shorter initial loading time, go for a 1 TB SSD.

The last update we published really was an exception as we changed many files, so the old installation was required and Steam downloaded the new update in the background which resulted in around 200 GB of space required. One option would have been to completely delete Aerofly and download it from scratch. This would have consumed just the 120 GB that is required by Aerofly right now.

As Jeff pointed out, we will try to fix the issues with AMD GPUs next week, give us time to get one of those cards for test purposes. Its probably related to the fact that we use a new method of uploading aerial images. For AMD card we can revert to the default.

Overloaded: Your fear regarding SSDs and using over 90% of its capacity is a myth. On our development systems we use INTEL and SAMSUNG SSD drives and write tera bytes of data each day. So far we have not found a single SSD that has failed or decreased in performa ce. If you can afford it, get a 1TB SSD drive for Aerofly and your other Steam games. If that is no option or its too expensive, get a >= 4 TB drive, that will give you plenty of space for Aerofly and you will hardly feel the lower performance.

This is another issue we need to look into. It looks like the latest update causes strange effect when using AMD graphic card. Could you let us know if you have the latest driver installed? Also does the problem show up right away or are you doing something 'special'?

The download issue should be fixed now. For some reason the Hi Res texture pack DLC still included old files.

It could be, that some files in the hi res pack are broken, even though we double tested it.

We will check and see if we can upload this whole package again to resolve the issue.

It seems like, people really want this airplane. Please give us some more time, we will try our best.

But there is no point in releasing it if its just not performing the way it should, so be a little bit more patient.

It is not possible to put the DLCs to a different location compared to the main game. All files have to be in the same storage location.

No files are broken, it just seems the Steam client is getting confused for some reason. For now the safest thing to do is completely uninstall and then reinstall Aerofly FS 2. It doesn't look like a bug on our side.

Yes, that should in theory be the same, but we need to do further tests to see if something is broken with the files we uploaded.

The issues you mention here seem to be related to wrong files in your installation. We have no idea
why this is the case, but if you are patient, completely delete Aerofly FS 2 on your harddisc and ensure
you delete the whole folder. Then redownload and report back if the issue is corrected.

It seems like Steam did not update all aerial images properly. If possible, try to download the Utah and Hi Res texture pack over again, this issue should then be fixed.