After the latest update to Microsoft Flight Simulator, many users have reported crashes, freezes, and severe stuttering that have rendered the simulator unstable to the point where it is sometimes completely unplayable. 

In response to the complaints, Asobo developers have announced a hot-fix that is available now. 

The patch brings fixes that will resolve most of the instability currently experienced by the community.

According to the announcement yesterday, the hotfix will provide a plethora of bug fixes across the entire simulator, bringing stability/performance, and improving input, navigation, UI, Planes, Activity/Gameplay, Weather, and SDK.

The team also provided a full list of fixes is included below: 

Stability/Performance

• Fixed various crashes in game and on the world map
• Fixed crashes related to the offline AI traffic
• Fixed minor memory leaks

Input

• The title should no longer freeze for a very long time when connecting / disconnecting peripherals

Navigation

• Fixed broken flight plan for Garmin devices when adding an enroute waypoint that was inserted as a destination
• Fixed flight planner not resetting when going from one activity to another
• Fixed flight plan from flight assistant not displaying on certain planes when VFR map is open after the destination is set
• Fixed freezes happening when using the flight assistant when setting a new destination

UI

• VR options should no longer be duplicated in the Option menu
• Marketplace “Get and download” and “Download” buttons will now function as expected on the Content Page
• User unable to interact with UI elements with the in game cursor for free flight in some cases

Planes

• Improvements of pitot static system to fix altimeter bugs, improve accuracy and correctly simulate temperature impact
• Fixed AutoBrakes Button Behaviour on the Airbus A320Neo

Activity/Gameplay

• The correct runway is now taken into account for the Landing challenge at Nice
• Pilots are now displayed in external view at the Isafjordur Landing challenge
• Title will no longer become unresponsive after using Fuel Supply and using a fuel or payload as a numerical value via ATC Ground Services
• Some achievements will no longer be awarded in error for certain landing scenarios

Weather

• Fixed big temperature spikes at high altitudes

SDK

• Added new airspace to nearest facility JS API
• Fixed crashes on WASM modules for older CPUs

The team hasn’t provided any further news on addressing the remaining bugs, nor have they indicated the steps they will take to prevent it from occurring again in future updates.

Check out the full changelog at the release notes post on the Microsoft Flight Simulator website.

Big thanks to Gold787FlightSim for tipping us off on this update in the Threshold Discord Server.