FSX Play - Bug Tracking Thread

[pma99car]

Hi All,,

Please use this thread to track all known bugs and issues. Please try to give as much detail as possible.

First few I’ve noticed:

Paris Range

- Ball flight not reflecting LM numbers. Eg LM says 175 carry. FSX play shows ball landing circa 165, rolling out to 174. Figures on FSX play screen say 175 carry, 174 total (i.e. so ball should be spinning back, but its clearly rolling out 10 yards or so)

- Descent angles in the analysis table are totally wrong on screen. Regularly getting 0 degrees, or 358.5 degrees.


On course

- Number of short chips stopping dead on first bounce, where first bounce is short of green, on fringe or even on the green

[InsideLinks]

Thank you. Do you have any insight to when the next patch will be released? Do they post the development backlog/ release schedule anywhere?

[jasonreg]

Thank you. Do you have any insight to when the next patch will be released? Do they post the development backlog/ release schedule anywhere?

I wish! They seem to average an update every 4-6 weeks or so. Sometimes longer. The last update was just a patch to fix a course showing as avail to download regardless of whether you owned it so I feel we are due pretty soon. Of course, that could just be wishful thinking on my part .......

[InsideLinks]

ForesightMattyG - Just started playing FSX Play this week on latest version. Here is what I noticed so far (some may have already been addressed)
The good - Graphics are excellent, most game play experience is as good as, if not better than FSX 2020. Really like that the target line follows the ball in aligning relative to the launch monitor.

Improvement opportunities -

• the play screen is a little too busy. I like the menu buttons in top right corner.
• The dancing distance/target marker on the range is a little distracting.
• The buttons at the bottom and all the info on the lower right (rough / penalty / ball placement) all work to congest the screen a tad. FSX had a cleaner appearance, except for the top line menu
• I miss the stats summary popup after the round, specifically greens & fairways hit.
• While the rough in fsx 2020 always seemed over-punitive, this seems to have overcorrected to the easier side. My shots almost always go full distance from the rough now.
• Once, it loaded my round in the darkness, even though noon time was selected.
• Load times can still be a little long. Beaver Hills actually hung on loading today (there was a crash process in the task manager under the Play thread), I had to restart the application.
• Is there an ability to obscure the registered user (and purchase/download buttons) associated with the installation, as was the case in FSX 2020? I'm not sure I want my customers to see my user name and the ability to purchase / download courses all the time.
• I can't find a "distance to pin" provided in the data tiles (it only shows on the tee box, but not where the shot ended up).
• Is there a way to deactivate courses? I have 4 bays and only 2 licenses of some premium courses. I need to be able to deactivate a course on one machine to use on another if one is in use?

Bugs (all on the website)-

• Most of the round stats data does not show up on the FSX-Live website. Only # of pars, birdies, eagles, bogeys, doubles, etc. but not putts, drive distance, etc. Everything else shows up as 0 (zero)
• The selected color of tee in the round is incorrect, but the selected tee name is correct. For example I played Kinsale from the tips today, and it reads Tee Name: Black, but Tee Color shows blue.
• The hole by hole score summary always shows the last shot as being the score of the hole + 1. For example, I made bogey on the first hole for a 5. It shows shots 1,2, and 3. My putt, which is stroke number 4, shows as shot 6 (no 5). The gimme putt (3 foot gimme's turned on) does not appear at all in the summary, which would have been stroke 5.

I have a commercial use of the product, and I'm hoping we will see at least 1 or 2 releases before the end of summer. I'm not sure it's ready to have customers pay me to use yet. Any word on this available to communicate to us?

Finally, coming from a software development background - Any chance you guys will consider posting the backlog somewhere on FS Live for the community to upvote and downvote features and bugs, as well as some sort of release planning calendar, so we can know what and when to expect moving forward? As far as prioritizing course upgrades by # of purchased users, that makes great sense, but I suspect it would be much more valuable to provide the users with some input as to the priority of new application features and outstanding bugs.

Thank you for your time, you guys are great when I need to call in.

[ForesightMattyG]

InsideLinks - Thank you for the detailed feedback. We are glad to see you are liking the game play experience and seeing value in comparison to FSX 2020!

Our developers will be reviewing your feedback and will be considering this along with other customer feedback to better improve the software.

[delaloi]

Good thoughts InsideLinks

Just a couple reactions:

• I miss the stats summary popup after the round, specifically greens & fairways hit.

I also liked how it came up automatically, but you can get the information by clicking on the player name on the scorecard.

• While the rough in fsx 2020 always seemed over-punitive, this seems to have overcorrected to the easier side. My shots almost always go full distance from the rough now.

This is the biggest mystery to me of FSX Play. I have a good understanding of how lie penalties work in FSX 2020. I have no idea how they work in FSX Play, or if they work at all. The only one I have largely figured out is greenside bunkers, which reduce carry by about half. (And you can't reliably putt out of rough.) Fairway bunkers, light rough, heavy rough I have no idea what's happening.

[InsideLinks]

Thank you for that info delaloi - I will look for the summary details after my round today!

[InsideLinks]

FYI - There is a new release today

ForesightMattyG - version 1.7, downloaded today. 2 new issues.
1) - range, mini-map no longer displays ball history. always shows first and latest shot markers. No longer shows full session shot marker history.
2) Teton Pines (first course I tried to play). 3 issues:
issue 1: Hole flyover taking longer
issue 2: Can't set aim point on mini map. Clicking does nothing, and target markers in top left corner of mini-map screen
Issue 3: Hole 1 - Using GC3 - Screen and Launch Monitor shows ready to hit. Struck ball. Nothing happens.
Backed out of the round and restarted, isssue persists.....

Loaded the Farms - worked fine. Seems like there is an issue with Teton Pines
Scratch that - The Farms won't pick up putts. Hit drive & approach, both worked no issues. Won't pick up my putts. Verified the launch monitor is picking up the putt stroke.
Same behavior on putting is noticed on Willow Crest, first hole.

Also, at Willow Crest (and maybe farms, didn't notice), the aim line from my approach shot remained on the green when i was over my putt. It did not update to the position of the ball on the green.

[InsideLinks]

ForesightMattyG - played harbour town version 1.4.2.1 today, had a couple of issues:

1) trees continue to be an issue - 3 times, my shot got stuck up in a tree. after a few seconds, ball just appears at base of tree
2) hit two shots in the water - good for me, i got to hit them both. One i was completely submerged and it told me the lie was "Dirt"

Question - is there a way to replay a shot hitting 3 other than a penalty? This is always an option in golf, yet I could not find how to do this in either fsx 2020 or fsx play.

Thank you

[siebo]

I may be wrong but I don't think it is Harbour Town. I have noticed in the new update, version v1.7.0.10, balls getting stuck in tress and/or bouncing 4 or more times off of limbs. I don't believe this happened previously.

[InsideLinks]

ForesightMattyG- found another bug this afternoon. It seems when reporting back to fsx live, it's now dropping a hole. If you play 9 holes, it reports 8. If you play 18 holes, it reports 17. The score from the last hole is also omitted from the scorecard. this is across 5 different courses.

[ForesightMattyG]

InsideLinks - Is this with Harbour Town as well that you have seen this new bug report?

[InsideLinks]

ForesightMattyG i added a picture from performance.foresightsports.com to show the rounds not reporting correct scores/# of holes - all courses it seems

The previous post from 5/30 was all from Harbour Town.

The tree issues are happening with all courses.

[fortysixandtwo]

Is there a way to add the foresight training facility driving range to the long drive contests? I can only choose courses and holes? Thought I saw the txg guys using it for long drive?!

[chollier986]

Is there a way to add the foresight training facility driving range to the long drive contests? I can only choose courses and holes? Thought I saw the txg guys using it for long drive?!

They weren’t using FSX, it was gspro I believe.

[lavandlerh]

When uploading to FSX Live from FSX Play and PRO there is not possible to have custom Metric/Imperial numbers uploaded, you need to choice either way in FSX Live if you want them to be seen in either Metric or Imperial.

[colbyrich]

Hello All,

I have a serious glitch with my GC QUAD while using FSX Play and haven't been able to find anyone with the same issue, so reaching out here for help. When I'm on or around the green (mostly when I'm on the first cut) and try to putt, the ball will go WAY further than is even remotely realistic. Meaning, I'll hit a 10ft putt and it'll travel 100 yards (worm burner style). This is brutal because when this happens (roughly 50% of all fringe putts; 10% of all putts on green) I can use Mulligan's all day but the issue repeats itself. The only way to workaround the issue is to take a wedge out and chip it, which obviously costs me some serious strokes. I've tried changing my backdrop, changing ball color, changing shoe color, etc. and nothing seems to work. I've updated software/firmware as per Foresight recommendations and still no improvement. If anyone has any insight into this I would be extra grateful.

[ENadeau]

I've had this happen maybe 7 times over the last few months but never from on the green, only from fringe or fairway around the green. Your percentages of misreads sounds much higher though, something is definitely off. In all of my cases my GC3 registers the shot correctly leading me to believe it's FSX Play's ball dynamics that are off, something you may want to verify as well. Have yet to find a fix and like you, have had to drop to a wedge and hit a chip shot. Frustrating for sure.

[siebo]

Colbyrich, I have had the same problem. Please report that to Foresight. They want us to use their Roadmap, www.feedback.foresight sports.com. This is what I was told by the tech people, “the more people who are experiencing the same issues the more attention it will get “. I will call them on every issue I have, no matter how small.

[colbyrich]

Thanks both! I have opened a ticket with Foresight's tech team, I'll share results once posted. This glitch has the potential to seriously kill the vibe in a good round, especially in a group setting.

[tdalton52]

Hello everyone, I am new to this Forum. I have just started playing FSX Play. I am having a problem with the mini map in the game. When I load a course to play, the mini map is just white. It does have a flag and shows the yardage but has no course on it. You cant see where to aim. There is no fairway or trees or anything just a white screen. Anyone experience this? Thanks for any help. I have uninstalled and reinstalled also but didnt help.