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

[tkvaughn999]

This thing has to wind up with a skins mode.

Yes! And why not all the golf game? If replicating actual playing it need to have the common games everyone plays including points games like “greenie, birdie, low individual and low total”. Let’s make this thing realistic!

[Subparwelder]

Man if they’d do greenies and skins…

[pma99car]

Tested a few holes on the new update yesterday. Noticed a couple of things:

1. On almost every hole, the camera would pan to the right, then back to the target line before a shot, on its own with no input from the keyboard.

2. Hitting a short flop shots (5 - 15 yards) whilst the ball is on the green would cause the ball to spin back ridiculous distances.

[tkvaughn999]

Not sure this is a "bug" but I find the ball interaction with trees to be very harsh. I wonder if there could be some way to program in variability when hitting the leaves of a tree. We all know in real life sometime the ball goes thru cleanly and some times not. Maybe they could workout something like the "flier shot" possibility that exists in FSX 2020? I mean man you can have a ball that looks like its gunna miss the leaves just get destroyed regarding distance. A bit harsh I think.

[p3eps]

Noticed yesterday, if I use the cursors to sim, the mini-map shows 4 distances on it. 2 of them are right (distance to the sim point, then distance to that to the flag… and the other 2 are hundreds of yards longer than the hole is!

Preview flyover distances are still all wrong.
Auto putt just adds +1 even if you’re 50ft away (as long as you’re on the green).
GC2 still doesn’t work with Bluetooth (which is really annoying as I can’t see the GC2 screen when it’s plugged in and the USB cable is a trip hazard in the darkened room).
GC2 on screen (find the ball) shows the ball in a different position from it actually is.
GC2 on screen icon when finding the ball disappears into the terrain if you’re on a hill. Fine on flat though.
Can’t ‘drop’ the ball in practice to a location (despite the screen saying you can!).
Club selection seems a bit random. I told it I hit an 8 iron 140 yards. If the shot is 139, it’ll offer me a 9 despite me telling it that goes 125!
Tiles revert to stock setting as soon as you come out of the ‘mode’ you’re playing.
Yardage on the aim marker continually bobbing up and down is pretty annoying.
None of the original paid courses have been converted yet… so despite my FSX2020 library having about 35-40 courses in it, I can only play the free ones just now.
The data is sends to My Performance is incomplete - missing the 18th hole. My score indicates I was +2, but the actual score says +5… which is wrong! It says E for the front 9 and +2 for the back - but still adds it to +5.
Clubhead speed shows utter nonsense if your don’t have dots on your clubs - rather than a dash or N/A or something.

Positives… the graphics are a massive improvement, and despite just having a GTX1070, it still runs smoothly.
Being able to see the yardages when selecting which tees you choose is a great help for an average hitter as I don’t want to be playing 7000 yards!!

Come on Foresight… it’s now 5 weeks this has been out, and the update you issued didn’t seem to fix anything. Perhaps it’ll be better by NEXT winter??!

[tkvaughn999]

Come on Foresight. The math isn’t that hard. Two bogeys and one birdie is +1 not +2. How can it be so difficult?

[tkvaughn999]

In the end it was correct on the scorecard just not the upper left banner during play.

[Tom Howarth]

I think if you enter a handicap in your profile it shows (plus/minus) based on your handicap.

[Subparwelder]

Not sure this is a "bug" but I find the ball interaction with trees to be very harsh. I wonder if there could be some way to program in variability when hitting the leaves of a tree. We all know in real life sometime the ball goes thru cleanly and some times not. Maybe they could workout something like the "flier shot" possibility that exists in FSX 2020? I mean man you can have a ball that looks like its gunna miss the leaves just get destroyed regarding distance. A bit harsh I think.

Agreed…if my ball gets closer to a shadow of a leaf, it’s as though I squared up the middle of the trunk.

The room configuration tool has to be re-entered every time I play. Not a huge deal because I’m used to it now.

Seems like it’d be easy to add a skins and greenies mode to the lineup. That would make the winter weekend foursomes so much better.

Anyone reporting all this to foresight or we depending on them to check this thread?

[Fauskie]

It does not appear that there are any lie penalties when in the rough. It always says “flier chance” and I’ve yet to see a shot result in a flier like in 2020 (and I’m in the rough often).
sand shots do appear to be sapped/affected with a lie penalty but I don’t adjust for any less distance when hitting from rough, which is obviously unrealistic.
and we do mark the slider to make sure lie penalties are activated before each round.
last round there were a lot of instances where the unit would suddenly search for the ball at address and during backswing. It would make the screen shift/glitch badly enough that you could notice it on your backswing and mess up your shot enough. That was the only time I’ve noticed it doing that from the 12+ rounds we’ve played on Play.

[Fauskie]

Room config stopped working in Play again. Rolled back firmware, updated it again. Nothing works, weird because we played about 6-7 rounds with it holding the offset perfectly but now it doesn’t.

Works fine for 2020 so we are probably sticking with 2020 til they fix bugs.

[fortysixandtwo]

Anyone with a gc2 have these same issues?

Gc2/hmt not working with Bluetooth?
on screen ball outside of grey camera box
not recognizing hmt but data showing in tiles?

[benzopyrene]

Well I just installed the program (easy), downloaded courses and installed them (easy but not as intuitive as I would have hoped for). Tried to play, and it wont register any shots at all. GCquad is connected, numbers reading fine on there, but no ball found or anything in FSXplay, so not sure whats going on . gonna play with it for a little, but if it doenst get sorted soon gonna ask foresight for my money back, and/or cancel it on the cc. Any help would be appreciated as well.

[siebo]

I brought FSX Play after I purchased a new computer. I was having problems as well but I just called technical support and they were very helpful in getting me up and running. The only problem, they are busy and it takes a while to get through. Call them and see if they can help you

[MongoOnlyPawn]

Here's something to check. There is a Room Config Tool in the FSX 2020 folder, and the FSX Play folder, and FSX Pro if you have that. In order for the changes to be reflected in FSX Play, you need to be using the Room Config Tool in the FSX Play Folder, not one of the other ones. I had made a shortcut for the tool on my desktop when I installed FSX 2020, had been using that but nothing was working. Had read somewhere about that and went digging. You could try reinstalling FSX Play, which prompts at the end to complete the Room Configuration, one would hope that it was prompting with the FSX Play Version. Also could try the weird troubleshooting procedure described here: https://help.foresightsports.com/hc/...THkvl9_hiWaCKs

[tkvaughn999]

Still disappointed with the rate of updates for FSX Play. Since it seems like a monthly deal what are we expecting to see in couple days if a release happens? For me: fix elevation reset, fix game options (scramble etc,), fix ability to adjust conditions, fix lie penalty so it works, fix displayed yardages (its still wrong) and many more UGH

[MongoOnlyPawn]

What issues were you having with the elevation & yardages? I don't think I'm seeing any issues there.

[tkvaughn999]

Needing to reset your elevation/altitude before every round. I know courses exist at different altitudes but I want my yardages from my home location not sea level. In FSX 2020 you could set that but maybe its different for those with GC Quad, I use GC2/HMT. Yardage display is still wrong on the fly over banner as well as commonly displayed wrong on the mini map around the green mostly.