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

[lavandlerh]

When using FSXPlay range and when saving it to FSXLive all shots look like they are straight no curvature at all.
Distance and spin ok but no offset results are uploaded

[ForesightMattyG]

This has been resolved through this release - FSX PLAY v1.6.1.6: https://www.foresightsports.com/supp...tware/fsx-play

Released earlier today.

[chollier986]

When using FSXPlay range and when saving it to FSXLive all shots look like they are straight no curvature at all.
Distance and spin ok but no offset results are uploaded

Same for me. Mine doesn’t show any vertical or horizontal dispersion or impact location.

[ForesightMattyG]

This has been resolved through this update - FSX PLAY v1.6.1.6: https://www.foresightsports.com/supp...tware/fsx-play

Released earlier today.

[bryice]

ForesightMattyG
I’ve used my GC2 over Bluetooth with FSX2020 for years now with no issues. Since upgrading to FSX Play, I need to use a USB cable. In a half dark sim room, having a USB cable trailing along the floor has proved to be dangerous!
Is there any chance of getting the Bluetooth connectivity from FSX2020 moved over to FSX Play?

One of my favourite features in FSX2020 was ‘Within 6ft’.
I found playing that for half an hour here and there really helped dial in my chipping on the course. I felt I knew how hard to swing for 22 yards, 26 yards etc…
I would use a rangefinder to check the distance to the pin, and then chip within 6 feet most times… cutting down on putts.
Is this ever going to be ported over from FSX2020 to FSX Play?

Thank you!

+1 for the within 6ft added to Play.

that being said, there is so much wrong with Play I can't imagine when they would eb able to focus on it.

[StanMI]

Anyone dowload the new version yet ?? ( see post from Foresight above)

[Neepster]

yes... nothing strikingly different but tbf i haven't tested the areas they list - e.g. league play etc. The only thing i've noticed is the 'Closest to the pin' competitions, which i play regularly, have gone backwards somewhat. No longer an option to play again (button not there) and the pin location keeps switching. Plus the green have turned to concrete on those challenges. Weird.

[jasonreg]

Things I have seen so far on latest update (1.6.1.6)

• Mulligan tile appears to have vanished again (I don't use it of course but one of my buds noticed it )
• Noticed that the average shot parameters in Practice mode in the table are not re-averaged when you remove a bad shot from the table
• A course I do not own (Hidden Valley) shows as avail for download on my courses page, but I cannot download it
• Several courses updated from courses page where updates (or in two cases not even the course) were not listed as avail on the FSX Play Software web page
• I do find things load faster however which is positive.

And a question - I generally like the putt to a 6 foot gimmie but was auto-putt enabled before in Play - and if so, has it gone away? I can't seen to find it.

[chollier986]

Things I have seen so far on latest update (1.6.1.6)

• Mulligan tile appears to have vanished again (I don't use it of course but one of my buds noticed it )
• Noticed that the average shot parameters in Practice mode in the table are not re-averaged when you remove a bad shot from the table
• A course I do not own (Hidden Valley) shows as avail for download on my courses page, but I cannot download it
• Several courses updated from courses page where updates (or in two cases not even the course) were not listed as avail on the FSX Play Software web page
• I do find things load faster however which is positive.

And a question - I generally like the putt to a 6 foot gimmie but was auto-putt enabled before in Play - and if so, has it gone away? I can't seen to find it.

New update defaults to no mulligans. Need to change it in settings-rules prior to the round. Same for gimmies

[tkvaughn999]

I’ve noticed it saves my settings from previous rounds like back nine, green speed and other settings except elevation. Seems that’s geared towards Quad owners.

[jasonreg]

True. It seemed to reset my options when I added the latest update. Maybe that makes sense - not sure.

[Dwil3000]

I installed the update yesterday and played a couple games, here is what I have noticed...
- No discernable improvement in load time, still took about the same to open the program (maybe longer, but it also "installed courses" for a couple minutes)
- Leaving a game and going back to the menu takes 2 minutes (I timed it because it seemed ridiculously long)
- I played Sentryworld which I don't think I have tried on Play yet. Clicking anywhere on the mini map automatically threw the shot line about 100+ yards left. Had to use the arrows to point it back to the hole I was playing. This happened for every shot. The mini map didn't zoom after a shot, so when you are hitting a shot to the green it still has the mini map starting from the tee box, resulting in the player having no idea where the pin is on the green. I gave up on that course after a couple holes.
- I played Merion which seemed to work fine, no crashes (what a success).

Overall I will continue avoiding FSXPlay.

[jasonreg]

New update defaults to no mulligans. Need to change it in settings-rules prior to the round. Same for gimmies

Thx for that. I was able to adjust the mulligans in the advanced menu but can only adjust the range for the gimmie putt. There does not seem to be an "Auto-Putt" option like there was in FSX2020 unless I am still missing it.

[siebo]

The load time was about the same as before. Quail Hollow has some minor fluttering. Merion played well until the 17th hole when it crashed. The good news, when I booted back up to resumed play, there was no lie penalty. Previously when you resumed play there was a lie penalty. Longleaf still is unplayable for me. I'm not sure what is going on with Hidden Shoals. Honestly, I didn't see much of improvement in the new update.

[jasonreg]

Playing Pebble Beach this afternoon:

• 6th hole, the mini-map defaults to an aim point 975 yards away. You can reset it but the next shot it is back showing a really long aim point beyond the green. I have seen this before, cannot recall if it was Pebble or another course
• 18th hole. 3rd shot, did not follow ball flight but swung camera to impact position (actually showed a divot which I thought was cool aside from not seeing where my ball went). Was able to play however from new position but on 4th shot the camera swung back to the same divot back at the 3rd shot impact point (was kinda disorientating actually). Weird.

[Neepster]

We experienced the same 975yd marker on the 6th... didn't get all the way to 18th, so not sure on that one!

[ForesightMattyG]

Hello jasonreg & Neepster - In light of your report please submit a support ticket for us to further troubleshoot with you: www.foresightsports.com/contact-support

[Neepster]

OK sure have done so ForesightMattyG

[jasonreg]

I was able to adjust the mulligans in the advanced menu but can only adjust the range for the gimmie putt. There does not seem to be an "Auto-Putt" option like there was in FSX2020 unless I am still missing it.

And disregard, it was on the advanced menu today, not sure if I missed it or there was a quirk - we will go with this was just my blindness .....

[Dwil3000]

I tested out Lora Bay after its FSXPlay release and I'm using the updated version of Play (v1.6.2.0 released March 31st). Load time for the program has not changed for me, still took several minutes to get in to the program and a minute or so to get to the courses. Lora bay was working fine until it had a weird issue where the ball would land and the camera would do a fast pan across the screen as if it hit a rock or something. This happened in the fairway and on the green. It also had an aim/mini map issue where it pointed the player in the wrong direction so you had to use the arrow key to point yourself to the green and then of course you had no idea how far you were to the pin. This happened a couple times until the program just froze and we had to quit. Not seeing much improvement in performance.

[siebo]

Just when I thought FSX Play was starting to be ok, yesterday happened. I was playing Harbour Town with a couple of friends. When I clicked on the green short cut that shows the balls dropping on the green, the program froze. Click it again and the program crashed. Happened twice. Finally I was smart enough not to do it again. I checked most of my other courses and they worked fine. Also, taking a drop after hitting it in the water, the next player was not line up correctly. Finally, when taking a mulligan from a par three, it moved me to a different tee box. I thought most of these bugs were solved. Apparently not.

[InsideLinks]

Hello all,

What is the feeling on 1.6.2.0? Is it stable? I am running fsx2020 in a commercial setting and am thinking about updating 1 of my 4 bays to evaluate and test. However, with some of the posts in this thread, it doesn't appear stable enough to think about having customers even try it out? Thoughts?

[jasonreg]

Hello all,

What is the feeling on 1.6.2.0? Is it stable? I am running fsx2020 in a commercial setting and am thinking about updating 1 of my 4 bays to evaluate and test. However, with some of the posts in this thread, it doesn't appear stable enough to think about having customers even try it out? Thoughts?

It seems to depend (highly) on the course. What seems to work for one course does not for others. I think you would be fine with a well designed course but you may be limited in course selection ultimately. I might start with Pebble - seems to be one of the better ones.