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I also had a weird issue where minimizing the Flight Simulator window during the download/installation procedure bumped GPU usage to 55 % on a GTX 1070 until unminimizing the window again. GPU usage was hovering around 5-10% when the window was not minimized.

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Oh weird. I'll have to check on that. I was at 0-5% GPU usage maximized on an RTX2060 but CPU was just cranked. I tried minimizing it hoping it was just some startup process that caused an initial CPU burst, but when it didn't calm down and was causing everything else to come to a halt that I shut it down for the time being.

That's really interesting, I'm currently installing it.. minimized and my GPU fans immediately spun up with utilization at 100%!

I got that too. Generalized - this is a consistent theme across the game. All sorts of random buggy behavior. Stick a USB input device into the PC while the game is running - it may well crash.

I recognize these kinds of bugs. They come from the developers not having a bottom-up understanding of the platforms they are working on. Instead they are working from the easiest possible code path and then try their best to squash all of the bugs, without really understanding the fundamentals.

I was able to crash the game once by turning on my Steam controller while the game was running. Couldn’t reproduce it though.

Just found my 3-month-old post where I posted a cautious note against the hype:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23133623

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