State Saving in MSFS 2024
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Posting this at a very top level because I think it applies both to JF products and Black Square.
For the purposes of state saving, does End Flight work the same as Main Menu when exiting? Is one preferable to the other?
I know the saving requires you to exit the sim normally instead of outright closing it immediately, but 2020 did not have an End Flight option that took you back to the world map to start another flight, so Main Menu was a necessary step.
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Hey @jmarkows,
Are you still having issues with state saving in MSFS 2024? I am flying the Just Flight Warrior II and it does not save the state of anything upon ending the flight. I end one flight, start another in the same plane, and it resets everything back to how it was the first time after installation.
Thanks for any details you are able to provide
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I thought it was working the last time I tried it. You have State Saving enabled in the tablet?
This topic was just to see if End Flight makes a difference compared to the Main Menu option, which I never did get an answer for (nor try extensively to see myself).
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@jmarkows Affirmative, State Saving is enabled in the tablet. The state saving button is lighter gray and I hear the "State saving enabled message" after enabling it. I also to the desktop using MSFS, via End Flight and then Main Menu, rather than pressing ALT-F4 or closing MSFS using the X.
I'd think that the API that's used to save the state of items will save it locally immediately, so that even if the flight wasn't ended via End Flight and/or Main Menu, that the states would properly load upon coming into the save aircraft/liver. However, I am not sure how it's implemented.
Thanks for replying.
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@jmarkows Affirmative, State Saving is enabled in the tablet. The state saving button is lighter gray and I hear the "State saving enabled message" after enabling it. I also to the desktop using MSFS, via End Flight and then Main Menu, rather than pressing ALT-F4 or closing MSFS using the X.
I'd think that the API that's used to save the state of items will save it locally immediately, so that even if the flight wasn't ended via End Flight and/or Main Menu, that the states would properly load upon coming into the save aircraft/liver. However, I am not sure how it's implemented.
Thanks for replying.
@dukman821 No, at the very least the game must be ended normally through the main menu in order for state saving to work. The state is not saved until you quit. If you directly exit to the desktop via the Stop button Steam, Alt-F4, or some other means that's not backing out to the main menu gracefully, it won't work.
This is true of every add-on with state saving that I'm aware of.