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Link to my previous post is attached.

After speaking with Genesis Customer Care a few times, they called me yesterday to inform me that a brand new navigation update was just released this week. I downloaded it from the website onto a USB stick and installed it this evening. Voila! Everything is working as designed now.

Apparently, the latest navigation update turns it into a live-updating map à la Apple Maps and Google Maps, where the car pulls live road and POI updates from a server each time you start your car, negating the need for the bulk navigation system updates every six months or so. That’s kinda neat. (I still primarily use Apple CarPlay.)

2025 GV80. Car was downloading an over the air update while I was driving to work last night. It was apparently navigation-related. When I parked at work and turned the car off, I got the message saying the update was ready to install, so I began the installation. I exited the car and locked it.

A few hours later, I went into the car to drive to lunch. When I turned it on, I got messages on the car and on my phone that the navigation update was complete. But on the Home Screen, the map wasn’t loading. It said “Preparing map, please wait”.

I gave it a few minutes and nothing happened. Map wouldn’t load. I did a cold reboot of the infotainment system. The problem didn’t resolve itself.

The entire navigation system appears to be bricked now. Can’t access the map. Can’t even access the navigation settings from the settings menu. The dashboard is glitchy since it can’t show map info like it normally does.

Apple CarPlay works…for the most part. But the “second stream” that sends map data to the dashboard apparently glitched out while driving, because the dashboard turned black and was showing only car-related driving data, nothing map-related.

Anybody else having issues with any recent OTA updates?

Early on Monday morning, around 3:25-3:30 AM, a pair of thieves very loudly stole someone’s catalytic converter from a vehicle parked near 137th Street & 31st Road. The police were called by a witness who lives nearby and the police arrived within minutes, but the thieves had already driven off.

The thieves were driving a very shiny blue SUV with their headlights off. Described only as two men, possibly overdressed for the weather.

Watch yourselves out there.

Just under two years ago, I built a new PC just for FS2024. It has a 7800X3D, a 4090, and 64GB of RAM. My “monitor” is just a repurposed Samsung 4K TV at 60hz, not a gaming monitor or anything. I always intended to eventually get a widescreen or ultra wide monitor, but I never did.

When I’m playing FS2024, I use DLSS with DLAA and frame gen turned on. With the exception of occasional hiccups due to bad Nvidia driver updates or Windows oddness, I usually get about 60 fps with all graphics maxed out completely in 4K. I’m usually pretty happy.

That being said, I feel like I’m really close to simming perfection. And I don’t want to lower any of the graphics settings. Since most ultra widescreen gaming monitors are 1440p, I figured getting a new monitor and “downgrading” myself from 4K to 1440p would take enough stress off my existing system to get me that perfectly smooth 60 fps.

My friend came to me with a proposition. He’s looking to upgrade his PC and he wants my 7800X3D. He’s looking to purchase a bundle from MicroCenter that includes a 9850X3D. We would work out a price, and he would give me the 9850X3D while he keeps the other components from the bundle that I don’t need. And he gets my 7800X3D.

Obviously, the 9850X3D is a faster chip, and it might theoretically give me the extra juice I need to maintain smoother frames while still using my 4K monitor.

What would you do in this scenario? Do you think moving up to the 9850X3D would be worth it?

Side note: I do play other games also on PC besides FS2024.