Flight Simulator 2024

[Scott]

So it's getting pretty close now and I thought I would start a new thread with some various snips of information that I've been viewing.

From what I can understand, it's still going to require quite heavy duty hardware but that hardware will now garner you an even better experience than ever before. Most notably for me is the VR aspect where, straight from the horses mouth, they mentioned that it looks spectacular.

I'm really looking forward to this, especially with the mention that many of the improvements will be coming to the 2020 version. For 2024 there are many improvements but I think the main steer is going to be towards actual gameplay, which will be fantastic.

 

[SpyderTracks]

So it's getting pretty close now and I thought I would start a new thread with some various snips of information that I've been viewing.

From what I can understand, it's still going to require quite heavy duty hardware but that hardware will now garner you an even better experience than ever before. Most notably for me is the VR aspect where, straight from the horses mouth, they mentioned that it looks spectacular.

I'm really looking forward to this, especially with the mention that many of the improvements will be coming to the 2020 version. For 2024 there are many improvements but I think the main steer is going to be towards actual gameplay, which will be fantastic.

Is this an entirely new game? That's remarkably quick for a FS game! Usually it's like a few millennia.

 

[Left forum]

Is this an entirely new game? That's remarkably quick for a FS game! Usually it's like a few millennia.

looking like a new game

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: The Next Generation of the Legendary Franchise - Microsoft Flight Simulator

Pursue your dream of an aviation career with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. This brand-new simulator is designed to take advantage of the latest technologies in simulation, cloud, machine learning…

www.flightsimulator.com

 

[Scott]

Yeah it's a new game. The decision was made last year I believe. They wanted to make changes from the ground up so guess they had to justify the time with a new title.

It isn't necessarily a successor to FS2020 (well it is, but), it's more an enhanced version with a huge push towards gameplay and missions.

Most of the performance tweaks are likely to carry across so unless you're looking for something specific in FS2024 there's not much point in buying the new one really.

I will though, because I'm an idiot.

 

[Left forum]

Yeah it's a new game. The decision was made last year I believe. They wanted to make changes from the ground up so guess they had to justify the time with a new title.

It isn't necessarily a successor to FS2020 (well it is, but), it's more an enhanced version with a huge push towards gameplay and missions.

Most of the performance tweaks are likely to carry across so unless you're looking for something specific in FS2024 there's not much point in buying the new one really.

I will though, because I'm an idiot.

does look cool though, be interesting to see if the screenshots translate to real life gameplay

 

[Scott]

Getting close now.

Obviously wait until it's out but the multi-thread performance seems to be here at last. It's still going to be a torture test for any PC but at least if you're using some cores it may make the larger CPUs worth a punt. From reading around you absolutely don't need any more than 32GB, the 64GB suggestion came only for multi-tasking/streaming/etc/etc as confirmed by Asobo.

I will definitely be getting the game but will be sticking with my current RAM configuration. This may change as my 2025 upgrade plans are now a 9950X3D along with, likely, a 5080. Won't make much odds to throw in 64GB of RAM along with it, maybe something a bit quicker now too.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Getting close now.

Obviously wait until it's out but the multi-thread performance seems to be here at last. It's still going to be a torture test for any PC but at least if you're using some cores it may make the larger CPUs worth a punt. From reading around you absolutely don't need any more than 32GB, the 64GB suggestion came only for multi-tasking/streaming/etc/etc as confirmed by Asobo.

I will definitely be getting the game but will be sticking with my current RAM configuration. This may change as my 2025 upgrade plans are now a 9950X3D along with, likely, a 5080. Won't make much odds to throw in 64GB of RAM along with it, maybe something a bit quicker now too.

No mention of size of dump in the user profile this time round? I've been recommending anyone asking for an MSFS capable build to get a minimum of a 1Tb OS drive just to be on the safe side.

 

[Scott]

No mention of size of dump in the user profile this time round? I've been recommending anyone asking for an MSFS capable build to get a minimum of a 1Tb OS drive just to be on the safe side.

Not really any need to worry about that in honesty. It just needs configured. The OS drive doesn't matter as long as it's configured correctly. I have a dedicated FS2020 drive and the first time I installed it, the OS drive was HUGE but that was down to the fact that in the settings, the cache was configured to load into the Appdata. Just change that to the same install drive/folder and it's sorted. Same went for the installs of various freebies and world data. It was all auto configured to the AppData, takes 2 seconds to sort..... but you need to know that.

The cache is configurable too. The install looks like around the 9GB mark with everything else cloud based. Good and bad I guess. It's good that it saves a ton on the install & load times, but it's then tethered to the interweb. Not a big deal for most of us I guess but eyebrows are always raised with such an affair.

 

[SpyderTracks]

the cache was configured to load into the Appdata. Just change that to the same install drive/folder and it's sorted.

Ah, I didn't appreciate you could change it, that's ok then.

 

[Scott]

So it's launched today and it's been a disaster.

Some of the live streams are hilarious, playing Minecraft n stuff as the game won't load. Many issues all server related. Not surprising I guess but just shows noone seems to learn, or they don't care about the release issues knowing they will calm down 🤷

 

[SpyderTracks]

So it's launched today and it's been a disaster.

Some of the live streams are hilarious, playing Minecraft n stuff as the game won't load. Many issues all server related. Not surprising I guess but just shows noone seems to learn, or they don't care about the release issues knowing they will calm down 🤷

Damn, that’s a shame although not really surprising as you say.

I want to see these graphics!

 

[SpyderTracks]

Ooooooooo

 

[Paul1964]

Yep - it's a hot mess. I'll give it a year before upgrading from MSFS 2020 - it needs that long to be finished I reckon.

 

[Scott]

GF was going to get me it for Chrimbo, I'm thinking I might change my mind

 

[TonyCarter]

Someone's happy that MSFS 2028 is coming soon!

 

[AccidentalDenz]

There's a slight disconnect between critics:

And customers:

That Steam rating is 40%, so it's only just into Mixed!

 

[Scott]

It was off a cliff when it came out. I think the disconnect is due to the reasons for the negative though. The critics will be critiquing the game base, likely with a mention of stability/queue times etc. The gaming community will review based on their experience regardless of gameplay and content, this has been notably very poor due to the servers being over-loaded and the initial market being buggy.... not to mention certain loads just completely crashing first time.

I think you would need to weed through the reviews to find a negative one solely on the gameplay. Even then, I think they would be a complete outlier as the "game" is an upgrade to MSFS2020 which went through exactly the same nonsense as this one is

 

[Scott]

GF couldn't think of anything to get me for Christmas so I asked for this once it had settled down a little bit. Decided to go for it and installed today.

I don't know what people are looking for. Everyone is going to view this sim/game differently based on their individual wants/expectations.

After being a little underwhelmed with some comments of reviewers etc I wasn't expecting a lot of difference. I must say, I'm absolutely blown away with this. The accuracy of the scenery is just mind blowing. I flew over my towns and local areas and everything is absolutely on point. I flew into my own back garden and I'm pretty sure I could make out the chickens. The colour is far better, it's just an all round big step up visually.

I've started off the career mode going through the initial training etc. You can see this is still a little buggy but it didn't intrude too much on my progress. This career mode is no small feat, it looks very in depth. As much as this probably could have been a DLC type addon I can understand why they didn't go down this route.

I was on and playing in 15 minutes, which is a very welcome change from the 200+GB downloads of the 2020 version.

I've not looked at VR, the proof will be in the pudding there so I will need to get some tweaking on the settings etc but at this juncture I'm very impressed.

 

[Scott]

VR doesn't have quite the same wow factor in the colouring and sharpness etc. It is asking a lot of the sim though so hopefully fine tuning the settings will help.

I think it's running smoother, so that's definitely a start, will get some time with it next week to potter about

It's attempting 60FPS though which is wild. I want 30

 

[SpyderTracks]

VR doesn't have quite the same wow factor in the colouring and sharpness etc. It is asking a lot of the sim though so hopefully fine tuning the settings will help.

I think it's running smoother, so that's definitely a start, will get some time with it next week to potter about

It's attempting 60FPS though which is wild. I want 30

Which headset is that in?