Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 announced.

I'll be flying via Gamepass but if I was purchasing, it would be the base version.

As imtoooldforthis said, the Microsoft bits usually don't match payware from other developers so I'd rather spend what you save on payware from elsewhere.
 
Trifid said:
I've had a look through them and decided I'm not overly interested in the additional aircraft and they can be bought later anyway, £130 is much more palatable and I am interested in many of the premium deluxe aircraft. Who else has booked the launch week off work? :D

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Just need the charlie rudder pedals to be in stock, I've been waiting for them for a year or so!
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You just remind me to check my roster. Last night shift on the 19th then 4 days off :D
 
I tried again this morning and got in no problem.
It did however take three attempts to load once I'd selected the aircraft and departure field in the Free Flight section.

I'd got the graphics settings set to high with my 5800X and 3060ti running at 4k (yep, I know!) but it seemed fairly smooth.
Regardless the sim crashed to desktop shortly before landing en route from North Weald to Cambridge.
 
freebooter said:
Does anyone have the standard version? If so how much are the upgrades to higher versions? I can see the upgrades to Deluxe, Premium Deluxe and Aviator are in the MSstore but because I don't have the standard edition it isn't showing any prices. I think it should show if anyone has it installed via gamepass as well.

Also, is the aviator addon available on top of standard or do you have to upgrade to PD first? The Aviator edition available as a complete package is PD + the extra planes.

In 2020 upgrading from one version to a higher one was prohibitively expensive.
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I use the Standard Edition through Gamepass and it says Deluxe is £99.99, Premium Deluxe £129.99 and Aviator £199.99.
 
Performance actually seems quite good.

I've just done a flight in a Cessna 400 from Elstree to the Isle of Wight whilst fiddling around with graphics settings, time and weather.
I like to fly at 4k with DLSS set to performance on my 3060ti which just about pulls it off in MSFS2020 with high settings but not so much in 2024. I guess DX12 and Ray Tracing hammer it a bit too much at that res.
Performance was actually great at altitude but became noticeably slower lower down.

My intention was to wait for 2024 to come out and see what hardware it really needed but now there's a part of me thinking a current gen AMD or Nvidia card would be sufficient if my 3060ti is scraping by. Hmm.

I also hated the warm hue that 2020 had which I adjusted with Nvidia Game Filter but 2024 doesn't seem as bad in that sense.
 
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