Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 announced.

I played this at launch on game pass PC , really liked the career mode and got about 20 hours progress in the mode so i decided to buy it on game pass but 2 days later my account got hacked and ive never got it back despite a year of interactions with MS.
The net result is i havent played the sim since but im wondering what the career mode is like now?
 
Su4 installed earlier this evening.
And...wow. What a difference.

Yes, I had to redo my settings, but it was definitely worth the effort.
I fly in VR, so the frame rate is never going above 100fps. The question has always been how to balance detail/visuals against a frame rate that might have big drops.

Previously, it looked fine at altitude, but low down, what a mess. Photogrammetry was worse than having it disabled, buildings looked melted and it still stuttered in cities. That's with a 5080/7800x3d.

Now, I was able to put the buildings to high and enable Photogrammetry. London actually looked like London, whilst maintaining a respectable frame rate, with very few stutters.

Great job by Asobo.
 
I haven't tried this for six to twelve months, always seemed to have issues, went through all the updates so may try this at the weekend. I do miss the flying :)
 
SU4 is what the V1.0 game should've been at release. I've not flown on either 2020 or 2024 for about 6 months (thanks LMU) but after a fresh Windows 11 install and trying out SU4 I can safely say that I'm happily moving over to 2024. Still got to get the settings right and addons but as non-vr user I'm impressed. Will try out my Quest 2 once I can find a good guide to setting it up.
 
Just been for a flight down the coast of Morocco in a P38, nice.

I also noticed the Stranger Things freebie. Not that I care about the tie-in, but it does include a free Huey, which I love flying in DCS.
Took it for a flight over New York. Yep, massively better than it was. However, still far from perfect. The Huey flies like it's on rails. Just massively too "easy", and yes I have all the aids disabled.
The city still suffered from areas that look like they'd been hit by a Hurricane. The carrier USS Kittyhawk (?) is birthed on the west side of Manhattan. That look like it had taken a hit from an exocet.
 
Snagged a month of game pass for a quid last month since I got a decent internet connection installed a few weeks before and wanted to give this a try, have been playing this a reasonable amount since then, gliding mostly. My game pass expired this morning and I fired up 2020 and wow, that's hard to go back to... the performance is far better in 2024 and the addition of separate VR/Normal settings is very nice. Anyway, bought myself a copy already and am about to uninstall my 422GB 2020 I think :D

Oh and more games/sims really need to embrace VR the way Asobo have with the ability to switch between the two so easily, really does make life so much easier!
 
I tried this for the first time in quite a while, had to download about 80GB updates, took so long and failed overnight even on a 1GBbp connection. Uninstalled and fresh install of about 350GB and then crashed, so frustrating but amazing when it does work. What little bit I managed to try the improvement is a lot better than original release. I'm sure one day I reliably able to play it when I want :rolleyes:
 
sgavan said:
I tried this for the first time in quite a while, had to download about 80GB updates, took so long and failed overnight even on a 1GBbp connection. Uninstalled and fresh install of about 350GB and then crashed, so frustrating but amazing when it does work. What little bit I managed to try the improvement is a lot better than original release. I'm sure one day I reliably able to play it when I want :rolleyes:
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FS2024 or 2020?
 
Dano said:
FS2024 or 2020?
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2024, tried repair and all up to date, including drivers but just have so much inconsistencies with this game. I have the windows store version so not sure if it's that causing it. But when it works it's fantastic, especially in vr.
 
Okay, you must have everything set to download locally then, my 2024 install is less than 10GB in size, with a 1GB connection you shouldn't really need to have it all downloaded unless you have limited bandwidth.
 
I did download all to see if that made it more stable. Send the same so blaming the ***p windows store. Avoiding getting anything in there now
 
sgavan said:
I did download all to see if that made it more stable. Send the same so blaming the ***p windows store. Avoiding getting anything in there now
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I bought Forza Horizon 5 on the windows store, never again.

Stable now, but had initial problems just installing it, then problems when it crashed tryng to get it running again, awful bloody platform.
 
Dano said:
Can't say I've had any issues, had both 2020 and 2024 via windows store, not helpful I know, sorry :(
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Same here. I have had both through Windows store and I haven't had a single problem. I have downloaded the aircraft I use as I can't see the point in streaming those all the time but I let all the scenery stream and it seems to work well even though my internet connection isn't the fastest.
 
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