Yesterday I couldn’t see any multiplayers. Today I can, with the same settings. I think Asobo is changing a lot of these settings day by day or even faster.
What’s strange is I’m getting different levels of detail on the namplates from one aircraft to the next. And it changes minute to minute. Sometimes I’m seeing what looks like a username, aircraft type, distance and altitude. Most of the time I see only a user name if its multiplayer and airline+flight number if its AI.
It seem the maximum range you can see other players is only 5 miles. And you can’t see them on the map in EFB - I have the option Traffic turned ON but no traffic ever shows up in the EFB map. The VFR map function of FS2020 that shows multiplayers is missing in FS2024. This was very useful to follow a group flight. So these two features are very poor in comparison to FS2020.
My settings now:
Global Rendering Quality: Medium. I don’t have to change any defaults.
Live Weather and Time: Doesn’t seem to matter.
Aircraft Traffic Type: Off will still show Multiplayers but will eliminate AI aircraft.
Multiplayer: On
Server: You will only see other players who are also on the same server you have selected.