I think that sums it up for me. I’m happy with 2020 so why change?
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Just take the ATR or the CJ4 and fly between some of the Maldives islands. Then sit on the beach and sip a virtual cocktail. Do this preferably in VR. Then you know why I never ever will return to MSFS 2020, although I miss the PMDG 737 and 777.
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How did-you fly and drink a cocktail? Drone camera suppose? 
and considering Pmdg i supposed they found a quick solution to MSFS2024 push with others developers as Fenix A320 or RJ JustFlight and after that only a cup of coffee in cockpit
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I agree, but I’m not doing that. Call me stubborn but nearly £200 for a new SIM, and I’m still better off with the old screams insanity to me.
I’m not feeding 3 Sims and my ssd’s are getting full with anyway. I’ve got tons of scenery for 2024 already and I do have a blast in 2024 I love it, but I’m also having a blast in xp12 with the 777V2 the A330 neo and that needs space as well, I kinda missed XP anyway so I’ll just wait.
I have a fleet of 737’s/777/330/3XX/747/Concord etc in xp so I’m covered till the A350 comes in for msfs. It’s all good.
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I must admit, after hearing your answer, I feel like I paid to be a glorified beta tester so they could reap the full rewards.
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Have both but use 2020 due to the add ons not working and VR issues
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Same with me - until/unless it is better then 2024 is only for flying with others who are on it (they fixed the gigantic draw distance for nameplates but its only 5nm now and fast group flights are difficult - 10 would be more reasonable).
I can’t use 2024 for scenic flying at least in europe as there are way more trees eveywhere than IRL - 2020 is bad for that but 2024 is massively overdone. Also they never fixed the awful ‘mashed potato’ effect they splatted on - for example -The Rock of Gibraltar last summer and even made it more Disneyland graphics-wise in 2024.
It runs well and loads quickly but until they stop putting trees on ditches, hedges and even grass airfields, and until they fix some aircraft and especially until they fix career mode it is good old 2020 with a few scenery addons for me. Oh and I can’t fly my Just Flight Vulcan on it - even gets flaps nstead of elevons so whoever is Minister for Aircraft Importing doesn’t understand why that can’t fly.
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I’ve been sitting here for 10 minutes waiting for MSFS 2024 to load up… MSFS2020 never took this long because it didn’t rely on having to stream everything and that’s the problem.. MSFS2024 has been architected for everyone to have a fantastic internet connection with zero latency but in reality we live outside the bubble that Microsoft and Asobo has created. They need to snap back to reality and hopefully in 2025 we will see the ability to download parts of the game locally to speed up loading times.
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See, not really. FS2024 takes me about 3 - 3.5 minutes to load up; FS2020 takes between 7 - 15 minutes depending on how many add-ons I’ve enabled for any given session. So simply saying “streaming is the problem” vastly over-simplifies things.
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I run MSFS2020 for pleasure and MSFS2024 for beta testing.
MSFS2024 is far from stable and not free of bugs.
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I’ll remain on 2020 for now. The leap to 2024 is not what we saw coming from P3D to 2020. While I appreciate all of the work they have put into 2024, the baseline when it launched should’ve been everything that 2020 had… meaning, the majority of my add-ons should’ve “just worked”. Sure, I can load in a bunch of my sceneries, but not a single one seems to work perfectly like it did in 2020. The majority of the aircraft I own still are not compatible.
Where they failed this time was not making sure the experience we’re having in 2020 would seamlessly transfer over to 2024 with minimal disruption. Instead I feel like I’m back in the Tech Alpha days of 2020 - at least then it was tolerable because we saw the significant differences and what was to come. Some others have said it well… the jump from 2020 to 2024 was not revolutionary like P3D to 2020, instead it was an evolutionary change.
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I thought it was just me. One CTD occured while i was doing nothing yet. All i did was launch it. 5 minutes later while i was eating a sandwich, the 2024 main screen imploded, gone.
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Same here; only using MSFS 2024 for career mode, which is getting boring and repetitive, and an occasional fenix or helicopter. The ground textures are much more defined in MSFS 2024, but the state of the sim is not good without any good 3rd party airliner. So MSFS 2020 it is.
Sad to say, but by the way Jorg moves and Asobo moves, it’ll be this way until next summer.
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I uninstalled MSFS2020 before the release of 2024, and have no regrets at all. Really strange to read how different experiences of the same software can be.
On my system, MSFS2024 starts a lot quicker than the old sim, although I have to admit that my old community folder was huge. Performance for me is better in the new sim, very fluid.
I mainly fly helicopters and small prop planes. Favorites are the Robinson R66 and Zlin Norden. Just spent an hour flying the R66 over the Tokyo photogrammetry, which looked as awesome in 2024 as in 2020, with the added benefit of modeled helipads, but missing the bespoke Tokyo heliport.
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on Xbox, so with the over sensitive mouse which i can not alter and the Thrustmaster Airbus throttle and stick which i cant alter the ranges on either i happily still on 2020.
i will let you unpaid beta tester try sort out this mess
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I was totally looking forward to having minimal or zero CTDs in FS2024, after having a lot of them in FS2020. However, for the latter, I finally found the main cause: not enough juice to my USB devices. Finally solved that by plugging in my power-hungry Streamdecks directly into my high-powered USB ports, which all but eliminated them.
In any event, will interesting to see what happens with 2024 in terms of CTDs, when I decide to try it out some weeks/months from now.
If it make any difference to you I always sim in VR, rarely on a screen so that may be a factor for me. That said I have since tried again with DLSS and have found the sim has been much more stable. I actually managed to complete a 1.5 hour flight last night although when I landed at Gibraltar it turned into a hideous stutter fest. No idea if that was something to do with the scenery, length of flight or what really.
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I have my mum’s large saucepan with a lid.
I can get corn kernals, and heat up some sugar and condensed milk until liquid.
Then pour on the freshly popped corn. Yum.
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Microsoft’s big mistake wa not moving MSFS2020 onto separate servers with equal capactity.
MSFS20224 should have been launched off a similar size server.
There other big mistake was to launch an unproved product.
I’ve ditched 2020…having a blast with 2024…minimal bugs on my end with free flight.. thinking about delving into career mode. hope that will be bug free as well!
the plane physics in 2024 with ga aircraft are just to good!
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