Hello everyone,
We have just updated the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 FAQ page with new information from today’s presentation at FlightSimExpo.
Thanks,
MSFS Team
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Hopefully it will be properly beta tested on all devices, PC, Xbox s/x to make sure it’s not as buggy as 2020, unless 2030 was the notes for 2024…
Do please those with the premium 2020, what are the chances of those people getting a discount on 2024, and free beta testing?
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Will the new version have support for 32:9 and other ultra-wide monitors? My father can’t fly any more and I gave him my 49 inch Samsung before moving to Scotland.
He plans out trips and sends out screenshots every week to the family and really gets a kick out of the program but - what’s the priority on ultrawide?
I am not interested in multi monitor setup support, please do not hijack this question with that and please let us know if you will be supporting the larger standard formats.
Thank you!
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To add the precise tech gibberish they need to support: “will new cylindrical or other alternate 3d reprojections be added that some people prefer on ultrawide monitors due to the fact that a wide FOV inherently creates distortion the farther from the center you go, on any flat 3d projection, at common monitor sizes, which becomes much exacerbated on ultrawides due to their extreme aspect ratio?”
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+1 on this one.
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Will we have to buy new PC’s with more power than we need for 2020?
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Hello @AAviation4811,
We have not yet announced the PC system requirements for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. We have confirmed that it will be available for Xbox Series X|S, so it’s probable that a PC of comparable performance to these consoles will also be able to run MSFS2024, although not necessarily with all the graphical options set to maximum.
We will share the full details about the minimum and recommended PC system requirements at a future date. If you are considering a PC upgrade, I highly recommend waiting until closer to the release day of MSFS2024 before purchasing any new components. By then, the system requirements will be known and benchmark results should be available from popular hardware review outlets.
Thanks,
MSFS Team
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Happy Future for all the hardworking Asobo workers that are inspiring the next generation of innovative piloting, Thanks for all the work, and we hope that a lot will change in the next MSFS 2024
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Thank you for the response. I have dropped a lot of money (for me) in my current system so I hope it will run 2024. I not, I am content with 2020.
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I’m just guessing it will be better since they are brining in new multithread optimized code. Much of the code base is old ported code and not optimized for modern CPUs.
They are still targeting the Xbox as a priority too.
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We know that some code in 2020 scales reasonably well across multiple CPUs (pre-processing of 3d objects in busy photogrammetry areas before they get sent to the GPU) but other bits scale very badly (rendering lots of avionics screens in a complex airliner, running multiple AI planes).
Are the latter what’s specifically seen improvements in 2024? What kind of improvements can we expect? Will people who currently get very large FPS hits in complex airliners at big busy airports see an improvement in that specific circumstance, or will this largely improve frame rates in simple aircraft far from big cities and other AI airliners?
I’m hoping for the best; just want to make sure we ask the right questions. 
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Welcome to the forums Don.
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Sincere thanks for the update!
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100 bucks maximum for 4 years with the new jibs, climate, planes, better terrain data, Ai machine learning… Fortunatly all the addons will be kept in the new versions thank god 
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Will there be an Alpha testing period for Testers for testers like with 2020? I’d like to put my name in the hat for testing.
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What new controls will we have over weather? For example, manually setting different conditions over different locations.
Will we finally be able to use real-world standards to set visibility?
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What about SimConnect and WASM? Will FS 2024 have a better interface to allow hardware to be connected, especially for add-ons and 3rd party aircraft like FBW A32NX? I’m a home cockpit builder, so will I benefit from FS 2024?
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I have a question and I would love to be corrected in my assumptions: I was under the assumption that as the MSFS 2020 base were installed, AI machine learning would improve Bing Maps, making the scenery gradually more realistic. I havent seen any of this happen (?) . I am curious and wonder if MS is going to serioulsly “Level Up” Bing so that streets look natural and dont slide around or are slanted on hills, and all buildings become more 3D accurate and close to Real life. If they did things correctly it could be possible to close the gap towards Google’s level of detail. Oh and trains and railways and running water should be possible too yes ?
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Well technically yes, everything is “possible” but nothing is free. AI is not some almighty magic that can automatically do all this for you. It still would need controlling, configuring, tweaking and so on. All it would help with is minimising manual work but until the directives are there and reliably applicable to everywhere it ain’t going to happen.
Not just talking about trains and and water here. Everything is not really simple to solve at all.
Until it’s taken as a point of focus of development I would not hold your breath on any changes to any of that.
I think… but we don’t actually have any specific information… that in 2024 the AI “engine” has been tasked with improving the appearance of more vertical angled rock faces by applying actual 3D modelled rocks to the surfaces/faces instead of the stretched aerial photo textures we get now. Also the Photogrammetry based trees will be flattened and replaced with actual tree models.
There is something about making ALL countryside areas into some kind of pseudo-photogrammetry so there is some depth and details in the back of beyond but really I’m holding back my excitement for that until I see it.
As for Bing Maps, again my assumption is it’s not really something they can change easily without the SOURCE being improved along with it. Which globally, is a gigantic ask. I don’t think they treat the source imagery for inclusion into the sim in any way other than colour-matching/correction (or trying to) and as far as I know there was never any talk about getting roads or water improved or passed over with machine learning. I don’t know but where did you hear that?
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