As I said I’m a new user of msgs 2020 and would to knew how to map a Thrustmaster Sidestick airbus…?
Hey @Sutra2263,
Please head to our User Support Hub > Hardware & Peripherals category to take a look through some threads that may be helpful for you!
Hello Sultra. I’m on Xbox X, MSFS 2020. Using Thrustmaster HOTOS One. Can assist you.Add me if you like.
Rich
G’day everyone,
I’ve been playing Microsoft Flight Simulator since February 2000, where I started off with MSFS98, I then got FS2000,2002,2004 and then FSX until 2021, where my entry level gaming PC of eight years died on me, and then I stopped playing flight sim for a while.
Why did I get into Flight Simulation?, I wanted game where you have to think and that it gives you mental stimulation, plus I love commercial aviation.
In 2025, I decided to get back into Flight Simming again, so in April 2025, I purchased a high end gaming PC (see specs below), and installed both MSFS 2020 & 2024, but I was getting an error message that read: “Your PC does not the minimum requirements, and your sim may have issues”, and it did, as it was unusable, this was crazy because my gaming PC actually exceeded the ideal requirements specified by Microsoft. So after many months, I found a local highly regarded PC tech, and I when I took it him, he worked what my issue was in less than 15 minutes, my HDMI cable was plugged into the wrong HDMI port (as this is my first high end gaming PC I didn’t know that they had multiple HDMI ports), as soon as the PC tech plugged the HDMI cable into the correct port both MSFS 2020 & 2024 fired up quickly and now works perfectly (minus a few minor issues).
The graphics on both MSFS2020 & 2024 are mind blowing, and I get entertained just by looking out the window of an aircraft, and admire the detailed scenery.
My favourite add ons are PDMG Boeing 777-300 & Boeing 737-800, Active Sky and FS Traffic.
MY GAMING PC SPECS:
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8 Core 16 Threads, L3 Cache: 96MB up to 5.2GHz CPU cooled by Corsair NAUTILUS RS 360MM Liquid Cooler - MSI PRO B850 Motherboard - Kingston FURY Beast RGB 64GB (2x 32GB) DDR5 Gaming Memory up to 6000MHz - Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB GDDR6 Video Card - Lexar NM790 2TB Gen4 SSD - 5 Gigabit LAN - WiFi 7 802.11be - Bluetooth 5.4 - HD Audio - USB Type-C - Windows 11 Home 64-Bit - A-RGB Lighting.
Wow, I’m sorry to hear about the tech issue regarding the HDMI ports, but really glad you were able to get the sims to work eventually!
Thanks, so was I, and now I absolutely love my MSFS 2020 & 2024, they absolutely rock, and my gaming PC runs them perfectly.
Hey all,
New to the forums been playing flight games for years but only started trying to learn everything properly and play more seriously on 2020.
Big neofly player since 2021 and really enjoy that. Just picked up 2024 a week or two ago.
PC player running
CPU - Intel 13600k
GPU - Nvidia 4070
RAM - 32g DDR4
Welcome @StenkaMX!
What aircraft have you flown in MSFS 2024 so far? Have you tried some of the other modes like Career Mode, Challenge League, World Photographer, and Red Bull Air Races yet, or have you been sticking with Free Flight for now?
Great to have you on our forums!
MSFS Team
Hello and welcome!
I have the same background more or less, trying to do everything in a ‘proper way’ since MSFS2020 
. Still improving on that..
Are you playing career mode now in MSFS2024?
Welcome…same GPU with a 78003D…great for 2024 with moderate settings…
I have been playing with it just was running into a bunch of weird issues last night which is why I decided to make a forum account finally to see if I am missing anything. One thing likely was a bug just the game not recognizing ifr waypoints after I passed landed wanting me to take off again to go to them. Missions making my cancel my ifr flight plan and making me go visual into an airport with very heavy weather and low visibility. Then despite having most all my certifications and me setting live time and weather it still seems to always start me off in the day time. Dunno if those are quirks bugs etc. Just came here making sure I’m not missing anything. Making me lean back towards neofly because typically you do those in free flight and kind of eliminates that middle man of the campaign mode.
Hello. My name is Kyle. Sorry, no creative nicknames for anyone.
Been flight simming since I was around 10. Only on PC though. Got established in a career (real-life ATC), moved a few times, got rid of all PCs and laptops, as I no longer needed them, etc. Finally got MSFS 2024 for Playstation and am starting to get back into it.
I have about 65 hours toward my PPL but haven’t flown in years. Ran out of time and money and just haven’t been able to finish.
I look forward to interacting with everyone :-).
Hey Kyle, glad to have you join us via the way of PlayStation! Hope you enjoy! Sinec you do ATC in real life, I’m curious if you engage with it at all in the sim or if you prefer to “leave work at work”. 65 hours towards a PPL is awesome!
Excellent question. The in-game ATC is rather inaccurate, especially with phraseology. I’m not opposed to using the in-game feature, I just haven’t taken the time yet to play around with it and have disabled it in free-flight mode until I find my way around the Sim.
I do like to leave work at work, but I also enjoy realism when I am simming, and have used it in the past through Flight Sim X, et al.
Those sound like quirks I guess, though it should be possible to do night missions now.
I haven’t played the career mode for a while now. I was saving money to buy my next plane (C208 Caravan) but got distracted by some nice 3rd party planes in Free flight
Yes that is fair, that’s a big area with a lot of feedback to be improved, so I hope one day it will be accurate enough for even a real ATC to feel confident using. Thanks for the response!
I don’t know who is responsible for updates, but I’ve thought about reaching out to them and help them with this area.
Hello, I have been involved in flight simulation for a long time (starting with the Airbus A320) and quickly moved on to FS95, FS2000, FS2004 and FSX. Now I am excited about FS2020/FS2024 because of its attention to detail in the landscape and aircraft, which have been programmed to be very realistic and are regularly improving. I use the PC version with a simple GTX2060SUPER and an Athlon 5. Nevertheless, FS2024 runs fast enough for me and the image quality is sufficient. Considering that I have already worked in the Airbus A320 large simulator in Hannover (Germany), this is a great replacement.
Welcome aboard. You are not the oldest here. I am 76 and still dangerous in the air.
Next time check the ps5… you switch it on and it works. No windows no trouble with drivers bios ram etc… of course probably you have a top graphics but I can tell you that even on ps5 it’s smooth and beautiful