I bought several add-ons for 2020. When 2024 was announced there was a promise of compatibility. That promise has been broken
Just flight ATR, PDMG 737 and 777 are still not compatible. None of my scenery or other smaller add-ons work either.
I’ve gotten promises and that’s all.
The only game in town is the Fenix a320 at more that 80€!. Funny that’s it both expensive and the only study model fully compatible.. One year later. This situation is very bad and my question is… is Asobe the issue or are the vendors getting lazy and greedy?
Our 777 is released for FS2024 (not a port, but a true FS2024 product), and that one is free for all existing FS2020 customers. So you are incorrect to state it is compatible.
We do not really care a lot about backwards compatibility. When the platform offers new options and has new demands, the products from the old platform lose relevance very fast. That’s why we do not ‘port’ our 737, but do the same and restructure it for the new platform. Only that way do you end up with efficient code.
And yeah, promises… Most people knew it would be very hard to keep. Remember when FS2020 was promised to have FSX compatibility? In the end, there was zero compatibility. Nobody cared as those products would be 8 years old.
You have to enable it in 2024 even though it says not verified compatible. Then copy the folder “pmdg-aircraft-736-liveries” from 2020 and put it in your 2024 community folder. Start a flight on the runway. The first time it won’t work. Reset the flight. Next time it takes a minute but everything starts up. Set up a panel state on the FMC to start with runway. You might try other states but not cold and dark. The map on the efb flickers but pretty much everything will work. It’s not perfect but it works and has only crashed on me a few times. If you’re on Xbox I have no clue.
Edit: Change 736 to 738 or whatever you’re flying. If you want to know how to get the liveries to show up in one place I’ve figured that out too so let me know.
There are other ways to do it do. Just doing a Google search will give you an AI overview of all the steps though I haven’t tried them all. So it’s common knowledge out there. Knowing PMDG, they will more than likely have some kind of update to break it.
Oh, and I have the marketplace version. If you bought it from their store the process might be different.
The exact words from the devs, if I recall correctly, were “the vast majority of Marketplace addons will work.” So you citing three products that don’t work is hardly indicative of broken promises, especially as the PMDG aircraft are known to be some of the most complex coded addons available. The more complex the addon, the lower the probability that it will work out of the box. And as Mathijs has said, there are reasons why not every developer will want to make compatible products. Microsoft can’t make promises on behalf of third party devs.
What I find very strange is that the Carenado Cessna 182Q is marked as “Permanently Incompatible” in the library, yet it seems to be working fine so far?
But this seems to be the only version I have. Are you saying it’s supposed to automatically put a 2024 version into my library if I bought the 2020 version a couple of months before I even had 2024 installed?
I’m pretty sure that if I disable the 2020 version, I don’t have any version in my hanger.
