Did anyone tried to copy PMDG 737 to MSFS2024 community folder?
Any feedback?
Matteo
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I suspect, without any real knowledge, that we need to wait for PMDG to update their Ops Center app to get the planes into MSFS24
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They work (more or less), but you need to also copy the work folder for the PMDG planes into the appropriate location in MSFS24’s folders. Just moving the community-based folder won’t do it.
“Work” but very much not as PMDG intends. Just entering your Simbrief ID into the EFB using an external keyboard crashes the entire sim. And updating the AIRAC data in the EFB resulted in a WASM crash rending the aircraft frozen and unusable.
It’s possible that if you disable the EFB in the FMC and don’t use it at all that the aircraft might work well enough to complete a flight, but I haven’t investigated that. PMDG’s official word is their planes don’t work and they don’t know how long it will take to make them work as intended.
Admittedly, I haven’t actually tried a flight in one of the 73xs in 2024 yet… Maybe I’ll go and remove them now if it’s that bad in practice.
Seem to fly ok , Simbreif working but screens dim and can’t. Be brightened. PMDG 737800
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From PMDG forum : Progress Update for 2024 Product Releases:
With our plans to bring the DC-6, 737 and 777 into MSFS2024, we have been a bit frozen in place up until a week ago, as the tools needed for C++ developers to work with MSFS2024 were defective at the time the simulator was released. Last week we did receive a platform/SDK update that unlocked the tools- but we quickly ran into a problem with the SDK that is related to memory allocation that you may recall we first reported late in the summer when we received the last MSFS2020 SDK update. We have had quite a bit of back-and-forth with Asobo on this topic during the week and we have been advised that a fix has been implemented and that we should get it in a future update to the platform and SDK. We do not have a date for said fix, but given that the next two workweeks are bifurcated by two holidays that are popular in the west, I suspect we will not see the platform updated with our fix until sometime after 06JAN24- and most likely around 14JAN25 if my understanding of the release patterns is approximately accurate.
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Where is the appropriate location in MSFS24’s folders for the work folder?
What makes PMDG so good?
I have the PMDG 737 and I can’t say it’s a well-developed product.
Many things were never properly addressed or after the first release improved.
The update frequency of PMDG is very low.
Engine trust control is still not stable.
Many systems in the aircraft are not implemented or controllable by joystick.
For example autobrake control setting via TCA controller still does not work and the current MSFS2020 version requires a lot of resources.
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Lack of update frequency is because it doesn’t need fixing as PMDG are usually polished products on day one with maybe a minor bug or two.
Sorry but I don’t know how you can even say that you don’t think it is a well developed product. Out of all the developers out there PMDG has for many many years produced top of the range products.
Is your issue because your joystick is not automatically configured for the 737? You can map pretty much anything to any button within MSFS. Why would PMDG make a control profile for joysticks when they are developing the 737 to be as close to the real thing as possible and 737’s use a yoke and not a side stick.
Are you sure you are not getting mixed up with another developer?
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I agree, I have the 737-800 and 777-300 and they’re a very polished product. From day one there really wasn’t anything I couldn’t do in them. Modeling, systems, flight model etc are all top notch. If you think PMDG doesn’t release a solid product the only option for you would be the real thing
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While PMDG puts out a good product they aren’t without issues. I had the 777 and 737 have the issue where they would stall at flaps 30 at vref speed regardless of how much I added to it. Vref +20 and still stalled. PMDG just seems to have a lot of fanboys who can’t admit their products aren’t perfect.
I couldn’t agree with you more. 
Basically, the products are good, but there are plenty of things that are not as polished as some would have you believe. There is also little development in the existing products and support is also marginal.
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I typed out a whole multi paragraph response and deleted it.
All i can say is your assertions are wild…
Hopefully you made a video and submitted a support ticket before you came on here to assert their product is defective like that.
Anyways back to the actual topic.
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Well, I did submit a support ticket and they said this; “We are aware of this issue and working on a solution.” Well it does sounds good but I think they barely have a fix fromSU2 as I see video in reviews. From what I heard after SU1 is they should have a fix. 600 Meg more or less won’t change our VRAM issue for whoever as 12GB video card. They probably have PC system with 32GB to work on!!
I was responding to @UseOfTime2205 PMDG “rather unique” stalling at VREF assertion.. Sorry for the confusion.
On the matter of VRAM .. The only think we can pretty much do is wait for the devs to acknowledge and optimize. Hopefully they also don’t try to pull a fast one by saying the VRAM issue is fixed as best as they can.. tell us we just have to live with it and adjust the recommended specs to cover themselves. I would just stay on MSFS 2020 at that point .. Im not buying another GPU for a couple months .. especially in these uncertain times and i do consider myself to have a decent system to be able to run the sim so we will eventually see how they address this issue.
I’ve been flying PMDG aircraft in MSFS for a month shy of 3 years, every version so far. Never stalled at Vref+5 (or whatever the appropriate gust factor might be) and flaps 30 in any variant of the 737 or 777. But then again, I have a 16GB card, fly to and from complex airports with lots of traffic and don’t run into VRAM issues, so what do I know?
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Look at the PMDG forums, others had this issue. I still have the issue because the only fix deletes all of your bindings.
I lost interest with all of Randazzos whining when others were releasing aircraft just fine. Other than the charge for every update they did, they are just too much for what they were. Remember the $120 dollar aircraft? Sorry. Not giving you my money.
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PMDG is too expensive. Normal price would be maybe 90 bucks for all variations of a type like the Fenix A320 famly which is a better product, has more features and gets more free updates.
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