For those of you who are not planning to to keep MSFS 2020 side by side MSFS 2024 (I won’t as in case of internet breakdown, I still have XP12, AEROFLY as a backup…), How are you planning to manage the uninstall and new install of add-ons ?
As far as I am concerned, this is my plan :
1- Uninstall the few add-ons that I current run (Fenix, PMDG, FBW, Beyond ATC, Inibuilds, Orbx, Flytampa etc.)
2- Uninstall MSFS 2020 and delete all related folders including the Community one (I have a backup of the few scenery downloaded on Flightsim.to)
3- Install MSFS 2024 and reinstall the aircraft first (PMDG 777, FENIX A320).
4- based on how the new sim look, I’ll reinstall a few paid scenery and freeware one by one.
Hopefully, with that, I’ll have clean and stable install.
I don‘t plan installing any 3rd party add ons until they receive some kind of update for MSFS24. It looks like there is plenty of new stuff and planes to explore until I need to the planes / sceneries / tools I bought.
I’m on Xbox and have enough drive space so no big deal. Delete one and install other ultimately, then have to manually redownload all the marketplace addons. So it may be a week until all is up & running once servers of the main game are good enough to download. Nov 19th I see crashing.
Don’t forget 2020 Premium Deluxe planes will transfer to 2024 standard.
The easy solution is to leave 2020 alone and let the 2024 installer find it and copy the planes, or whatever it does.
As 2024 takes up 9GB of disk, you probably have enough space to have both installed for a few days. Then see how things go and check on other user’s installations.
I will install MSFS 2024 on a different drive and keep 2020 installed. I won’t transfer anything and run a “plain Jane” 2024 install and see how it runs " out of the box". Then wait for updates on add ons and 3rd party aircraft. I pretty much only run PMDG and mainly the 800.
I got moret than 200 free and paid aircraft installed. And more than 1000 local airports that would never look like the real airports. MSFS default airports and their buildings always looked terribiel in Msfs2020.
Has MS/Asobo provided any feedback with respect to both sims co-existing? I know they can both be installed at the same time as I did that with the technical alpha without issues. I use gamepass and have multiple games installed so MSFS 2024 is just one more to install on my disk.
The community folder is my major area of interest with all of the 3rd party files. If this folder is shared and I can use MSFS Add-Ons Linker to manage it that would be nice!
-Remove all M.2 SSDs from system board
-Reformat each with Acronis in boot mode on another computer.
-Re-install all M.2 SSDs on system board
-Re-install Windows 11 Pro
-Install MSFS2024.
I’m not kidding.
I don’t need the headaches associated with troubleshooting leftover remnants of anything.
Putting in for 1 week of PTO with the boss right now.
I’m just installing it and playing it. Spending some time in the default world before adding anything-even ‘ready’ 2020 add-ons I have hundreds of hours with. Eventually I’ll nuke 2020. I am dumping all freeware as 300+ things that are going to need invariable updates is not worth policing, and many may be rendered useless or irrelevant or never fully updated properly(they are free after all). I’ll look back into it when the other guinea pigs try them. Who knows how that stuff is optimized(or a hindrance) in the updated engine. I’ll go spray some fields in the interim.
Flightsim.to remembers everything you downloaded anyway.
Since 2020 already occupies the bigger part of my M.2 SSD, I will just uninstall it and remove the community folder from my system using shift-delete. That will give me space to install 2024 and assign it a few hundred GB’s for its rolling cache.
I will never look back to 2020 after that and I will try to only install addons that are optimized for 2024 unless I really need them and there is no other option. This is just going to be a hand full of addons like some airports and maybe the PMDG after a while.
The first months will keep me busy without needing any 3rd party addons for sure anyway.
Currently have 2020 on a nearly-full M.2 drive, but also have an SSD with tons of space left. Basically will swap my 2020 assets over to the slower drive and install 2024 on the M.2 which will then have like half the space freed up (current community+official is like 500GB)
have you been burnt super bad on upgrade processes before? Because this seems super-duper over the top. I definitely developed some superstitions after buying a PC with a lemon HDD that failed in intermittent and bizarre ways before giving up the ghost during a vista->win7 upgrade a while back, but I’ve since unlearnt most of that after realizing what it was.
