1 minute ago, ricka47 said:

I will be getting it on day one!

absolutely me too.  

I'm quite happy with 2020 in its current state, however once 2024 is mature enough and all the complaining and whining settles down, it is then that I will get on board.

Edited June 11, 20241 yr by CarlosF

I will almost certainly move to 2024 on day 1 and once the system requirements are a published I will begin the research for a new PC. One of the biggest advancements I appreciate about MSFS is that you do not need the highest end computer to run it, unlike the P3D days when I would need to save up a small fortune for a PC and then spend hours adjusting settings and, wait for it, the affinity mask!   My nearly 5 year old setup -- a 10700 and 3070 -- has been adequate to run the simulator well for my needs, with good visuals and very few performance issues, like stutters.

I also do not expect any revolutionary advancements, it will be a set of incremental improvements to the experience, but ones I will appreciate. 

 

I hope we will be able to import our controller settings to the new game, because that's not something I want to do all over again.

I'm not too worried about the Community folder. I have one of the Best Addons for MSFS in "Addons Linker" with close to 800GB of addons located on another drive. I am sure I will be able to continue in the same manner with MSFS2024.

Edited June 11, 20241 yr by TomCYYZ

1 hour ago, Ixoye said:

I hope we will be able to import our controller settings to the new game, because that's not something I want to do all over again.

I think it's "Cloud" based, shouldn't it be seamless? I have lost my Profiles and all I needed to do while in game, was unplug all my controllers...plug them back in and everything was back to normal.

 

Edited June 11, 20241 yr by TomCYYZ

4 hours ago, Greazer said:

Guys there is 6 months to go.  Walk outside and smell the roses. 

Exactly!

Your post should be pinned!

April-June 2025 for me, unless miracle happens and all my add-ones from MSFS2020 will be available immediately with MSFS2024.

 

this 4TB NVMe was recommended Toms Hardware. I paid $190 back in September. CamelCamelCamel.com allows setting up a "price watch" on anything sold on Amazon. They email you the minute the price hits your specified "target". I think a higher spec memory won't help performance in Direct X games hardly worth mentioning, and this has worked perfect.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B25P44CL/

Camel price chart:

 

 

 

5 hours ago, cianpars said:

All I plan to do is zip up all my addons and move them as backups to another drive as MS will not allow me to move anything in or out of my community folder in any other way.  My 2 TB drive with MSFS2020 will then be wiped to use it to install MSFS2024 onto and I will then move all my addons back and unzip them as required.  No doubt all of my controllers will need to be set up again and recalibrated for the new sim.

Many of us have had all of our addons on a different drive for years, which with Addon Linker works beautifully. I see no reason not to do it this way, as it solves all kinds of problems that may appear when you store hundreds of addons in Community on the same drive with MSFS.

Edited June 11, 20241 yr by cobalt

Plan ?/ Buy another 4tb ssd, download 2024 on launch, and fly!  2020 still kept on another ssd for the first few months.

I'll worry about it when it happens.

My FS2020 installation is only occupying 976MB of the 2TB SSD dedicated to MSFS.

MSFS 2020 is located in an "MSFS" top level folder, so I'm just going to install MSFS 2024 in a new top level "MSFS2024" folder. It's supposedly got a smaller local footprint, so I'm thinking that this will work fine.

At a later date, and once I have fully switched over to MSFS 2024, I will uninstall MSFS 2020.

I haven't had time to keep up with all the details. Have we learned whether it will run on Windows 10 yet? I'd rather not have to do a VR headset upgrade at the same time as the sim upgrade.

I was going to upgrade my computer in anticipation, but after thinking about it, probably best just to wait. 

Hard to predict the price of components, but assuming tariffs don't become an issue, the RTX 4090 should continue to drop in price (I'm running a 2080 Ti Founders Edition).  And of course the 5080/5090 will probably hit end of year or earlier.

One thing I did do however is get  a larger M.2 drive - 4 TB to replace my 1 TB drive.  I was pretty shocked that 1 TB wasn't enough for MSFS and some other games (I have a lot of mods - freeware and payware), but I ran out of space.  4 TB will be hard to fill and very easy to move that drive to a new computer.

 

Edited June 11, 20241 yr by WolverineHusky