As it’s all gonna be thin client streaming etc., any reason to think there’d be an advantage in having it on SSD rather than HD?

The A-10 in the press demo had the GAU-8 instead of the Camera/Light or whatever it was in the first 2024 trailer

6 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

I was worried that it would be DX12 only, and that seems to have been confirmed. MSFS 2020 runs amazingly well in DX11 mode on my PC, but I suspect that MSFS 2024 will struggle

That was confirmed the moment the work on DX12 implementation started. They said from the getgo, once work is done, the sim will fully switch to DX12 and DX11 support will cease.

19 minutes ago, jon b said:

The price on the aerosoft site using the google exchange rate was actually £3 (uk)Pounds cheaper than the aviator edition on Xbox.com

Cries in yen

Looks very fine to me. Not interested personally in the missions/career stuff, but the whole environment looks absolutely magic. Looking forward to just exploring low and slow everywhere.

I haven't seen any mention of the state of the AI piloting aspect. I'd really like to have a reliable and functional AI to take over on tubeliner flights. The current option invariably seems to develop a mind of it's own when it starts to get near the destination airport. Sometimes it just flies straight on past the target, sometimes it lands at an adjacent airport, sometimes in a nearby field etc etc. Succesful landings are rare, to put it mildly. And yeah, yeah, I know. But it would be nice to be able to just set a flight going to be recorded for more detailed viewing on playback, without having to hang around for the arrival.

Premium deluxe probably for me. I've got pretty much all of the aviator edition extra aircraft anyway, and MS has confirmed they will just carry over.

St. Barths has proper ground markings now

 

At least one of the new handcrafted airports is KGCN, there's a lot of footage in these previews around it, you can see handcrafted buildings, including the hotels and such outside of the airport. The Grand Canyon Visitor's centre near by is also handcrafted, but that might already been a handcrafted POI in 2020, I don't recall.

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33 minutes ago, scotchegg said:

As it’s all gonna be thin client streaming etc., any reason to think there’d be an advantage in having it on SSD rather than HD?

Well not as much as 2020, but still should be faster - it does have to load something from the local disk, if only the executable. Also, if you load up your community folder.. that will still load from the drive.

Overall it's just a much nicer experience to be on NVME drives these days. And they are pretty cheap now (assuming your motherboard supports it). I moved to all NVME years ago and haven't regretted it. I do have a NAS that I use for bulk storage, but all my machines are only NVME. 

1 hour ago, B777ER said:

You don’t need 64GB of RAM, that’s just absurd

No, but I reckon I'll need at least 16 GB VRAM on the GPU, as I'm already maxxing out 12 GB.
 

1 hour ago, B777ER said:

I am wondering those like myself that have been using the x3d very well in MS2020 will now suffer because of the multi-thread optimization in MS2024? The x3d I don’t think does very well in that environment.

Until benchmarks show otherwise, I'm going to go with greater CPU cache remaining the more valuable factor.

This benchmark graph shows the 7800X3D outperforming the 7900X by about 25% in FPS count over 12 different game titles.
https://www.techspot.com/articles-info/2821/bench/Average-p.webp

Same youtuber as above also flew out of Saba airport, and it also appears to have been given an art pass. Better ground markings and all that.

So I'm thinking they may have done an art pass on a lot if not all of the handcrafted airports that shipped with 2020.

Edited September 19, 20241 yr by Tuskin38

After watching videos all day from different people, I think I can confirm that one of the most annoying things to me in 2020 seems to be fixed in 2024, that being the over excessive shaking, twitching, bumping, what ever you wanna call it when you are flying at fast speeds. It looks butter smooth with none of that from what I've seen!

7 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

So I'm thinking they may have done an art pass on a lot if not all of the handcrafted airports that shipped with 2020.

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Handcrafted versions of LFPG, KATL, KDFW, SBGL, HECA and FACT could do with a 'glow up', seeing as though these hubs never received good payware alternatives.
(I'd argue a few more airports on the original release list need good alternatives now as well).

According to Jörg in an interview with Aaron Rheins, the restriction on visible weapons on marketplace aircraft is currently under review.

Apparently no-one is forced them into that policy (so there goes my age rating theory), it was just something they decided on.

But he has confirmed again that there is absolutely zero plans for usable weapons in MSFS. It's not that kind of sim.

Interestingly, Aaron noticed in the demo build of the Super Hornet, the weapon select knob was interactable and labelled on the tooltip UI, it just did nothing.

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33 minutes ago, Mets737 said:

After watching videos all day from different people, I think I can confirm that one of the most annoying things to me in 2020 seems to be fixed in 2024, that being the over excessive shaking, twitching, bumping, what ever you wanna call it when you are flying at fast speeds. It looks butter smooth with none of that from what I've seen!

Sounds great. This has been my main ick-factor with 2020.

I'll wait for the Steam edition of Premium Delux. Some very welcome aircraft in there, including the A400M, a C-17 and ( I think ) a Grumman Albatross. Looking forward to the career modes, improved flight planning and creating my own avatar/pilot figure. At last I can ditch the baseball hat. Roll on November!

In video above in message by lwt1971 , Seb says at about 4:30 onward that stuff purchased in the marketplace will not be on your hardrive any longer. It will just be there by connections to the cloud. Community folder for 3rd party planes and scenery will have to be on your own computer. Marketplace purchases save a lot of disc space.