No

 

No

 

Keep them both. They get along well. MSFS 2020 for heavies, MSFS 2024 for low and slow, for many years to come (or at least until I can afford an upgrade).

Back then, I kept my FS9 for long hauls with 100% WoAI traffic, and FSX for bush flying. History repeats 😁

Edited December 1, 20241 yr by History

I will keep both installed but wil be using MSFS2020.  Preordering MSFS2024 premium deluxe was a terrible decision, game looks terrible most of the time. Even with Nvidea Filters the colors look cartoonish compared to MSFS (with color temp correction). I have a 300mb connection and is blurry 90% of the time.
Only reason I would be switching to MSFS20204 anytime soon would be Asobo opening Camera API exclusively for the latest sim and if they abandoned the in cloud thing. Or at least give users the option to download the sim and aircrafts like we had in MSFS2020 (like Bluebird simulations suggested). That's if they managed to iron the CTD's and bugs in the next year (2020 took almost 3 to be a ctd free sim). But since they couldn't even get control mapping to port from one sim to another I don't have a lot of faith honestly. I think 2020 in its current state is still the best sim ever released.
 

I will keep 2020 (along with 2024) till the day Microsoft and Asobo realize that not everything needs to be streamed. 
You should have an option to save planes and airports locally, let the user decide what's best for him.
 

No reason to uninstall FS2020 here, always good to have a backup or three 😉

12 minutes ago, teletom said:

I will keep 2020 (along with 2024) till the day Microsoft and Asobo realize that not everything needs to be streamed. 
You should have an option to save planes and airports locally, let the user decide what's best for him

This is apparently coming on the 9th when the marketplace opens. You can download the world updates, the aircraft, purchased scenery, etc., and you can have a pretty large local cache as well. If correct, at that point it will not be that different than 2020, which is also pretty dependent on streaming. That said, I have a 50 Mbs connection on 80211.be and I have found streaming on the whole works quite well. It does take some time for everything to initially load -- but so did it in 2020. But, I am not sure I would want to try this title with less than 50.

2024 uses my computer resources far more effectively than 2020. Work is spread among more of my cores and GPU is well used, up to 100% and then generally at 65% to 85% utilization while flying.  The world looks great to me -- but the varying reports from people make me think there are some factors affecting this. The weather is much, much better and so is the flight and ground model -- looking forward to seeing how third-party's can take advantage of the new developments. The earth is no longer flat, it is rough and challenging for us vfr and back country pilots which is in itself a reason for me to leave 2020 behind.

BUT, the interface is not the nicest in my opinion, too many animators that just take time to make simple transitions. I find I spend too long in the menus. And the version is riddled with small, irritating issues that are frustrating and tend to break immersion for me -- all small but they add up to really undermine the enjoyment of the title. Flickering textures on planes, engines spooling but no indication, tail numbers that default to random numbers based on the country you spawn in and overwrite your input; a half a dozen workers attending to a DA42 at a remote airport (no way to turn them off in the cfg because those files are in the cloud), no access to our marketplace purchases, but then we had access to untested 2020 products that can virtually totally degrade performance (I had it happen) and on and on and on.

These will certainly get ironed out and I am looking forward to a well running 2024; I deleted 2020 and there is no going back for me. But, to be honest, I wish I had indeed just waited a couple of months. I assume this has not gone well for developers either, this is one of the first years I purchased nothing around American Thanksgiving and have no plans to buy anything for the immediate future.

There's no 'Maybe'.

 

On 10/1/2024 at 10:33 AM, MarcG said:

For a few days just to comparea few areas back to back, run a few benchmarks with as close as possible graphical settings, see if the optimisations they've made really make a difference.

Then I'll uninstall and reclaim hard drive space for the thousands of pictures I'm gonna take in the new Sim!

Well this aged badly 😄 won't be deleting MSFS2020 until I see hard evidence of VR fixes....could be installed for a while....

Same, staying with FS20 until VR works well in FS24.

I've uninstalled '24 to prevent myself from going in and getting irritated again.

No reason to. FS24's fun & great!

7 minutes ago, Bartul said:

No reason to. FS24's fun & great!

Just like a Train wreck. 😉

There is simply no comparison to how each of these sims look as default. There's that.  Even with 2024 still have some graphical bugs (like taxiway lights looking huge). Career mode is actually pretty fun despite the bugs and the helicopter are "extra" fun when you the ground you land on...looks really decent.

But I am certainly keeping 2020 for several airliners like the Avro RJ. I have a ton of planes...but as soon as Just Flight, BlackSquare and PMDG bring all all of their planes....then I will merge over. The merging of airports will take some time however.

That also being said...the Fenix works just fine as an airliner

 

19 minutes ago, Sonosusto said:

but as soon as Just Flight, BlackSquare and PMDG bring all all of their planes....then I will merge over.

Some may require a New or Upgrade $$ purchase?