It's all well and good, but new sim isn't that exciting.

Most titles won't be working day 1, so I can't get excited for it.

I'll attempt a download when it becomes available. Once it's on my PC I'll spend some time exploring and setting things up. No need or urge to remove 2020. If 2024 is as good as I hope I suspect I'll be mainly using that as I test out my current addons as and when it occurs to me (as in - "I wonder if this aircraft/that scenery works and what it looks like").

If some addon doesn't work in 2024 it won't cause me any sleepless nights, I'm sure I'll find lots of other stuff to grab my attention.

Very much looking forward to it!

7 hours ago, turbomax said:

based on what facts? in fact, the opposite is true as about everyone who had a chance to try out MSFS2024 Alpha has confirmed it ran smoother than MSFS2020 (including myself) due to code optimisation in MSFS2024. (more multi threaded, more code offloaded to GPU for massive parallel computing of CFD etc. (GPU computing)):

unprecedented 98% GPU load even on my RTX 4090

I actually got a new system for 2024... because all the things you mention only help if you have the CPU cores, RAM capacity, and GPU power to make use of it.   In my case, a 4 core CPU, 16 GB of RAM, and a 1070 GPU were in no position to handle what 2024 was going to throw at it..

2 hours ago, John_Tavendale said:

It's all well and good, but new sim isn't that exciting.

Most titles won't be working day 1, so I can't get excited for it.

There's a ton of new good things in the sim itself to try in the meantime.

Edited November 13, 20241 yr by Tuskin38

One thing about FS2024 if the Alpha build in any indication is a really quick install.  I never timed it but between starting the install to first flight was about 20 minutes.  Not all night like FS2020 typically is!

Hopefully installing FS2024 does not bomb FS2020 like the Alpha build did for some.  It sure messed mine up and ultimately had to reinstall FS2020.  I don't think it will repeat since it was likely some sort of licensing logic bomb with the Alpha build that messed up FS2020!

In theory, FS4024 has such a small footprint you will never really need to bother uninstalling FS2020 unless storage already maxed out.  I suppose the issue will be maintaining 2 community folders.  Those can get rather large if you have a lot if payware and other files installed!

53 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

There's a ton of new good things in the sim itself to try in the meantime.

I know this, however none of those things interest me to be honest.

I've owned every version of flight simulator since Flight Simulator 3.0 in 1988. So why stop now? I pre-ordered the PD version a week ago. 

8 hours ago, St Mawgan said:

My 2020 has been dead for 10 days now and I'm over it but I'm looking forward to next week if more than slightly concerned that just as I can't install MSFS2020 anymore, I may not be able to install 2024 either. 

I would fix MSFS 2020. In reality, 2024 will be not that great for the first 6-12 month

What's the advantage of Preording it? I'll just buy it when it becomes available.

5 minutes ago, mikegrr said:

What's the advantage of Preording it? I'll just buy it when it becomes available.

Don't have to take the extra 2-3 minutes to order it when it releases, you can just hit the install button immediately.

Ouch...2-3 minutes!

I've already pre-ordered so I'll be in the new sim Day 2.  It would be day 1 except I'll be travelling for work on release day unfortunately! 🙃

I'm most looking forward to checking out my home city to see how it looks in the new sim and flying the new C-17 and A400.

Since I waited to buy MSFS 2020 until 2 Years after release, I'm in no hurry to buy MS2024. Not to sound pessimistic, but I'm sure there will be lots of bugs and things that doesn't work properly, it's been that way with previous versions, so why should MS2024 be any different. So let's see after a year or so if they have managed to work out the different bugs, and until then MSFS 2020 will do just fine for me.

 

Is there anyone out there planning to put up their Xmas tree on Monday night or am I the only one !

I'm sure there'll be an initial period where I'm waiting for add-ons to be migrated to 2024, but I still plan to jump in on release day and explore all of the new stuff while I wait for the third party scene to get up to speed.