Im flying right now and so far im not impressed with the graphics. In fact the terrain looks worse, a lot more blurry. The thing that looks better to me is the atmosphere.

But those control assignments... my god what a pain!

I use an xbox controller just for the views and it has been a painful experience so far.

All in all, for those still in 2020 you re not missing much at the moment

This is how MS is trying to fix the overloaded server issue. By not allowing anybody else in until enough other people leave

12 minutes ago, cobalt said:

Overall, this is far from MSFS’s finest moment. 

Anyone who expected anything more after ONE HOUR of "flying" and less they 24h after initial launch was already living in fantasy land.

4 minutes ago, xender said:

In fact the terrain looks worse, a lot more blurry.

This is a function of server overload and I say that because I've seen similar in 2020 during times when server demand was high.  This is why we wait for weeks if not longer before we even install 2024.

23 minutes ago, Andy Johnston said:

You d**N dirty apes...I don't see how that applies...

Wrong quote! 

"**** it all you blew it all to ****" was more what I was thinking of.. 

1 hour ago, Sethos said:

He is actually correct. The community folder seems to be located in AppData / Roaming, regardless of where it's installed, same for the Steam version. So seems Microsoft's idea was to install all of the sim's additional content and addons on people's 😄 drive? 

Is it a junction link though? MSFS2020 did the same thing where you can access the community folder from both AppData and it's physical location

Apparently, in these days, to expect something to work as intended is asking too much. I can't recall any single flawless launch in the last 10 years. Sorry, had to vent

Back to the waiting game in the meantime 😪

Edited November 19, 20241 yr by Luis Hernandez

just had an email from 2024 datacenter:

 

Edited November 19, 20241 yr by Marc22

12 minutes ago, Noel said:

Anyone who expected anything more after ONE HOUR of "flying" and less they 24h after initial launch was already living in fantasy land.

I agree, but the line you quoted ("this is far from Microsoft's finest moment") was incorrectly attributed to me.

Edited November 19, 20241 yr by cobalt

Oh dear. Normally I try to at least skim read every post in a thread before responding, but in this case... 😶

I've no intention of sounding smug when I say this, but I'm glad I'm not ready to be installing 2024 for some time yet. Fingers crossed everyone gets up and running soon. And I think the advice not to complicate their initial experiences in the sim by porting 2020 add-ons too soon is all the more pertinent.

35 minutes ago, Simon_C said:

The problem I see is Overwhelmingly Negative review from already 1200 people on Steam.

Seriously? After a day or two the reviews will certainly swing the other direction.

There is currently mass hysteria because people can't play a game NOW.

I would like to play it now, it just isn't possible so I will just wait and try tomorrow, no big deal!

I've read elsewhere that users are really concerned now about their PCs, particularly their GPUs running like billy-o with the loading screen animation for hours...

Almost glad I’m too busy at work to even try it for at least another 12 hours…😅

This is why I'm waiting for a week. Why is anyone criticising MSFS for creaking under the extreme demand for this release? No one can afford or provides expensive cloud bandwidth for the 90% percentile bandwidth event. 

 

On a more frustrating note, my all-in-one liquid cooler pump decided to fail this week and with idle temps in the mid 90's I'm off to replace. 

Edited November 19, 20241 yr by Max Kraus

3 minutes ago, BMIBaby said:

I've read elsewhere that users are really concerned now about their PCs, particularly their GPUs running like billy-o with the loading screen animation for hours...

There's a simple fix for that! Turn them off and come back another day.