2 hours ago, RandallR said:

i pre-ordered, but figured it wouldn't be a good idea to download on release day (or even for a few days thereafter).  I plan to keep my eye on everything and wait until the initial release woes have dissipated - then I'll install it.

In the meantime, I greatly enjoyed my daily flight with FS2020 and all is going well.  I will also keep 2020 installed until I'm satisfied with 2024 and have my favorite add-ons and aircraft running well.

This is exactly what i am doing. I will wait until Christmas 2024. (2 weeks off)

msfs 2024 is now booting up fine for me. But it takes over 3 minutes each time. (msfs 2020 took over 5 minutes). Earlier in the day, it took over an hour, way over sometimes. Now is fine.

This morning I started the installer again, saw there was no longer a "queue" message, and it showed 6% something... Went to the kitchen and when I returned in less than 5 min it was installed.

Most of it had been pushed yesterday when it showed "97% bla bla bla.." so I assume it used that data and just completed the install downloading and unpacking a few more Gigas...

Haven't had the time to start the "Settings" yet but I will try latter tonight...

To the OP, @spilok, I just want to recommend to not give up and judge the sim just for the initial "contact"... 

It's a promising sim !

Edited November 20, 20241 yr by jcomm

Believe it or not, I waited ONE whole year before buying and installing MSFS 2020.. At that time, I was rocking XP11 with all addons fully mature and having a blast.. I continuously monitored the forums on MSFS 2020 feedback.. lot of complaints and issues etc.. - silly bugs like 'when you shut down engines, it immediately takes you to log screen' .. was too gamey for my taste.. it was only after SU5 when things started to settle down and MSFS grew from a game to a sim.. . that's when I plunged in and haven't looked back since then.. briefly toyed with XP12 but uninstalled that to make space for FS24.. perfectly happy with FS20 and can wait even another year before replacing it with FS24.. my take is this: If you are a GA flyer, then you can wait only a month or so before buying FS24.. if you're into tubeliners, then you better wait 6 months or more to take full advantage of the new sim and new sdk that fenix/pmdg will optimize their products for.. they have to essentially take advantage of multicore so that we get smooth fps at mega hubs..

In life as well as the sim, remember always that a pioneer is someone lying face down in the desert with an arrow in his back.

I should have known this would happen after so many version launches MS never gets it right...

Purchased the Aviator edition and can't even load the base sim.

Hello X-Plane to they get this sorted.

I will wait until the worst issues are resolved before I even consider buying it.

After hearing some info about 2024 (now that some can get in) It seems the biggest issue for me will be getting all of my throttle and gamepad settings up and running.   It was a pain in 2020 and from what I read the interface in 2024 is somehow worse.  Will at least install later this week once the dust settles a bit - start poking around setup wise.   Yesterdays flight in 2020 was fine (actually smoother then normal - less people on 2020 at the moment?) - we will see how it goes this AM.

2 minutes ago, marcg11 said:

After hearing some info about 2024 (now that some can get in) It seems the biggest issue for me will be getting all of my throttle and gamepad settings up and running.   It was a pain in 2020 and from what I read the interface in 2024 is somehow worse.  Will at least install later this week once the dust settles a bit - start poking around setup wise.   Yesterdays flight in 2020 was fine (actually smoother then normal - less people on 2020 at the moment?) - we will see how it goes this AM.

Once the bugs that lose your controller settings are fixed, it'll be better than 2020 was. You can see they're trying to give at least some of the functionality of SPAD/Axes by having unique controller profiles that appear to be auto-selected based on the aircraft you load. Which I suspect is where the bug is - it's not saving the profile information to the airplane, so it keeps defaulting to a blank profile even after you set it up. At least, that's what's been happening to me with one of my controllers.