It's not something you'll be noticing too often but MSFS2024 really does one thing right: the installation.

Of course most people have a different experience during the initial release but that all had to do with the servers. But MSFS2024 is a HUGE improvement when it comes to this.

Two weeks or so ago I reinstalled Windows 11 and also MSFS2020. Installing MSFS2020 took around 2.5 to 3 HOURS. Installing various World updates (I didn't bother with any other updates) took another HOUR. I think installing MSFS2020 took around 3.5 to 4 HOURS all in all.

Yesterday I reinstalled Windows 11 again and this time also MSFS2024. Installing MSFS2024 took a FEW MINUTES. I think it was around 3 minutes. Starting the game took longer than installing it: around 4 minutes. Getting into the cockpit took another minute or so. As it is now starting the game usually takes up to 3 minutes and starting the flight 1 minute.

In fact: installing Windows 11 (without an account which saves time), updating it, setting it up to my liking, installing Firefox (including setting it up to my liking too), Steam, Track IR and MSFS2024 in one go took me LESS than an HOUR...! MSFS2024 was also ready to go because every option was saved in the cloud.

So it's MSFS2020 4 hours versus MSFS2024 4 minutes... I'd call that a major improvement!

It has as many major improvements as the same drawbacks to 2020.

It's a streaming game. There's next to nothing to install.

Modern software manuals are also much easier and quicker to read these days. Hardly surprising when they are a couple pages long instead of several 100. 

3 minutes feels like an install every time i play the game 

12 minutes ago, sloppysmusic said:

It's a streaming game. There's next to nothing to install.

Yeah, duh, I know. But it's a major improvement anyway, specially if you like to reinstall everything every now and then (like I do). MSFS2020 kept me from reinstalling my systemL MSFS2024 won't.

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3 minutes ago, mistolip said:

MSFS2020 kept me from reinstalling my systemL MSFS2024 won't

How did it manage to do that? 

Steam /verify files... Ohhh noooo I didn't want to do THAT! 

IF you're talking ms store I don't know, I'd never buy something direct from that company. 

Ok, and what quality attribute is a short installation time you do once? I installed MSFS2020 four years ago and never again, so do I care about this being three hours or five minutes? Not at all...

Well I'm now at over 2 hours and 69% for my MS store install, can't say it ever took that long for 2020! So not so rosy at my end.

Noting the most recent obvious, the only reason FS2020 install was painful was because of MS horrible servers.

Everything is still being streamed as they have not enabled marketplace so there are no local packages to install.  Of course it's quicker... 

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No, it's not an improvement, on the contrary, the day you need an offline mode you will remember this thread.

6 hours ago, Aglos77 said:

No, it's not an improvement, on the contrary, the day you need an offline mode you will remember this thread.

Exactly. It's actually a major drawback.

Why the insistence on an off-line mode for what is a streaming game - that has been advertised and explained as such since it was announced.

Things changed, this franchise is no longer FSX / P3D and all the prior iterations, where everything is on the hard drive.

I think it’s best to accept this new fact.

We never own software we are licensed to use it.

It’s the future, no going back now.

 

16 hours ago, Los said:

¿Por qué la insistencia en un modo offline para lo que es un juego en streaming, que se ha publicitado y explicado como tal desde que se anunció?

Las cosas cambiaron, esta franquicia ya no es FSX/P3D y todas las iteraciones anteriores, donde todo está en el disco duro.

Creo que es mejor aceptar este nuevo hecho.

Nunca somos propietarios del software, tenemos licencia para usarlo.

Es el futuro, ya no hay vuelta atrás.

 

Your discourse is very old and it has already been demonstrated with Stadia, with Megaupload and with the dozens of MMOs that have closed their services that the cloud is not the solution or the future of anything.

17 hours ago, Los said:

Why the insistence on an off-line mode for what is a streaming game - that has been advertised and explained as such since it was announced.

Things changed, this franchise is no longer FSX / P3D and all the prior iterations, where everything is on the hard drive.

I think it’s best to accept this new fact.

We never own software we are licensed to use it.

It’s the future, no going back now.

 

Hmm, unsure I agree with you. If something is implemented, and the consensus is that it's not working as expected, then 'going back' may well be the only solution.