Purchased it this morning and went in with an open mind. I have to say that most of the criticism of 2024 is valid.

First, started a flight in Washington DC, and the first observation was jetliners running in all directions at the airport (completely illogical directions). Who would release a sim like this???

Second, the FPS is dismal,  and even with graphics set to medium, the performance was bad. I have an intel i9 CPU and Nvidia RTX 3080. 
 

Third, not super impress with the graphics. Building and LOD look dismal. What’s all the hype about?

Fourth, not a single key in my controllers works. With 2020, it was plug and play, by and large.

The main menu looks blurry compared to to 2020. 
 

I will give it time, but not impressed with what I saw this morning. This will take month/years to get to a decent state.

 

 

It's not perfect and requires investment to iron out all the kinks. But wow, flying the A400M over the Caribbean is an absolute blast!

And the instrument display has  a white square in the A320. 

MSFS 2024 will take time to mature. So give it some time. In the meantime I continue to enjoy images like this on MSFS 2020:

https://ibb.co/RP3QFq1

https://ibb.co/9NSTVDD

https://ibb.co/qknWNQK

 

 

13 minutes ago, Huascar said:

This will take month/years to get to a decent state.

2020 was far from perfect on release and took time to get to where it is today.  Yes there are more bugs than we would like - but it will 100% get there.

I think a 3080 will struggle.  My 3080ti is just about able to hold 35-40fps with all settings on high.

5 minutes ago, Huascar said:

And the instrument display has  a white square in the A320. 

Set texture to resolution to HIGH to clear that bug.

Also, with the plethora of negative posts on this forum, what made you think your experience would break the norm?

17 minutes ago, BrammyH said:

Also, with the plethora of negative posts on this forum, what made you think your experience would break the norm?

Simply wanted to experience it myself first hand.

My sense is that they could have focused on improving 2020 vs launching another sim half finished. 

1 hour ago, Huascar said:

Purchased it this morning and went in with an open mind. I have to say that most of the criticism of 2024 is valid.

Second, the FPS is dismal,  and even with graphics set to medium, the performance was bad. I have an intel i9 CPU and Nvidia RTX 3080. 
 

Third, not super impress with the graphics. Building and LOD look dismal. What’s all the hype about?

 

First things first, I hope your Community folder was empty and you aren't using any add-ons. You need to start from scratch without any add-ons because some add-ons are incompatible with MSFS 2024 right now.  When MSFS 2024 runs smoothly without any add-ons, you can gradually add some add-ons in, to test and make sure they don't cause any problems.

Secondly, Dynamic FPS is turned on by default.  There will be a target FPS set in the Dynamic FPS settings.  Dynamic FPS will attempt to keep your FPS stable and avoid stutters, but it will reduce the graphics to achieve your target FPS.  To prevent your graphics from degrading, you can turn off Dynamic FPS.  However, the disadvantage is that your sim may start to stutter.  But to be honest, if your sim starts to stutter, it's because your graphics setting you have set it probably too high for your hardware.  So to avoid stutters and prevent a graphics degradation, you may have to turn your graphics down.

If you keep Dynamic FPS on, then at least lower your target FPS.  The lower your target FPS, the more likely your graphics remain at a high level because your target FPS is being met, but it may be less smooth (for me, 30 FPS is enough, so I lowered my target FPS from 60 FPS to 30 FPS).

 

58 minutes ago, Huascar said:

Simply wanted to experience it myself first hand.

My sense is that they could have focused on improving 2020 vs launching another sim half finished. 

Yes, but they needed to raise more money, and I don't have a problem with that. 
Business is business, and at least they left us with a (mainly) working 2020 to fall back on.
So raising more money isn't my issue, it is just releasing it in that initial state that I find distasteful. 
First / second day download problems were a blip and separate to the other issue, which is, they knew the state of the product when they released it, that is what worries me about them.

LOL, another one of those posts.

The complains about bad FPS mainly are a result of settings to high and full VRAM, I think. Of course the game should handle this problem more gracefully but after I found settings that keep my VRAM usage well below my meagre 8 GB ( I only have a 2080 super), I have very consistent fps. The inibuild Airbuses almost always give about 30 to 45 fps when I use them. The Fenix I struggle to get 30 fps with, but it still is a fantastic plane for MSFS 2024.

The white square on the NAV display of the inibuild Airbuses really is an annoying bug. Setting the Texture Resolution to "high" helps, though. 🙂

1 hour ago, BrammyH said:

Also, with the plethora of negative posts on this forum, what made you think your experience would break the norm?

I think this is a question Asobo should be asking me when I request a refund.

I run a 3060TI on a 1440p display with all settings to medium/high. TLOD 100.

I get anywhere from 30 - 60 fps, even on addon airports like Aerosoft's Brussels. 

This is with traffic enabled via BATC.

You clearly have a busted system, or are running everything on ultra, incompatible mods in the community folder, etc. Weak/inconsistent internet connection, and so on, and so on. 

16 minutes ago, crimplene said:

The complains about bad FPS mainly are a result of settings to high and full VRAM

Exactly. 

1 hour ago, BrammyH said:

Also, with the plethora of negative posts on this forum, what made you think your experience would break the norm?

Have you seen the official forums? Same thing over there, everyone's entitled to have an opinion, if it's the same as others whether positive or negative then so be it.