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MSFS 2020 SU16 (released 5 Aug 25)

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Hopefully FSR 3.1 will finally come to 2020 like in 2024

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  • I wish they would leave 2020 alone. It works fine now.

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    Because it's a server and client architecture.  Windows is not really a server and client architecture. You can use Windows without an internet connection. A lot of MSFS 2020 heavily depends on the se

Man, everyone telling Asobo not to touch 2020 is so indicative of how much 2024 has smacked their reputation down from where it once stood...

...and I agree entirely.

16 hours ago, edpatino said:

Sadly, that's what I think...

You're right. It IS sad that you think that way.

FS2020 has huge potential, no doubt about it. The technical possibilities and improvements are enormous. I can't wait for them to get started.

I find it odd that updates are forced on the user the moment they are released. Why not allow users to defer until a certain date, just like MS does with its Windows updates?

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14 minutes ago, speedyTC said:

I find it odd that updates are forced on the user the moment they are released. Why not allow users to defer until a certain date, just like MS does with its Windows updates?

Especially when these updates are not beta tested. 

 

 

 

30 minutes ago, speedyTC said:

I find it odd that updates are forced on the user the moment they are released. Why not allow users to defer until a certain date, just like MS does with its Windows updates?

Because it's a server and client architecture.  Windows is not really a server and client architecture. You can use Windows without an internet connection. A lot of MSFS 2020 heavily depends on the servers for MSFS 2020.

In a nutshell, supporting old clients is notriously complicated, and would result in even more bugs because it's so much harder to test. For every version of an older client that needs to be supported, the complexity is multiplied by the number of client versions.

There has been 15 SUs for MSFS 2020. If the user could choose any of the 15 SUs to use, the code becomes over 15x more complicated, testing would need to be done on all 15 SUs each time a change is made to the server. And the development team would take at least 15x as long to release a single feature, because they have to do regression testing for all 15 SU clients.

Whatever work they could do in 1 year for MSFS 2020, would now take 15 years, or maybe even more. You get the idea right?

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I said "defer". Not pick and choose.

I get your point though.

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2 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

Especially when these updates are not beta tested. 

Almost all previous SUs for MSFS 2020 in the last two or three years went through a beta testing process. I assume SU16 will also. I don’t think they’re just going to push it out one day and say “here you go”.

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8 hours ago, JRBarrett said:

Almost all previous SUs for MSFS 2020 in the last two or three years went through a beta testing process. I assume SU16 will also. I don’t think they’re just going to push it out one day and say “here you go”.

They did with SU7 and that was a complete disaster, but yes generally they beta test most of them as you say but it's what they break during those betas that they don't fix thereafter - that's the worry every time they release an update.

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17 hours ago, filou said:

FS2020 has huge potential, no doubt about it. The technical possibilities and improvements are enormous. I can't wait for them to get started.

maybe they can hype it a bit and squeeze some new sales from it.  

 
 
 
 
 
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20 hours ago, Jeeper said:

Man, everyone telling Asobo not to touch 2020 is so indicative of how much 2024 has smacked their reputation down from where it once stood...

...and I agree entirely.

but every cloud has a silver lining,  a new SU means some marketing and maybe 500 new sales of ms2020 to people not keen on ms2024. 

It worked in P3D days, Same hooker different dress.

 

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On 5/19/2025 at 2:22 PM, fluffyflops said:

maybe they can hype it a bit and squeeze some new sales from it.  

They can even do a lot more if it wasn't a question of money. When I see what my FS2020 is capable of visually with, Google Map Enhancement, active sky and REX Atmos and in addition my RTX4090 is walking around...

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