I deleted MSFS 2020 after SU3 for 2024 had appeared. Before, I had a dual installation. After SU4 I made a complete uninstall/reinstall of MSFS2024 including cache cleanups and new NVidia driver. This procedure also removed some minor quirks which I had before.

30 minutes ago, P_7878 said:

That’s something…!
I genuinely believe you do have all these together with yourself now and not just saying it to spite the ones among us who are currently on MSFS2024 alone…🙂…

 

Here are the top two lines of my Windows 11 Start Menu 

Edited January 20Jan 20 by Reader

I take my hat off to you. I could not bear to use FS2002 even when it had just been released, so you are clearly made of tougher stuff than I am 

Yes, some time after SU2 when most aircraft I like to fly were compatible with 2024.

4 hours ago, AJZip2 said:

Clearly I upset the gods - MSFS2020 now keeps crashing, even after a Repair and even in Safe Mode  😆

Well - I've even Uninstalled and Reinstalled MSFS2020 on a different drive and it still now crashes at the same point with no Community folder allocated and in Safe Mode -  around halfway through boot up.  It was working fine a few days ago.

MSFS2024 still boots up as normal.

 Spooky or highly suspicious depending on where you are on the conspiracy theory scale. 🤔

Yep def deleted it

I decided over the holidays to re-install Windows 11 on my PC as it was starting to give me issues.  I decided not to re-install MSFS2020, as I really have not used it much since FSFS2024 was released, and now that 95% of the airplanes I fly are now available in MSFS2024, I did not see the need to re-install. Also said goodbye to P3D and X-plane as I have not touched them in years. Not saying there is anything wrong with them, they are all great sims, I just personally, did not use them anymore.  However, I do have a back up of it, should I need it. 

1 hour ago, Christopher Low said:

I take my hat off to you. I could not bear to use FS2002 even when it had just been released, so you are clearly made of tougher stuff than I am 

You’re speaking of FS2002.

Actually, I did recently (during MSFS2024) make a valiant effort to retrieve and revive my FSX PC (from the basement) with my most favorite a/c likes of MD-11, 744, JS41, Q400, 727/737 -100/200 etc., but I could not bear the sight of FSX…

I’m clearly not made of tougher stuff…to be able to use it now…🙂…

My own opinion is that the default terrain graphics in MSFS after FS4 have been rubbish right up to the release of MSFS 2020. That is the moment when everything changed. I was so disappointed with the shimmering mess that greeted me with FS5 way back in 1993. Those textures may have looked good from orbit, but they were appalling at ground level. Only the rise of photoscenery saved the situation for me with FSX. Before that (and this was 2008), I used Flight Unlimited 2 and 3 exclusively. I made the mistake of purchasing every version of MSFS between FS5 and FS2002, and they were all a massive disappointment. The simple fact of the matter is that the scenery outside the cockpit windows has always mattered to me. I actually preferred the coloured vector graphics of FS4 to the textured rubbish that followed it.

Edited January 20Jan 20 by Christopher Low

I'm not deleting it. It's annoying me about 2024 that when I watch replays, the smoke from under the landing gear keeps coming and going. Also, ChasePlane users, please tell me what to do—it's completely unresponsive with PMDG777, but it works with other planes. Contacting support hasn't helped—they're just ignoring me. This is one of the reasons I haven't upgraded to 2024—I thought I'd upgrade when CP was released.

6 hours ago, Reader said:

 

Here are the top two lines of my Windows 11 Start Menu 

Dude!! You are the Smithsonian of flight sim archives!!

20 hours ago, Bob Scott said:

No, I still keep FS2020 on my computer.  Why?  It's stable.  If changes made in some future update to FS24 booger things up, I can instantly revert to FS2020 (or XP12, or P3Dv5).  I also have a fair number of payware FS2020 sceneries that do not work in FS2024, and I'm remiss to re-purchase or pay to upgrade those that I don't frequent, but may still want to visit on occasion.

 

I think of it as still keeping that extra boat that you don't need laying around the house.  But hey there are still Amiga users.

dd

12 hours ago, AJZip2 said:

SU4 - which is absolutely splendid - broke my sim for about a week, especially tube-liners. 

That's because you opt into betas, tho. You could always opt out.

Yes!!!

10 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

My own opinion is that the default terrain graphics in MSFS after FS4 have been rubbish right up to the release of MSFS 2020. That is the moment when everything changed. I was so disappointed with the shimmering mess that greeted me with FS5 way back in 1993. Those textures may have looked good from orbit, but they were appalling at ground level. Only the rise of photoscenery saved the situation for me with FSX. Before that (and this was 2008), I used Flight Unlimited 2 and 3 exclusively. I made the mistake of purchasing every version of MSFS between FS5 and FS2002, and they were all a massive disappointment. The simple fact of the matter is that the scenery outside the cockpit windows has always mattered to me. I actually preferred the coloured vector graphics of FS4 to the textured rubbish that followed it.

Yes, Chris, I would agree with you.

Having spent full 14 years in FSX (2006-2020), the (default) world scenery and terrain textures in FSX felt rather appalling (compared to what we have today).

Unless I happened to have a payware DEST airport, I would get that feeling of arriving in a place (in my PMDG airliner…🙂…), at a place devoid of any traces of human settlement…🙂…in the middle of nowhere…with just a strip meant for the runway…

So, I compensated by photo-scenery, such as Mega Scenery Earth (MSE). I’d most of their titles for all parts of the world. The reason I mention MSE is because I recently received an email from them that their website is (finally) closing down for business, effective this December.

Times have surely changed for us in our SIMs…