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MSFS 2024 Users!!! Did you delete MSFS 2020 yet???

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Waved goodbye to MSFS 2020 when I purchased a new PC in December last year. Since everything seems to be working well in MSFS 2024, I have not regretted that decision. Even setting up the controls for my PMDG airliners was a lot more straightforward than I was expecting.

Christopher Low

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme

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  • Bob Scott
    Bob Scott

    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 n

  • I deleted FS2020 about 2 days after FS2024 was released and did not regret it. no nostalgic visits required here.

  • monica6211
    monica6211

    No. I intend on keeping 2020 indefinitely, just in case any of the updates to 2024 render it broken or degraded. That way I'll always have one that I can fall back on, if needed.

After trying SU3, I re-installed my OS to clear the drive of 2020 and its add-ons. So far, I haven't missed 2020.

FS2024 • PMDG 738, 77F • FSL A321 • A2A Comanche, Aerostar • BS Baron, Bonanza, Caravan Pro • JF Tomahawk • TAOG H500C
BeyondATC • GSX Pro • ChasePlane & Flow Pro • TDS GTNXi • FSUIPC • AutoFPS • RealTurb

9800X3D B650E • ROG OC RTX 5090 • 64GB DDR5-6000 • VKB Gladiator, STECS, T-Rudder • Tobii 5 • ISP 1 Gbps

As a man who's just re-installed all my old P3D systems to access my aircraft from those days, I shall probably keep my 2020 system in place until its drive dies on me. I've got plenty of space, so no issues there. I don't use it much, but enjoy it when I do (although I've become sufficiently accustomed to 2024's menus and foibles to find 2020's annoying sometimes now). I've still got a working, and occasionally used, FSX system here as well.

Ryzen 9 7900X, Corsair H150 AIO cooler, 64 Gb DDR5, Asus X670E Hero m/b, 3090ti, 13Tb NVMe, 8Tb SSD, 16Tb HD, 55" Philips 4k HDR monitor, EVGA 1600w ps, all in Corsair 7000D airflow case. Sims in use - 2020, 2024, XP-12 and -11, FSX/SE, P3Dv4.5 and v5.4. DCS and AFS2 installed but rarely used

I deleted MSFS 2020 for good the day FS 2024 was first announced 🙂 and I don't look back!

Flying gliders since 1980

Flightsimming since 1992

AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)

1 hour ago, flyingscampi said:

After trying SU3, I re-installed my OS to clear the drive of 2020 and its add-ons. So far, I haven't missed 2020.

Extreme, but effective.

8 minutes ago, jcomm said:

I deleted MSFS 2020 for good the day FS 2024 was first announced 🙂 and I don't look back!

Each to their own.
I still have Fs2002, Fs2004, FSX, FSX-SE, P3D v4, v5 and v6, XP 11, XP 12, DCS, Aerofly 2, MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024.
I'm not keen on flight simulation though. :smile:

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Just now, Reader said:

Extreme, but effective.

Each to their own.
I still have Fs2002, Fs2004, FSX, FSX-SE, P3D v4, v5 and v6, XP 11, XP 12, DCS, Aerofly 2, MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024.
I'm not keen on flight simulation though. :smile:

This momentous. What PC OS is FS 2002 running on? Are all these sims on the same computer???

Flight Sim Software/Hardware: MSFS 2020 Premium Deluxe | MSFS 2024 Aviator | X-Plane Mobile 12 | X-Plane 12 |  Thrustmaster TCA Captain Pack Airbus Edition | Thrustmaster TCA Yoke Pack Boeing Edition | Honeycomb Alpha Flight Controls | Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant | Turtle Beach Velocity One Rudder | Xbox wireless controller | Stream Deck + | Flight Radar 24 Gold | Navigraph | Simbrief | WINCTRL PAP 3 MAG, 3N PDC, 3M PDC & PFP 7 Wingflex A320 EFIS, RMP & FCU Cube | 3rd Party Hanger: Fenix: A319, 320, 321 | Flight Factor: 777-200ER with engine variants | Flight FX: HondaJet HA420 FlyJSim: Dash 8 Q400 | Hot Start: Challenger 650 | iFly: 737 Max | iniBuilds: A350 |  PMDG: 737-800, 777-200ER, 777-300ER, DC-6 | Toliss: A321 with engine variants | Zibo: 737-800 Computer Equipment: Intel i7-13000K | Asus Tuf Z790 | 64 GB Corsair Ram | 2 TB NVMe OS Drive | 4 TB NVMe Game Drive | 3 X 4TB SATA Data Drives | Windows 11 | Asus Dual RTX 4070 CAE Full Motion Flight Simulator Experience: Boeing 737, Boeing 767, Boeing 787 Real Aircraft Flying Experience: Schempp-Hirth Janus, Cessna 172 and Cessna 185

https://www.youtube.com/@CYVRAviation

What's the rush? I kept both of them and happy to use both of them. 

39 minutes ago, Mo45 said:

What's the rush? I kept both of them and happy to use both of them. 

Much the same here - I have MSFS2020 on its own SSD that I don't need for anything else so it's doing no harm. 

But there are a few more reasons I am keeping it:

* I occasionally fly multiplayer with a friend who only has MSFS2020

* The UK internet service (esp outside SE/London) is, at best, 'shaky'.  I know that both sims need the internet to boot up, but MSFS2024 needs a decent one that will keep going all evening.  It's useful to still be able to fly even when my full-optic-pc-directly-connected-to-server broadband goes cross-eyed, which it does from time to time

*MSFS2020 is stable.  Updates in MSFS2024, while always welcome, temporarily break the sim more frequently than I would wish.  SU4 - which is absolutely splendid - broke my sim for about a week, especially tube-liners.  Asobo/PMDG/iFly/inibuilds tubeliners - all of them were unflyable during a week of fixing the issues one-by-one.   It was a useful sanity check to go back into MSFS2020 and fly a tubeliner to make sure that my recollection of how you actually get them to take off - even from a 'Ready to T/O' state spawned at the end of the runway (yes, really) or, worse, from 'Cold and Dark' - was correct.

*There are one or two aircraft I fly in MSFS2020 that will probably never be made compatible in MSFS2024

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Ryzen 7 9800x3D @5.2GHz; ASUS X670-P Motherboard; nVidia 4080 (factory o/c); 32G 5600MHz DDR5 SDRAM; Pimax Crystal Light VR Headset; Quest 3 VR Headset

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

Ryzen 7 9800x3D @5.2GHz; ASUS X670-P Motherboard; nVidia 4080 (factory o/c); 32G 5600MHz DDR5 SDRAM; Pimax Crystal Light VR Headset; Quest 3 VR Headset

1 hour ago, alanw2005 said:

This momentous. What PC OS is FS 2002 running on? Are all these sims on the same computer???

Yes, all on one PC and Windows 11

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You can hardly tell the difference:smile:

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2 hours ago, Reader said:

Extreme, but effective.

Each to their own.
I still have Fs2002, Fs2004, FSX, FSX-SE, P3D v4, v5 and v6, XP 11, XP 12, DCS, Aerofly 2, MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024.
I'm not keen on flight simulation though. :smile:

But I'm The Uninstaller 🤩

The most rewarding experience I get from flightsims is uninstalling them 🤣

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Flying gliders since 1980

Flightsimming since 1992

AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)

Nope! Still enjoying flying in 2020 even though i just started using 2024 when su4 dropped 

In some circumstances it looks better.

Mike

I have 2020 still loaded and active on my system. Even though I haven't used it since release of 2024. I'm gradually deleting addons from 2020 once I find a 2024 compatible version. I invested heavily in Orbx addons for 2020 and don't want to loose access to them until more are made compatible to 2024. I've been testing most of them on my own and found most of them working very well since SU4. I will never purchase anymore 2020 products, I'm all in on 2024. And having fun enjoying it.

Smooth SKIES!!!!!!!

Bill McIntyre

Asus StrixB650E-F Gamer, AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D, Corsair Titanium DDR5 64GB, Samsung 990 PRO-4TB M.2, (4) 2TB SSD's, Corsair H1150i liquid cooler, RTX 2080TI Founders Edition, (2) LG 34" HD Curved Monitor, Sound Blaster Audigy X, 1Kw PC Power & Cooling Power Supply, Corsair Obsidian Full tower Case. MSFS 2024, WIN11 Pro x64                                                                                                                                             

I got a new PC after 2024 and never even installed 2020.  I don't have the time to mess around with two different sims when 2024 works perfectly fine for me.  Honestly, for me 2020 gave me more headaches than 2024 does.  

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Craig from KBUF

3 hours ago, Reader said:

Each to their own.
I still have Fs2002, Fs2004, FSX, FSX-SE, P3D v4, v5 and v6, XP 11, XP 12, DCS, Aerofly 2, MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024.
I'm not keen on flight simulation though. :smile:

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…🙂

However, it’s just a matter of how much time (and attention) one can give to each one though. 

Prior to my MSFS2020, when I was literally the only one carrying on the FSX baton in the Screenshots Forum for a few years (and when occasionally someone out of sheer kindness, would comment, “Nice shots”…🙂…), I recall some folks there having up to 3-4 SIMs such as XP, P3D, DCS, and AFS, but clearly only one was their primary and active SIM.

Anyway, you have the world of simulation at your fingertip, though you say you may not be keen on simulation.

Betrothed to Microsoft SIM here…FS2002 through MSFS2024…always been loyal to only one…at a time…🙂

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