ShawnG

I got an intel 9900k (overclocked a tad, but not much) with a 3090 gfx card and 64GB of memory and I run 2024 at 4k on ultra (which to be fair might not be "max" settings, I havent bumped up LODs to max I don't think it's just on whatever Asobo thought the default ultra was) and I have noticed stuttering on precisely one flight of the 50 or so I've done since 2024 released (was a flight in mumbai, the first flight after the big patch was released a couple weeks ago). It's smooth like butter, and I've flown in all the areas that are a stutterfest for me in 2020, London, LA, NYC... Could it be that there is some subtle micro stuttering that Isn't noticeable? I guess, but I don't know why I would worry about a thing like that. It also could be that my wimpy 9900 cpu isn't throwing so much data at my gfx card that it isn't bogging down. the vram in the 3090 is plenty, and I just finished replacing the original shroud and cooling fans on the gfx card with some honking big Noctuas, so perhaps it was thermal throttling in 2020 before I did that. It's possible there are some NVidia 4000 series features that are misbehaving that I don't have to worry about. I also haven't updated my gfx drivers for about a year. but whatever, guys. believe what you want. dudes have made videos and have just been pooped on here, so I'm going to zero lengths to help y'all work this out. The OP can call me a liar if he wants. I got no reason to though. Have a great rest of the holidays.

I suppose that's a possible explanation of someone else's post, sure. But it's not like posts of ours exist in a vacuum without other context. we know what our points of view are, and if one habitually casts aspersions on a thing, and they then appear to be casting another aspersion on a thing, I could be forgiven for thinking it's the case, don't you think? For example, I'm pretty habitually hard on PMDG's business practices, so if I say a thing in a PMDG thread it's most likely I don't mean it complimentary...

from what I remember from p3d, AS was better able to show distant changes in weather there. I don't think it could have been said that they ever had true global airmass coverage, but it was depicted better in sims where they had more access to the weather engine. no idea how the XP integration was. The lack of access to msfs weather is a real thing, and for what it is AS in msfs is excellent. More historical data in default, and an option to force live weather in sim would cause me to uninstall it tho.

I think it's in his name... but its a business jet, not an airliner

the user you quoted in your statement that I responded to indicated in the quote that he had 65 hours experience with msfs2024. and you stated directly that they might change their opinion upon watching the vid. you can certainly like videos regardless of agreement, I do all the time, but that wasn't what I was reacting to. for the second statement, regardless of connotation, this thread is about parroting an opinion. And the importance of an opinion borne from first hand knowledge over that of one gained by absorbing third hand knowledge and opinions is a point of view I stand behind, both for me, and the video author

sorry, I know this post is a couple days old, but this statement boggles my mind. Why would someone who has 65 hours of experience with a thing find their opinion changed by watching a video of someone else reviewing a product? why should they? I can accept that someone else who has used a product like I have doesn't come to the same conclusions. I have loved products that reviewers hate, I have hated products that reviewers love. Reviews are for people contemplating buying a product, or, apparently, creating an info bubble these days. not for people to re-evaluate something they already use. I mean, if someone were to create a competent video covering p3d's shortcomings, would that change your opinion on p3d? Of course it wouldn't. you use and like p3d and have reconciled yourself to those things already. I use and like 2024. It works better for me than 2020 did. I have not had a single CTD. I stayed away on opening day so I didn't experience the server meltdown (mostly because I assumed beforehand that that was going to be the case based on lots of past experience with anticipated software launches, not just Asobo related). I also have a clear headed recognition of areas in which this sim could be better. I have zero issues with anyone who has legitimately used the sim who has either had issues that I have not experienced, or whose tolerance for some of those things differs from mine. Those who have not tried the sim, who parrot opinions of others to try to make me question what I have already seen with my own eyes? (and, certainly not just you Ray) I'm not down with that. FS2024 is not perfect, and there is plenty negative that can be said honestly at this point. but it is at the same time overhated.

One can rightly pick faults with default weather depictions, but the weather system simulating the whole global air mass as one thing rather than a collection of thousands of metar amalgamated into a data smoothing algorithm is something that shouldn’t be dismissed. I went the 2020 cycle without purchasing AS or other weather injector at all. I did just purchase AS for 2024, mostly because the default historical 24 hr feature can’t be bypassed which messes with my usage of BATC and its reliance on true live weather only. AS does look nicer and seems to do a great job of local weather depiction, and the historical modes are great for my non batc flights, but long term, I’d rather the default system prevail, particularly for airliner flying. (and allow planners/third party atc to use the sim data)

which sim, in your opinion does seasons better?

in the interest of providing facts, I just did a short flight around the area of seward alaska and I played with a combination of Default Live weather, manual weather presets and Active Sky's historical mode. as of today in that area using live weather, some smaller creeks were "frozen" and larger lakes and rivers were not. using AS to set the historical weather to a date in January 2024 all lakes and rivers were frozen. Turning live and AS off, If I set Snow Depth in the weather configurator to more than 23 or so, the large lake I was using to test "froze" completely. smaller numbers resulted in the outer edges of the lake being frozen with the center still liquid. The sim allowed me to land my tundra tire Fox2 (2020 plane I just copied over to the 2024 folder) on the "frozen" lake, however the plane would then bob as if it was a float plane landing on water. So I guess, as long as the weather data being used depicts a large enough snow depth (temp didnt seem to be a factor) it will show the surface of lakes as white

just spent some time testing. it WAS doing the same with no other mods installed. I redownloaded the file from sim market and reinstalled it, and it's good now, must have been some corrupted files/DL somewhere. all good, the trees look great.

It’s the whole state, from Jacksonville south to Miami, not just the swamp parts. I’ll check my other addons for conflicts

Most of Florida is covered in trees, including the water and areas of human habitation. While I would welcome this development IRL, lol, it is suboptimal in sim. I haven’t spent any time troubleshooting yet to see if there’s a conflict, but are there any known combos or addons that would? Thx

I still remember the complaining that 2020 weather was locked to real time. I have no issue that they included historical, but let us turn it off if we want! 2020 was the first sim in a while where I didn’t buy AS, the default weather is pretty decent, but now I’ve bought it for 2024.

Possibly, I hadn’t read all your posts, lol. Was just reacting to the what does steam data prove line.

Steam data is what it is, but what does it prove? Nothing. for it to prove anything, there would have to be an environment free of other variables. 2020 released during a worldwide pandemic, and there wasn’t a comparable and compatible sim to fall back on. Sure, HERE there was P3D, and XP, but those were not similar market products. Apples and oranges. Also 2020 when released it was new and revolutionary, 2024 is an iteration of 2020. Widespread adoption eventually of 2024 by the bulk of users is a question of when rather than if. Or the masses of casuals will go away, but that will kill 2020 as well as 2024.