Reader

Hello, still the same, imgur is switched off in the UK. Using a VPN, this is what I can see: Without a VPN, this:

Not that it matters much, but those of us who are in the UK see only this, courtesy of imgur.

Just to emphasise the truth of YMMV, I use a 3080ti, with 12 GB of onboard RAM, 64 GB of DDR4 system RAM and a 43" 4k monitor and it doesn't run out of "VRAM", though quite often it will use almost all of it. I don't go chasing framerates, it's locked at 30. The graphics card never overheats and the frame rates never go much below 28. My own opinion, worth as much or as little as anyone else's, is that MSFS 2024 uses a given percentage of the available VRAM and indeed system RAM, which is why some report using over 12 GB of VRAM and 30+ GB of system RAM, which, if it was the actual demand, would defeat lesser systems, like mine, yet it doesn't. Another of my opinions, is that MSFS 2024 is very good at managing the available resources, while at the same time, maximising the performance that can be gained from them.

Try a reinstall instead of just the update.

For me, it would be a 220 mile journey each way. It's not a problem, as I will not be going. I shouldn't be surprised, I suppose, to read that the much requested show is now the subject of critique, before it has even happened. Here are some more things to complain about: https://fsimuk.bfsg.club/

For those of us in the UK, where imgur has been disabled, here is the picture, hosted elsewhere: The now King Charles is an extremely well travelled, well educated and erudite man who is highly unlikely to have required an interpreter to be able to follow Mr Scott's American English. I expect that it was just a guess by the journalist, or perhaps even a little gentle satire?

Indeed, there was one before I installed the update. There's a number in it as well, showing how many updates there are. In this case, 1.

Those who have bought and installed it see this:

On the other hand, wouldn't the staggering sums of money involved in this be better spent on fixing this world, rather than starting to ruin our moon and no doubt later, Mars?

The basic principle is this: Downloading and streaming are two opposites. Once you have downloaded data, it is no longer streamed, it is resident on your device. MSFS uses that data and does not look elsewhere. This fills your local hard drive(s) with data that is mostly not in use at any given moment. If you don't download, then the data is streamed, which means that it is taken from the "cloud" as needed, used and then discarded in favour of the next streamed data. This is the design behind MSFS 2024 and is the most effective way to access the needed parts of vast amounts of data, without the need to have any of it resident on your device. To refer back to my first answer to your question, if you want to stream data, you should not download any. If you want to use the data that you have already downloaded, there is nothing left to do, except to use it. "Streaming" means coming down the internet. Installing means using data that has been downloaded and stored. You cannot stream downloaded data, but you can just use it.

The answer to that is in the first post. There are no: "Updated scenery from every part of the world, updates to the Premium version from the Standard version ( I have the Premium version), updates for various planes, etc. etc." unless the content has already been downloaded. This means that he is not streaming it and has already downloaded everything that now has an update, despite the stated preference for streaming. Even Simulator Updates are done elsewhere and the already updated files streamed to the device There are no notifications that an update is available, as it has already been applied before streaming.

My own view is that if, as you seem to be saying, you have strong device and a good internet connection, all that downloading was probably pointless. MSFS 2024 is designed to stream, which is why its footprint on my device is about 29 GB, versus the 477 GB that MSFS 2020 takes up. Naturally, there will be lots of other opinions, everyone has one, as they say, but that's mine.

At Amazon, the 32 GB of DDR4 that I bought for £58.99 in September 2024 is now £199.99 or £268.89, or even £656.73. It is not surprising, but somewhat depressing to see attempts by the greedy to rip off the anyone that they think they can. Human nature is often flawed and for me, the worst flaw is greed, something that seems to be motivating far too much at present.

I can't see any other possible answer to the question other than "no". The answers even explain why there is no going back, yet apparently, for you, that still isn't enough.

It is easily blocked.