bennyboy75

I’ve been spending a bit of time with my nephew and his family and he’s still rocking 2020. Apart from the wildly simpler controls setup (2024 still confuses me 2 years later) it does look better to my eyes in terms of colour and clouds, although it may well be because it’s running on a 1080p screen that’s a lot more forgiving than my 55inch 4k TV. The biggest drawback in my eyes is the insanely long load time.

So last night I purchased the excellent new Heraklion scenery from the marketplace and found that for some reason if I tried to install it rather than stream, it would disable itself. No amount of uninstalling, enabling and disabling would work - it remained stubbornly invisible in the sim unless it was streamed. I alerted the dev Lisium (who responded super fast on their discord, thumbs up for their support) who said they’d look into the issue. I then had no choice but to fly in there with it streamed. It was like landing in Roblox. I’ll stick to downloading….

Add on linker has this for 2024. It’s one of the menu options at the top. You just untick the stuff you don’t want and it goes to ‘user disabled’. You can also disable airports and missions and the like if you wish. I personally wouldn’t go manually editing the content.xml file but use a tool. I deselect all the stuff I don’t need and just link in whatever I’m flying with addon linker. The aircraft selection menu in 2024 has got very out of hand, with the Fokker 70/100 having different types for the size of the cargo door! 2020 was (as with many things - such as the controls settings - way more intuitive.

No issue with CP for me since the last beta update or this latest update. Flow sadly remains broken and is one of my ‘must haves’. The fact that Asobo still forces this awful toolbar on us is beyond me. Apart from to call GSX (which you can now do on a phone or tablet) there’s next to no need to use the toolbar menu once loaded.

I have a decent if not killer rig (7800X3D/4080S) and I’m quite happy with how it performs now. I can get 60fps with FG all day long which is the best my 4k TV can display, and that’s with AI and complex airports. I run most settings at high with clouds on ultra. In terms of art and fidelity I’d say it’s up there with the best we’ve seen, albeit there are still bugs to smash and incomplete systems - wx radar, ground map, etc. There’s some contention with the sounds but as ever that’s entirely subjective. For a first release from a brand new dev, I’d give them a solid commendation and would put them in the Fenix/PMDG/iFly tier.

I saw camels casually hanging out by the hold short line in Cairo (of course) and some Central African airport whose name escapes me now had some bison or similar wandering around the taxiways. That’s about the only time I’ve ever seen fauna in the sim but I’m a strictly heavy metal kinda guy.

Also the APU master switch isn’t where you’d expect to find it. Somewhere below the FE’s right knee! Seems that the early jets commonly didn’t have an APU on board.

It's really growing on me and with this latest update I get decent if not stellar performance out of it from my not-quite-state-of the-art-these-days rig. I've still got a lot to learn about its quirks, but if they can polish it further I can see this becoming a classic MSFS staple. Pity the FSS EMB family is still languishing on the subs bench, as these smaller jets are very popular all over the world and are fun to fly.

For 15 quid I took the plunge, knowing that this isn't really my thing but I wanted to support the devs and take a look. Flies well, seems very well modelled and the sounds are good. Having a virtual engineer makes operating it relatively straightforward from a systems viewpoint, so as long as you can start the engines and taxi the thing then he does the rest. The actual flying of it will definitely test the children of the magenta line (i.e. me) but I think if you brush up on tracking VORs etc and don't get too tricksy with attempting any overtly complex then you should be able to get it from A-B in one piece. Colour me impressed.

The music options in 2020 were much greater (including the classic FSX track) and I loved the way the soundtrack changed once you got to the ‘ready to fly’ menu. 2024 offers just one music soundtrack and you can’t change it. A regression really, although it does load a lot faster so you spend less time listening to it.

I ran into issues with the gate area to the side of the terminal showing mesh issues - sunken vehicles etc. The parking spots to the front seemed fine. Real pity, it's a spectacular airport.

It's a pity as there is a lot to like - the modelling is good, the sounds are immersive and the fps for me is really good now. It has all the makings of a proper study level aircraft until you try to wrestle with the autopilot. I really hope they can sort it out, it's a hugely popular aircraft all over the world so it being still spotty is leaving a big gap in the regional sector.

It works for me by forcing it on in NCP as it always has but off in NCP and on in the sim doesn’t do anything. I’m finding this update to be a bit of stutter fest unfortunately.

I can’t get Vsync to work in game with FG on, still get screen tearing regardless of setting. That’s a pity as I was hoping to be able to set everything up in sim rather than have to twiddle with Nvidia settings in the app.

I’ve also got perfectsoft. It’s no flytampa but it’ll do the job.