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MSFS 2024 is amazing and IMO, it's definitely the best for GA flying. What makes it even better compared to all the other flight sims is that MSFS has the best default G1000, G3000, G5000, and G3X. You can't even buy a better G1000, G3000, G5000, or G3X add-on even in the payware market. And the default GNS 430 and GNS 530 area also very good in MSFS. This is all thanks to the work of Working Title, who are on the MSFS team. For MSFS 2024, Working Title also did the Honeywell Primus Epic 2 and Universal UNS-1. You get a combination of the best graphics for a flight simulator, with arguably some of the best flight dynamics now, some of the most realistic ground handling with how they modeled rocks/boulders across the world, and an excellent suite of avionics from Working Title for various GA planes. Hope you enjoy MSFS 2024!

The Switch 2 hardware is pretty weak though. I can see the rumors being true for PS5, but I doubt it for Switch 2.

You will automatically get Sim Update 1 when you install MSFS 2024. Since you are new to MSFS 2024, I would stay out of the SU2 beta, especially if you value stability. Just wait for the SU2 to be released officially. My guess is, it will probably release in the next several weeks.

The misinformation about MSFS 2024 is just hilarious. Look at this compatibility list of aircraft add-ons: The source for this list is here: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/aircraft-compatibility-list-2020-to-2024/669089 The list of add-ons for MSFS 2024 is "sparse"? You are a perfect example of somebody who just makes stuff up about MSFS 2024. SMH.

Free Flight in MSFS 2024 is very stable, provided you don't have any hardware problems, and your Windows isn't corrupted, and you have a medium spec computer or higher. And you shouldn't be using any incompatible add-ons either. But if you pass all the criteria above, it should be stable. There are a lot of streamers that stream 8 hour flights, and some even stream 12+ hour flights (they leave their computer running overnight). Those streamers are able to take off and land without any problems, MSFS 2024 is that stable for them. Now if you value stability, I would stay away from the betas. Betas inherently are not stable. By the time the beta is released as a proper Sim Update though, it's usually stable. And also don't use Career Mode for MSFS 2024 - it's much better by SU2 beta, but I think it still has some bugs.

Make sure MSFS is installed on the same drive that Windows is installed to on your computer (ie. if WIndows is installed on drive c:, make sure MSFS is also installed on drive c:). Also, I see in the MSFS forum, this has been brought up before, you can check these threads to see if it helps: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/organization-doesn-t-let-you-place-files-here/366180 https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/community-folder-items-cannot-be-copied-or-removed/500786

You should be able to copy and move whatever folders are inside your Community folder to outside of it if you are running the normal version of Windows 10 or Windows 11 on PC (I'm not sure about Windows on Mac though, I have never used Windows on Mac). Make sure MSFS isn't running because if MSFS is running, it might lock down your Community folder. But if MSFS isn't running, you should be able to copy or move whatever is inside your Community folder to outside of it (reboot Windows just in case, and make sure MSFS is not running). If you are able to move the content from inside your Community folder to outside of it, you can move all the content to the folder that AddOn Linker reads from. As for putting it on an external disk, I don't know if that's such a good idea because when MSFS runs, it will try to read the content from your Community folder, which ultimately gets read from your external disk if you are using AddOn Linker. I'm not sure if it would result in stutters or not. You can give it a try and if it stutters, you are better off putting that content on the same disk that MSFS runs from.

You don't need to worry about MSFS deleting your community folder if you get AddOn Linker from flightsim.to: https://flightsim.to/file/1572/msfs-addons-linker. With AddOn Linker, your add-ons are stored outside of the MSFS folder structure, in a folder of your choice. AddOn Linker creates symbolic folder links inside the Community folder so the actual add-ons are always stored safely in a folder outside of the MSFS folder structure. So if MSFS ever inadvertently deletes the contents of your Community folder again, it's not a big deal, because you can restore it with Add-On linker with a click of a button. AddOn Linker also allows you to turn on and turn off add-ons very quickly, for each session of MSFS that you fly (ie. every time you load MSFS in Windows). So if you have a lot of add-ons for North America and you are flying in Europe today, you can turn off all your North America add-ons with a click of a button and only load MSFS with Europe related add-ons. I'm surprised nobody in this thread suggested that you get AddOn Linker until my suggestion.

I honestly wasn't expecting a market share increase from last year, which was 70.8%, given the poor launch of MSFS 2024. I was expecting maybe close to 70.8%, or even less than 70.8% market share when this Navigraph survey was released. So I am very surprised they gained total market share after the poor launch of MSFS 2024.

Yup, and I think the avionics is what sets MSFS 2020/2024 apart from the other competitors. I can imagine that a lot of Navigraph subscribers, especially if they are flying a GA plane on VATSIM, appreciate the the GA avionics work that Working Title has done.

For those that are interested in the Primary Flight Simulator Software chart from the 2023 Navigraph survey, this is what it looked like:

Also of interest, is that all the best flight simulation product releases were MSFS related, except for the Winwing hardware release: That's a win for MSFS.

But it's not bad either, given the terrible launch of MSFS 2024. If you told me after the launch of MSFS 2024 and how bad it went, that MSFS as a total, gained market share, I would take it as a win if I were Jorg. But that's my opinion.

A total of 77% for MSFS. That's an increase from 70.8% from the last Navigraph survey. So MSFS is still gaining market share. Also, the 2:1 ration of MSFS 2020 to MSFS 2024 users is pretty consistent with Steam DB. I think Steam DB is decent at giving us a snapshot of the PC market, before the Navigraph survey is out. Of course, Steam DB cannot account for XBox users, and the total market for flight simulation should be including the XBox users as well, especially since many 3rd party developers in the MSFS market earn decent revenue from the XBox users as well.

Yes, that's my point. It's a grey area.