Donka

So I managed a couple of short flights tonight which were much more successful. Still a few issues but at least i was getting much higher resolution scenery - still lower than 2020 but heading in the right direction. I'll play around with some settings tomorrow and give it some more time but still very much underwhelmed at this time.

No doubt. I’ll be giving it additional tests over the weekend at different times. It was clear content wasn’t being received from the servers.

Unfortunately, at least in VR, 2024 is not ready for prime time based on a few different flights I have tried. I know it is only a couple of weeks in but I don’t think it is unreasonable to expect a similar experience to 2020 as a minimum at this point in time. I also realise my experience may not be consistent with others but given each flight are plagued with issues, I personally see no point in using 2024 at this time.

I know there are a lot of issues just now with MSFS20204 but I wasn't prepared for how bad it was. Decided to do a proper full flight in VR in 2024 using a known short route between Dundee and Edinburgh. Things started off okay but only 5 mins into the flight I noticed the ground textures start to fall away and be quite low resolution. I hadn't noticed at first but the landscape seemed quite bare and I wasn't noticing much in the way of trees and buildings. About half way through the flight, the ground texture was exactly that, just a single large blurry mess of colour, I don't just mean low resolution, I mean no resolution or detail at all. I also noticed with the moody clouds in live weather that the horizon had a horrible light shimmering to it. Finally on approach to Edinburgh, the city of Edinburgh was completely missing. No buildings, roads, trees, hills or any kind of surface detail. Looking forward, the airport was missing, just the runway and taxiway lights. Come in to land and it just looked like a row of lights in a field with a single, low res aircraft model off to the side. The whole flight was also punctuated with warnings that live aircraft data could not be retrieved. Closed out MSFS2024 and went straight into MSFS2020 and did the exact same flight with the same live weather. What a stunning experience, everything looked gorgeous, no stutters or warnings, no weird horizon glitches and even the environmental lighting looked more than a match for 2024. My 2 week Game pass trial expires on Monday and I will not be purchasing 2024. Can't believe how poor things are at the moment. Will be keeping an eye on how 2024 progresses but it really should have been as good as 2020 as a baseline.

Yup, for sure. Panels are great, it was the lenses that were the issue in mine. Back to the Quest 3 for the time being.

If you get a good one, enjoy it. The one I had was full of visual issues and the sweet spot was noticeably smaller than my Quest 3.

Try flying in live weather in Scotland! You will notice it for sure then! 😄

Hope they are going to update the Dukes before though. Still missing the rain sounds on the canopy which is a big immersion breaker for me.

Mine was hand delivered! 😎 Jokes aside, just great to see some progress.

Yup, email received yesterday afternoon.

No, I preordered but didn’t receive anything.

Me neither.

I reached out to them on Discord and they reviewed my sample images and asked me to open a support ticket with them. https://support.pimax.com/en/support/home

Yup, try PimaxVR for sure but it's unlikely to have any impact on your blurring issue. I use it and have a similar issue - waiting on replacement lenses to arrive.

The issue for me is, especially in VR, flying low level GA and enjoying the scenery but you quickly notice things that don't look correct and it's then hard to unseen it. It is very much scenario dependent though and I guess everyone has their own limits to how much this affects them.