Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 News

Have you ever wanted to be a pilot? The latest entry in the Microsoft Flight Simulator franchise, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, allows the flight-curious to get behind the yoke of various aircraft, exploring what Team Asobo calls the “digital twin.” However, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has had a turbulent takeoff, with fans and critics taking to the internet to report issues such as game crashes, FPS problems while streaming the digital twin from the cloud, and numerous bugs that detract from the overall experience.

Four months after initially playing the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 preview, I’m happy to report that while MSFS2024 still has some issues, the latest entry innovates in spades, offering aviators the most ambitious flight simulator to date. That’s saying something for a franchise that has existed for over 40 years. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 introduces so many new concepts that even after 100+ hours exploring the globe’s digital twin and trying every... Read more

Just as Path of Exile 2 is struggling to get its servers working today, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 couldn't get off the ground on launch day back in November. Despite running tests that simulated 200,000 users, MSFS 2024 devs admitted they "completely underestimated" how many players wanted to dive into the sim on day one, which led to an enthusiastic playerbase staring at an unchanging queue and loading screens showing 0% progress for hours...
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When Microsoft released the system requirements for its latest iteration of Flight Simulator, there was probably a worldwide intake of breath, followed by a groan of despair from the sim community. Apart from recommending a Core i7 14700K and RTX 4080 combination as the 'ideal spec', Microsoft also suggests 64 GB of system memory would be handy to have, too. Now that the game is finally in a playable state, I've tested it with up to 96 GB of system memory to see if a small mountain of memory really does make a difference...
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If you are playing on PC, outdated packages in your community folder may have an unexpected impact on the title's performance and behavior.

If you suffer from stability issues or long loading times, move your community package(s) to another folder before relaunching the title.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when navigating fast between the challenges.
  
• Fixed a crash when trying to adjust Tobii Eye Tracker hardware in the settings menu.
  
• Fixed various crashes.
  

• Fixed remaining broken jetways.
  
• Updated the message asking the player to link the Steam account.
  
• Fixed unloading/reloading of WASM gauges upon restarting a flight.
  

[h3]JS API[/h3]

• Traffic GUID object was broken due to the value being encoded in 64 bits which can not be handled in Javascript. The value is now in 32 bits.
  

[h3]Aircraft[/h3]

• Fixed impact damage threshold for the contact points of the basket that was causing a back-on-track loop that hardlocked the game for hot air balloon and FlyDOO.
  

[h2]Aircraft Tech[/h2]
[h3]Model behavior[/h3]

• Fixed a crash when hovering interactions only defining an event_id and a tooltip (backward compatibility with FSX simple interactions).
  

[h3]Flow/Progression[/h3]

• Fix a bug when leaving flight while in slewmode.
  

[h3]MyLibrary[/h3]

• Added tags on disabled items to better reflect why they are disabled.
  
• Added a tag to warn the player if an item has not been verified by the creator.
  

Back in April, North America was treated to a rare celestial event: a total solar eclipse. Observers from Mexico to Maine witnessed an amazing sight as the moon passed in front of the sun and made it as dark as night in the middle of the day...
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