It wasn’t the start to this sim that anyone had hoped for but the good news is that things are slowly starting to improve for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Here’s some of the latest that we know about the status of the new sim.
It’s working better, but its not there yet
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 continues to have problems as developers are continuing to work behind the scenes to improve the sim’s ability to handle all of the attention aimed at it. We don’t have any specific numbers on how many have been attempting to access the sim, however, we do know that around 200,000 users were part of the test earlier in the fall and that they had no issues handling that. Whatever the number is, we’re well beyond that.
Things are improving and we’ve got a couple of statements from Microsoft coming throughout the last 24 hours. This one came in around this time yesterday.
We have increased our server capacity and are seeing more players accessing the sim, however, we are still seeing access issues continue.
This is not the launch experience we want for our players and want to apologize to the community. We will continue to work around the clock with our partners and will provide updates until the issues are resolved.
Then we had another one come through just about 3-hours ago. This one was also signed as coming from Jorg Neumann, Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator which I suspect is meant to remind us that they are essentially all hands on deck trying to solve this.
Here’s what Jorg had to say:
Update on the technical issues affecting MSFS 2024: We continue to see access and bandwidth issues as more users come online globally. We’re actively working on increased capacity fixes. We want to express our gratitude to the community and apologize for this frustrating experience. We’ll share ongoing updates across our channels.
Taking the community’s temperature
I’ve been keeping tabs on reactions across the community and while there are a lot of understandably frustrated feelings out there, there are quite a few folks who are getting in and starting to experience the sim. Even there, other bugs beyond the connection issues, are cropping up and there are some definite issues.
We’ve also seen some calling for refunds. Others are suggesting that we should be able to elect to install more of the sim’s content locally. There are mixed feelings on the new career mode and on the walk around features for the aircraft.
I myself have only had a few minutes of time with the sim so far and I too was struggling to have anything download and I had missing terminals at airports and slow loading of textures of different aircraft that I was trying to look at. The walk around feature seemed to be causing some issues for me as well with click spots not always functioning.
Suffice to say, this one may take some time to get sorted out. I had thoughts of being able to remove MSFS 2020 from my system and move over to the new sim but it seems like this will be a slower process than even I had assumed. Hopefully a lot of these early teething issues are sorted out soon and that we’ll all be able to start focusing on the details of the new sim. There is an awful lot to like about MSFS 2024 but we’ll have to get through these initial problems first.
More to report on soon!
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