Tuesday’s launch of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 was not a smooth one. Access issues, long queues to login, loading problems, and all kinds of bugs were causing users a lot of headaches. While there is more work to do, the good news is that it seems like the worst is now behind us or at least it appears to be improving significantly. Here’s the latest communications from the team and how things are looking now.
Improvements showing
It’s been a rough start but things are starting to settle down for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Last night, Microsoft’s Jorg Neumann wrote an update that was posted to social media channels reporting that they were seeing improvements to capacity and to access.
We are seeing significant improvements to the capacity and access issues. We plan to gradually increase capacity while we monitor the situation. We are feeling optimistic that players will be able to access the sim and take to the skies. We thank you for your ongoing patience and will provide another update on Friday.
That was followed up this afternoon with reports of smoother access as well as a deployed hotfix to solve some critical issues.
Good news: we’ve made continued improvements that provide smoother access to the simulator. We have also deployed a hotfix that further increases stability and addresses the player experience by fixing critical issues. We will continue to investigate any issues and keep the community informed. Thank you again for your ongoing support and enjoy your time in the skies.
The hotfix has a short list of updates that includes the elimination of a couple of crashing issues, a missing cursor on Xbox Live sign-in popup and an issue where you could get stuck when accessing the menu bar from any help page
But is it actually working?
The answer right now is definitively yes in my experience. There have been big changes even in the last 24-48 hours where before nothing seemed to be loading in, aircraft selection was extremely sluggish, and textures would flat up refuse to stream in on new aircraft.
Today I was able to fly a few different aircraft with much less delay and none of the refusal to load that we were seeing before.
I’ve been checking out the new pilot career experience and seeing what it offers to new flight simmers, journal forthcoming, but suffice to say that its now up and running and displaying few of the problems I saw before.
There are still bugs and problems to sort through and it sounds like regionally there may still be some issues here and there but I do hope that the worst is now behind us. Like MSFS 2020, which was also quite rough on launch, this one is having some serious issues but it’s getting there.
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