1 hour ago, Eclex said:

None of the repondants here have mentioned the elephant in the room, being the lengthy configuration setup time required to start up the very first flight. If you don't fly with just keyboard and mouse, you must  have controller hardware, like throttle and flightstick minimum.  Since Asobo did not create a 'controllers config transfer program'  (between 2020 and 2024) I know I'll be busy for at least 2 hours doing all that necessary  stuff myself manually.  But It will certainly be worth it !  Just be prepared 🙂

My plans are to delete all the pre programmed assignments as so theres no hardware conflicts and then just use Axis and Ohs from my 2020 profiles once the two planes I fly are native ready for 2024.

That said, I do hope Asobo has learned the importance of coding this sim to be able to export controller assignments, logbooks, etc into whatever sim is to follow. I will say they did a great job on addons from the marketplace as I moved to a new computer a year ago and all my addons and I believe controller profiles loaded right up without doing anything. That was impressive to me.

You can also make profiles for each aircraft.

Edited November 17, 20241 yr by Tuskin38

I have just one item on my check list, establish why my Starlink has decided to give up the ghost four days before launch of 2024. A fantastic product for the past 18 months but now dead as a dodo. It looks like I will be relegated to reading all of your good and bad  experiences on my smartphone for at least a week longer which will be entertainment in itself.

Edited November 17, 20241 yr by Espana Pete
Missed out a word

Okay so I'm not a newbie, but I am with all things MS2024.

Will I be able to just "copy" the add-on folders that I have in my Packages folder, or do they need to be re-installed in MS2024 ? I have the Black Square planes, GTN 750 and a few JustFlight planes too

Edited November 17, 20241 yr by thecanarian

35 minutes ago, thecanarian said:

Okay so I'm not a newbie, but I am with all things MS2024.

Will I be able to just "copy" the add-on folders that I have in my Packages folder, or do they need to be re-installed in MS2024 ? I have the Black Square planes, GTN 750 and a few JustFlight planes too

You can, but it's a recipe for disaster. No or very little addons will be compatible by the sound of things at launch, far better to wait until your informed your addon will work. Otherwise your very quickly going to find CTD's or other issues. Try finding the issue with that is a nightmare, but each to their own.

If everyone starts dumping 2020 content straight into 2024 next Tuesday, this forum is going to be a hoot.

 

 

15 minutes ago, flyingscampi said:

If everyone starts dumping 2020 content straight into 2024 next Tuesday, this forum is going to be a hoot.

I can't even believe people are honestly considering doing that, that is so harebrained. 

Just backed up all my controller profiles to PDF, will start afresh with MSFS24 but handy to have should I forget a binding or two. 

Final proper flight in MSFS2020 might be tonight (if not already completed last week), although if the release is a buggy mess then I'll have that still installed to fall back on!

38 minutes ago, flyingscampi said:

If everyone starts dumping 2020 content straight into 2024 next Tuesday, this forum is going to be a hoot.

Indeed that would be a terrible idea. I plan to run the vanilla install for a day or so to get antiquated, get my graphics and controller settings right. After that I will add a few airports to check how they fare as is (love my Caribbean). I have so much to check out with the new default aircraft (Twin Otter, PC12, PC24, Cessna 308, SAAB 340, A330) that by the time I'm ready to test the PMDG 737 or Fenix A320 there may well be a compatibility update out. 

Edited November 17, 20241 yr by FrankSalo

40 minutes ago, MarcG said:

Just backed up all my controller profiles to PDF

 

How did you do that? Took screenshots?

58 minutes ago, Sethos said:

I can't even believe people are honestly considering doing that, that is so harebrained. 

crazy thing to do; there will be a long way ahead; very likely the priority is to iron out core 2024 bugs and only than compatibility with msfs2020 is considered.

6 minutes ago, ConairMSFS said:

How did you do that? Took screenshots?

just used this tool;
https://flightsim.to/file/52761/fs2020-control
 

3 minutes ago, MarcG said:

just used this tool;
https://flightsim.to/file/52761/fs2020-control
 

Cool! Thanks a lot.

10 hours ago, Eclex said:

None of the repondants here have mentioned the elephant in the room, being the lengthy configuration setup time required to start up the very first flight.

It's at times like these that I'm thankful I don't have a complex setup with throttles, rudder pedals, HOTAS, etc.

I only have a Logitech 3D Pro, which only has 12 buttons. Mapping my joystick only takes 5-10 minutes at most. I know some people will spend a whole day or two mapping buttons.

 

1 hour ago, Sethos said:

I can't even believe people are honestly considering doing that, that is so harebrained. 

Being on MSFS forum, you wouldn't believe how many people are going to do exactly that. I've been warning on the forums about MSFS 2024 addon compatibility of 2020 addons not being as smooth as it may seem, third party devs have been warning about it, but it seems like some people have chosen to bury their heads in the sand and take MS/Asobo's word for it that "virtually all addons will work".

I'm already mentally prepared for the amount of posts on the forums and on Reddit with peope posting a screenshot of a broken addon asking "Why is my addon broken?"

For me

PMDG 737
Dynamic LOD app
MSFS Map Enhancement
FSHud and AIG Traffic

That's about it I think.  I've no idea what is going to work and what won't.