Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is out in the present day, and it isn’t going properly. Set up points are being extensively reported, and whereas Microsoft has some recommendation, it’s sadly simply this: Maintain ready till one thing begins occurring.
The troubles are most seen (as typical) on Steam, the place Flight Sim 2024 is at the moment sagging underneath a “principally adverse” ranking thanks primarily to put in points. Some customers cannot get it put in in any respect, whereas others say the method took hours to finish and left them with lacking menus or content material. Others say they have been capable of obtain and run the sport, however after a restart or crash have been compelled to begin the method yet again, which resulted in them being caught again in a await server queues.
“I downloaded the sport and bought to fly a aircraft,” one Steam consumer reported. “Sport stated that I must restart to allow my settings. I did and now the sport is downloading [a] second time.”
We have skilled comparable points ourselves: Quite than hovering into the wild blue yonder, PC Gamer’s Chris Livingston has spent greater than an hour watching this:
Microsoft acknowledged the issue with “lengthy preliminary loading instances” in a submit on X. “With so many customers initializing the sim concurrently, we’ve got numerous server requests,” the Flight Simulator assist account wrote. “We’re working to assist resolve the problems as quickly as doable.
“For customers whose preliminary load is previous 90% and not progressing, we suggest a reboot. In any other case we advise ready to permit the loading to proceed as regular.”
That is not probably the most useful recommendation ever, particularly given Steam’s normal two-hour time restrict on refund requests, which a number of folks say they’ve already surpassed simply ready for the set up to complete. Microsoft acknowledged in a separate submit that the issue with lacking planes can also be “associated to the server points we’re at the moment working to resolve.”
Hopefully Microsoft can have a correct repair rolled out quickly—it owns the Azure cloud computing platform, so possibly there’s some assist to be discovered there—however for now, that is apparently nearly as good because it will get: Simply cling in there, child! We’ll preserve you posted, and within the meantime you possibly can preserve monitor of how issues are going your self on the Xbox Standing assist web page.
