Should You REInstall MSFS 2024!!

[@billbaggins1688]

19:40 Why you should re-install is here. That's a lot of hand gestures you don't need to sit through.

[@phaidros100]

thanks

[@specky4eyes742]

yeah thanks man.

[@tripodcatz5532]

Right? I mean, Jesus, this guy gesticulates more than most people masturbate.

[@vrj0]

Thank you man.

[@whammo11224]

Thanks

[@StevesSimStation]

You dont need to uninstall MSFS2024 if its working just fine... its not necessary if you just have a few bugs. My sim is working like a dream and has no issue

[@azrzgaming]

Clickbaiting titles never end around this Platform

[@TheFlightLevel]

Totally agree! No issues at all. Zero CTD’s. Smoothest sim experience ever! Far too many people mess around with settings and end up in trouble down the road.

[@highaltitude787]

@@TheFlightLevelwhat’s your cpu? I have i9 11900k and not getting the best performance at airports and takeoff and landing

[@ArtenellaVita]

Why the heck should I do that?

[@TheFlightLevel]

@@highaltitude787 Perhaps my new system may make a difference. i9 14900

[@garrethshaw9305]

as a software QA manager - a performance test of a scale of connections is not a bad test - its how the results are extrapolated. if your up to or very close to server capacity at 200k then you can easily say that you do not have bandwidth. My guess is the cost was a factor, they didn't want to pay for the commissioning of many server and CPU just for launch, as they know traffic would stabilise after the fact. But, when you have some customers paying $200 for a product, that really shouldn't be a limiting factor, as a customer you don't care, you want to access you purchase straight away. In industry. this is more common that you think

[@john-or9cf]

@@garrethshaw9305 you’re right, I’m sure but I don’t buy the excuse. They know what the FS020 user base is, any decent sales dept should be able to forecast a potential upgrade base.

[@lorenzo-agnes]

I did the reinstall this morning and it works perfectly. Remembered all my control preferences too. Thanks for the heads up!

[@hoechspannung5133]

And what about your Charakter? Ist sie also still there?

[@lorenzo-agnes]

@ Yessir!

[@hoechspannung5133]

@@lorenzo-agnes Thank you! 😊

[@lorenzo-agnes]

@@hoechspannung5133 You’re welcome!

[@john-or9cf]

Anybody else notice fs2020 has also been affected! Startup is the slowest it’s been in a couple of years!

[@CubPilot84]

🙋‍♂

[@johnmoyle4195]

Yes, I am suddenly having all kinds of problems.

[@JockoFlocko]

Yeah, the initial 'checking for updates' screen has started taking forever since 2024 launched.

[@ellonysman]

Today was molasses 😅

[@CeliniaGava]

That's so you'll be disatisfied with 2020 and "upgrade" to 2024. They don't want you continuing to use 2020. 1.5 TB is not unreasonable in this day and age. I've got 8 TB in SSD's right now, my old setup with actual old school hard drives had 66TB of storage space. Agreed, that's not typical, but 8 to 12 TB certainly is.

[@OrionRox]

Please stop click baiting and advise people to re-install their game. TBH clicking that "repair" button would solve 95% of the issues... Reinstalling should almost never be necessary, especially since the MSFS2024 is heavily cloud based. If your MSFS2024 runs smoothly, don't fking touch it. If your MSFS2024 has issues, and you are not the only one who has the issue, just wait for the patch. Let me suggest a new title for your next video: You NEED to BUY a brand new computer to play MSFS 2024!!" PS: Who tf making a video about how to change community folder location with word and hand gestures only? At least show some in-game setting screen dude.

[@gcritch33]

Agreed and just surprised the advice didn't extend to re-installing the OS to ensure a clean registry. Too many people out there will blindly follow "advice" like this.

[@ScruffyMisguidedAndBlue]

I went to look at verifying the files in the MS Store version yesterday and it warned that it would reset the game and career. As my game is running pretty well aside from bugs like engines cutting out for no good reason, I didn't want to do that.

[@MrBigdan90]

If i just readed this comment before reinstall...

[@SwedeSpeeder]

I bought a brand new PC for it. Lol. Smooth as glass.

[@adamu6941]

@@SwedeSpeeder This is not enough, we also have to move!

[@brlowe1]

I would have a dedicated 4TB M.2 for it if I could have it installed locally

[@bootstrapflyer]

First of all, thank you for taking the time to collect and inform us of all the latest information, I have followed your channel for a few years now and trust your judgment. However, speaking for myself, I have got the simulator setup just the way I want it with the display and control settings that I need for an experience that is an improvement from FS2020, especially in hard-hitting areas like London, Tokyo, New York, etc. I am not having any issues regarding streaming data at the moment. If I start running into issues regarding the performance of FS2024 in the future, I will be re-installing the whole sim after a thorough uninstall.

[@shinkicker404]

IIRC the reason is while the base install is 1.2TB, the entire world, including map data was 3PB... ain't no one got space for that.

[@DaveNicoll-p3l]

Unless you work at NASA 😂😂

[@gregorymckenna6609]

3 PB???? I need to buy several billion floppy disks

[@SteveC1952]

I see from previous comments you have been adequately reprimanded for the title, enough said on that. Content is very helpful, thank for the updates and explanations. I don’t think I saw a reply from you on the important question from several folks on lost settings, control bindings, logged hours, etc. as a result of reinstalling 2024. Even so, the learning curve re bindings was the hard part for me, recreating the wheel would be much faster now. I understand the large size of the sim issue, but perhaps local storage of frequently used aircraft as well as scenery (I.e. a large cache) would go a long way in reducing load times. Thanks again for your contributions to the community.

[@OverkillSimulations]

Hey I changed it!! :( I don’t think it should as they should be stored on the cloud as well… but since they didn’t speak to that.. I’m not sure. I use SPADnext for that reason among others

[@JStack]

The size and associated issues with it were just a lie to push everyone using their cloud/AI services, which they can then sell as MASSIVE CLOUD USAGE SPIKE AND 200K ACTIVE OPT IN DAILY USERS OF OUR AI SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH GAMING. For example, why does NO other game have that issue lmao

[@antonioiozzi9171]

I have predicted this failure of the new version was an attempt to make more money from the million users they have found. I did'nt purchaised it and decided to wait and see ... and I was right. I am 67 years old and after working 40 years I know Microsoft quite well. I will remain with 2020 quite a lot of time and only when (and if) all problem will be solved I will purchaise it. In the meantime real computer configuration needed will be much more clear and surely don't spend 2000 usd for a GPU as a RTX4090 only to play a crapped game called MSFS2024.

[@dont155]

You are actually missing out. The new simulator is brilliant and has so much more potential. Don't be cynically swayed by all of the doom and gloom from dramatic KZbin influencers. I too know Microsoft very well as I have been flight simming on a Microsoft product since 1998. Yes, they are crappy at game launches, always have been. BUT - for all of the problems that showed up in the first few days of THIS launch, this is, by far, - the FASTEST - I've seen them resolved. Very FEW people as a percentage of the community are still having problems. My sim is working wonderfully now aside from the occasional hang up at game launch. About 1 out of 10 times launching it will hang. I expect that will even go away in the next week or so. Yes the sim scenery and smoothness are not just playable, but in fact are GREAT. But it IS your time and money to invest, if you're comfortable with FS2020, that too is now a GREAT sim.

[@cptquirk]

For the Steam version, could clicking "verify integrity of game files" be enough? Just tried it, and it found 3 files that failed to validate, so it re-downloaded them and all files now successfully validate...

[@WmWQuickMD]

Where do I find the "verify integrity of game files" clickspot? In MSFS2024 or ???

[@marcusmiller8267]

@@WmWQuickMD I just copied this from the AI response to your question (a fair question BTW) "To verify game files on Steam, open your Steam library, right-click on the game you want to check, select "Properties", then navigate to the "Local Files" tab and click "Verify integrity of game files" - Steam will scan and replace any corrupted or missing files". This is if you purchased it on Steam of course.

[@daifuco]

I bought XP12 in the sales and loving it so far. No need at all to rush into MSFS but of course Ill try it again eventually.

[@JoeDFWAviation]

They could’ve at least given us the ability to create new liveries for the default planes. That shouldn’t have any effect on career mode, right??

[@rectifierguy0462]

Actually, when you place your Community folder in path like "C:\MSFS\Community" you can reduce system clutter and slightly improve the load times for addons and scenery. It's not dramatic but It's better then that long path inside /appdata/...

[@gmooreUSAF]

I downloaded MSFS at launch and haven't been able to play for more the 10 min due to BSOD and CTDs. I monitored my temps and they were fine. Ran through a ton of troubleshooting, chasing down error codes and reinstalling MSFS2024 was the fix I needed. Just finished over an hour session without crashing.

[@john-or9cf]

Imagery: the Goodyear Airdock in Akron is still a two story, flat building…kinda hard to miss a 20 story, 1000’ building in ANY database.

[@joshuacooper9625]

This was one of the first things I checked for.

[@john-or9cf]

@@joshuacooper9625 I worked in that facility - now it’s shown as a pancake!

[@donpardo9093]

There is no need to uninstall and reinstall at all! The patches and updates will remedy all issues.

[@dabneyoffermein595]

AH, thanks, that makes total sense. Never thought of that. PHEEEW I was dreading doing it because I had already setup my ADD-ONS Linker and got it working for both versions of MSFS, which I just love to death.

[@pierresparks881]

Thanks for the video. I installed the sim a few days after launch, so I think I may not need to reinstall since I probably installed after the fix they put in. My sim works fine, good thing I did not try VR yet, I will wait after patch 3.

[@MarkAlderson]

OverKill, wow were you right. My startup went from about 10 minutes to 2 minutes and 30 seconds. I repeated several times all with the same result. My game seemed to be running okay, just the loading was long. Thanks for the tip!

[@richardmarkowitz5341]

Thanks for the tip about creating an alternate community folder. That's a great tool to have for resolving possible community folder issues.

[@pchappy2.0]

So based on this cloud crap, if I uninstall this mess, is it going to make me redo all my keybinds again? If I understand how this was supposed to be set up from the get go, then it should save them to the cloud right?

[@excessivelysalty_81]

the keybinds should be in the cloud, just like it was in 2020.

[@Rob-s2d]

YES, keeps your log book hours too

[@dabneyoffermein595]

Read the post from DonPardo above, he says you don't have to re-install

[@raymondgoubet]

Indeed, very useful video! 👍👍Question: if I reinstall FS2024, will I have to redo my controllers' settings? Or are these saved in the cloud, and not only in the ...limitless SystemAppData wgs folder?

[@acratone8300]

In a 2020 reinstall, you would not lose your controller settings. I don't know about 2024, but not in 2020. I reinstalled 2020 twice, did not lose any controller setttings.

[@77flyer]

I want to know that as well, really dont want to loose all the hrs I put in for the settings

[@jimfrederich8852]

I reinstalled twice today and I had to redo all of my bindings. I still have trouble getting the sim to load. It frequently stops in the 60% range. VERY Frustrating!

[@ooDemiurgus]

@@jimfrederich8852 That does suck, but I like how the controls bind in the new sim. Way easier than before. That's something

[@Godfather19704]

I bought a new rig two days ago and re-installed MSFS24 and all of my control bindings were still there.

[@Cotija1975111]

Thanks for the video man!! Do you loose controls / hardware mapping if you re-install?? Re-binding everything would be a pain in the ass!!

[@RobertA-ns3fh]

just tried the re-install...excellent results! Thank you!

[@conlethbyrne4809]

I downloaded from the store and 😂must have bought all copies of 2020. So clean PC. If I have a dot two, 2tb C: drive & dot two for the motherboard 1tb B: Drive from the motherboard, Can you play both Sims on the one machine? Granted I need to update my Ryzen(£300)😮 yep, CPU at a later date. What happened to your eye? Fighting game? in VR? Lol ❤️ 😆 🤣 😂 😹 Speaking of VR I bought a quest 3 and my nephew will not had it back, he's moved in and you wanna see the stuff in there 😅stone is mad, but good fun. Can this be 26:35 used with the quest, if i manage to get them back? P.S. I'm more confused now than I was before the video. 😉

[@MI325A]

I am happy they want to offer free gifts....However....😊 I'd rather have it be where we could CHOOSE which aircraft (up to 4) we would like to have. For instance, in my case, I only purchased the Standard package and I'm certainly not going to be using all those aircrafts. Yet, I'd like to get 1 or 2 aircrafts from the premium WITHOUT spending another $30 or $40 or even more) and having 10 or 15 aircrafts that I am NOT interested in. Again that is my thought. Going with your mentioning why not full download. One thing I didn't hear you mention but I did read is, that they are thinking of allowing us to download specific areas that we fly or utilize the most. So, that can be a big help. Thank you for keeping us in the loop. Take care.

[@GarageBandSuperheros]

Any news on the broken flaps on career mode? I'm gonna try the clean reinstall now. (The DHC Beaver, G36 bonanza, and taildragger cub, you can't use flaps, even when sitting still on the runway ready to take off you get a overspeed warning for flaps down. Makes earning credits, experience, and keeping reputation in A or above difficult since you're limited to the 172 missions and they're not always the most profitable. the Optica doesn't have flaps issues for me, but no employee missions pay well, I assume freelance will also have flaps issues.) I'm hoping at least. I'm trying to keep positive :(

[@40YOgamerz]

This seems like a great idea for 13:56 new players. But I can tell the difference as far as controls. There’s a slight lag. I have 1g up and down fiber. There shouldn’t be any lag at all.

[@johannesdewald5487]

frankly spoken, this video convinced me to further wait until moving to 24

[@Fadamor]

10:30 I agree with you that this should be an option, but putting all the files locally raises the concern about updates and patches. They can currently do a lot of corrections in-house that then are included in the normal streams. I witnessed this after 1.1.10.0 was released and Career Mode was borked. They disabled Career Mode on their end, made a fix, and then Career Mode was working again without us having to download another patch. If people had the game installed locally, a separate service would have to be set up to offer those updates as a download.

[@Sebastopolmark]

Is there any way to save the bindings so we do not have to "re-bind" after the re-install??

[@jonberunning]

unable to find the live stream link you say that is listed below you say it at 3:38

[@AMomentInTimeProductions]

Yeah i don't think that would be an issue to download the entire sim, i run 2020 off of an 8TB M.2 drive and that is more than plenty to have both 2020 and 2024.. so that is bunch of BS.. and can download the software at crazy speeds at over 856.00 Mbps on a bad day, and on a good day about 1450 Mbps without a hitch. They should give us the option with a warming message when you go to install it. Ok so those who can't download that fast than they will have the option to download what they allow now, so at least give us the option for those who can handle this.. I think they should put that in there in a patch..

[@fpstewy1161]

So basically we were sold a tech alpha with missing planes, no marketplace, half working ATC, and a terrible career mode. Even NeoFly is better for me anyway.

[@ZiggyAir]

and they refused to my reimbursement request.

[@vbc200]

Yes I did the reinstall last night took only 20 minutes for me it was ok to do because I had not invested to much In them yet. Plus it remembered all my key and control bidings works good

[@likes2fly]

awesome video. Could you do a video on tweaking native and third party planes cruise speed and maybe horsepower? I was able to adjust the cruise speed on the free Cessna 206 but I did not have any success with other planes. I wanted to simulate a Cessna 210 for speed.

[@JenniferinIllinois]

1.5Tb. Space wise - not necessarily an issue. Access wise - HUGE issue when internet providers still enforcing data caps. Won't even go into how many days it would take with my less than optimal connection.

[@Skiller2705]

Hopefully they fix the PC 12 NGX. The cabin does not pressurize properly.

[@Rockwolf50]

They only tested with 200k connections and anyone is surprised? They have watched Blizzard and EA do the same thing for YEARS. This launch made a WoW expansion launch look like a picnic. And we never got any free goodies out of that. These “freebies” while awesome were always baked into the cost of doing business.

[@S0L0D0G]

I still get nightmares when I recall the WoW: Warlords of Draenor release 😕. MS2024 seemed like a walk in the park by comparison. 🙂

[@ScruffyMisguidedAndBlue]

It was a CDN error, not a network load issue.

[@criscusack]

Very informative video, thanks. What is on your head?? :)

[@GovG33k]

Great video, thanks for the effort!

[@thatguy7085]

I’ve had MSI afterburner for a few years, it is nice to know what is going on.

[@Nissan_Lev-Ran]

Many many thanks, the best comprehensive and Great helpswnd tips. 🎉

[@wilga80]

Thanks for the info!

[@ooDemiurgus]

Thanks for the video! I recently built a PC for my 3d print farm in the garage, and I installed '24 on it as well as the 3d stuff. I have been getting blue screens periodically while running the sim. I hadn't ruled out a hardware issue, being a brand new build, but it looks like now I can! This is obviously a FS24 issue not my new build. You just saved me a shit ton of time! Thanks! Gonna re install the sim now.

[@OverkillSimulations]

If it helps usually I would think BSOD would be either drivers or RAM. A trick that I use is run a GPU benchmark software to put the load back on the hardware to rule out MSFS

[@shad0wfrce]

Dude off the topic... hanging mic on your cap is brilliant :p

[@josephf2157]

As usual you gave a very very good description of all the issues that are going on with the new SIM That's why I subscribe to you because you are very very precise in your videos and I appreciate that very much question... Is Microsoft going to continue to support 2020? Now that 2024 is out

[@markmcnair4800]

Awesome vid!! Thanks for all this info

[@slicker55]

Thanks for another very informative video, now is a good time to ask, if you reinstall, do you have to set up all your sim preferences, keyboard and controller settings again?

[@ebojager]

Thank you, great video! Will my current bindings still be there when I reinstall? .... Never mind, just re-installed and everything but the graphics settings synced.

[@mrdude2702]

You are seeing only 2.5 minute load times? Seriously? I'm still seeing 22 minutes, even after multiple full re installs. That's even longer than my FS20 took with a 1.5Tb community folder attached. I too have 1.2Gb/s internet connection, which I have tested to see if it is working correctly - it is. *** UPDATE *** What ever was causing the extremely long startup times has been resolved with the latest patch which was released 12/10/24. My startup time is now an astonishing 1:35 (yep, under two minutes). Also, anything I'm about to say has anything to do with YOU and your comments. I understand you are just the messenger. But, B S to MS and Asobo on about 90% of the comments related to "why". First, the idea that the default planes are encrypted to protect the career mode - B S. Most, if not all, of those planes are non-Asobo built. They paid a license to use them and I'm positive the license was not with full "do what you want" approval. They are probably tracking how many times each plane is used so they can pay the creator accordingly each quarter, and they also want to control that any "issues" are not add-on or mod created. Also, notice in Market place it already says if you want additional skins they would like for you to pay $$. How can they enforce that request if we can just add a few files to our PC copies? The best way to protect that investment is to encrypt the files so they can not be changed or shared. Second, the idea that the system needs to be streamed because it is way too big to download onto your hard drive, major B S again. Yes, the entire global data is huge. But they very easily could break the world into sectors. You opt-in to download a sector. If you are flying a CE-172 in Chicago, there is no reason to have Tokyo also loading. As for the huge size, MS could offer to sell drives with that data that you could then transfer to your PC. But, they are not likely to want to do that because MS is under the impression that everyone in the world wants to have their products for FREE. They tried to do the same streaming concept with their Office products (talking about Office365 subscriptions as an example) but received a huge push-back. They could have made it a simple option to save the cache to your drive at a location that you chose in your settings. If you do not have a cache of that location, it will stream and save simultaneously, if you chose that option. The other part of the stream requirement is due to the Xbox compatibility requirement from MS. They need to understand that a PC version and a separate Xbox version is the better method of keeping the system optimized . Third, regarding the 200,000 test connections. When I worked in Enterprise IT, I ran into this issue with MS constantly. They way over state the capabilities of their technology, and then they push for others to assume that all stats are 100% continual operation, when they are actually peak performance only. They thought that they could push the data out faster than we could request it. Their "millions of FS20 users" were not connected simultaneously, and they failed to recognize how many people were going to be sitting at their screens on day1. I'm sure the reason the market place and the multi play systems were taken off-line were so they could use those networks to boost the primary systems until the surge subsided. Here's some news to MS/Asobo, if your product is worth anything, then don't assume that there will only be a surge, especially if the product must be streamed. If anything, the first week will be slower than the coming weeks as popularity spreads about the product. I'll stop there, for now. I have the same comments about most of the stuff you regurgitated from their press releases, but you get the point. I enjoy your channel and encourage you to keep up the great content. And again, my comments are in no way a shot at you but are directed at ASOBO and MS. My message to them is don't fill us with a bunch of sales crap when you know the issue is all about the way MS likes to protect their content and force uses to spend more $$ if they want to continue using their products. Some day MS will learn that treating their loyal customers this way will come back to bite them in the future.

[@gotgravel]

Nice vid!! However you mentioned 1500Gb (1.5TB) at 9:37 ... this is incorrect as it's a 1000x more at 1.5PB (Peta Bytes). Not Tera Bytes. Installing the whole sim is simply not an option (would require a few hundred 2TB drives at your home).

[@AceofSpades-nd3hy]

Seb mentioned during the dev stream downloading all the assets (presumably NOT including the petabytes of bing data itself) would be about 1.5TB had they done 2024 the same way they did 2020. It did sound like they will make that possible but he doesn’t recommend doing it.

[@gotgravel]

@@AceofSpades-nd3hy That sounds about right (and Overkill does say "base installation" several times). So all core code, all your aircraft, world 3D models (trees, plants, rocks, houses, bridges etc), sounds, common textures all that stuff.

[@TPHI17]

Don’t forget if you want to download the SIM to your hard drive they’ve stated several times that just the map data is petabytes in size so pretty much undoable

[@Chrisp707-]

As i said in a comment the 3pb of data is just the SAME DATA that was streamed in 2020 so that part is fine. It's the 1.5tb of standard sim that we should be given the option to download.

[@shoop4040]

Just like I did for 2020 I waited a few months & like I’ll do with 2024 then I’ll pay and install . This year I’ll probably buy it for Me for xmass .

[@BearWa11ace]

Very helpful video. Thanks.

[@smokey433]

Thank you for sharing this information. Very helpful.

[@shaunmartin7123]

Cheers for the info. To be honest, I was having CTDs every flight, so I uninstalled and reinstalled, and the CTDs are now gone - fingers crossed. I added aircraft and add-ons one by one to see whether any of them would cause a CTD and none did, so I'm guessing the reinstall helped. On another point, I noted that you said you fly the TBM850 a lot. I love that aircraft, but try as I might, I can't get any switch sounds or engine noises on MSFS2024. Frustrating as hell.

[@mrellis1181]

Even after doing all of this i still get stuck at 97%

[@edwardpiroska9757]

After multiple uninstalls and reinstalls, my load time to start MSFS 2024 is still pushing 20 minutes. Been that way since the beginning. The only workaround I've found is starting the sim without my internet connection. When it reaches an error indicator (30 seconds), I reconnect to the internet and in less than two minutes it's ready to go.

[@dabneyoffermein595]

dude, something is dead-A$$ wrong. I would delete everything related to 2024, scan inside your registry too. do windows updates, BIOS update, Firmware updates, Chipset updates, do it ALL. Also make sure you are on Windows 11, yes I know, MSFS2020 did not play nice with Windows 11 but all of those issues are fixed. Disable your Anti-Virus before doing all of this and then go to your Windows Store (XBOX app) and install the product. You probably should reboot your modem/router/firewall as well BEFORE re-installing (re-downloading) --- This should only be done by qualified computer technicians - or those that stayed at a Holiday Inn Express the night before the attempt. Now re-install your Anti-Virus

[@jaybats7865]

Hi, great vid! I’m running on PC XBOX. Should I uninstall from Windows Apps or from XBOX or both and in which order? I just don’t want to screw this up😅 Thanks in advance.

[@ShannonNewbold]

Does reinatalling effect your career mode settings

[@ShimonMaruani]

What about my career progress? And all my keybind? Will it be saved when re installed?

[@WihteyWolf]

saved in cloud dont worry

[@francoisdyckmans1210]

Thanks a lot for this quite informative video ! Am reinstalling the simulator now. Hope this gonna fix the ''trillion'' of bugs already identified... But, honestly speaking, do you have the feeling that launching such a major software like MSFS 2024 in those sh**ty conditions is really serious.... ? Cheers. Francois

[@KevsChronicles]

two things: 1st, I love your intro music, never change it! such a big hair late 80's/early 90's hard rock band sound...connects with me in a big way. 2nd- have you experienced or heard about an issue where the nvidia app (new app not old geforce experience) does not detect msfs 2024 at all, and if so, what is the fix??? Ive tried everything, not fixed. I have a lenovo legion laptop with nvidia rtx 4060 laptop gpu, 8 gb Vram. I have msfs installed in my fastest 2 TB ssd hard drive but it's not my main C drive its my D drive that I added after I bought the laptop...could that be it?

[@FlightSimPilotRockster]

i did not have a choice, i was forced to reinstall after the last update came out. after updating the sim wouldn't start at all no matter what I did so I reinstalled, its a good thing this sim installs and sets up extremely quickly

[@shokwavxb]

The reinstall (Steam) went quick but didn't see a change in the nasty looking trees here and there and some of the buildings. Performance is the same. VR Pimax Crystal / 4090 / 64gb RAM, 78003dx, 1gig FIOS. Anyway, this was mentioned as a just in case something got messed up on the initial install. So reinstalling was quick and easy and worth it to me if only for the peace of mind the install didn't get borked somewhere from the day 1 "experience".

[@JoelFinkel]

Thanks! But what about all the device configurations? Wouldn't we have to go back through the painful and laborious task of setting them all up again? As far as I can see, there is no way to export/import them.

[@regwatson2017]

And there should be a simple "save settings to your pc". And the ability to load of course. How hard would that be ?

[@JoelFinkel]

@@regwatson2017 After a full re-install, my control settings seem to have been saved to the cloud and synchronized when I started the reinstalled sim. So, it looks like there is no issue.

[@mhkins]

Same advice to reinstall for XBox series S/X?

[@MRxMADHATTER]

Shouldn't you be able to verify the installation through steam? Won't the patch fix any issues?

[@gregorymckenna6609]

I ran a test. I freshly painted a wall and started MSFS 2024. The paint dried long before MSFS2024 loaded

[@TheRobstar1983]

You could have watched the paint drying movie. Saved you some work 😂

[@ToBCreations]

As I understand it you will be able to download and save parts of the sim locally. But, if my memory don't fail me, the world is over 3 petabytes of data, and that understandably will not be possible to download. 😅 So it seems to by much misunderstanding out there.

[@billsmotrilla6215]

Is there a way to save all your controller/HOTAS bindings and copy them back into the new install?

[@MrBigdan90]

I did this and the RAM usage jumped to 15GB. (before was 12GB) Thanks

[@sanjivbhattacharjee9469]

Honestly the career mode will be successful if we can use aircrafts like Fenix or PMDG in the mode

[@TDiver-hy3st]

Unfortunately this did not work for me at all. MSFS 2024 was running reasonably well before; with minimal glitches/issues, no CTDs. I now cannot get it to run. CTD seconds after clicking start. All previous files/folders were confirmed to be cleared/removed. Install went great, but DOA. Will attempt verify/repair via Game Bar options and see what happens. I am running on a dedicated (MSFS only) i9-13900K, 64GB DDR5, RTX 4090, and Samsung 990 NVME drives, and 1Gig Ethernet. UPDATE: I'm going to chalk this up to MSFS 2024 servers still having "issues". I went through the uninstall & reinstall three times throughout the day. 3rd time it FINALLY installed and ran.

[@mokusmisi]

Thanks for this video! 🙂 Although I made all the steps you've recomended, at the Landing Challenges the Airbus 320 is not set up, At the start of the landing in case I make a take off preparation at the Reggio Calabria the plane behaves OK, but more or less all other cases (like Paro, Tegucigalpa, etc both engines work at full power, in spite the throttle levers position. The Cessna CJ4 engines are also set at full power no matter of the throttle levellers positions. The King Air 350, and the Cessna 208 Caravan have no reverse throttle, but thje TBM 930 reverse throttle works perfect. That was the situation before reintall as well, so I do not recognize any improvements related to these problems? Is there anybody who knows the solution?

[@flyWithDRS]

How to land autopilot like as 2020 in 2024 msfs

[@mike-ij9lv]

Yeah after watching the stream and them saying to uninstall and reinstalling the game. Well when i did that just today it fixed a lot of my issues on xbox series x especially with rendering. I installed on launch day so i guess cause everything went so wrong i was playing my game with corrupted files. All in all yes uninstall and reinstall absolutely worked for me

[@spike238]

Here working on the Flight Planner , amazing addition , every imaginable option , load your EFB , good to go

[@Tech-NO-City]

My career mode is destroyed after getting to lvl 40

[@requin02]

If I do the proper uninstall reinstall, as you mention, do I loose all my control bindings? Between VR and regular I spent at least a couple of hours setting them up. Can I back them up or are they stored server side?

[@shokwavxb]

I didn't lose my keybinds. I made a copy of all of my VR graphical settings / tuning after getting things good enough. Used that to reset the VR settings after reinstall. I recommend making notes as you get things tuned like NVIDIA settings, DLSS driver updates, VR settings so its easy to reconstruct on reinstall/rebuild/Murphy's Law catching up with you.

[@imflyboy_]

Did you see an improvement in Textures and Photogrammetry? My current performance and loading times are really good, so I am contemplating re installing. Unless there is texture improvement a least.

[@DylanB55]

same here, perf are really good for me so wonder if i really need to re install

[@chrisadish]

​@@DylanB55 DONT REINSTALL! THE PATCHES NEXT WEEK WILL FIX. MY SIM IS RUNNING GREAT

[@chrisadish]

Don't reinstall!

[@shokwavxb]

Meh, reinstall was quick and painless. Didn't notice improvements anywhere but the idea was Asobo didn't know if users got a messed up install so the suggestion was a just in case. But, if its not broken (more than normal in this case), don't fix it .. just like BIOS updates.

[@Lonsome1223]

Ever since the launch of 2025 I've had trouble launching 2020 today for the first time I've got a message can't sync with cloud do you want to play offline. Something strange is happening.

[@mak8836]

Will I retain my controller config after reinstalling?

[@jamesm568]

I found out that 64GB of RAM is not enough RAM as 96GB is the sweet spot. Holy crap what a major improvement that was.

[@scottwright8354]

I live and like to fly out of Wichita, KS. Right now, the visuals are better and much more accurate for the Air Capital of the world in the 2020 version than in 2024. Plus, right in the airport environment, there are many things missing. Also, a big pond at the approach end of RWY 19L, that doesn't exist in the real world! I also don't seem to have all the aircraft and features yet that were supposed to come with the Aviator edition? I haven't actually counted the aircraft, but I sure don't seem to have all of them.

[@DeanThat-o1t]

I fly in xbox with both 20&24. I don't see a slower 20 start up; also, after reinstalling 24, I do see some improvements. Thanks for the excellent and accurate tutorial videos. Have a blessed day.

[@marcusmiller8267]

In the video he mentions having to delete certain folder as well as uninstalling the game. Are there folders in Xbox that need to be deleted as well?

[@FlightSimPilotRockster]

when it comes to the comunity folder im using an addon linker and keep all my files in a directory outside the community folder so if something goes wrong I'll just unlink addons until I get to the issue, plus it lowers the startup time of the sim coz I only activate the addons I'm gonna use that session

[@vincebagadonis8016]

As for your community folder change fix without altering a config ...uh someone figured that out on day one.

[@tmog3836]

Most users aren't geeks and dont have the skills to fiddle with files and folders. Reinstall should be a simple process.

[@goalski134]

2 things: 1) does the career encryption mean i can never use the fenix 320 or a2a comanche in career mode? 2) i’m confused about the bing data 3 year cycle as candlestick park was a part of msfs 2020 and it was torn down in 2015.

[@ZiggyAir]

The performance is inconsistent; it works very well at times, other times just crap. Also, there are things that worked before fine, then they stop working or work differently. It's very frustrating.

[@TheJammiam]

What happens with all career mode advance?

[@deanna6359]

On my Steam installation I just used the uninstall option, then reinstalled it again. All my key binds remained, as did career progress etc. I heard on another video that the reinstall was necessary to get the ground textures to full resolution, as they weren't achieving that due to the CDN issues from initial launch. I think they looked better after the reinstall, but still don't think they're as detailed as the ground textures in FS20, even with FS24 textures set to Ultra ... but I've already uninstalled FS20 so I can't compare. I'm not sure if there was any performance gains from reinstalling as I already had it running smoothly anyway 🙂

[@Jake_TXL]

reinstalling mainly fixes the loading time of the sim

[@deanna6359]

@Jake_TXL I've noticed loading times vary anyway. Just this morning when I loaded MSFS24 it took a few minutes, then after quitting and reloading a little later, it was much quicker! I also noticed the same behaviour yesterday, even after reinstalling, sometimes it's quick to load, sometimes it isn't 🙂

[@CloseToTheMetal]

Never un-installed

[@DaveNicoll-p3l]

I haven't downloaded it yet, Iv'e purchased it but waiting for all the issues to be ironed out...I followed the launch and totally agree, it was very shortsighted planning from Asobo on release day....why on earth they didn't release it over time zones is beyond me, just seems common sense but let's be honest, most technical geniuses lack.

[@FS2024-o9s]

One question ❓ I installed MSFS 24 in E: Drive, but cach folder created in C Drive User/***/appdata/Roaming, around 50+ GB, and I know it will be eat full space in my C drive slowly , How to solve it

[@zino3087]

Lights on windsocks would be awesome too…… 👀 haven’t been to a lot of airports in 2024 but most I have been in. Don’t have windsock lights at night.

[@clemensbogner3045]

you could change the community folder in that easy way from day one. did microsoft/asobo somewhere suggest to reinstall?

[@Jake_TXL]

yes they did in their stream