Category: MSFS 2024
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⭐ Optimization Guide: Performance Boost Tricks for MSFS
This article will be updated regularly as new tricks to improve MSFS 2024 (and 2020) performance are discovered, so stay tuned. Recent new tricks were added on Thursday, October 16, 2025, and are marked with ⚠️ icon. Applying various tricks and tweaks to Windows 11 (and 10), as well as to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024…
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Inside the Developer Stream: Roadmaps, Features, and Future of MSFS
Microsoft Flight Simulator’s Developer Stream has become a cornerstone of the simulator’s community-facing communications. For long-time simmers and newcomers alike it’s the place where the team behind the sim — Microsoft and Asobo Studio — step outside the studio walls and talk directly to the players: showing roadmaps, explaining technical choices, answering community questions, and…
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Around the World in 50 Flights: Most Scenic MSFS Screenshots
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 continues to be one of the most visually stunning experiences in gaming, and its community has taken full advantage of that. Over the past few months, players from around the world have been capturing breathtaking moments from their virtual flights — everything from serene sunrises over remote islands to intense approaches…
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Testing Sim Update 4 Beta: Bug Fixes, Visual Improvements, and Road to Launch
Sim Updates in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, aka MSFS 2024, are the mechanism Asobo uses to deliver engine-level fixes, performance work, and simulator-wide features (separate from Marketplace aircraft/scenery updates). Sim Update 4, aka SU4, is being positioned as another stability, visuals and quality-of-life update — an important one because it targets persistent issues and adds…
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MSFS 2024 Lands on PlayStation 5: Supported Flight Controls Checked
Microsoft Flight Simulator has long been the gold standard for civilian and general-aviation simulation on PC (and more recently on Xbox), and the news that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is officially coming to PlayStation 5 is a big deal for console pilots. Asobo Studio and Microsoft confirmed the PS5 release during Sony’s State of Play:…
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VATSIM or IVAO: Real-World Pilot’s Deep Dive
When I first discovered online flight simulation networks, my sim experience changed forever. Suddenly, I wasn’t flying through a sterile, empty world anymore — I was sharing the sky with hundreds of other pilots and live air traffic controllers. I was listening to real phraseology, following real clearances, waiting in virtual holds, and dealing with…
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Flying Smooth or Stuttering: MSFS 2024 Ready to Replace 2020?
Don’t forget to study one of our most-read article, Performance Boost Tricks for MSFS, to make your flying much smoother. Every pilot knows the truth: airplanes live and die by reliability. I’ve flown across oceans in heavy jets, through unpredictable weather systems, and into congested airspaces where every detail matters. In those environments, you don’t want…
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Touching the Sky: MSFS 2024 with Sim Update 3
Don’t forget to study one of our most-read article, Performance Boost Tricks for MSFS, to make your flying much smoother. I’ve been a real-world line pilot for a decade, and when I boot a flight sim I’m not looking for pretty clouds alone — I want systems that behave like the ones that wake me…
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Keeping It Real: Why Navdata Matters in Simulators
Navdata (navigation data) is the standardized digital database that provides the essential information an aircraft’s navigation systems need to operate safely and efficiently. It contains details such as waypoints, airways, airports, runways, Standard Instrument Departures (SIDs), Standard Terminal Arrival Routes (STARs), instrument approach procedures, and restricted or controlled airspace. Without accurate navdata, aircraft could deviate…










