Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 was launched on PC and Xbox yesterday however early gamers have struggled to load and even end putting in the sport. Customers have reported a variety of points — together with post-installation hundreds stalling earlier than completion, lengthy login queues, and the sport itself crashing — with the $70 flying sim presently tagged as “Overwhelmingly Adverse” in buyer evaluations on Steam.
Some gamers are seeing their downloads freeze at 97 %, whereas others have been caught on a login queue web page at launch for a number of hours that claims “too many customers try to attach on the similar time.” Microsoft suggested gamers to test the Xbox Help Standing web page for updates, which doesn’t record any ongoing points with the sport on the time of writing.
“We’re conscious of person experiences of lengthy preliminary loading instances into Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024,” Microsoft stated by way of the Flight Simulator help account on X. “With so many customers initializing the sim concurrently, we’ve got numerous server requests. We’re working to assist resolve the problems as quickly as attainable.”
For now, Microsoft is advising gamers to reboot the sport in the event that they’re unable to complete loading past 90 %. Some customers fortunate sufficient to clear these hurdles and play the sport are additionally experiencing bugs like disappearing cursors and belongings not loading appropriately — mirroring related points that occurred throughout its predecessor’s launch in 2020.
