Microsoft’s Flight Simulator 2024 launch day customers seeing lengthy loading occasions

For those who tried to get some flight time in Flight Simulator 2024 right this moment solely to search out your self watching a loading display screen, you’re not alone. The official X web page for Microsoft’s flight sim posted an replace that a number of customers are reporting “lengthy preliminary loading occasions.” Not precisely the debut anybody hoped for.

The submit blames the sport’s slowdown on the big variety of server requests making an attempt to log into the sport without delay — possibly one thing Microsoft ought to have anticipated. The submit additionally recommends rebooting your laptop or console if the preliminary load makes it previous 90 p.c mark after which stalls out. If it’s underneath 90 p.c and nonetheless loading, Microsoft advises “ready to permit the loading to proceed as regular.” Our personal has been caught the exact same loading display screen for round 45 minutes.

Xbox launched Flight Simulator 2024 and added it to its catalog for PC, Xbox Collection X/S and the cloud right this moment following a in October for the PC model. Microsoft recommends working the sport on PCs with an AMD Ryzen 7 2700X CPU, a Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU, 8 GB of VRAM, 32 GB of RAM and 50 GB of space for storing.