Duke in 2024?

Sunake

I bought both the piston and turbine dukes several weeks ago. At the time I didn't realise they were not yet compatible with 2024 so the installer won't install them. How did you guys get it into 2024 while we wait for an update?

hughesj2

I just copied and pasted the duke folder from 2020 community to 2024...
I only did the turbine duke though, pretty sure I read some who had done both were having difficulty selecting the piston or turbine but didn't pay much attention to it

Sunake

Oh okay. I don't have 2020 so I guess I have to wait. Thanks.

hughesj2

I'm thinking you could maybe trick the installer by creating some registry entries or even just a folder structure but no idea if it would work...Maybe JustFlight support may be able to tell you if there's anyway to drop the contents somewhere with some additional launch parameters or something? Or as you say wait for the official release

CoolGunS

I bought the Duke Turbine and just stuck it in the community folder via Addons_Linker app and it worked fine.

Halivan

Just made an account to help the OP here as I only have 2024 installed on my new PC. I decided not to bother with 2020 anymore. Just google “Contrails how to fake MSFS 2020 install”you will find the steps to create a blank folder in Windows to trick 2020 installers into installing sceneries, airplanes… into that blank folder. You can also change the destination of the “2020 community” folder. Afterwards, just use Addon Linker to link it to 2024’s community folder. Finally, scroll a few posts down from this one and someone explains how to get rid of the patchy liveries.

Sunake

@Halivan said in Duke in 2024?:

Just made an account to help the OP here as I only have 2024 installed on my new PC. I decided not to bother with 2020 anymore. Just google “Contrails how to fake MSFS 2020 install”you will find the steps to create a blank folder in Windows to trick 2020 installers into installing sceneries, airplanes… into that blank folder. You can also change the destination of the “2020 community” folder. Afterwards, just use Addon Linker to link it to 2024’s community folder. Finally, scroll a few posts down from this one and someone explains how to get rid of the patchy liveries.

I appreciate that, thank you!

Maldevirac

I found a solution to make the installer from Just Flight work with MSFS 2024:

Create a folder on your PC

Called Microsoft Flight Simulator

In the following location

C:\users<YourName>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator

Then copy from your 2024 folder the UserOpt.config into it. That’s all you need to do.

Any installer e.g. Just flight will now work and install the planes into your 2024 folder and the DRM will work.