**** Official Microsoft Flight Simulator Thread ****

Looking at the ideal specs, they are not all that high compared to what hardware is available at the moment
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 2700X, or Intel i7-9800X
  • GPU: Radeon VII, or Nvidia RTX 2080
  • VRAM: 8 GB
  • RAM: 32 GB
  • HDD: 150 GB SSD
  • Internetspeed: 50 Mbps (6.3 MB/s
 
I read that as well however if you're not tearing around at low level I wonder if you'd notice the difference in download speeds. The BBC said you needed 40Mbps to stream their 4K HLG tennis/football last year but it worked fine on my 34Mbps Internet. Hoping for the same with FS2020, not much sign of anything faster turning up anytime soon :(
 
picnic said:
I read that as well however if you're not tearing around at low level I wonder if you'd notice the difference in download speeds. The BBC said you needed 40Mbps to stream their 4K HLG tennis/football last year but it worked fine on my 34Mbps Internet. Hoping for the same with FS2020, not much sign of anything faster turning up anytime soon :(
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That's all fine and good, but what of those of us stuck on ADSL2+? My maximum speed is a paltry 1.1MB/s, nowhere near fast enough. And, despite living in a city and not the sticks, I don't have the option of fibre thanks to Openreach's negligence and Virgin's laziness.
 
Ouch, guess you're on a direct exchange line and a long way from the exchange? Even my parents who are over 3K from their green box, and almost 5K from the exchange, get 3.5Mbps thanks to FTTC. ADSL didn't work that far at all. Have you ever considered using a mobile network? Surely in a city that'll provide a better speed?
 
picnic said:
Ouch, guess you're on a direct exchange line and a long way from the exchange? Even my parents who are over 3K from their green box, and almost 5K from the exchange, get 3.5Mbps thanks to FTTC. ADSL didn't work that far at all. Have you ever considered using a mobile network? Surely in a city that'll provide a better speed?
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No, pretty close to the exchange (a mile away) and my green cabinet is literally at the end of my street (about 50y away). All the streets around me are fibre enabled, but Openreach ****** up and missed our cabinet when they were enabling the area for fibre and now won't admit their mistake. And on the fibre checker website it says they have no plans to enable our cabinet in the future.
 
Malevolence said:
That's all fine and good, but what of those of us stuck on ADSL2+? My maximum speed is a paltry 1.1MB/s, nowhere near fast enough. And, despite living in a city and not the sticks, I don't have the option of fibre thanks to Openreach's negligence and Virgin's laziness.
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the minimum requirement is:

Internetspeed: 5 Mbps (0.6 MB/s)
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So you meet that requirement as you say you have 1.1MB/s.
 
Malevolence said:
No, pretty close to the exchange (a mile away) and my green cabinet is literally at the end of my street (about 50y away). All the streets around me are fibre enabled, but Openreach ****** up and missed our cabinet when they were enabling the area for fibre and now won't admit their mistake. And on the fibre checker website it says they have no plans to enable our cabinet in the future.
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Yeah, I had the same. Town Centre new build apartment, 400 yards from the Exchange. Not a large residential population at the time. Nynex never cabled up these side streets in the 1980s, and Virgin were uninterested in sticking 100 yards of cabling in to what would have been a nice little earner. OpenReach just left it as ADSL and cited no demand. Took the Local Council getting grant money for fixing not-spots for small businesses then waving their wonga at OpenReach for it to be sorted a couple years ago. The ADSL service wasn't too bad - got 22mbps down, but the upload was getting to be an issue.

That said, the Ars article last week about the boxed version of FS indicates the 90GB basic download includes all the standard scenery for offline play. The bandwidth is required for the high def photo level detail to stream in.
 
They buy from other regions where the price is cheaper, add a mark up and then sell it on to you... I’ve used them in the past a couple of times for steam games, the downside being there’s no refund option of course.

They are decidedly less shady than some of the other options, but still a “grey market” option.

re the internet connection, don’t confuse the “ideal” spec with being the required spec. The slower your connection the longer it will take to load an area and I believe it adjusts detail levels as required to keep the game working as intended... the caveat being you can have a rolling cache (you decide how much hdd you want to dedicate to it) that stores the data of where you’ve been flying and I believe they will have to option to choose areas specifically to cache.

Simply put there’s no other way to achieve it at the moment, the game would be over 2 petabytes if you had all the world data locally stored.
 
I will probably enjoy it a bit on game pass then eventually buy it once it hits steam or something. Either that or a cheaper price on CDKeys down the line.

I still have not had the chance to enjoy X-Plane 11 and the scenery I got for that for London, as I am waiting on my next graphics card, so no rush :p
 
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