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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 hits turbulence with reports of the game bringing internet connections to their knees – but don’t grab the sick bag just yet
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 can use up to 180Mbps bandwidth with high detail settings and over densely populated areas, according to a video on YouTube, which four test flights in the technical alpha of the game.
- This works out to around 81GB per hour of gameplay, figures that could worry some PC gamers.
- However, Tom's Hardware notes that this is a worst-case scenario and that the actual bandwidth required comes in spikes while the vast majority of the time, the game will require between 10 and 30Mbps when lower detail settings are used.
- This test was conducted at 4K resolution, Ultra detail settings which is a level that not all gamers will be running.
- While there is a concern over bandwidth for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Microsoft has trimmed the game installation down to 30GB while also allowing content to be cached, both manually and automatically, thus scrubbing some of the worry beyond the final version's release.
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 also has an increased recommended connection bandwidth to 50Mbps, and 100Mbps is now the ideal spec
- However, expansion packs could push bandwidth requirements higher, making communication providers a potential stumbling block.
- In fact, the total install size, as it stands, is only 9GB, with full game installation size set at 30GB - providing gamers with quick access to the game and everything they need upon launching it.
- The full picture about FS 2024 will be clearer when the game is finally released.
- Microsoft's screenshot all but confirms that the game will not only be released on the Microsoft Store but probably on Steam too.
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