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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 needs 64GB of RAM for ideal performance — oddly, the game install size is only 30GB (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Because having people download static map data for the entire planet just to play a game is untenable.

You shouldn't have to download the entire planet though.

The game 100% should support installing local specific areas you wanna fly around, that anyone could then keep a copy of.

If a user wanted to cache an entire 8 TB of the entire world on a drive, they should be able to just do that (and thus have forever support without worrying about internet services staying online)

At least, as a snapshot of what the world looked like in 2024.

I don't see why users shouldn't have the option to locally HD save the data if they want to, to avoid maxing out their internet bandwidth in one sitting.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You do cache what you use as you use it

The issue is with this being a forever game. If there are no servers there is no streaming. Hence the need to somehow host a one off entire world download indefinitely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

MSF2020 runs offline too, it's even sold on discs in certain regions. You just don't get any of the satellite imagery or live weather. Obviously that means a degraded experience, but it still works.