Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorge Neumann talks about the tech behind MSFS 2020, and some astonishing-sounding features coming in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
According to the article they’re expanding on their cloud-based streaming tech, aiming to reduce the local base install from >100 GB to ~50 GB.
So what’s actually downloaded is probably just the airplanes and a very low detail version of the planet, streaming data in over the internet as you fly (or now also walk I guess).
It’ll likely be like 2020, you can play offline but it’ll be a much less detailed version of the planet. They pretty much have to use streaming for the high-detail environments, as nobody would have the disk space for it otherwise.
Well I certainly have several hundred GB to spare for a game like this. Why don’t the common folk? You mean not everyone has more than 16tb total storage in their PC nowadays?? Why not??
Seriously though, all that space for activities, it’s liberating, yet somehow I still manage to fill it up quite fast
According to the article they’re expanding on their cloud-based streaming tech, aiming to reduce the local base install from >100 GB to ~50 GB.
So what’s actually downloaded is probably just the airplanes and a very low detail version of the planet, streaming data in over the internet as you fly (or now also walk I guess).
This means it requires constant internet connection for a single player game.
It’ll likely be like 2020, you can play offline but it’ll be a much less detailed version of the planet. They pretty much have to use streaming for the high-detail environments, as nobody would have the disk space for it otherwise.
Well I certainly have several hundred GB to spare for a game like this. Why don’t the common folk? You mean not everyone has more than 16tb total storage in their PC nowadays?? Why not??
Seriously though, all that space for activities, it’s liberating, yet somehow I still manage to fill it up quite fast
For most games that’s a ridiculous requirement but it makes a lot of sense in this case.