![]() What it does mean, though, is that in addition to opening your wallet for Flight Simulator, you’ll also need to keep track of how much data the game uses. Mark Hachman / IDGįlight Simulator is accessible to mice, keyboards, and even controllers. Our limited review time meant that I didn’t have a chance to chase down a hurricane, but the oddly hazy skies outside my Bay Area home were replicated in the virtual space when I took flight above San Francisco. The game pulls data from Microsoft’s real-world services, including Bing Maps and its weather forecasts, promising that you’ll have the option of experiencing the actual, current weather as it happens. While Flight Simulator offers everything from tutorials to challenges (such as landing at a particular airport), most people will want to jump right into Flight Simulator’s virtual world. You may as well go fetch a coffee while the game’s being loaded. The 15-second audio loop the game plays will soon drive you insane. In a world where Windows PCs are almost immediately responsive, it all feels excruciatingly slow. My PC-a Surface Book 3 that falls somewhere between Microsoft’s “recommended” and “ideal” system requirements for Flight Simulator-required a few seconds to show me that the game was being loaded, and a whopping three to four minutes to move past the introduction to the main menu. Here are Microsoft’s minimum, recommended, and ideal system requirements for Flight Simulator.Īctually playing the game takes even more time. The minimum, recommended, and ideal system requirements are below: Microsoft ![]() While they reach back far enough to accommodate many generations’ worth of PCs, you do need Windows 10 version 18362.0 or higher at least 8GB of RAM and discrete graphics with dedicated memory. The system requirements are worth studying. The whole process took about two hours over a broadband connection. Unpacking them all filled up about 110GB total. ![]() Our installation (of what we believe was the Premium Deluxe Edition-Microsoft didn’t respond to our query to confirm) required about 70GB of files to be downloaded. Note that Flight Simulator requires an incredibly intensive process to install and play it-the virtual equivalent of driving to the airport, parking, checking in, and more. Xbox Game Pass for PC subscribers will receive the Standard Edition for free. ![]()
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