Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Will Require 64 GB of RAM for the “Ideal” Experience

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, a new installment of the flight simulation video game series from Asobo Studio and Xbox Game Studios that will allow players to pursue their dreams of an aviation career, featuring the latest technologies in simulation, cloud, machine learning, graphics, and gaming to create what is said to be the most sophisticated, immersive, and awe-inspiring flight simulator of all time, will require 64 GB of memory for the ideal experience, according to a list of PC specifications for the game that Microsoft shared today.

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It's funny.

I've had 64GB in my main machine since ~2014.

That was when I decommissioned my old consumer hardware based server (AMD FX 8350). It was maxed out with 32GB of DDR3 RAM.

When I decommissioned it, I had all of this RAM I didn't know what to do with until I remembered that my workstation board (which already had 32GB of RAM in it) had four empty RAM slots in it.

Through random luck the RAM in the server was the same manufacturer (and very close timings) as compared to what was already in the workstation, so I was able to just pop it in. (X79 was quad channel, and mytt board had 8 slots in total)

These days using two sticks of RAM per channel may cause heartache, but apparently it didn't back then (or I was just lucky).

Anyway, the result was that I had 64GB of RAM in the desktop back in 2014, which was a pretty insane amount a decade ago. Most "gamer" machines had 4GB or 8GB if memory serves.

And since I al allergic to downgrades, I mimicked the 64GB when I upgraded to the Threadripper in 2019. By then it was way less exotic, but still kind of a lot, and way more than I really needed.

Now, 5 years later maybe 64GB will finally be useful? :p

I am actually considering getting rid of the workstation, and just running it as a VM on my server. If I do, I am going to build a special purpose PC just for games. My very early phase plans included going with 48GB of DDR5 RAM in that machine (2x24GB) but maybe I am going to have to change it up a little :p

Definitely time to go 64GB I guess. Maybe even time to stay ahead of the curve and go up to 96GB?
 
I have been impressed with the latest MS FS, what was it, 2020 it launched? This is the best one yet they've ever made, and it is impressive, and pretty awe-inspiring in scope. The updates have equally been impressive, and this one is looking amazing.

From a review perspective, they make great CPU benchmarks.
 
To think I started with Flight simulator 1 on the Apple II in glorious green monochrome and later FSII on the C64 in full color. It was sublogic back then.
 
Stoly said:
To think I started with Flight simulator 1 on the Apple II in glorious green monochrome and later FSII on the C64 in full color. It was sublogic back then.
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I, too, started with Flight Simulator 1 on an Apple II ... but mine was in more glorious amber monochrome. 😁
 
Thankfully, kits of 64GB 6000C30 DDR5 aren't that expensive!
 
I have to say if I didn't already have 64GB for other reasons, then MSFS would not be the game I'd upgrade for.

The graphics is great, but the game is so boring, even FS98 which was the first one I had back in the day had lots of in situ scenarios that you could just fire up and have fun with. But FS2020 wants to be reality, which is OK, there is room for that, but there are some parts of reality (the boring bits) that should be left out or at least made optional.

Because I can only entertain myself for so long by aimlessly flying around. And in the process realizing that the world of FS2020 outside of the hand crafted areas they deemed important looks like absolute @ss. And I doubt that will change for the 2024 version despite their boasts of petabytes of data and 1000 times more detail.
 
MadMummy76 said:
I have to say if I didn't already have 64GB for other reasons, then MSFS would not be the game I'd upgrade for.

The graphics is great, but the game is so boring, even FS98 which was the first one I had back in the day had lots of in situ scenarios that you could just fire up and have fun with. But FS2020 wants to be reality, which is OK, there is room for that, but there are some parts of reality (the boring bits) that should be left out or at least made optional.

Because I can only entertain myself for so long by aimlessly flying around. And in the process realizing that the world of FS2020 outside of the hand crafted areas they deemed important looks like absolute @ss. And I doubt that will change for the 2024 version despite their boasts of petabytes of data and 1000 times more detail.
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It's a simulator, not a game. And it's gotten REALLY good at being a simulator.
 
Riccochet said:
It's a simulator, not a game. And it's gotten REALLY good at being a simulator.
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Having scenarios would not affect its quality as a simulation. Some of us don't want to spend hours in a game to get to the interesting bits.
I mean you don't spend months in practice and development in a racing sim either, you get straight to the races. Unless it is something pretentious like iracing. Some people want that, no problem, but there is a large market that would be very easy to tap just by adding fun scenarios to FS, that take only 20-30 minutes. It can still be the same to those who want to complete an entire London - NY, from running checklists, pushback, taxiing dealing with ATC, and doing the entire flight over the Ocean real time.
 
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