When you’re wanting ahead to lastly moving into the cockpit of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, the official X account has put out a helpful chart for the system necessities to run it, and it appears surprisingly effectively optomized. When you wished to, you could possibly technically run the sport on a rig purchased nearly a decade in the past, which might imply your outdated graphics card and CPU is likely to be price lower than the $200 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Aviator Version bundle.
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For its minimal necessities, a construct with an Intel Core i7-6800K and GeForce GTX 960 might run the sport, as long as you’ve gotten 16 GB of RAM. Really helpful necessities swap that 16 GB of RAM for 32 GB and counsel grabbing both an RTX 2080 or Radeon RX 5700XT as your GPU. As soon as once more, these aren’t extremely intensive specs given how spectacular Flight Simulator 2024 is wanting. The 2024 refresh, launching November 19, comes with new mission sorts, new plane to make use of, pilots with precise legs, and even has an improved physics engine meant to provide higher levels of management to potential pilots.
The highest really useful specs are, after all, nonetheless fairly monstrous, requiring a comparatively beefy rig to get going. Curiously, Microsoft’s touted “Supreme spec” really requires extra RAM than it does storage—the primary trendy recreation I can consider to try this—with these figures being 64 GB of RAM and 50 GB of space for storing respectively.
Examine that to the earlier model of Flight Simulator, and you may see that is a fairly wholesome discount within the new recreation’s storage calls for, and you’ll apparently thank the cloud for that. With all its world updates, the present model of Flight Sim might be as much as ten instances the promised set up dimension of this new Flight Sim 2024 version. And in case you wished to go hog wild with the mods you could possibly theoretically hit a daft 2 TB because the set up dimension. So, 50 GB for the brand new recreation appears nearly too good to be true.
If you’re trying to purchase the sport, you may get the Commonplace Version for $70, Deluxe Version for $100, Premium Deluxe Version for $130, and the Aviator Version for $200. In contrast to what you may anticipate from the previous few a long time of garish collector’s editions, the $200 version is digital solely, and does not include a plastic airplane mannequin or commemorative pins. On this version, you get all the pieces from the Premium Deluxe Version, which incorporates 25 plane and 10 airports, in addition to 30 plane spanning over the past three years of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
This is not fairly the costliest digital version of a recreation we have seen, not together with one-off $2,000 video games, with the much-bemoaned $250 Escape from Tarkov: Unheard Editon costing $250 earlier this yr. Nevertheless, it’s fairly some huge cash to throw down on a recreation, and bit greater than the GTX 970 GPU you may technically run the sport on.
