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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)

submitted 2 months ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] auzy@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's not really odd. It likely caches decompressed assets and such.

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They've also talked about massively leveraging cloud computing and streaming, it's likely a lot of actual scenery isn't part of the offline file size unless you cache the areas for offline play (if that's even an option)

[–] auzy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah. That was admittedly the big issue with Australia. With VFR it was useless unless we used Orbx in the days