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SvennoJ said:
Azzanation said:
Power of the Cloud is starting to show its stride. Game is on another level that's been show cased, after seeing the gameplay i am interested in seeing how much this is going to push my PC.
Fun Fact: Flight Simulator is one of the oldest gaming franchises under MS. Its older than Windows itself.

I started with MS flight simulator in 1988

It's been 14 years since FSX came out!

It's the first game I played online as well, dial up direct connection, before the internet.

That is a very long time ago, and to think the game was even older than that, believed the first game came out in 1982 on a IBM or something. The IP is more than 37 years old. Glad its coming back in a big way. Hopefully without any major issues.



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what i noticed he used +-7GB data streaming in 10 hours while that doesn't sound as alot thats still quite hefty for those with caps



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If MS is smart please make this a launch game for Series X. It can do a lot for the consoles initial impressions



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kirby007 said:
what i noticed he used +-7GB data streaming in 10 hours while that doesn't sound as alot thats still quite hefty for those with caps

And that is just for some of the data on the game.



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Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari said:
kirby007 said:
what i noticed he used +-7GB data streaming in 10 hours while that doesn't sound as alot thats still quite hefty for those with caps

And that is just for some of the data on the game.

its for the realtime weather and other plane locations yes



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DonFerrari said:
OP, please make bullet points of the main stuff brought by DF on the video =]

Done.



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kirby007 said:
DonFerrari said:

And that is just for some of the data on the game.

its for the realtime weather and other plane locations yes

I know, it isn't for processing purpose, but it is very data heavy to process locally, but very good to stream results. Still that is a lot of data for this feature, sure any decent connection will be fast enough and with enough latency so everyone can enjoy it.

Mr Puggsly said:
DonFerrari said:
OP, please make bullet points of the main stuff brought by DF on the video =]

Done.

Thanks



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Azzanation said:
SvennoJ said:

I started with MS flight simulator in 1988

It's been 14 years since FSX came out!

It's the first game I played online as well, dial up direct connection, before the internet.

That is a very long time ago, and to think the game was even older than that, believed the first game came out in 1982 on a IBM or something. The IP is more than 37 years old. Glad its coming back in a big way. Hopefully without any major issues.

It seems it still needs some optimizations

According to ARS there’s still some issues to be ironed out as it’s very CPU dependant and can tank in certain situations:

If you want to get this game up to a 60 fps refresh rate, even at 1080p resolution, you're in for a bumpier ride than the "recommended specs" might suggest. The issue boils down to CPU optimizations that still need ironing out in the game's prerelease period. Most of what you'll find in the "graphics" settings menu relates to GPU-bound toggles, with the exception of a few "density" sliders for elements like clouds and ground terrain.

But even turning these settings down sometimes failed to move the needle on my testing rig, an i7-8700K CPU overclocked to 4.9GHz and an overclocked RTX 2080 Ti, both humming on an NVME SSD and 32GB of DDR4-3000 RAM.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/07/ms-flight-simulator-our-yoke-on-look-at-new-features-gorgeous-flights/3/

My CPU is only 2.2 ghz, upto 4.1 ghz with boost (but will quickly heat up and get throttled) so I won't be aiming for 60 fps, 24 or 36 I'm guessing (display is 144hz)

That probably also means that a Series X version will have to wait a bit longer until they iron the dips out. It's mostly flying through the clouds that brings it down. FSX had the same issue, the more clouds, the worse the performance. Sunny skies to boost frame rate!

On another note, I wonder if I'll be able to get HDR to work when I connect my laptop to the tv. Is there a way to tell what version the hdmi port is? The laptop supports HDR videos with windows HD color (not true HDR) but not for games and apps.