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[Draugoth]

According to the release specs, Microsoft recommends players have at least a AMD Ryzen 7 2700X or Intel Core i7-10700K CPU, an AMD 5700 XT or Nvidia RTX 2080 GPU, and 32GB of RAM for the game. For an “ideal” experience, though, it’s suggested players have a Ryzen 9 7900X or i7-14700K CPU, an RX 7900 XT or RTX 4080 GPU, and a whopping 64GB of RAM in their machine.

There are lower minimum specs for players who just want to play on the lowest-available settings. Those require just a Ryzen 5 2600X or Core i7-6800X CPU, an RX 5700 or RTX 970 GPU, and just 16GB of RAM. So, if you’re worried about not being able to play it at all, you should be able to in some way if you have a remotely modern PC.

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[Gaiff]

Dumbass Steam users with their 1050 Ti and 8GB of RAM leaving a negative review because the game crashes:

 

[playXray]

Bit clickbaity using the word ‘requires’ in the title - 64GB is isn’t for the required or even recommend specs, it’s a whole tier above that!

 

[Magic Carpet]

Bit clickbaity using the word ‘requires’ in the title - 64GB is isn’t for the required or even recommend specs, it’s a whole tier above that!

Yes, it would be better for the title to say, the game will make use of 64GB and a 4080.

 

[SlimySnake]

I paid a lot of money for these graphics on PC. Give me the good stuff.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Well, here we go. I need to get 64GB of ram. It's time.

 

[hinch7]

64GB RAM "Ideal", thats a first I think

 

[DAHGAMING]

Il be playing it maxed on my series S anyway so not worried .

 

[Dacvak]

Reposting my image from the other thread…

 

[StueyDuck]

What happened to that whole power of the cloud marketing speak.

 

[CobraAB]

I have a Ryzen 5 7600x, a Raden Rx 7800x and 32 GB DDR5 ram.

I suck I guess.....

 

[Magic Carpet]

What happened to that whole power of the cloud marketing speak.

I think the cloud will be stuck using Series X hardware for years, I don't expect it to get an upgrade, If ever.
I fully expect future games for the next 10 years will be using Series X(S) as the minimum system requirements.

Adding S The real minimum

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

What happened to that whole power of the cloud marketing speak.

Ideal will always be more powerful hardware in your home

Just surprised they didn't say a 4090 if we are talking ideal.

 

[OverHeat]

I have better then ideal!!! Nice

 

[Bojji]

I wonder how Pro will run it.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Guess I'm in.

 

[willothedog]

What happened to that whole power of the cloud marketing speak.

That is why it recommends 100Mbps internet too as will be constantly streaming to cache.

 

[M1chl]

Good, I was ready 2 years ago

 

[DenchDeckard]

anyone know some good super fast DDR5 memory that works well with a 14900KS

I've currently got 32GB 7200MHz so would like the same speed but 2 x 32GB

 

[Kenneth Haight]

I wonder how Pro will run it.

Came here to post this but you beat me to it

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Make it a 4090 and that ideal spec is basically my new pc.

 

[Kataploom]

It's ok, it's good to see some games pushing hardware where it fits

 

[DanielG165]

Not surprised nor upset over this, Flight Sim is a totally different beast from everything else out there.

 

[intbal]

I think the cloud will be stuck using Series X hardware for years, I don't expect it to get an upgrade, If ever.
I fully expect future games for the next 10 years will be using Series X(S) as the minimum system requirements.

Adding S The real minimum

If the XCloud boards have the same configuration as the devkits, then they are all 40GB at the full 560GB/s bandwidth.
I think xcloud should be fine for a few years when it comes to RAM.

 

[Imtjnotu]

LOL I meet just the ideal and even that's ridiculous for my rig

 

[poppabk]

Ideal will always be more powerful hardware in your home

Just surprised they didn't say a 4090 if we are talking ideal.

Surprised they didn't say 5090. The 2020 version can bring a 4090 to its knees.

 

[Omnipunctual Godot]

Windows 11 is not recommended?

 

[Darsxx82]

The PC requeriment casually coincide with XSS (minimun)-XSX(recomended)-PC highend (ideal)

 

[rodrigolfp]

Ideal = the best
4080 =/= the best

 

[MisterXDTV]

Looking forward to the review bombing because it doesn't run on with 8 GB of system RAM

 

[BWJinxing]

Good thing I invested in 96GB ram

 

[RoboFu]

bha nevermind

 

[Killer8]

Doesn't really make sense since the 4080 has 16gb of VRAM and yet 12gb is marked as ideal.

It will run just fine on a 4070.

 

[Hohenheim]

What peasants have less than 64gb ram these days? Peasants I say!
Also, yeah.. this will go down well in the user review section. It'll turn into a salty sea of tears.

 

[Del_X]

I'm feeling like I need to ditch my 12900KS before upgrading my 4090 anytime soon.

 

[GHG]

Ignore this and please refer to the following when building a new PC:

 

[nightmare-slain]

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[pasterpl]

Thread title is a bait, it is max requirements. In addition, game will probably be on xcloud as well.

 

[nightmare-slain]

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[Cakeboxer]

Recommended spec is surprisingly moderate. Will look great on PS5 Pro.

 

[The Pleasure]

Pc gaming master race is making the gamepro face now that they can flex their ram

 

[kevboard]

this is the only game that actually uses the "power of the cloud" in ways that would make it impossible to reach the same fidelity without it.

I feel like the "ideal" specs here are for people who don't want to overly rely on cloud streaming, as I'm pretty sure you have options to download certain routes and play them offline.
I bet some enthusiasts will want to do that, to have some routes ready to go n stuff.

so these ideal specs are probably for those usecases, where everything is being streamed in from your PC, which will fill your ram to "stream" the data

 

[Three]

this is the only game that actually uses the "power of the cloud" in ways that would make it impossible to reach the same fidelity without it.

I feel like the "ideal" specs here are for people who don't want to overly rely on cloud streaming, as I'm pretty sure you have options to download certain routes and play them offline.
I bet some enthusiasts will want to do that, to have some routes ready to go n stuff.

so these ideal specs are probably for those usecases, where everything is being streamed in from your PC, which will fill your ram to "stream" the data

Requiring 64GB of RAM is like storing the entire game in RAM. I've seen entire games smaller than that. That's crazy. I don't think it's related to being "less reliant" on cloud though. Probably just IO not being up to snuff to keep that streaming fast enough without degradation of the experience when you're flying fast. You would be streaming in any case it wouldn't be for offline play (that would be from storage and not a requirement for more RAM)

 

[nightmare-slain]

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[TBiddy]

Dumbass Steam users with their 1050 Ti and 8GB of RAM leaving a negative review because the game crashes:

This hits pretty close to home. Although I have 16 GB of RAM!

 

[StereoVsn]

Requiring 64GB of RAM is like storing the entire game in RAM. I've seen entire games smaller than that. That's crazy. I don't think it's related to being "less reliant" on cloud though. Probably just IO not being up to snuff to keep that streaming fast enough without degradation of the experience when you're flying fast. You would be streaming in any case it wouldn't be for offline play (that would be from storage and not a requirement for more RAM)

Yeah, considering flight speed, quality of graphics and size of the map (i.e. Earth), its not surprising. Same as 16GB VRAM or more for "Ideal" settings.

 

[kevboard]

if it was for offline maps then they'd be recommending specific kinds of SSDS (capacity/pcie version).

also, the difference between recommended and ideal specs is 50Mb/s internet speed.

edit: and holy shit i just realised 50GB is the required storage. so it seems they are going harder with cloud streaming. My 2020 install is currently at 223GB. ~120GB of that is the mandatory install without any addons. I don't have any offline maps either lol.

depends on how the game works. It probably streams a lot of data off of the SSD already during gameplay. so I could absolutely see them loading a shitload into memory should you play offline routes simply because that more closely resembles how the game loads data when playing online.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Ideal will always be more powerful hardware in your home

Just surprised they didn't say a 4090 if we are talking ideal.

Come on. It's not Starfield!

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Isn't flight simulator for those people who build entire cockpits in a spare bedroom? It's not a casual game.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Isn't flight simulator for those people who build entire cockpits in a spare bedroom?

For those too. There are several "difficulty' options.