How Flight Simulator delivers maximum fidelity visuals

Microsoft's Flight Simulator is every bit as spectacular as we hoped it would be. Footage released to date has highlighted its almost photo-realistic approach to rendering - and yes, the game fully delivers there - but what's more difficult to illustrate is the unprecedented detail level from the macro to the micro level, on a literally global scale.

[Minute Man 721]

"Using a base mesh and textures, the game utilises your internet connection to stream even higher quality terrain data onto your PC as you play, via the Azure cloud. It is a novel way to boost the game's fidelity and diversity that I've yet to see in any other release. This is indeed a fully fledged 'power of the cloud' implementation that delivers something that just wouldn't be possible to the same fidelity with a conventional download."

The powa of the ☁ is close at hand

[crazyCoconuts]

As you pass over Pacific City, if you look down you'll see Crackdown 3.

[King_Noctis]

Da powah of da cloud done right this time.

[Sonyslave3]

Power of azure 💪

[Rocketisleague]

As a user of azure..meh, aws is better

[ABizzel1]

The game looks amazing graphically. However, hearing the tech which is amazing as well, is also kind of scary they give real-time global weather and flight paths for real planes, and that could be some dangerous information easily accessible to people ready to commit terrorist acts.

[mixelon]

This information is already out there. Plane hijackings almost never happen. Flight sims aren’t going to make a difference, however realistic they get.

[sprinterboy]

You can get that on a flight tracker app ffs

[Christopher]

ABizzel1, you can get that info on Google right now. It's public info.

[Christopher]

Just FYI, the reason it's public is so that private plane owners know this info and don't cause issues with commercial and other private flights. What isn't normally publicly presented is when a plane diverts from its flight path. That tends to be handled in real-time and is reported after the fact to the public.

[ABizzel1]

You learn something every day.

[yoshatabi]

You really think terrorist already done have access to those kind of things? Not that difficult to obtain such info

[Ezio2048]

I wonder what would happen if top open world developers like Rockstar, CD Projekt start using cloud to generate open worlds.

[ElementX]

The cloud isn't generating the world, it's transferring data. It might be possible, but pointless for open world games because game worlds aren't that large. This is basically the planet and there's no way to store all that data locally without using TBs of space. A huge game world can fit on current drives

[Binarycode]

I don't rate that as a game. IT's a full on flight sim for people who love planes to try and fly those planes. I'm not knocking it. But unless your really invested in that, it's a tough sell.

On the Graphics side it looks amazing, great levels of detail,lighting and coverage of the world in very high quality.

Interesting to see how the Graphic cards handle it. I'm sure performance will improve as drivers for it get better.

I'm sure there will be a demo, but i bet it's massive,lol.

[King_Noctis]

Microsoft Flight Simulator minimum specs
CPU: Ryzen 3 1200 / Intel i5-4460
GPU: Radeon RX 570 / NVIDIA GTX 770
VRAM: 2GB
RAM: 8GB
HDD: 150GB
Bandwidth: 5 Mbps

Microsoft Flight Simulator recommended specs
CPU: Ryzen 5 1500X / Intel i5-8400
GPU: Radeon RX 590 / Nvidia GTX 970
VRAM: 4GB
RAM: 16GB
HDD: 150GB
Bandwidth: 20 Mbps

Microsoft Flight Simulator ideal specs
CPU: Ryzen 7 Pro 2700X / Intel i7-9800X
GPU: Radeon VII / Nvidia RTX 2080
VRAM: 8GB
RAM: 32GB
HDD: 150GB (SSD recommended)
Bandwidth: 50 Mbps

As seen above, even a modest PC can run this game.

[SolidGamerX]

Not very well, everything they've shown for this game hasn't been using a "modest PC".

[King_Noctis]

“ Not very well, everything they've shown for this game hasn't been using a "modest PC".

If they wanna show off what the game is capable of high end-wise, you think they should show It using a dual core Pentium?

[SolidGamerX]

There's no need for the sarcasm and hostility there's literally nothing wrong or incorrect about what I said, you stated the game can run on a modest machine I'm simply pointing out it wont run as well and that what they have shown has been running on a very high spec system, those specs can be found online. This has nothing to do with how I think they should show it, its based simply on the facts of how they have.

[Psychotica]

I can't wait to see how the live weather works. Like when a hurricane hits Florida will the game render the storm?

[Father__Merrin]

ive just watched it again its an internet based game so you need fast connection

[King_Noctis]

You are on a roll today.

[Father__Merrin]

im back at work tomorrow so i can leave you in peace

[King_Noctis]

Working sucks. Good luck and practice social distant, mate.

[Father__Merrin]

it will only really be a title like this which is a slow paced one that can have benifit of cloud. Eurogamer are really going in on this one for some reason

[RamRod88]

So far you've made several comments all trying to bash the game in some form. One of the comments was marked at spam so you post this now. All you've done is make yourself look like a desperate hater.

[Bladesfist]

They are tech people and they find the use of tech here interesting.