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helenslunch, 2 miesiące temu do gaming w Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour

I don’t understand any of this. I’ll have to take your word for it. Thanks for the explanation.

helenslunch, 2 miesiące temu do gaming w Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour

You can not get the same visual fidelity and low latency with game streaming

But…that’s what you’re doing? Streaming the game at 180mbps…

You’re just keeping some of the data local (presumably “the game” itself and probably plane models and cabins) and streaming the terrain data.

they are all extremely subpar, including Microsoft’s own game streaming service.

That sounds like a great reason not to buy this game.

helenslunch, 2 miesiące temu do gaming w Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour

Are you still here?

helenslunch, 2 miesiące temu do gaming w Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour

I 100% disagree. Any game that requires connection to a remote server for single player functionality is dead to me. And any suggestion otherwise I take personal offense to.

This makes your local game dependent on someone else’s server. That someone else, at any time, can shut down that server with zero consequences. They can change the terms of the deal, with zero consequences. Their servers may unintentionally go down or experience other technical issues, depriving you of the product you paid for, with zero consequences. Also you simply cannot use it away from an internet connection.

You are at the mercy of the provider, who has absolutely no legal obligations to you.

Their servers were so damn slow to download on initial install

And you can’t see why that would be a massive problem while trying to livestream your game from their server?

helenslunch, 2 miesiące temu do gaming w Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour

Ah well, that does make more sense then. I hope they have an offline mode as well.

Also it seems like they’d be better off making it a game streaming service entirely and that would remove the need for all that bandwidth…

helenslunch, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu) do gaming w Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour

Alright, one more:

I take it back, you don’t know when to quit.

This was not me.

Then I have no idea what reply you were referring to. Your first reply to me was a snarky one about digital representation of the Earth. Maybe check usernames next time.

And your point about fitting the entire world’s albedo, normal, roughness, specular, height, etc etc textures as well as high-fidelity 3D models is laughably false.

It would be, had I made such a comment. But I didn’t. You just pulled that out of your ass. I made a comment about storing “The Earth” on your local machine.

you are literally the only person confused about this.

Confused because people like you are making me that way.

helenslunch, 2 miesiące temu do gaming w Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour

My first reply said it was streaming high-res data from the cloud.

Your first reply also stated that it needed 180mbps to stream weather data.

Considering it’s a flight simulator advertising to cover the entire world, most people would intuit that would include textures and 3d models.

You can fit the entire world’s texture and 3d models on a super small file. The file size is entirely dependent on the level of detail of those textures and models. Hence the MS Paint analogy.

I appreciate you not arguing anymore, at least you know when to quit.

helenslunch, 2 miesiące temu do gaming w Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour

Where did that number come from?

helenslunch, 2 miesiące temu do gaming w Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour

No one said anything about 2PB.

helenslunch, 2 miesiące temu do gaming w Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour

We shouldn’t have to say that at this point, my initial reply already conveyed that information.

You sorta glossed over the part where I described how and why your reply was nonsense.

helenslunch, 2 miesiące temu do gaming w Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour

No one said anything about a digital representation. I can draw Earth in MS Paint and it’s like 1mb.

If your point is that it has a high resolution digital image of the Earth, just say that.

But my point still stands. I’d still rather have a 500GB local install instead of all the problems that come with game streaming.

helenslunch, 2 miesiące temu do gaming w Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour

It’s dumb. I’d much rather have a 500GB install. They might as well just make the game a streaming service. It also ensures an early death for the game and no functionality without an internet connection.

helenslunch, 2 miesiące temu do gaming w Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour

I didn’t gloss over anything. It simply makes no sense. The Earth is not a digital object.

helenslunch, 3 miesiące temu do gaming w Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour

So it’s a stream-only game?

helenslunch, 3 miesiące temu do gaming w Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour

1. Weather data does not need 180mbps
2. You can’t disable this?