Microsoft Flight Simulator System Requirements Have Been Revealed

Microsoft Flight Simulator is still scheduled for a vague 2020 release, though alpha testing has been in progress since October. It's a highly anticipated instalment, and it doesn't take much reading to figure out why: in addition to simulating the entire world, it'll also implement real-time air traffic, and all 37,000 real world airports will feature in it.

You'd think a pretty high end rig would be needed for all this, but it turns out the minimum specs for Microsoft Flight Simulator are fairly reasonable. That said, there's also 'recommended' and 'ideal' tiers, and the latter reckons you should have an RTX 2080 / Radeon VII and 32GB RAM.

Without further ado:

PC Gamer

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Minimum :

CPU: Ryzen 3 1200 / Intel i5-4460

GPU: Radeon RX 570 / NVIDIA GTX 770

VRAM: 2GB

RAM: 8GB

HDD: 150GB

Bandwidth: 5 Mbps

Recommended :

CPU: Ryzen 5 1500X / Intel i5-8400

GPU: Radeon RX 590 / Nvidia GTX 970

VRAM: 4GB

RAM: 16GB

HDD: 150GB

Bandwidth: 20 Mbps

Ideal:

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

Wowzerz, I'm good... SuperMighty XseX MonsterBox won't even come close to breaking a sweat. :P

A lot of what makes flight-sims demanding if how much scale is being rendered, level of detail and all that shit. Most have a simple slider bar to set it to "0".

Just pretend you're flying around a smog filled China and you're pretty much fine.

Damn, that is a huge game/simulation.

I can't wait.

I hope it come with VR support.

I totally meet the Recommended specs and well above it. But looking at the Ideal, it meets my CPU R7 2700X...time to begin preparation on upgrading to Ryzen 40XX series it seems. Anyhow, even though I'm not buying MS Flight Simulator, my PC can run it :)

Looks like MS is trying to compete with P3D, which are the most accurate and best flight sim on the market.

So it will be interesting to see what MS will do since P3D has pretty much had a monopoly for ages now.

Yes it does, it was confirmed to be developed for it from the get go.

I hope the game as a casual option. Some of us just want to get high and fly, no need for 308789 different commands.

Pretty much every flight sim has this, so no worries.

Meh, I'll stick to Star Citizen instead.

Shit I just notice something. We have the first game to pass 16GB ram and go right to 32GB. Dammit, might have to upgrade my PC this year...with my Stimulus Check😁

Glad you confirm your PC is shit. 😁

My friends is this tech demo? Max Payne is much better badass game!

Day one for my XSX. Gonna be AWESOME BABY!

Could be worst, I could be gaming in 30fps! Oh the horror of thinking about it😣

All checkboxes ticked for Ideal except the GPU. This might put my Vega64 to work.

Going to get this for the Xbox Series X myself. Game looks amazing.

I'm really worried about the development , Star Citizen is the most ambitious game right now , yet CIG won't stop expanding it

**Insert BOOM Headshot gif*** To Xbox One owners. LOL

Ha ha... no. First, P3D is literally a rebranding of Flight Simulator X. Go read up on its development history some time. Secondly, X-Plane 11 is the one to beat right now. It has by far the best flight modeling of any civilian flight sim on the market.

Damn. How the hell is the Xbox One/S gonna handle that? If MS is gonna support the Xbox One for a couple years more, they might exclude this game.

He also has an RTX 2070 😂😂😂

I'm not quite at the ideal settings but well above recommended. I think I should be able to play without much issue.

C'mon guys if you're going to troll at least put some effort into it.

System requirements = XB1/S/X

Too easy.

I have to ask will this game come with a pillow, as that is a requirement for both versions.

Well, I'm somewhere between recommended and ideal, so I'll be fine. I really look forward to this. Wish it was out now

Yay I meet ideal...except for the bandwidth.

Why is that so high? I remember reading something about downloading textures or something?

Anyway, super excited for this! Hope it has a VR option, sims are made for VR

Shut up, Ghost.

:D

Nah, it's only about the size of the COD Warzone update :P

Only this game renders the entire world and all of its airports instead of a small little area.

I'm wondering if this is the "first" next-gen game? Maybe it won't be supported on current-gen systems

my god games need way too much hard drive space these days

Not just that but requires 150GB SSD space in the ideal settings.

The days of the 1TB HDD for game storage are coming to an end.

The same could be said for 16GB Ram as well and onward to 32GB Ram coming soon. But luckily, 32GB Ram is getting cheaper.

This is a lot lower than I was expecting. Still, to run at its best, I need to upgrade. Almost there.