While Microsoft Flight Simulator is set about rapidly changing the landscape of virtual aviation, it’s only fitting that you update your set-up accordingly. Update your displays, upgrade your CPUs and GPUs and for an extra dose of realism, buy some Controllers. Just to be clear, it’s perfectly fine to play a flight sim using a … Read more
Microsoft’s Flight Simulator’s latest installment took the gaming world by storm upon its initial release in 2020. The graphics, and the consequent realism stunned masses, with some even describing the AAA title as the “best looking game ever”. A year later, the game is available on Microsoft’s latest Xbox consoles (series X and S) via … Read more
Virtual Reality is taking over, and its meteoric rise is hardly a surprise. The technology provides users a gateway to an artificially-simulated environment that, unlike displays, tailors to users’ sense of vision, hearing, touch, and even smell. Users are able to interact with 3D worlds, providing for highly immersive and interactive experiences. All this, however, … Read more
The release of Microsoft Flight Simulator in 2020 and the events coinciding with it sent the world into a frenzy. Simmers set about upgrading their PCs and building home flight simulators to fully enjoy the beautiful yet punishing reboot of the Flight Simulator series. Hardware sales rocketed up, so much so that Jon Peddie Research (JPR) … Read more
With its mega-realistic scenery and controls, Microsoft Flight Simulator took the gaming world by storm upon its initial release in 2020. Since then, the rage has refused to die down. While awe-inspiring realism shoulders the majority of the blame for that one, the pandemic has helped too. With people being restricted to their homes, Microsoft … Read more
Back in August 2020 when the AAA title was launched, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 could eat up 170 Gigabytes of memory. Since then, however, the install size of the base game has been reduced to 83 GB. The initial steam download comes in at a little over 700 MB and once you have that running, another … Read more
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 has been smashing all sales records for its genre since it came out. Its acclaim is absolutely well deserved too. There is simply no other title that does it like MSFS 2020 with its unmatched realism, incredible visuals and genuinely entertaining gameplay. But gamers and flight sim enthusiasts are always looking … Read more
It is no secret that with its other-worldly graphics and realism, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 has revolutionized flight simulating and gaming, in general, forever. We are a year into the release, and the craze refuses to die down. Other than the obviously immaculate graphics and life-like controls, one factor that has worked in the game’s … Read more
On Tuesday, September the 20th, NVIDIA announced the latest in greatest in their line of GPUs with the RTX 40 series Graphics Cards. They promise tremendous upgrades in performance and various enhancements to newer tech in ray tracing, for example. According to some of their claims, the 4090 should be twice as fast without ray … Read more
Set to celebrate its 40th anniversary in November 2022, Microsoft Flight Simulator is one of the longest-running video game series of all time. In these 4 decades, it has gone from black-and-white wireframe graphics on 6 by 6 tiles to the cloud-powered ultra-immersive graphical marvel that it is today. In this article, we take a trip down … Read more