I bet they just removed all the NPCs :)
All of it sounds insane. We have devs and other game folks on this forum. This game has been out just short of a year now. How on earth was it that unoptimized that theyāve added faster framerate, less CPU use and less memory use while still keeping the display quality up? Like, did they leave the game engine in debug this entire time or something?
All I know is every time I load up this game I have a 10GB to 50GB download waiting for me. Hell I just downloaded the 90GB Nordic update and went to do one of the bush flights and the game said ānope sorry, hereās a 3GB download firstā.
Sheās a hungry beast, for sure. I think some people here were joking they need a dedicated drive for the game. Iām hoping they were jokingā¦ they were, right?
Well, as discussed above (and at length earlier in the thread), the sim as released does not take much advantage of multiple cores at all. So it seems theyāve got some fairly big gains to efficiency by shifting some stuff (they mention glass cockpit instruments) to other threads. Not sure about the memory side of things, but it was clearly pretty unoptimised on that front given that it was threatening to eat up all of even 32GB systems.
Not entirely. I my install is 170GB, not including mods, or, I think, the rolling cache.
I still see weather affecting my framerate at times and I donāt think itās (all) GPU based. Iām hoping thatās going to be better now.
I can definitely only install this game on my SSD. Itās kind of a shame, I was looking forward to more SSD gaming with my new computer.
On the other hand, this game is amazing! So I actually donāt mind that I canāt install much else to the SSD. When itās a game like this that continues to blow my mind in some way nearly every time I play it, itās okay!
I meanā¦ define āneedā? I could fit everything in my main installation onto my primary Steam library drive if I wanted to not have a bunch of other things installed, and if I werenāt an utterly shameless addon hoarder. But, even before I started keeping multiple installs around for work, I had it on a dedicated drive just so Iād have plenty of headroom. (Not just for MSFSā¦ itās also held P3D and XPlane over the years.)
I guess I should tally up what I have as well. Itās not a light install I know. But I have some other games that are greedy for space so Iām not knocking it.
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FWIW, my Official directory, with all the world updates installed, totals 144GB. This includes a few Marketplace purchases, so the total ācoreā content is probably somewhere between 130 and 140GB.
Which isnāt overly massive compared to the size of some of the top tier AAA games these days.
But then you all all the other cool content you can get on top of that, and, well. You know :D
I think the recent update reduced the core install by 40 Gig, unless Iām misremembering.
Actually a quick Google suggests it was a much bigger change - 170 to 83ā¦
Really? Granted I donāt play the likes of Battlefield, but Iām struggling to think of any game I have that tops 100GB. MSFS meanwhile occupies 133GB on my disk. Itās still by far the biggest game I have in terms of install size.
CoD these days is something like 140GB, I believe. But it is an outlier.
Itās not unusual any more, depending what you play of course.
Fair enough! I havenāt played any of the games above MSFS on that list. Over 200GB for COD is insane!
You should see my DCS installā¦ itās nearing half a TB including the user files.
At least with MSFS, most of the game is not installed on our local hard drive until we start flying to that particular location. Thankfully.
Wow I have 6 of those games loaded on my drive! Hahahahaa.
*cries*