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Microsoft Fledge Simulator patch cuts the download size in half

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Microsoft Flight Simulator is a big, meaty game. The Steam page says IT needs at least 150GB of drive place, and the actual download is even bigger. Giving games are a fact of life therein exciting extremity era, but even so that's a whopper for anyone on a slow or knavish net connexion.

Luckily for all of us (and especially the corky net folks), the latest update reduces the size of that initial download by more than one-half, from all over 170GB to hardly 83GB. Microsoft didn't reveal exactly how it managed to pluck this pants-tightening thaumaturgy, saying only that "we performed any optimization for the initial nourished download of the title."

I checked for myself and sure enough, information technology has shrunk every bit promised. The initial Steam download weighs in at a little over 700MB, and once that's astir and running the launcher will over the installation by downloading another 81GB of data. That's allay a whole mete out o' downloading, but IT's a big improvement over what it was.

Another big switch is a reduction in atmospheric condition data bandwidth usage, which could wind to better in-spunky performance. As we noted last year, Flight Sim uses a variety of streamed data to enable "real" weather, air traffic, and satellite information, and having it all running can take a toll on framerates, especially if you've got other things, look-alike downloads or Netflix, eating up data in the background. The fleck notes don't specify the amount of the reduction, just all little bit helps.

The darn introduces a amoun of changes to navigation, weather, and planes, and of run makes a bi of bug fixes to the game and its editors. There's also a warning that VR users may experience crashes when exiting VR mode: Developers aren't completely certain why but fishy that OpenXR preview runtime v106 mightiness toy a role, so if you run into the problem, revert to the v105 runtime and see what that does for you. The to the full spell notes are up at flightsimulator.com.