Having had some experience of “minimum requirements” and considering 2024, I’m asking for advice on what the actual requirements are.
I live in rural England, and our bandwidth is about 30Mbs, e.g. it downloads about 10Gb an hour (there seems to be some confusion between Megabits and Megabytes per second ?), we’re on ADSL 2+ for now. No real likelihood of fibreoptic in the near future.
So installing MSFS2020 takes maybe 12 hours to bootable, and another 12 hours to download all the extra scenery and add ons and so on. I reckon 250Gb maybe.
It’s fine when running FS2020, seems to be streaming without issue most of the time.
So what sort of bandwidth do you actually need for it to work ? It looks like the rendering breaks if it is too slow (may have improved since the launch).
I understand Asobo are going to have it pre-downloadable (as FS2020 mostly is), how much data do people estimate that would require.
I’m happy with the actual hardware for 2024, it’s the streaming that bothers me. I have read discussions on the forums about this, one in November especially, but it seems a bit erratic.
Yes, I would be interested in that too
I have a NBN fibre connection which gives 250Mbps download most of the time.
Based on my experience so far with FS2024 I’d honestly say a similar download capability will probably be required.
Yikes Merlin, I was hoping my 150 mb connection would be sufficient. What bandwidth are you actually using in game?
(Just as I thought I wouldn’t have to upgrade my 32 gb RAM to 64 gb).
My broadband speed is usually sitting at about 30-40 Mb/s (it’s supposed to be 60 according to Sky, but it never actually is).
I found in my limited experience with FS2024 so far that it was perfectly adequate to cope with most flight situations. There may be a few seconds of dely at the start of a flight when textures load in and you can visually see scenery appearing, but it was always pretty much done within about 30 seconds and then I had no issues during flight. The exception was some occasions in certain aircraft where textures didn’t load at all, bu tthat was clearly a different problem.
So I think based on my comparable experience you should be fine.
I suspect people who are finding delays even with 250+Mb/s connections are experiencing delays at the server end, not at their end, given that my much slower connection seems OK.
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This sounds good… does anyone else have experience that a 30-40 Mb/s connection is sufficient?
Sky, are you British ? There seems to be variation by locale.
Maybe the solution is to sign up for the monthly Gamepass thing and try it out 
I am indeed British, as is the OP. And I did try it out on Gamepass because I was concerned about my connection being good enough.
I’ve had “not enough bandwidth” warnings but don’t know exactly what the internet speed was at that exact moment. (Anyone suggest/ recommend a way to monitor the actual speed at the time?)
I have 600Mbps downstream and whenever I’ve checked with the dev tools, my streaming while flying in MSFS2024 appeared throttled on the MS side at 150Mbps.
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