So last night I saw an article claiming Flight Simulator 2024 would be available to play on NVidia’s streaming service, “Geforce Now”. Out of curiosity I thought I would ask on here how well that might work and if anyone was planning on using this service. But, they’ve since retracted this claim, which kind of makes this even more interesting to me now:
The original article claimed FS24 would be available on November 19, day one of release, through the Ultimate version of the service, which uses machines with 4080 GPUs. You’re basically renting a high end gaming rig for $20/mo it sounded like. There’s also now a 100 hour/mo cap on the service which was causing some controversy.
It’s an interesting deal if you don’t want to shell out thousands for a new gaming rig. However, I was wondering how they could possibly stream such a complex title. There are all kinds of controller configurations and customization options. And perhaps it works well for some types of flying, like IFR airliners, but stuff that requires an immediate control input response such as flying a helicopter air ambulance and crop dusting, I could see lag being an issue too.
It’s not. For starters you won’t be able to use your peripherals, you would be limited to Mouse + Keyboard or a controller (Xbox, PS etc). Also, there are queues and as you already stated you are limited to X hours each month. I mean, I know simmers that would spend those 100 hours in a week (long-hauls).
Yeah, it’s cheap, but it’s not really a replacement for an actual Computer/Console.
That would be cool: a tablet with the power of a 4080, simulating a flight that you’re actually on. The airline could even do this with the seatback displays, so you could watch your own flight in 3rd person/drone view with live weather and dynamic scenery.
I wonder what caused the shake-up. Maybe they just don’t have the title ready for that kind of integration.
(On the idea of flight sim on a plane, I still haven’t had the chance to do that despite having a laptop with the sim installed on an international flight… economy seats are just too cramped to have a laptop out for 16 hours)
Hi SkipTalbot, you mentioned it was ‘interesting’ they’d retracted the claim.
For context, I enjoy Flight Sim, I enjoy Geforce Now, and I enjoy reading about both of these.
I thought it was curious that I hadn’t seen an announcement anywhere else about Flight Sim coming to Geforce Now, so I tweeted the author of the link in your original post, and he changed the article shortly after.
I myself have been playing exclusively on GFN, and I am more than happy (Ultimate subscription), both performance and quality are top notch. Moreover, in September they are replacing the 4080 with 5080 (to be precise, this is industry-grade GPUs with 20+ gigs of VRAM), with updated processors, with all the positive consequences (4x framegen support, etc.).
I love GeForce Now, and for couch sessions of MSFS 2024 using an Xbox controller, it works very well. However, peripherals are not supported, so you can’t use joysticks/hotas/pedals/etc. If you don’t mind using a controller, it’s great.
I own a Honeycomb Alpha and a Bravo, as well as a Saitek rudder pedal. It’s annoying if the peripherals aren’t recognized.
Also, if I understand correctly, add-ons aren’t supported either?
Same concept: the game runs on servers in the cloud and streamed to your client. GeForce Now is PC based, and supports games from several different storefronts. (Steam, Epic, etc.)
