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Microsoft Flight Simulator PC Specifications released – will you be able to run it?

A light aircraft in the sunset in MSFS

With less than two months to go into the release of Microsoft’s new showpiece Flight Simulator 2024, the flight sim looks like upping the benchmarks for anything we have seen go before it.

The flight sim team has posted on its X account exactly the kind of hardware we are going to need to be packing in order to get the game looking like all the amazing videos and screenshots we have seen. If you want to run it in VR in something like a Pimax Crystal Light as Microsoft did at a recent showcase event, you are going to be drifting towards the higher end of these specs we would imagine.

Microsoft Flight Simulator PC Specifications

A highly detailed set of specifications awaits with in-depth breakdowns for both Intel and AMD setups. The minimum spec should be well within everybody’s reach but the scary-looking ‘ideal spec’ is suggesting a GTX 4080 or equivalent to get the game looking anything like its best. That’s at least a $1000 graphics card on top of potentially a $200 version of the game. You could just about fly to the other side of the world for real for that, but of course, it wouldn’t be as much fun cramped up in Economy.

Let’s take a look at those specs.

CategoryMin Spec (AMD)Min Spec (NVIDIA/Intel)Recommended Spec (AMD)Recommended Spec (NVIDIA/Intel)Ideal Spec (AMD)Ideal Spec (NVIDIA/Intel)
OS VersionWindows 10Windows 10Windows 10Windows 10Windows 10Windows 10
Direct X VersionDX12DX12DX12DX12DX12DX12
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 2600XIntel Core i7-6800KAMD Ryzen 7 2700XIntel Core i7-10700KAMD Ryzen 9 7900XIntel Core i7-14700K
GPURadeon RX 5700GeForce GTX 970Radeon RX 5700 XTGeForce RTX 2080Radeon RX 7900 XTGeForce RTX 4080
VRAM8 GB4 GB6 GB8 GB12 GB12 GB
RAM16 GB16 GB32 GB32 GB64 GB64 GB
Storage50 GB50 GB50 GB50 GB50 GB50 GB
Bandwidth10 Mbps10 Mbps50 Mbps50 Mbps100 Mbps100 Mbps

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