does anybody think that the new Microsoft  flight simulator will use more then 4 cores? thinking about rebuilding my computer from a i5 6600k to a i9 9900k and trying to figure out about the hardware to buy. thanks

Currently there is no indication of how well it will use modern hardware, but we might get a better idea when the Tech Alpha is out, and as we're getting closer to final release. It's better to wait until deciding on what CPU you're going to upgrade to. If it does make good usage of many threads (Xbox Scarlett will have 8 cores and 16 threads, and they'll want to use them all being a visual showcase title), the latest Ryzen CPUs might be a much better choice than whatever Intel has or is going to release in the next year. Apparently it will be long time until they manage to bring high-end desktop CPUs on a newer process than their 14nm.

I'd guess that the developers writing it will be doing so on 6 and 8 core CPUs and will have made efforts to take advantage of all those.

I'd also expect that your graphics card will affect the end result more than your processor in terms of frame rate and scene detail. (As it does in most modern games). I would therefore, personally speaking, spend a little more on the graphics card and a little less on the processor, given a fixed budget.

Is it confirmed that local hardware will be used or will hardware in the cloud be used (like Google Stadia)?

2 hours ago, daniel_schm said:

Is it confirmed that local hardware will be used or will hardware in the cloud be used (like Google Stadia)?

Google Stadia and MS xCloud run existing "local hardware" games in the cloud. They are massively complex platforms themselves.

All games have to be written to use local hardware to render graphics, so the question then becomes "will it only be available on xCloud". (Definitely wont be available on Google Stadia).

There's been nothing to suggest that MSFS will be an xCloud only game. Given the broadband requirements it'd be a really strange decision for MS to make.

2 hours ago, daniel_schm said:

Is it confirmed that local hardware will be used or will hardware in the cloud be used (like Google Stadia)?

Phil Spencer said it will have an offline mode, but this mode won't have all the features the online mode has. Which features?! We don't know yet.

Probably the features missing will be orthoimagery around the world, real-time weather and other features that need an internet connection/huge storage space.

That said, I think they need to design it to run both ways. And that would mean the core of the sim will be designed to run locally.

Edited September 20, 20196 yr by ca_metal

The offline mode will probably be rendered "FS4 style" with coloured vector graphics, and the cockpit views will be fixed 2D panels. It will be the flight simulation world's version of retro style, and everybody will love it!

The offline version will be FSXv4.6 . 

if every body has to upgrade there computer to use flight simulator 2020  then its  not worth it?

The sim should be coded to support n cores, where n > 1.

On 9/19/2019 at 6:46 PM, boeingcorp said:

does anybody think that the new Microsoft  flight simulator will use more then 4 cores?

Yes

1 hour ago, William Lambert said:

if every body has to upgrade there computer to use flight simulator 2020  then its  not worth it?

It's worth to me.

Since 1986 I have spent several/many thousand dollars upgrading my PC's and add-ons to improve my simming experience. If it needs 8 or 10 Comet Lake cores, so be it.

If MS FSXX turns out to be the "ultimate" (In my lifetime) flight simulator then I would not mind spending money to accommodate whatever it needs to run smooth.
I also believe most if not all add-ons will require a repurchase or an upgrade fee.

Edited September 27, 20196 yr by RamonB

On 20 September 2019 at 1:46 AM, boeingcorp said:

does anybody think that the new Microsoft  flight simulator will use more then 4 cores?

Yes, but... Even the final version of FSX was capable of using multiple cores, it just didn't do it very effectively. I do hope that the new sim is genuinely a multi-core application. That said, if they want it to sell outside the the small, dedicated flight sim community, it will still need to run well enough on 4-core processors as that's what the majority of PC gamers currently use. The Steam Hardware Survey, https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam, shows that more than 75% of gamers have 4 (or fewer) cores with most of those running at 3.7 GHz or less. The data comes from a base of more than 90 million active users so probably gives a good, representative cross section of the gamer world.

Edited September 28, 20196 yr by vortex681

Let's face it, taking full advantage of even four cores would be a massive step forward from FSX or P3D.

Even a proper DirectX 12 implementation would do wonders to the current engine, relieving the pressure off the main thread by threading out and reducing the driver overhead, as we can see here.