Hello All,

 

I'm looking at putting together a high spec PC for my father, an avid FSX fan, so he can use/play FS 2020.

 

Unfortunately though, he his internet speeds are only slightly above 5Mbps.

 

I appreciate the minimum bandwidth requirement for FS 2020 is 5Mbps, but I am hoping there are members here in a similar position (with slow internet speeds) who can can tell me what their real experiences have been like using/playing FS 2020.

 

Needless to say, building a high spec PC will be a costly so I want to make sure he will be able to use/play it.

 

Many thanks in advance,

 

JC

Edited August 28, 20205 yr by jcrider

Just to let you know, I only have Wi-Fi internet (but fiber is in my front yard as of last week, just needs hooking to main, already established, line) The Wi_Fi connection is 3.5Mb/sec max. I've spent 196 hours in Steam, trying all known suggestions to get past fs-patch.002 download. So be prepared for hair pulling. It's been stated that next weeks patch will maybe help. I'll probably have to wait for my fiber hook-up, but being hard headed, I'll keep trying what i've currently got. (you-tube works great, but MSFS, not so much)   

31 minutes ago, jimcarrel said:

Just to let you know, I only have Wi-Fi internet (but fiber is in my front yard as of last week, just needs hooking to main, already established, line) The Wi_Fi connection is 3.5Mb/sec max. I've spent 196 hours in Steam, trying all known suggestions to get past fs-patch.002 download. So be prepared for hair pulling. It's been stated that next weeks patch will maybe help. I'll probably have to wait for my fiber hook-up, but being hard headed, I'll keep trying what i've currently got. (you-tube works great, but MSFS, not so much)   

Thanks Jim.

 

I should add, I will be building the PC, which will include downloading and installing FS 2020 at my home, where I have speeds of around 75Mbps so I shouldn't have any problems on this front.

We have a slow connection, though a little bit faster than your fathers, averaging 8mbps which is probably negated by my kids online gaming, and my experience has been very good, with no loss of definition in the terrain using GA aircraft at all (I've not tried an airliner, which might suffer)  The only thing that struggles is the Photogrammetry cities, which pop up a warning that bandwidth is too low and is therefore turned off. So, yes it will work, but the experience might be reduced depending on the aircraft he wishes to fly. Of course there is the caching aspect to the sim, which also help with less than ideal speeds.

Edited August 28, 20205 yr by Novation

1 hour ago, jcrider said:

Hello All,

 

I'm looking at putting together a high spec PC for my father, an avid FSX fan, so he can use/play FS 2020.

 

Unfortunately though, he his internet speeds are only slightly above 5Mbps.

 

I appreciate the minimum bandwidth requirement for FS 2020 is 5Mbps, but I am hoping there are members here in a similar position (with slow internet speeds) who can can tell me what their real experiences have been like using/playing FS 2020.

 

Needless to say, building a high spec PC will be a costly so I want to make sure he will be able to use/play it.

 

Many thanks in advance,

 

JC

Leave room for a (very) large rolling cache (I have 300 Gig), you can also manual cache areas where your father likes to fly.

I would also add that you could consider getting your father the DVD set. This will at one stroke save you from downloading 90GB. You then need to download "just" 60GB after installation. Also be aware that DVD1 needs to be in the drive to play.

I just thought I'd mention this because your fathers connection speed is very low. 

19 minutes ago, ThrottleUp said:

"just" 60GB

It's an additional 16GB plus the core sim update of 1GB, not 60GB. I used the DVD's to install and this was my finding. An extra 17gb was still a pain on a slow connection.

 

14 minutes ago, Novation said:

It's an additional 16GB plus the core sim update of 1GB, not 60GB. I used the DVD's to install and this was my finding. An extra 17gb was still a pain on a slow connection.

 

Oh, thats even better news for the OP 😃

Thanks for the correction.

1 hour ago, Novation said:

We have a slow connection, though a little bit faster than your fathers, averaging 8mbps which is probably negated by my kids online gaming, and my experience has been very good, with no loss of definition in the terrain using GA aircraft at all (I've not tried an airliner, which might suffer)  The only thing that struggles is the Photogrammetry cities, which pop up a warning that bandwidth is too low and is therefore turned off. So, yes it will work, but the experience might be reduced depending on the aircraft he wishes to fly. Of course there is the caching aspect to the sim, which also help with less than ideal speeds.

Thank you for your feedback Novation "and my experience has been very good, with no loss of definition in the terrain using GA aircraft at all" - This is very encouraging.  Thank you

 

1 hour ago, SierraHotel said:

Leave room for a (very) large rolling cache (I have 300 Gig), you can also manual cache areas where your father likes to fly.

I didn't know about this, but it makes a lot of sense.  With this in mind, I'm now thinking of getting a larger SSD (i.e. 4Tb, or more) to install windows, FS 2020 and still have overhead for more FS 2020 'stuff'

 

1 hour ago, ThrottleUp said:

I would also add that you could consider getting your father the DVD set. This will at one stroke save you from downloading 90GB. You then need to download "just" 60GB after installation. Also be aware that DVD1 needs to be in the drive to play.

I just thought I'd mention this because your fathers connection speed is very low. 

I didn't know you could could get a DVD set with FS 2020 on.  This is far more preferable for the reasons you have given.  It is also what he has for FSX, and all his terrain packs.  So with this good news I'm almost certain it will be the route we go down.

 

1 hour ago, Novation said:

It's an additional 16GB plus the core sim update of 1GB, not 60GB. I used the DVD's to install and this was my finding. An extra 17gb was still a pain on a slow connection.

 

🙂 ThrottleUp is right, this is even better news.  Thank you

Thank you all for your very prompt and informative replies.  I'm starting to feel very positive this will work out well for him. 

In the meantime, if anyone else reading this also has a slow internet connection, I should be very interested to hear of your experiences using/playing FS 2020 too.

Edited August 28, 20205 yr by jcrider