Recommended ram size of 64Gig being higher than the HDD size of 30Gigs??!!

This game being so heavily dependent on your internet connection and internet speed its very worrisome. It is nearly a remote streamed game.

One can control their hardware specs and have nearly unlimited hard drive space but ones internet not controllable in most areas.

They better have a solid cache mode in play. Has any site mentioned this at all?

Yes they’ve been pretty unapologetic in saying that this will be much more cloud based.

I remember hearing somewhere in the flurry of threads and videos yesterday that they suggest a larger cache and that the cache was more important than in 2020. 

This will be a change for me as I use no cache now.

37 minutes ago, VeryBumpy said:

Recommended ram size of 64Gig being higher than the HDD size of 30Gigs??!!

I'm pretty sure this needs to be refined, in no way can I imagine a game requiring as much RAM as enterprise level software like CAD.

 

37 minutes ago, VeryBumpy said:

They better have a solid cache mode in play. Has any site mentioned this at all?

The unfortunate truth is, MSFS is pretty much following the GaaS model, it's done this for FS2020 and even more so for FS24. Having reliable internet is pretty much a given.

What's new?
Nowadays every game needs an internet connection... I don't see the problem.
Undoubtedly there will be a local cache.

1 minute ago, Egbert Drenth said:

What's new?
Nowadays every game needs an internet connection... I don't see the problem.
Undoubtedly there will be a local cache.

The problem is for those with slow bandwidth, metered connections, weak WiFi etc etc

Unfortunately for those people this sim may well have to stay on the wish list. 

10 minutes ago, MarcG said:

The problem is for those with slow bandwidth, metered connections, weak WiFi etc etc

But that already is an issue....
Now you have to download 100Gb during installation, for areas you probably won't fly in

Don't forget that many of us have data caps. I am already paying an extra $30 a month for unlimited data because of MSFS 2020. I suspect if data usage goes up, so will that $30 a month charge. 

You still have the option to download everything locally if you want. It’s just not by default anymore 

1 hour ago, VeryBumpy said:

They better have a solid cache mode in play. Has any site mentioned this at all?

Ya the rolling cache will play an important role here, and I remember hearing this topic being discussed in some of the interviews and articles. Also Asobo is improving and refining the compression algorithms so that the size of the actual data passed across the ether is small and can be be efficiently compressed and decompressed between server and client. Also I recall in one interview it was mentioned that the rolling cache can be made to be as large as 1 TB or something?
 

All good for Xbox...

1 hour ago, lwt1971 said:

Ya the rolling cache will play an important role here, and I remember hearing this topic being discussed in some of the interviews and articles. Also Asobo is improving and refining the compression algorithms so that the size of the actual data passed across the ether is small and can be be efficiently compressed and decompressed between server and client. Also I recall in one interview it was mentioned that the rolling cache can be made to be as large as 1 TB or something?
 

Doesn't the rolling cache come into play if you are flying in the same area all the time? 

1 minute ago, Bobsk8 said:

Doesn't the rolling cache come into play if you are flying in the same area all the time? 

It does, but also now apparently for other caching needs due to the thinner client, i.e. world update scenery, marketplace aircraft you've bought, etc (which all by default will be gotten from the cloud on-demand) but can also be locally cached.
 

I did notice some pop in scenery during a few of the videos. I get those were earlier releases/builds but that part has me a little worried how noticeable this will be during VFR flight.

50 minutes ago, Lotharen said:

I did notice some pop in scenery during a few of the videos. I get those were earlier releases/builds but that part has me a little worried how noticeable this will be during VFR flight.

Worried me too but we don't know the LOD settings used, so not worth worrying about too much at this stage.

I'm pretty sure I heard MS/A say bandwidth requirements will actually go DOWN and that because they will be essentially streaming in only the environment you're essentially in at that moment, though that's my paraphrase.