November 20, 20241 yr Looks like it is hammering the CPU/GPU hardware if even able to get installed... https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/microsoft-flight-simulator-2024-botched-launch SAR Pilot. Flight Sim'ing since the beginning.
November 21, 20241 yr Author How embarrassing: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/microsoft-only-planned-for-200-000-users-for-flight-simulator-launch-admits-drastic-underestimate-led-to-database-being-overwhelmed SAR Pilot. Flight Sim'ing since the beginning.
November 21, 20241 yr At least we finally may have an idea of how many simmers we are, and how many did participate in the Alpha. Edited November 21, 20241 yr by Luis Hernandez Best regards,Luis Hernández Main rig: self built, AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D (with SMT off and CO -50 mV), 2x16 GB DDR4-3200 RAM, Nvidia RTX 5060Ti 16GB, 256 GB M.2 SSD (OS+apps) + 2x1 TB SATA III SSD (sims) + 1 TB 7200 rpm HDD (storage), ID-Cooling SE-224-XTS air cooler, Viewsonic VX2458-MHD 1920x1080@120-144 Hz (G-sync compatible), Windows 11. Running P3D v5.4 (with v4.5 scenery objects as an additional library, just in case), FSX-SE, MSFS2020, MSFS2024 and even FS9! Lossless Scaling for all my sims. What a godsend...Mobile rig: ASUS Zenbook UM425QA (AMD Ryzen 7 5800H APU @3.2 GHz and boost disabled, 1 TB M.2 SSD, 16 GB RAM, Windows 11 Pro). Running FS9 there .VKB Gladiator NXT Premium Left + GNX THQ as primary controllers. Xbox Series X|S wireless controller as standby/mobile.
November 21, 20241 yr The article does not state that they tested for 200,000 concurrent users, not total users. Obviously they still screwed up that load test (should have tried 10x concurrent haha) and it didn't work, but it's not like they expected only 200,000 users to log in on day 1 😄 9800X3d, 4090, 64 GB DDR5 6000 RAM, 4 TB NVME (2x2), 4K Ultra + Framegen
November 21, 20241 yr Out of curiosity, I calculated it. If you assume each user session is 45 minutes, and traffic is evenly distributed through the day, your server can handle ~7 million users a day. 9800X3d, 4090, 64 GB DDR5 6000 RAM, 4 TB NVME (2x2), 4K Ultra + Framegen
November 21, 20241 yr Author Looks like MS has issued an apology and "working on it": https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/microsoft-says-flight-simulator-2024-still-suffers-from-access-problems-despite-adding-more-server-capacity-to-handle-demand SAR Pilot. Flight Sim'ing since the beginning.
January 21, 20251 yr On 11/21/2024 at 5:37 PM, Flyfaster_MTN002 said: Looks like MS has issued an apology and "working on it": https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/microsoft-says-flight-simulator-2024-still-suffers-from-access-problems-despite-adding-more-server-capacity-to-handle-demand one month later.... still in alpha.
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