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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

What!? Why the games don't just run locally

[–] [email protected] 49 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

they're streaming world data. I shudder to think about the size of the entire dataset.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Are the streamed data stored in a local cache? Surely the bandwidth costs are going up to the sky with the server sending data to every single player.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

From what I've heard, yes. They're storing data in cache for frequently charted areas