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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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[–] ngwoo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

The world they built for the game is hundreds of terabytes, it's really the only way to do it without forcing players to preload tiny chunks of the world and restrict their flight to only the ones they've downloaded.