MS FS 2020 release date August 18th.

[GenericZack]

But it does make me wonder: just how high-fidelity are these graphics if they really want you to have that much RAM seeing as these aren't just recommended requirements but "Ideal", as in what you really need to have get the most out of this game as the developers intended?

[dtrainBNSF1]

But it does make me wonder: just how high-fidelity are these graphics if they really want you to have that much RAM seeing as these aren't just recommended requirements but "Ideal", as in what you really need to have get the most out of this game as the developers intended?

Okay, that is more than impressive. That's amazing . I'll bet Xbox players will be the majority of players who will be able to benefit from these kinds of graphics until other game devs develop games that can match that kind of detail.

Yes, I know this topic is not directly related to trains or TS20XX or much of anything on this forum, but this is Microsoft making a nod towards the simulation genre after about a decade or more of walking away from the genre after closing down Aces Studio and putting MSTS 2 on the "CANCELLED" shelf for the second time in order to focus more on titles like Halo, the first closure prompting Kuju, original team behind MSTS, to make its own train simulator, Rail Simulator, which then spun off the creation of Rail Simulator Developments Ltd. (now Dovetail Games) to keep developing and provide support for the game after Kuju moved on to other projects, who then produced to Railworks, Railworks 2: Train Simulator, Railworks 3: Train Simulator 2012, and then TS 20XX forever after. In a weird way we have Microsoft to thank for having TS 20XX in the first place and this community we all participate in, and for a lot of us "more experienced" players who've been at it in one form or another since 2001 we probably wouldn't have gotten started in this hobby of train simulation if it weren't for the OG Microsoft Train Simulator (unless you got started in Train Master, which if you did man you've been in this hobby for a long time). I think this move by Microsoft is worth some recognition. It might not be big for train simulation, but it's still a big deal everywhere else. For me it's less about Flight Simulator itself and more about Microsoft returning to any type of simulation genre at all. I think it's cool that Microsoft has done this.

[BNSFdude]

God if anything else, I'd love for this to prompt MS to put together a new TS. Anything to get us out of the singular clutch we have now honestly. We've been stagnant or regressive as far as development at a core basis goes for 13 years.

[Tomcat]

God if anything else, I'd love for this to prompt MS to put together a new TS. Anything to get us out of the singular clutch we have now honestly. We've been stagnant or regressive as far as development at a core basis goes for 13 years.

From your lips to the ears of whatever diety or dieties oversee MS!

[Schnauzahpowahz]

I love aircraft, specifically pre war and ww2 era but not so much commercial. I dont have a flight stick anymore and dont need another wallet siphoning sim...

But this game looks amaaaazing .

My will - will crumble, ill likely succumb

[GenericZack]

I've been slowly building my rig up for this game. Now that everything is good to go on my end i cant wait.

For those of you that are worried about the internet stuff. You get the whole world in the download. The streaming bit gives you higher quality scenery. Also with that said. you can cache the areas that you most frequent.

[trev123]

The DVD version comes on 10 double-layer DVDs but I didn't read in the article which version here. https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/07/micro ... h-10-dvds/ I have also read that the scenery is downloaded over the internet as you fly anyway that is my understanding of it so if you have a shoddy internet connection it mightn't work properly.