Microsoft Flight Simulator received high praise when it was first launched in 2020. The game was lauded as a huge technological achievement for how it utilized clever techniques to create a map of the entire world and let players explore it. Unfortunately, this came at the expense of being the Crysis of its time.
Just like Crytek's demanding series of shooter games back in the late 2000s, Microsoft Flight Simulator was a beautiful game that very few people could run on their systems.
Even a PC with an Nvidia RTX 3080 and i7-9700K (or the AMD equivalent) would struggle to run Microsoft Flight Simulator at 60 frames per second. It was even worse for mid-range PC builds let alone $500 gaming PCs. Microsoft Flight Simulator demanded that your PC have both a powerful processor and graphics card.
Now, almost a year after it was first released, the game's developer, Asobo Studio, is going to introduce some huge updates that will make Microsoft Flight Simulator run better across all platforms.