At least that install size is light, right?

I don’t have a metered home internet connection, but jesus-christ, who is this for?

  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    17 hours ago

    This is generally how these things work. MSFS global scenery is a large number of terabytes in size. Local scenery is streamed on-demand as you travel around. Very few people would have the means to store it all locally. MSFS isn’t the only flight simulator which does this. FlightGear, a free software flight simulator uses a system called TerraSync which does the exact same thing, however the scenery tiles in FlightGear are rather modest in comparison (in the upcoming “World Scenery 3.0” terrain system, the state of Colorado consumes 513MB compressed).

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      11·
      16 hours ago

      I’m guessing it must have some kind of cache for people that don’t have absurd internet connections. I never got too into scenery packs and extra data for MSFS2020, but I’d usually just focus on a single region at a time with the freebie packs MS put out.