PC Specifications for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Hey everyone, have you been following Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Well I certainly have and they just put out an exciting piece of news.

They have announced the new computer specifications that they will require for someone to run Microsoft Flight Sim 2020.

Microsoft laid it out into three categories. There is a minimum specification, a Recommended specification and an Ideal Specification. My speculation is that the minimum for VR Flight will fall into the range of Recommended or Ideal depending on how you want your sim to run, however that information has not been released and is just speculation from me.

The specifications for the minimum category is.

Minimum Specifications

Recommended Specifications

Ideal Specifications

One thing that you may notice that is different from most other games, is that they specify the recommended internet speed. This plays a large role in the quality of sim, as Microsoft Flight Sim is using large servers to feed scenery to your computer during game play. This is because there is too much detailed data for any of the modern hard drives to support.

Now, from what I understand, you can get around this by downloading certain areas before a flight. If you don’t download the scenery before your flight, Microsoft Flight Sim will downgrade your scenery in order to compensate for your internet speed.

Now, probably the best part about this release is the news on the minimum specs. This is really going to open up the sim for people without the best of the best computers. The minimum specs are fairly reasonable and even the recommended specs can be easily accomplished by most gaming computers on the market.

If you are looking to go into VR with this sim, I would recommend staying closer to the ideal specs, however without being able to test this and without any data, it is hard to say what we can expect in VR.

I would love to know what your thoughts are on the new specs. Let me know in the comments below if you plan to do any upgrades?

thanks for reading and I will try to keep you posted on the new updates as they come out.

Dan