Getting systems to simulate flight behavior in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | Sebastian Wloch interview

For Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, the ambitious flight sim game that debuts today, the physics and environmental systems are far more sophisticated than the 2020 version.

Part of the reason is that there is just a lot more horsepower available from the internet-connected cloud data centers to solve tough computing simulations. Back in 2020, with the previous flight simulator game, Microsoft only handled part of the processing through the cloud as it added more ground data from faraway data centers to supplement the processing on a player’s own computer.