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I was a child on a Commodore 64 with Flight Simulator. Before school one morning I took off from Chicago, leveled off, and pointed my cesna towards my city - New Orleans. When I got home, to my surprise, it was some 50 - 100 miles away. I took it in for a landing and... nothing. Nothing happens. Still, that was the best nothingness and I remember it to this day. Looking forward to this version. Addendum: When my pare…

Wow, that was a wave of nostalgia. As a younger lad it was a fun game to fly to specific destinations just to see if they were modeled in-game. as I upgraded my flight simulator versions, more and more stuff got added, and it was so much fun to find a location with actual 3D models!

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I checked the minimum required specs advertised for FS2020 and it made me sad. I have a pretty decent used dell M6800 workstation at home (gen 4 i7, K3100M graphics, 32GB RAM) and I don't know if I'll be able to run it.

You should check out Geforce Now then! I have been playing on there for more than a year and it's just amazing being able to play on a GPU that powerful. They just released today and it's only 5$ per month.

I just realized that a flight simulator is the perfect kind of thing for the "lower" latency of something like cloud based gaming.

Why even build a PC if you can stream it all? The only issue will be customizability (the modding community).

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