Microsoft Flight Simulator system requirements

The Microsoft Flight Simulator system requirements have been revealed ahead of its release sometime later this year. Fortunately for simmers keen to get stuck in, it looks like the much-anticipated title won’t be too demanding in terms of its minimum requirements, though there are ‘recommended’ and ‘ideal’ suggestions, too, if you’re looking to hit the higher performance tiers.

Microsoft has unveiled the requirements on the simulation game’s official website, but we’ve broken them down here for you, because we’re super helpful like that. Given Microsoft Flight Simulator’s airports include 37,000 manually edited locations, and the sim features “seamless” multiplayer, a procedurally generated map of the whole world, and even some lavish cockpits, the minimum specs might surprise you, needing 2GB of VRAM, 8GB of RAM, 150GB HDD, and a Ryzen 3 1200 or Intel i5-4460 CPU.

However, at the other end, the ‘ideal’ specs suggest a Ryzen 7 Pro 2700X or Intel i7-9800X CPU instead. Let’s take a look at those Microsoft Flight Simulator system requirements in full (via Microsoft):

Microsoft Flight Simulator Minimum System Requirements:

Microsoft Flight Simulator Recommended System Requirements:

Microsoft Flight Simulator Ideal System Requirements:

That’s all we’ve got for the Microsoft Flight Simulator system specs. There’s no word of a set release date for the sim just yet, though it’s expected to drop sometime in 2020. Be sure to head over to our partner site PCGameBenchmark to compare your computer spec and answer the question, “can I run Flight Sim 2020?“.