Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Will Deliver Performance Gains Via Improved Multithreading

Asobo Studio’s latest entry in its flight simulator series, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, will deliver performance gains via improved multithreading.

The Microsoft Flight Simulator team at Asobo Studio has shared a detailed FAQ for the upcoming Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, in which it is stated that the game will feature improved performance via improvements made to multithreading. Additionally, the FAQ mentions that one of the development team’s biggest priorities for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is to improve the simulator’s data management.

In order to improve data management, one of the major changes to the simulator’s architecture is using Cloud streaming to help ensure that the client becomes thin. When players load into the sim, only the textures, meshes, and map data that they need will be downloaded to avoid unnecessary bandwidth and disk space usage. Not only will this keep the minimum specifications of the sim as low as possible, it will also reduce update and load times.

In terms of technical improvements, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will feature improved multithreading to improve performance, faster download, load, and installation speeds, improved aerodynamics and physics simulation, improved aircraft systems including electrical, pneumatic, fuel, and hydraulics, a new failure and wear & tear system, and a deeper and wider avionics systems.

Over 500 team members across several teams are currently working on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. The missions and activities that are featured in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 are authentic re-creations of those performed in real-live aviation fields. The studio is working with a variety of organizations, such as firefighting, search and rescue, and coast guard organizations, to make these activities as accurate as possible.

In terms of improvements to world simulation, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will offer improved ground details, 3D tessellated ground materials, enhanced 3D trees with greatly increased diversity, improved cliffs, animal herds and migrations, worldwide live ship traffic, accurate live air traffic (models, liveries), improved vehicle traffic, full seasons, aurora borealis / aurora australis, tornados, and storms.