


That’s still big, even by today’s bloated standards – but it’s a lot less than the 170GB footprint the vanilla game has taken up on hard drives up until now. That’s because, thanks to some optimisations made on the base version of the simulation game, the initial download size has been cut in half.Īsobo Studio says it “performed some optimization for the initial full download” of Microsoft Flight Simulator and that as a result, the base game is now around 83GB. But one of the biggest changes it makes won’t be noticed by anyone who already has downloaded and installed it, and would thus be downloading the patch. Microsoft Flight Simulator’s latest patch doesn’t just fix indestructible wing ice.
