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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 143 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Obviously the flight simulator runs in the cloud.

[–] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

People downvoting you didn't get the joke.

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Their head is up their ass, instead of in the clouds.

[–] leds@feddit.dk 22 points 1 day ago

Nah planes go wooosh over their heads

[–] caboose2006@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] ChuckEffingNorris@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

I watched a couple Of live streams showing a graph for bandwidth as they flew. It tended to spike to around 180 MB a second when whole new areas were loading but during flight it was much much lower at around 10 to 15 MB per second.

[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

It is. If it's 140 mbit/s (or 15 MB/s), Flight Simulator only uses 54 GB per hour. OP is confusing bits and bytes.

It's still a shit load of data.

[–] Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What!? Why the games don't just run locally

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 45 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

they're streaming world data. I shudder to think about the size of the entire dataset.

[–] orangeboats@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Are the streamed data stored in a local cache? Surely the bandwidth costs are going up to the sky with the server sending data to every single player.

[–] cimmerian@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

From what I've heard, yes. They're storing data in cache for frequently charted areas

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 68 points 1 day ago (10 children)

At this point you might as well stream the game video, it would be less bandwidth.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 24 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

This guy just invented Google Stadia (and GeForce Now I think)

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Nobody remembers OnLive...

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago)

Steve Perlman sure does

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 4 points 13 hours ago

I remember OnLive. I was waiting for it to become usable, then...nothing.

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