Microsoft’s free-to-play flight sim now available for download
Micrsoft’s free-to-play flight simulator on 29 February 2012 becomes available as a download. Intended as a separate product to the long standing Microsoft Flight Simulator franchise, Microsoft Flight is a single and multiplayer flight simulator developed by Microsoft Studios.
While the game is free, players will be charged for extra content, including additional aircraft and scenery.
Microsoft Flight system requirements:
Minimum
• CPU: Dual Core 2.0 GHz
• GPU: 256 MB card capable of shader 3.0 (DX 9.0c compliant)
• HD: 10 GB Hard Drive space
• OS: WinXP SP3
• RAM: 2 GB
• GPU: 256 MB card capable of shader 3.0 (DX 9.0c compliant)
• HD: 10 GB Hard Drive space
• OS: WinXP SP3
• RAM: 2 GB
Recommended (high settings)
• CPU: Intel Core i7 960 @ 3.20 GHz, AMD Phenom II X6 1100T 3.3 GHz or better
• GPU: ATI Radeon HD 5870, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 or better
• HD: 10 GB Hard Drive space
• OS: Windows 7 64-bit
• RAM: 6 GB
• GPU: ATI Radeon HD 5870, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 or better
• HD: 10 GB Hard Drive space
• OS: Windows 7 64-bit
• RAM: 6 GB
You will need a Games For Windows Live account to download Microsoft Flight, which is pretty much the only thing we don’t like about it so far. The download weighs in at a totally reasonable 1.4 GBs, and you can grab it here.
