What You Need to Know about Bandwidth Too Low Error in MSFS 2024
Microsoft Flight Simulator 24 players see bandwidth too low error even when their Internet is fast enough. Can this be resolved?
When Microsoft Flight Simulator was released, it turned out that the game has one problem – it takes up more than 150 GB on the disk. So, in the next installment of the series, developers chose a more cloud-dependent way. Microsoft Flight Simulator 24 requires theoretically only about 30 GB of storage (cache can be quite substantial, though), and the rest of the data is downloaded from the Internet. However, this decision caused many problems like login queues and bandwidth too low error.
Bandwidth Too Low Error in MSFS 2024 Explained
Like I said earlier, Microsoft Flight Simulator 24 downloads a big part of data from the Microsoft servers. In system requirements, developers specified what speed of the Internet you need to play on specific settings:
- Minimal: 10 Mbps,
- Recommended: 50 Mbps,
- Ideal: 100 Mbps.
Before the release, it was said that the game could download up to 81 GB of data per hour. It isn’t a surprise that some players may have too slow Internet. However, bandwidth too low error appears also when you have fast enough connection. Why? The answer is simple – Microsoft servers can't handle this much interest from players. Some fans claim that this error was already in the previous installment - Microsoft Flight Simulator from 2020.
Right now, you can’t do much with this issue. If you see bandwidth too low error, you can try to restart the game or switch to lower quality. However, it is not known when Microsoft will resolve this issue permanently (they are working on it). So, you must be patient.
