Sorry guys, I nicked my poem from one called Ballad :grin:

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that is good stuff

Just an observation. Carefully view the last updates.

We are no longer getting 3d cad drawings. We are getting completed aircraft in the air in combat.

The last update gave us 10 such pics.

Review the last updates carefully, lot's of planes in the air, landscape and clouds look good, large numbers of aircraft in the air that appear to be engaged in combat.

I would say this is probably a very good sign that SOW is nearing release.

Here here. We have waited for long enough, that frankly I just want Oleg to relax and work as hard as they want. This is going to be better than Il-2, and quite frankly that's all I need to know.

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Philip..I think your fingers itch to make new content to SoW. ;) :D IL-2 is hard to make any better as it is due the limitations, but SoW opens new doors. :D

You're right ;) I'm rusty in Il-2 now. In the summer I need to try and make some more stuff ;)

Have a closer look at shadows of the spit.

I think the time to get excited will be when Oleg starts posting videos of in game action.

That way he brings us closer to the edge, but doesn't have to reveal much about the actual application.

problem with screenshots is it doesn't say anything about the physics engine, doesn't say anything about the animations, and we've yet to hear anything... I'd love to see just the start-up (showing clicking switches and stuff ) and takeoff of a 109 or spitfire from inside the cockpit with sound... even on minimum graphics settings... never mind combat.

Im amazed at the number of people who have high end (i7) systems.
What the heck do you do with all that cpu power?
Video encoding is the only thing that springs to mind, I can't imagine you would see any significant difference in gaming compared to a system for half the price (I guess you might need it for multi video card/display performance?).
I recently trialled a new Lenovo D20 workstation with Xeon E5650/Quadro FX1800 (we are upgrading at work) and was disappointed to see the tiny performance boost compared with my current Athlon II X2 system.
Typically, running Solidworks, I was looking at little more than 13% cpu utilization (1/2 a core).
I guess SOW will be more optimized for multicore, but I will be waiting until well after release before thinking about what to buy to play it.

Overclock it to run FSX smooth :-). These chips are extremely overclockable. I personally have i5 and except I have 4GB ram instead of 6 and I will not make sli/crossfire setup because of PCI-E bandwidth it has almost the same computing power after overclock.