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ok so it means low level of detail hmmm wonder what effect this will have to someone using a hd tv ?? my prob with sim is spotting them at distance once im up close i can follow them do a quick id check then if its a bad guy move in for the kill ......

so do you think it will make it easyer to spot em at a distance ???

I think, and hope it will be easier to spot them in the 0.5 - 2 km distance. Now, when you see them at 4km, you see them clearly as a black dot, but when reaching 2km more or less, it disappears. I hope the black dot will stay till the plane is so close, you can see it anyways.

But i dont know, thats what im asking :P

Hi MorgotNL,

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Originally Posted by MorgothNL (Post 107237)

my guess is that the black dot will stay too which is so great. It will definitely changes the balance of power. We poor old Tv owner will conquer the online SiM battlefield.

But MorgotME my guess is that the fix is for Low Def screen only which means for screen with a low definition whether it is small or large. (bad luck for you)

If you 15" Monitor has a high def such as 1280*1024 I'm not sure that you will enjoy the update. (Maybe 1024*680 will be not enough "low def" as well)

Well, wait for the update, and if it doesn't improve your visibility, You could buy wether an old (but large TV) - or an old, but large, cathodic monitor (19" or even 22"). For 20-30 Euros I'am sur you can find something in Spain or in Holland. Thanks to the flat screen revolution. ;)

But wait for the update I will tell you if it really improves the visibility, I'v got an old TV. not very large though

the resolution of my monitor is just 1024x768, so that is pretty low :P. And I do have a television in the living room, a 24ich if im correct. (also a very old one ;)). After the update, ill check what makes sim best playable :)

My interpretation of this update is that the plane will be more visible once the black dot has gone. See, the black dot is some sort of assistant sprite - it's not a LODed model. When the dot disappears and you can no longer see the plane, that is when it's switched from assistant to LOD model.

My guess would be that they have simply made the LOD models darker the further away they are. But that is just a guess.

Also, I would be hugely surprised if this fix applies to only SDTVs. It is to help SDTVs but I can't see it only applying to them.

Guess we'll have to wait and see :)