Zappatime |
03-29-2011 09:36 PM |
Well it activates and works. made a new Steam user (as my old one gets used on my sons pc a lot); installs from DVD then when you run it it fires up into your Steam account and downloads a fairly big update, took a while, so watched the England match for 20 minutes:grin:
Frame rate is all over the place at the moment, but we've all heard why so wont go into all that, just hope the updates/patch coming by the end of the week maybe will make big improvements.
There's an absolute ton of control keys, not many with a default setup, just the familiar il2 ones for views, bail out, padlock fly-by etc.
Sound quality is variable, guns in the Hurricane sound oddly boxed in but loud, comms radio is difficult to hear and I havent seen any volume adjust for that, the audio setup is a little sparse apart from speaker selection, unless I'm missing something.
I havent really played about with the settings, it defaulted to my desktop resolution (1920x1200) and medium settings - my spec:
Q9650 @ 3.7Ghz, 4Gb ram, Zotac Amp 480GTX, SB X-Fi, Win 7 64bit
Changing the graphics settings requires a restart to take effect, I know most games require this these days, but it restarts through steam so takes a while, unlike il2.
I set it to very high just to see how it looked, my poor pc wondered what I'd hit it with:( its very early days, after such a long wait following the development for nigh on six years, I'll take a deep breath and accept waiting a bit longer to see it sorted, I remember thinking in the friday updates ' give it me now, I dont care that its got bugs' well, careful what you wish for!;)
PS: The CE box is very nicely done, the spiral bound handbook has a really thick front/back to it, it would have been nice to see a list of available controls, like the old keycard in all the versions il2, not checked to see if there's any pdf's on the disc etc.
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