Maddox Games computers
 

I would like to upgrade my computer.

Could someone from Maddox Games give me the specifications of their computer that ran a 40-50 airplane combat scenario at low level over London?

Thanks

The most expensive one you can afford at the moment, I wouldn't spend 5 cents on any upgrades until this game is finished. Good luck though!:grin:

Right now an i7 2600k clocked to 4.5GHz and upwards coupled with a GTX 580 is pretty much the top end, because radeons have all sorts of problems and that CPU will be the fastest available.

addman is correct though - there's no point upgrading right now. tidying up the code and a generation or two of hardware will be what it takes to play coD with lots of planes/city scapes below.

For some kind of reference - I tried to max out one of the new quick missions last night - I had 116 'planes in the air - I wouldn't call it playable, but neither was it a complete slideshow. That was with max settings all round, except SSAO and epilepsy filter, at 1920x1200.

Buy another GTX for SLI and try that mission again. ;-)

I believe Mr. Schlageter was having a bit of a joke here.

Oh I imagine he is too, but if you wanna get some serious hardware, then you need to get one of these. 2 x HEX core Xeon CPU's @4ghz and 4 x 580GTX's. (our dedicated server minus the GPU's)

That should run it quite nicely! Don't forget you'll need 2 x 1500w PSU's as well. :)

http://www.irsmurf.com/forums/sr2-case.jpg

http://www.legitreviews.com/images/r..._case_side.jpg

Why does a dedicated server need all those graphics cards?

In IL2 a dedicated server only passed Positional and other info between the player computers. All graphics processing was done client side. Decidedly low spec machines worked well as a dedicated host.

Who said a dedicated server needed GPUs? I clearly said ours didn't have any "(minus the GPU's)". That is a home system being shown.

Ahhh....


Thanks for clearing that up.

+1

I'm afraid that your subtle irony is wasted here, good try though. Wouldn't it be great if someone from Maddox games actually responded:!:

My pc ran 80+ planes over London plus flak quite nicely :P. So no problems on this end. This is the same thing that was with the original IL2, you need a good computer to run it at acceptable levels of detail and AC number in the air.

werd yo!

Exactly Kurfurst.

We don't always agree, but when we do it's 100%.

:cool:

There are faster cpus than that, they just cost an arm and a leg.

as much as you can stand. this is the way it should be.

Nope.The game must have been performing OK on the MG computer that tested the finish game before release. What better way to test the game than with a large number of a/c at low level over London. So, it must have been performing OK for MG to take the May Day holiday.

They tested the game?

I don't know what there's was, but I ran 80 He111's 110's and 109's at 4Km over Londer against my 12 Spitfires and I was getting mid 50's in fps. When it broke down and I went to the deck chasing 109's and 110's it went into the 30's. 1920X1200 All on HIGH with SSAO/EPILEPSY = OFF SHADOWS = OFF.

lol, Andy!!

seems a bit pointless to me, the shadows are the only thing this game has going for it:confused:

Since COD is not optimized.... at moment there is not a good computer for this simulator...... but as you know.. the problem is not our computer. So wait for upgrade your pc! :)

this is the computer you will need
http://www.cray.com/Products/CX/Systems.aspx :shock:


p.s you have to buy your video card :)

Yeah, but for lower end systems its a pretty significant performance savings.. for me it is the difference between 90-100 fps and 65-75 fps so I use them :) If it was the difference between 40-50 and 20-30 I might think differently though

My $200 CPU and $325 single graphics card runs it at 100 fps at 1920 X 1200 with all settings to high... not sure what else you would ask for but while I have a good system its a top 15% not top 1% in terms of performance..

Your sig says 7600 rpm drive, don't you mean 7200 rpm drive?

I'm just waiting on a cpu cooler for a 2500k system. So even 65 frames sounds great to me. Getting 30-20 fps with current system.

This could help:
https://sites.google.com/site/il2benchmarks/home