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Originally Posted by SNAFU
I second that, but only because I am looking for a disctraction from work... 
I refrained from buying CoD until last Sunday, because I did not want to support UBI, which I thoutht to be the driving factor for the situation we are in. Finally I bought it via Steam, because I want to support simulation software developent generally. I also installed it, set all setting on max and tested a littel. London was flyable with around 25 FPS in low altitudes. LeHavre wasn´t, down to 12 FPS. Over sea I got 160+FPS (i know meaningless). Above 2000m the landscape looks messed up on highest settings, no joy. I don´t mention the stutters I had even with 80FPS indicated by FRAPS. What surprised me, was that my CPU workload never was higher than 25%, well, RAM was not visable touched (I7 2600 at stock 3,4GHz/1333MHz 8GB RAM/ ATI 6950-2GB). I don´t mind that, I was expecting this, so what? But I will not waste my time with CTDs, tinkering my system, just to get frustrated by random bugs of an faulty products. That`s the job of testers.
So, I would have even give the team 100 Euro or more, if they would have frankly said something like: " Hey folks. We faced some problems, we didn´t expect, we made mistakes in management and some wrong decisions, but we learnt a lot and at the end of the day, we didn´t meet our objective and the market is unforgiving. We would like to finish the programm, but we ran out of money. We give you access to the alpha-Version for a donation of 100€..."
But the way they choose to go, is unprofessional IMHO and not really satisfying. I have doubts, as the ones raised by Blue Scorpion.
I donated, bought a lizence for the product and hope they will continue support and overcome their problems in their management, in their software and their product. But I am not that naive to suppose that their success is granted. I will check again in 6 months or a year.
But now back to RoF... |
No offence, but refusing to tinker with your system, hardware and software wise and then blame CoD development team for boching the job is, well, misplaced to say the least.
For ex, Windows 7 Aero is a recourse hog in it self and its common sense to turn it of if u want the maximum out of your system when playing a extreemly demanding game,what ever game it may be.
Blaming the developer for NOT providing u with a "fix" for it is not, however, common sense.
Besides, when people with "uber" pc`s (everyone thinks they have one) have problems and the next guy, with a lesser system isnt having problems (besides the obvious buggs naturally), tell me, where does the problem lies, according to u (and others off course)