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Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

On the other side the game is a graphics and performance monster. It eats any HW you will put to it for breakfast and asks for more.
It is my personal opinion (and 20years experience in the flight sim world) that, there is no hardware available today to make this game work properly so I am waiting for a year until the new graphics cards will have double the performance of today's top models and at least 3Gb VRAM so that I can at least enjoy some decent performance. Until then it will be compromises.

Interesting, double the performance in a year?
Anyway, if this game has even 70% of the features the 2006 trailer says, it darn right should be a resource hog! For example, giving the ground objects moving suspensions is such a feature. I don`t know why in a flightsim, so I think it should be customizable.

Of course some will say that "the game should be more optimised". Guys, forget it, they optimised it as much as they could by removing some things and making the distance radius of detail as small as it could become (that'why so many people complain about the "blocked houses"), do not expect too much "optimisation" more...
AND big kudos goes to kegetys who made theMOD and found the optimisations (which later became part of the graphics menu in the game), without his contribution we would still be playing at 15fps...

Optimised...yes. Well, performance wise it should be. The only complaint could be the stutters over the cities. No matter how low you set the video options, it never fully goes away. Now for the other optimisatnions, it also should get rid of any CDTs, stuff that stops the show (meaning literally - the game craps out). What some console idiots don`t realise is that optimisation doesn`t necesarrily mean running this game full whistle @ FullHD resolutions with todays hardware. Everyone expects their 2 year old mid range PC to run a flight simulation at the same FPS as Dx9 Crysis2.
Naaaah, this game is ahead of its time exactly as the IL2 was. The IL2 started to show signs of age about the year of 2006, when majority of the crowd were starting to run it on perfect video settings. Now what I think is going to happen, is that the more powerful pcs we get, the more complicated features will get "unlocked". It`s all a matter of consistency, and we have a real impact on it through buying the copies. It`s about the only thing we have right now and we`re so close to the ultimate online gameplay. But some poeple unable to run it on their 9600GT feel that CloD should be shot down for that reason.

Now don`t get me wrong. I see the mistakes dex team made. The game was hardly customizable for a pc game, and Kegety, even if I despise illegal modders, DID make a serious contribution. We got much more video options which let even the mid range folks run this game at a satisfying level (I have a 2008 higher mid range PC). Maybe even for this reason alone, nobody should ever negate that the community has always pushed 1C forward one step further.

I do agree that pretending that this was a game that would run on a min configuration of WinXP and DX10 was a very overstated idea....

The min system requirements are always to be ignored. Unless ofcourse you don`t know the drill cuz it`s your very first video game.

Something else worthwhile bringing to your attention gentlemen is the retail price of the game:
This game costs approx 15.00 Dollars (this is the price you pay for it in Russia)
If anybody tells me that this is a waste of money for this product, I would advice him to a psychiatrist as his system of values has been seriously imbalanced (probably too many bankers' advice).
Why this game costs 50.00 Dollars (or 50.00 Euros) in other countries is interesting and maybe you can deduct who cashes in the difference (50 - 15 = 35)... No need for answers from marketeers thanks!
Still, at 50.00 EUR I would not accept that this game is a waste of money.

I got the CE for 42€. The standard version costs here ~ 23€. I have 18 hours of gameplay. That`s almost twice the time of Crysis2 single play campaign and twice of most of the FPS game that cost this money. Probably there will be lots of free stuff coming, not 8$ dlc. Probably the Moscow expansion will come sometime in the next year. Guess how many hours I will have with CloD to that point?

The only critisism I would make is that this game did not write: WARNING! You are about to spend hundreds of dollars buying new hardware in order to start playing this game and further hundreds of dollars buying more hardware a few months later!

What for? People would still ignore it seeing how they post on these forums. The very sad truth is that many people who bought this game aren`t exactly the type of person suitable for it. It takes money, patience, intelligence, a bit of advanced PC hardware/software knowledge, lots of time. So not many. The good news is that those people who DO manage to stay with IL2 not only play the game, but they keep contributing for the good of all (like uuuuum saaaaay.... creating a free singleplayer campaign?).