the future of Clouds .

[CharveL]

Edit: A few hours after making this post, luthier posted this: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=19819
Under E for how to improve performance: "E. NOTE: DirectX 9 offers slower performance and lower graphic fidelity. If your system meets Recommended system requirements, upgrading to a DX10-capable operating system will offer better performance boost in Cliffs of Dover than perhaps any hardware upgrade."

Not to sound arrogant - but yet again I am verified indirectly by a dev statement.

What?? I don't see anything about DX11 in there anywhere or how it makes DX11 the holy grail of performance for CoD. Also, I'm not contending that everything you've copy/pasted or rambled on about is wrong by any means, just some of your conclusions on how it should be applied to CoD.

I also got a kick out of your suggestion to Luthier that maybe he should try using simple "hit boxes" around trees as a solution to performance. That's like me telling my mechanic to check the engine as a solution to why my car won't start.

If I had the inclination to joust with you further I'd bring up the post where you shouted about how CoD doesn't use more than one core, showing pics of apparently idle cores from task manager, which further illustrated your lack of understanding of how tasks tend to be distributed to additional cores in games. Then, while you were obnoxiously insulting another poster that came in to correct some of your misunderstandings, Luthier dropped in to explain that yes indeed CoD uses other cores as needed.

I'm not going to follow you down your preferred path of debating by hurling insults, although I've got a thick enough skin that it doesn't really bother me. People really aren't interested in wading through our back and forth banter.

You do bring some good information to the table and if you just stuck to that, instead of pretending you know better than the developers, and getting pouty and butthurt when someone steps in to correct you, you wouldn't find yourself being embarrassed when it does happen.

If you can stick to that, I'll look forward to your posts and will learn a few things myself from you and the discussion.