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Originally Posted by flyingblind

Whilst undoubtably true that many top games run much better on your systems than CloD I think that is a bit of a dead end. I am no expert and have little interest in all the various FPs, Fantasy and role playing games out there being purely an IL2 and motor sport sim fanatic. But it seems to me that CloD is an entirely different kettle of fish. Nothing else tries to incorporate the depth of working details, FMs and DMs plus multiplayer and all covering vast areas of very detailed maps. Even if the code was fully optimised, which quite clearly it isn't yet, then it would still put a strain on any computer system. The question is - Why is there such a mixed bag of good and bad experiences of people running similar spec systems or even a lower spec system running it better a higher spec one? And the answere to that must lie in the hardware, computer software or the configuration because everyone is running exactly the same code.

B I N G O !

As I pointed out to addman a few pages back.. Take AI alone for example.. Which do you think is more complex..

1) A FPS bot waiting for a 'trigger' to start shooting at you from behind a wall
2) A flightsim bot pilot that has to maneuver his plane into position before shooting at you

Clearly it is #2

And that is just AI!

Now take ARMA2 for example.. It does a lot too.. But anyone who has played it knows the FMs are very dumbed down

At this point some might point out RoF series..

Not sure if it is using the DirectX 11 API like CoD does? But the RoF graphics engine was nothing to rave about when it first came out several years ago..

Mater of fact it was not until about 6 months ago that they provided a patch that allowed planes to be see at much farther distances.. Prior to that planes would just suddenly disappear once they reached s certain distance.. That is to say the LOD transition did not transition to a dot.. It just disappear.. But now after a couple of years RoF has a pretty darn good graphics engine! Ill bet CoD's graphics engine gets fixed sooner than that.. even without the additional cash flow that RoF gets due to their plane addons

Long story short, you really can not compare a flight sim to any other game IMHO.. Flight sims have so much more going on that your typical run of the mill eye-candy oriented first person shooter or dragon fighting game