Friday 2010-07-02 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

I don't think Il-2 could be run on perfect settings at release

at release anybody with a then uber leet pc (forgive my teen speak) could run il2 on its highest graphics settings with good frame rates (and a decent resolution)

iirc, wasnt perfect mode only added with the FB addon pack ? i dont think it existed before then as a gfx setting. some grey old timers here will remember.

i know that when the first ever demo was released i played it perfectly fine with high detail settings in opengl and good frame rates, and most of my pc's over the years have been a step or 2 below the top level (usually good cpu but not top level gfx cards)

Originally Posted by philip.ed

even today you need a half-decent PC to play Il-2 on perfect (10 years later...)

that is because at each major release, like FB, PF and 1946 there were simultaneous significant increases in gfx quality by oleg & Co, so the pc load became heavier each time and we had to keep up. people also over that time period changed from a 17 crt (which i used at il2 demo time iirc) to widescreen lcd's, so in the last 4 yrs or so i have been running 1946 at 1900 x 1200 on a 28' lcd (an obviously much higher pc load)

hence in my earlier common sense spec list i added the need for people to use multiple high end gfx cards if they wanted to use multiple monitors at a half decent resolution.