min specs for SOW

Originally Posted by zapatista

no official announcement has ever been made so far about specific pc specs for BoB-SoW. but what is safe to presume is that, whatever high end gaming pc you might have AT RELEASE TIME will then allow you to run BoB on the higher settings with more eye candy and decent frame rates
if you search this forum you will find more in depth reasons why that should be the case

for your current new pc specs, you have a high end cpu, a fair amount of ram, so all you would need is a high end gfx card to go with it. that is of course presuming you will play on a medium level resolution with a single monitor. high end resolutions like those on a 30', or wanting to use multiple monitors, will need multiple high end gfx cards presumably.

all this of course is just deduced by applying common sense and additionally knowing something about oleg's previous release strategy in the original il2 series. if you want more certainty, then wait till release BoB time or for a formal spec announcement before you spend your money. by all current indications BoB should be released later this year, so it wont be far off. if a delay occurs, then obviously pc specs continue to evolve and oleg will tailor his product for the high end technology being available at that time.

1. Why is it 'Safe' to presume that you will be able to run SOW on higher settings with this spec PC, you are completely guessing, at this moment in time we have seen no high res video with multiple aircraft flying over a city. Its impossible for you to make that statement. Of course you could be right, but you simply dont know.

2. There have been no indications that SOW will be released this year, in fact if you use your 'common sense' you would most certainly feel that all indications show that it will 'not' be released this year, christ its not even in 'beta'.

Take a re-look at this list that Furbs compiled of the things we haven't seen, and im sure you will agree a release this year is most unlikely.

Sqd take off and landings from a working airfield.
Aircraft sound.
Finished landscape seen in full detail and at high res with AA, AF.
Rivers.
Bad weather, overcast sky, night time.
How radar will work.
Working GUI.
SOW website.
System specs.
Any aircraft crashes showing physics model.
Sound of coms between pilots or ground control.
Anything showing how the single player will work.
Anything showing how MP will work.
finished coastlines.
Anything being bombed...or bomb damaged buildings...craters.
Bombsights...and how level bombing in formation will work.
Anything showing how being injured will be shown and how it will affect pilots.
Ground straffing.
Anything showing how the good the AI is.
More than 10 planes in the sky at one time.
Finished clouds.
anything in DX10???...but def nothing in DX11.
Explosions.
Cities(london).

3. Stop being a smart arse.