Official system requirements

[T}{OR]

lol can your post be more confusing?

Anyway, I don't see what is the big deal? You activate once after you install the game and that is all, go offline and enjoy the game - next time you don't need to be online to play/start the game. The problem here (we don't have the exact answer) is how many activations you have after the initial 5. Do the new activations accumulate every month until they reach 5 in total or do we just have one per month afterwards. Hope we get an answer soon.

[fireflyerz]

Well T}{OR I remember being at school , seeing a BBC GreenScreen for the first time and thinking....."PAH , this will NEVER catch on....yes im from that generation , how wrong was I , so all this is just more pointless tedium I have to deal with .

[mcmatt]

Happy!

[The Kraken]

Originally Posted by T}{OR

lol can your post be more confusing?

Anyway, I don't see what is the big deal? You activate once after you install the game and that is all, go offline and enjoy the game - next time you don't need to be online to play/start the game. The problem here (we don't have the exact answer) is how many activations you have after the initial 5. Do the new activations accumulate every month until they reach 5 in total or do we just have one per month afterwards. Hope we get an answer soon.

Well we also don't know if "activations" and "installations" are the same; I assume they are but there are DRM schemes which make a difference between both. No surprise here that Ubi isn't able to clarify this. Maybe we're lucky and the 1C version will be available somehow outside of Russia and use a less restrictive system (Steam?).

[whatnot]

"IL2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover requires a onetime online activation, using the Tages system you will receive 5 activations and a new install every month."

What's the big deal with this?

1) Install
2) Activate
3) Play and enjoy online or offline

And if you want you can repeat that four more times and if that's not enough you do it once a month after that.

In which real life scenario those limitations would get you in trouble? I assume re-install & activation on the same pc does not increment the counter.

[JG52Uther]

Will the Russian version even have DRM?

[mazex]

Come on?

A system with 5 activations for the complete morons here that reinstalls their computer every week or can't decide if they want it installed on their usual rig or the media center and change their mind every week? And then you get a new activation each month if you messed up bad that first month and reinstall again month 2. You botch that install AGAIN month three and get another one???

Battlefront uses a similar system for the Combat Mission series, and I have never used more than one activation... During the "once every two years reinstall" of my OS I deactivate my licence and then activate it again on the new install. If you have to use 5 activations + one more every month you need serious help.

[SEE]

5 + 1 a month? Could it be that the publishers are simply allowing for the possibilty of some people being unfortunate enough to experience a corrupt file/updates/ DLC, etc, during a download that could possibly affect the main install?

[addman]

When Oleg mentioned that 4GB+ is needed for a smooth gaming experience my wallet started crying LOL! I have an Athlon IIx3@2,7, Radeon HD4670 512 and 4 gigs of RAM. Being poor as I am at the moment a new graphics card would've been a hefty investment for me and now maybe even more RAM (even though RAM is cheap now). Also I need a more powerful PSU if I'll upgrade the graphics card. When I built this computer I had low budget, low energy consumption on my priority list, most games I play Far Cry 2, L4D 2, Company of Heroes, SH 3/4, AvP all run at medium to high settings. I really hope CoD will be somewhat playable on medium settings (without AA), I have a feeling that I might have to scale it back even more though Hope Oleg and team manages to make the game playable for us on the lower mid-range scale, guess I'll just have to avoid flying over London and other big cities

[robtek]

This game, and it's engine, are developed for the future.
Afaik OM has a history with that, remember IL2-Sturmovik in 2001 and it's needs concerning computer power?
I think there are so many nuggets hidden in the code that high-end pc's in 5 years are still getting shown their limits.
So, on a regular med to lower high-end pc today you will to have balance playability with eye-candy.
I really dont think that even the reduced eye-candy will disappoint anybody except maybe Tree_UK .