The Crystal Ball

[bongodriver]

sacrificing pretty for stable

sounds like my love life.....

[albx]

Originally Posted by MD_Titus

apparently the graphics engine is being worked on for the next patch, a forecast of 50% increase in fps




they should say what settings you'll be able to use with the minmum specs really. with a screenshot of the settings and what the game will look like.

ftr my rig is far from stellar, but the game became playable when i went from xp with 4gb to win7 and 6gb, and that was back in may.

hhmmmm... we lost about 10% or 15% in performance with the latest patches, so maybe we will gain a 35% or 40%??
seriously... the game before the patch was almost playable with not so many stutters and fps drops, really, but with the latest patch we got a great freaking awesome sound, and fps drop when dogfighting (well, for me is this). It will be amazing if we can have a smooth game when we fight

[MD_Titus]

a pretty but unplayable game is worthless though. stable and a bit plain, with scaleable features for the more fortunate amongst us, is far more desireable on the whole

[TomcatViP]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

I wonder how much they are going to tone down the graphics (AGAIN!) to achieve this 50% increase. I'm not willing to sacrifice anymore. This game was stunningly beautiful when it first came out, but we've been sacrificing pretty for stable lately.

+1

I also hve the intuition that the more they will limit the modded skins, the less graphics reworking they will hve to do.

[Triggaaar]

Originally Posted by MD_Titus

apparently the graphics engine is being worked on for the next patch, a forecast of 50% increase in fps

Amazing if it happens.

[MD_Titus]

spies whine thread

checks join date

reads whine thread

shakes head

[BigC208]

Megahurt, If feel your pain. I had a 5 year old system looking much like yours. Could not play for more than 5 minutes before getting ctd's. Few weeks ago I pulled the triggrer on a I2500K and GTX570 upgrade for around $1000. No more CTD's and have everything maxed out. Game is dropdead gorgeous. Last night I set up a 40 vs 40 dogfight over Calais and had between 50-60fps.

You can do two things. Wait another 6 months untill they have dumbded down the program to the point where you can run it on a 7 year old P4. Option 2 is spend $700-$1000 and play it today in all it's glory. I screwed around with this turd long enough only to see guys post that it runs great on a good system. I got a good system and this heap of steaming dung suddenly turned into chocolate pudding! Spend the dough, it's worth it. If you cannot afford it, put the game away and come back in 6 to 12 months. 1C has put the minimum requirements for this game way below where it should have been. Lots of pissed off customers. Sure it runs with the minimum requirements, have you seen what the game at it's lowest setting looks like?Chuck Yeagers Air Combat from 1992!

You can get an I2500k, motherboard and 8 gigs of ram for $350. Slap a radeon 6970 or gtx570 in for another $350 and you're good to go hunt over the Channel. Add another $100 for Windows. That's $800 between you and the best WWII flight sim experience ever.

[LOPAN]

I am big fan of the original IL-2 series and have recently acquired CoD. When it comes to WWII FM these guys are the best, in CoD I was expecting the highest standards possible after so many years in the making and all of the experience acquired in previous years.

BUT I see a game which excel in FM realism and is laden with all kinds of glitches and flaws in other areas.

1 - I was playing the British campaign and had to down a bomber, did it, it fell at the middle of the ocean, but it didn't sink, instead it got floating around, and because of that the game engine didn't recognize it as shot down, and the only thing I could do is restart the mission and hope for it not to "land" on the ocean again.

2 - The campaign is completely dull and static, I inadvertently clicked NEW instead of CONTINUE, the game didn't warn me about losing any data (what kind of UI is that?) and lost all my progress. Then I went to the directories to see how the game stored data, I noticed it stored all the campaign progress with a single integer number. I was hoping to see a dramatic campaign with cutscenes and all whistles and bells, whereas any action you take would have effect in the next mission. But all there is, are texts with a lot of typos (the narrative is good BTW).

3 - In the campaign each pilot has its callsign, the game doesn't inform you anywhere what is your callsign, I had to just guess I was supposed to be "Luton 3".

4 - The mirror doesn't work, all static. The game has been out for some time now and still you have to manually disable it every time? Also, there is a huge frame rate drop when this mirror is on (like 10-12fps).

SUGGESTION: You could make an autoexec which would run at the start of every mission, then the player could set the keys to be "pressed automatically", like disabling mirror, magnetos position, fuel cock etc.

5 - When you select the comms, the screen at the top right gets all cluttered with the status messages and comms mixed, I can't read anything.

6 - The graphics, comparing to "Wings of Prey", I can run it at 60fps constantly and the graphics look noticeable more beautiful and detailed, while in CoD I get around 30-45fps.

Guys, please take my critics as positive as possible, I think it is a great game, I just want to help you address some issues and make it the best thing ever. And sorry for my english.

(I love campaigns, don't play in MP BTW)

[Nicolo]

All this has been said more then a hundred times here and I believe most of us agree with you Lopan.
But when I got this game in august, I spent many hours just flying around and enjoyed a lot. Besides the bugs and unfriendly UI, I had fun with the campaign as well. Perhaps because I'm a newbie and just dealing with CEM and reading this forum was a lot more then I could handle.
Single player at this moment is not much fun indeed, but there were lots of more pressing issues to be solved. The users here have been asking a lot for AI and comms, so for the next patches we hope to get some new life for single player.
There are some user made campaigns you may find interesting, just do some search here in the forum and you will find the links.
If you can, give it a try in MP, the community is very friendly and always willing to help.

[LOPAN]

Well, I have never flown a WWII plane nor anything else so I believe I am not the right person to talk about FMs.

I play combat Sims casually since Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, and IMO IL-2 has the most realistic handling I've ever seen (or what I think it might be) . But that's just my opinion, I'm not an expert or anything.

The campaign is indeed fun, but after all this years have passed and a full-budget price, I was expecting many more features, something revolutionary I might say.

And thanks for the tip, I'll give a try in these user made campaings too.