The Crystal Ball

[MD_Titus]

Originally Posted by Triggaaar

I've not been reading too much here for a while, waiting for the game to be in a better state, and just a bit surprised to read this:Is that true? I thought they'd been trying to optimise it since the epilepsy debacle, have they said that there's a lot more optimising to do?

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

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

Can't blame the OP completely, the minimum specs on the box were pretty misleading. People do tend to think of systems that are "equivalent" of a minimum spec machine as still being passable.

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.

[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

[addman]

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.

Originally Posted by bongodriver

sounds like my love life.....

hahahahahaaa!!!

[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

[Pudfark]

@OP,

What folks are saying is this:
You must fully optimize your hardware and OS,
to play this un-optimized sim, at your own additional
expense on lower settings, in order to be a member of
their club.

Look at my system spec's below....really, all I'm supposed
to do is spend 12x the price of this game, for the recommended
GTX 580, so I can play it with stutters....Yeah, right.

If, your only reason for an upgrade is this game?
Save your money, until it is optimized. I am.

[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.

[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.

[Chivas]

New flight sims have always required high end systems to run effectively, COD especially as it had to be released before it was finished and optimized. I've never had a problem with COD other than the bugs, and unfinished features. Unfortunately its going to take time before this is all sorted, especially when they are redoing major componants of the sim. In the mean time I'm enjoying what the sim has to offer now and looking forward to further updates. We have to stay somewhat positive as being totaly negative will only guarantee the sim never gets finished.

Regarding Operating systems....I have a dual boot system with Windows XP and Windows 7 64bit installed. I run the game primarily on Windows 7 64 bit, but have tried it on Windows XP. It was like it was two different games, even with all hardware being the same. I highly recommend using Windows 7 64 bit.

[albx]

Originally Posted by Chivas

New flight sims have always required high end systems to run effectively, COD especially as it had to be released before it was finished and optimized. I've never had a problem with COD other than the bugs, and unfinished features. Unfortunately its going to take time before this is all sorted, especially when they are redoing major componants of the sim. In the mean time I'm enjoying what the sim has to offer now and looking forward to further updates. We have to stay somewhat positive as being totaly negative will only guarantee the sim never gets finished.

I want be negative