The Crystal Ball

[theOden]

Don't sell Lopan
If you're not as keen on looks and graphics liks most here, try a real simulator game like Falcon BMS.
I'm sure you'll enjoy your spare time unlike now.

There are rather many e-pilots that bought Dover in the early days only to find themselves sitting there in the pit asking themselves "Why am I flying here?" - good looks but not much of a simulator game.

It's never too late to give up haha.

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by Dutch_851

Yeah, but then they'll introduce the proper weather, and we'll be back to 20fps.

Yeah, and with tree collisions we'll be back to 3fps ...

[addman]

Originally Posted by Dutch_851

Yeah, but then they'll introduce the proper weather, and we'll be back to 20fps.

Originally Posted by Insuber

Yeah, and with tree collisions we'll be back to 3fps ...

Throw the epilepsy filter on too and we've got ourselves a fancy looking powerpoint presentation.

[Osprey]

Patience is what is required. Luthier has things now moving in the right direction.

[Whiski]

I enjoy this game immensely, from the scenery to the white knuckle turn and burn fights at low or high altitude. It has bugs, sure, but I have no problem looking past them because the game developers are now moving in the right direction.

Most of us are familiar with IL2 series. I played that game from release and it was pretty buggy when it hit the shelves. But, the dev's did got it right over time as well as help from the sim community.

I have yet to encounter a game that was released with a perfect state and not need further development in patches or fixes.

We will see this game bloom in the next few months, things are moving along, slowly, but nothing good comes fast.

Cheers!

Whiskey

[Rowddy]

all we needed.. another whinner about the same subjects you can read in many other post. I play COD and i have little to no problems so how can that be? Maybe you should check the specs of your PC before complaining? s for planes bounces off the water.. lol seems to me that your PC can handle the game. I grand you this the Offline campaigns are crap but even for that you can download very decent add-ons these days, and the Dev's realy try hard to improve the game.

So if you don't like don't play it!

S!

[senseispcc]

You need a very powerfull PC and a lot of patience then you can enjoy one of the best game, note this "game", of the time.

I love thuis game and I am waiting for future developements, modules or addons. Have a fun game.

[335th_GRAthos]

Hi Lopan,

Good to know that withthe bomber into the sea. I have been shooting bombers over the chanel in MP, I have to check more whether I also get credited for the kill.

Some tips in case they are of help:
"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."
Actually your Joystick coud have such "macros" which you could write.


"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."
You could make more "info windows" place them at different areas of the screen and with different font color. This makes thing easier.
Keep Alt pressed and click with the mouse on the window. Right click to see the options and start experimenting. Many posibilities on the way to have a window be shown and the information that should appear in it.
Important: Learn to create a new window and practise using the new window; Leave your original window unchanged until you feel you canmaster the creating windows process well enough to make permanent changes! (many people post in the forum first time "I have lost all my information, how do I bring it back again? )


In the hope that it may be of use.

Happy flying!

~S~

[klem]

Much as I feel the pain of the XP users if you're getting 3fps and even an eventual CTD you're doing better than my attempts to run it in XP.

I'm only doing it out of curiosity to see what the min specs would deliver but on both my old boxes it won't even start, just the cross hairs then back to desktop.

Box1 AMD 3800+/2Gb/7800GT/XP/Dx9
Box2 P4 dual core 3GHz/2Gb/6600/XP/Dx9

I know the GPUs probably wont run it but it should at least get me to the game menus.

Frankly if getting it running on XP with Dx9 is going to mean destroying its basic qualities for Win7/Dx10-11 users I'd rather they just declared XP unsuitable, bit the bullet on refunds and got on with it.

[MadBlaster]

In testing a while back, I averaged ~56 fps on the tiger moth test track with XP and an unsupported DX10 8600GT 256 mb video card using the DX9 parameter in the confi.ini and only 2GB of ram. My cpu is AMD dual core 3.0 Ghz. That was before the patches. I posted the pic somewhere in a RAAAID thread. So, it does run better than 3 fps XP, even with unsupported hardware and minimal ram.

People are in denial on this game so they blame XP. Case in point. Look at Tuckie's video with 50 some odd planes in the air in offline test. He has a latest system. There is obvious stuttering and he had to tone down the graphics to get it playable. Now I remind you, the game advertised 128 player online capability. Ask yourself, "how it that going to happen?" Everyone would have to tone down the graphics settings to bare minimum on their latest hardware systems? I don't know about you, but when I start getting lag stutters online, I'm out of there. So, it's just a dream this CLoD. All the crazy things people are willing to do here to get the game to function. It's admirable, but not rational. And telling people to throw money at this game is nonsense right now. Just wait until they fix it so we know what we are dealing with. Every patch so far seems to change the game radically. If luthier announces that fps may improve by 50%, then wait and see if it is the truth or not before doing anything. JMHO.