The Crystal Ball

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by icarus

Thanks Skoshi and Chivas,

I don't have crashes either, but the stuttering is intermittent and persistent where ever I fly. FPS are brutal over cities and I also have my peripherals on another drive. Funny thing is, I try turning things down and it doesn't make much difference. I will wait to see what the next patch gives us.

Comparing your system specs to theirs is good, but may not be conclusive. Go to technical forums and discuss your issues there. You might resolve some things by posting config files.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

Comparing your system specs to theirs is good, but may not be conclusive. Go to technical forums and discuss your issues there. You might resolve some things by posting config files.

And remember the hardware is only half of the PC.. You can have two identical PCs hardware wise, but a slightly different software config and wa-la a poor running game! What with all the OS options, windows updates, video and audio drivers these days I am not suprised that some people with high end hardware are having 'issues' while at the same time people with two year old PCs are having little to no 'issues'

[addman]

There are better looking and more complex games out there running better/stable on more humble hardware...just saying.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by addman

There are better looking

Words like 'looks' are subjective and personal.. But I do agree most 'other' games out there focus more on the eye candy.. Why? Because eye candy is about all they got going for them..

Hence what I said when I said Flight sims are not your run of the mill eye candy game that only requires a good vid card

Originally Posted by addman

and more complex games out there

Also subjective.. depends on your definition of 'complex'.. By my def I disagree with you, and here is one example.. AI.. Which do you think is more complex..

1) A fps bot waiting for a 'trigger' to start shooting at you from behind a wall
2) A flightsim bot pilot that has to maneuver his plane into position before shooting at you

For me it is the #2

Which is why I disagree with your statement.. With regards to games other than flight sims

Originally Posted by addman

running better/stable on more humble hardware...just saying.

Words like 'better' and 'stable' are also subjective.. As with all things in life the devil is in the details.. Loftie statements like yours say more about you and your expectations than CoD IMHO

[addman]

Originally Posted by ACE-OF-ACES

Words like 'looks' are subjective and personal.. But I do agree most 'other' games out there focus more on the eye candy.. Why? Because eye candy is about all they got going for them..

Hence what I said when I said Flight sims are not your run of the mill eye candy game that only requires a good vid card


Also subjective.. depends on your definition of 'complex'.. By my def I disagree with you, and here is one example.. AI.. Which do you think is more complex..

1) A fps bot waiting for a 'trigger' to start shooting at you from behind a wall
2) A flightsim bot pilot that has to maneuver his plane into position before shooting at you

For me it is the #2

Which is why I disagree with your statement.. With regards to games other than flight sims


Words like 'better' and 'stable' are also subjective.. As with all things in life the devil is in the details.. Loftie statements like yours say more about you and your expectations than CoD IMHO

Ok, maybe I need to be more clear, there are games that are more technically impressive than CloD which runs fine on non-nuclear rigs. A games artistically esthetics is subjective, polygon numbers and physics effects are not. I'm talking about PC horsepower and it's relation to games performance. I know CloD will be better with time, especially soon when MG have "replaced" the porked engine it's got now.

Thing that bugs me is that some people try to excuse the game all the time with the "your rig is not powerful enough for CloD" attitude. I have 8 gigs of RAM in my computer, does CloD use that much? no, not until it's 64-bit. I have a quad core CPU that handles ANY game out there without any hick-ups but CloD struggles, not because it's got super advanced A.I or physics (float planes that can't land on water, Blenheims that dogfights you with F-16 maneuvering, suicide wingmen so on so fourth...) but because it's a poorly made game engine.

Ask yourself, why are they overhauling the game engine?

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Originally Posted by addman

Ok, maybe I need to be more clear,

Nope.. it was clear the first time.. Your statements are subjective, it is the old one mans treasure is another mans trash thing. Thus your comments say more about your expectations and biases than CoD