The Crystal Ball 2

[ATAG_MajorBorris]

Originally Posted by Force10

Yeah...but when was IL-2 playable? Pretty much from the start. Don't care about finished as much as it being playable.

thats bull, go buy a p4 1.8 cpu with 512 sys mem and a 4600 ti gpu(top of the line 8 months after release) and tell me if you get more then 30 fps on high settings with il2 sturmovik out of the box.

[ElAurens]

Originally Posted by MajorBoris

thats bull, go buy a p4 1.8 cpu with 512 sys mem and a 4600 ti gpu(top of the line 8 months after release) and tell me if you get more then 30 fps on high settings with il2 sturmovik out of the box.

But at the time that was considered playable by the majority of the community. I know no one that even thought about playing it with the graphics totally maxed out. IL2 was playable because you could get online with all your mates and fly it into the wee hours of the morning without a worry about CTDs,and have a grand time doing it. And we did, night after night, for years. And I did it with a Ti 4400.

That's playability. Don't confuse it with eye candy ability.

And that is what we currently lack.

[Buchon]

Sorry for the deception but we are not in the 90´s anymore.

[CaptainDoggles]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

But at the time that was considered playable by the majority of the community. I know no one that even thought about playing it with the graphics totally maxed out. IL2 was playable because you could get online with all your mates and fly it into the wee hours of the morning without a worry about CTDs,and have a grand time doing it. And we did, night after night, for years. And I did it with a Ti 4400.

That's playability. Don't confuse it with eye candy ability.

And that is what we currently lack.

Respectfully, El, we lack playability too. I certainly can't play online with my mates into the wee hours without worrying about CTDs. There's a memory leak in the game currently. I can't fly more than about 45 minutes without the game crashing.

[ElAurens]

Originally Posted by CaptainDoggles

Respectfully, El, we lack playability too. I certainly can't play online with my mates into the wee hours without worrying about CTDs. There's a memory leak in the game currently. I can't fly more than about 45 minutes without the game crashing.

Doggles, I think you drew the wrong conclusion from my post.

We do lack playability in CloD is my point, as compared to IL2 that was "playable" out of the box.

Sorry if it's confusing.

[CaptainDoggles]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

Doggles, I think you drew the wrong conclusion from my post.

We do lack playability in CloD is my point, as compared to IL2 that was "playable" out of the box.

Sorry if it's confusing.

Maybe I read it too fast, apologies.

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by MajorBoris

thats bull, go buy a p4 1.8 cpu with 512 sys mem and a 4600 ti gpu(top of the line 8 months after release) and tell me if you get more then 30 fps on high settings with il2 sturmovik out of the box.

I sure as hell remember IL2 being a resource hog in 2002. New mid-range hardware was able to run it low-to-medium settings at most, and that meant turning off the buildings. Some poeple just don`t remember where they come from.

[Force10]

Originally Posted by carguy_

I sure as hell remember IL2 being a resource hog in 2002. New mid-range hardware was able to run it low-to-medium settings at most, and that meant turning off the buildings. Some poeple just don`t remember where they come from.

I would suggest carguy you go look at the release reviews for the original IL-2 vs the reviews for COD. That is what I'm talking about. Won editors choice and scored very high with most sites and fans. Cod runs smooth for me, everything else about the game is porked though.

[Al Schlageter]

Right now JG53 is in the interim weeks between the Battle of France (which we used as a tester campaign getting used to the new game etc.) and the Battle of Britain - I had hoped for the patch today as that would have tied in great as right now it is difficult for a group such as ours to oeprate a full Battle of Britain theatre simply because by the time we have gotten airborne, formed up and gotten to target we have lost 30% of people to launcher crashes, add in the time to complete whatever objective or engagement is set and you're looking at around 25% of people are most left "in mission"

Sounds like it could be a real life scenario.

[furbs]

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