4-12 wish list (Merged)

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Whacker

The problem is he wants the game to run perfectly at a million hojillion FPS, at max settings, on his work-oriented laptop with crappy integrated Intel graphics, which are NOT designed for gaming at all. He started a thread on this IIRC a month or two back, but I could be confusing him with someone else. The anti-aliasing is probably more of the same, wanting his Yugo to run like an Porsche. /facepalm

Indeed the Intel HD graphics are a tiny bit better than the older Intel GMA cards of yesteryear but not by much. Enough to accelerate Windows Vista/7 and offload some of the HD video requirements from the CPU...definitely a smart move even on a business class machine but they definitely are not oriented towards gaming. Even less so towards simulation gaming which is another level of requirements up in my mind.

I think it telling that IL-2 1946 is based on code over 10 years old and yet it will still take everything you can throw at it. I acknowledge that it doesn't support newer standards at the base level and yes it has been upgraded, but in terms of the raw GPU, CPU, and memory throughput... the old IL-2 still requires serious hardware.