SoW specifications

[Forgottenfighter]

That is a fair point Chivas, and you're probably right, but Sow Bob will have textures with four times the resolution of Il2 textures, aircraft will have 5 times the polygon count and there will be other things such as shadows in the cockpit which will be renedered in real time, based on the position of the sun etc. These tasks will be Gpu intensive, and there is no way that the likes of a 7900GTX will handle that, you should definately see the extra power of the GTX260 with Sow Bob. Like I said in my last post, it will be important to have a good CPU also. The CPU will have to handle things such as the flight model (I assume), radar, AI etc.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Forgottenfighter

That is a fair point Chivas, and you're probably right, but Sow Bob will have textures with four times the resolution of Il2 textures, aircraft will have 5 times the polygon count and there will be other things such as shadows in the cockpit which will be renedered in real time, based on the position of the sun etc. These tasks will be Gpu intensive, and there is no way that the likes of a 7900GTX will handle that, you should definately see the extra power of the GTX260 with Sow Bob. Like I said in my last post, it will be important to have a good CPU also. The CPU will have to handle things such as the flight model (I assume), radar, AI etc.

I agree Forgottenfighter, SOW will also require the best gpu/gpus along with multicore cpus if you want to turn on most of the bells and whistles of SOW and ROF. The best advice is give yourself atleast one cheaper upgrade path. You usually only get one upgrade chance as the cpu sockets and memory change to often. If SOW is successfull we will be upgrading many times over the life of the series.

[Tigertooo]

Thank you gentlemen, much obliged.
I'll wait

[RCAF_FB_Orville]

Originally Posted by Tigertooo

Thank you gentlemen, much obliged.
I'll wait

"Waiting for Godot".....Hehehe . Thing is, I couldn't afford to wait since my old rig was dying on me and there are other good sims out there too......Bottom line is, I'm not going to base my entire life around one sim (which I am admitedly looking forward to), as I use my computer for other things too (like keeping a roof over my head/work for example lol).

Each to their own........

[Thunderbolt56]

Here ya go: http://wwiaircombat.com/games/rise-of-flight

[llama_thumper]

is there any info on whether SOW is being built to take advantage of 64 bit systems (ie no limitation to 3 or 4 gigs of memory)?

i know ROF isn't, but haven't been able to find anything on this for SOW.

[llama_thumper]

no idea anyone?