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Old 05-12-2012, 02:40 AM
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With regards to the DCS engine/landscape, I bought Flanker 2.0 (which I think Lock On/FC are based on) back in 2k and just remember how blown away I was running such a good looking sim -both aircraft models and landscape- on my Celeron 500MHz/196MB RAM/Voodoo 3 16MB rig. Also the manual that came with it, thick as a brick, was amazing.
Yup Flanker started it all.. Than Flanker 2.0.. I forget which of the two, pretty sure it was the first, that was one of the first sims to do a full up 6DOF FM. I belive Flanker was the 1st to use floating point, and PAW 1942 was one of the first if not first PC sim to do a 6DOF FM, but at the time they used fixxed point math.

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In conclusion, yes the Flanker/LockOn/FC/DCS engine has aged very gracefully and has always scaled well, I hope the same for CloD.
Agreed 100%
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