Friday 2009-11-27 Screenshots Update discussion thread

[AdMan]

buying brand new OS' is for suckers

though I was surprised to see a CRT monitor, just looking at that gave me a slight headache

[luthier]

Originally Posted by AdMan

buying brand new OS' is for suckers

though I was surprised to see a CRT monitor, just looking at that gave me a slight headache

We have XP machines for a reason. We want to have this guy run on XP and DX9. We can't very well develop for XP without XP machines. That's why we have different OSs, different brand CPUs and video cards, etc.

CRT monitors? Well, somehow, every time we get a hardware budget, it seems to get spent on other things. We actually just did a major upgrade earlier this month. Those cases you see are pretty old, but they're filled with bleeding edge stuff. We bought lots of CPUs and RAM, terabyte HDs, latest video cards, newer bigger pen tablets, etc. Somehow, when we were done, we just didn't have anything left for monitors. Again.

[mark@1C]

Originally Posted by luthier

Somehow, when we were done, we just didn't have anything left for monitors. Again.

Well,every pilot shoud learn that,
Take care of your eyes,just like your body and plane,and so on....

Take care of yourselves,all members of Maddox Team.

[Feuerfalke]

Using CRTs is hardly a hint for lacking behind modern hardware. Depending on what you are working on, old CRTs can present you a better idea of realistic colors than most common TFTs do.

[Foo'bar]

In the end it should be the developer's decision to keep his old CRT instead of getting a new one. I think that those guys don't need our ideas to improve their environment.

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

In the end it should be the developer's decision to keep his old CRT instead of getting a new one. I think that those guys don't need our ideas to improve their environment.

Exactly

[furbs]

thanks for the reply luthier...not moaning...just surprised me thats all.

if i had won the euro lotto this week i would buy the team all brand new kit!

[AdMan]

Originally Posted by luthier

We have XP machines for a reason. We want to have this guy run on XP and DX9. We can't very well develop for XP without XP machines. That's why we have different OSs, different brand CPUs and video cards, etc.

CRT monitors? Well, somehow, every time we get a hardware budget, it seems to get spent on other things. We actually just did a major upgrade earlier this month. Those cases you see are pretty old, but they're filled with bleeding edge stuff. We bought lots of CPUs and RAM, terabyte HDs, latest video cards, newer bigger pen tablets, etc. Somehow, when we were done, we just didn't have anything left for monitors. Again.

sure, wasn't knocking anyone for developing on XP if I gave that impression, I use XP myself. DX10 isn't that much of an improvement to take the performance hit, Soooo glad I didn't get Vista when everyone else was upgrading.

[Insuber]

Hi Oleg,

I have a question regarding the max number of planes offline and online. Il2 in this is quite limited, in a mission you can have few planes at the same time, if compared to sims like BoB II Wings of Victory.
The historical BoB was characterized by massive raids of German planes, with sometimes 700 German planes at a time.

Q: Will BoB SoW be capable of managing some hundreds of planes in a map at the same time ?

Thanks,
Insuber

[mark@1C]

I think the key question is not Will their SOW be capable of,but Will our PC/Cable speed/and so on be capable of...
With varieties of player's gaming enviroment,it is still a big question for both programmer and player...
As you can see below,there are still questions like "What kind of a rig can run IL-2 with full details and high fps? " currently...
I haven't played that WoV.But I guess those huge masses are surely with non-AI.Doing a massive calculation really exhausts a poor PC,not to mention doing it online with a real time feedback needed...
but,
maybe there's still a little hope that they can do some improvements...Considering doing a truly realistic FM/atmosphere/and so on is already a hard work,and many fans need a Pilot in......
It seems that I tune the topic to a pessimistic one...God...

When we are talking about Massive,we are talking about Matrix..