Friday 2010-09-24 Dev. update and Discussion

[peterwoods@supanet.com]

Well worth a read.

Flight magazine archive 22 Aug 1940
Fifth page down "War in the Air" reports of BoB battles of 13, 14 15 Aug.

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchi...0-%202360.html

[Romanator21]

2 years in gaming industry is a very long time.

And yet, IL-2 has a 10 year history, and has a way to go still.

[winny]

All they need to really worry about is that the FM/DM/engine is as advanced as it can be. All the cosmetic stuff can be easily added as it becomes available (as IL-2 has proved). Saying that, I fully expect that SoW running on the highest setting will kill most PCs.

But..

Surley there's no way such a niche title is going to launch with a really high minimum spec? They can't afford to do that. They need this title to be accessible to as many people as posible because it's future relies on the sales.

I know lots of people on here are gonna buy a new PC specifically for SoW but I'm not sure how many other people would do the same.

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by winny

All they need to really worry about is that the FM/DM/engine is as advanced as it can be. All the cosmetic stuff can be easily added as it becomes available (as IL-2 has proved). Saying that, I fully expect that SoW running on the highest setting will kill most PCs.

But..

Surley there's no way such a niche title is going to launch with a really high minimum spec? They can't afford to do that. They need this title to be accessible to as many people as posible because it's future relies on the sales.

I know lots of people on here are gonna buy a new PC specifically for SoW but I'm not sure how many other people would do the same.

Oleg did say that they intentionally develop on slightly less than the top spec so that the game will work nicely on the newest hardware. Still I expect they will be stretching the capabilities as time goes on.

[Kudlius]

Originally Posted by winny

I know lots of people on here are gonna buy a new PC specifically for SoW but I'm not sure how many other people would do the same.

Lots of people bought it for 'Rise of Flight', so they just need SoW BoB now
There is nothink new on TOP hardware sector whole year and there would not be anything new in nearest 12 month period, except maybe prices which where rising about 20%, so maybe now we will have some drops about 15%. Ugly capitalists

[Stukadriver]

I probably made a mistake by buying a new machine a while ago with Vista Premium on it. Rise of Flight works great on it. Is there a way to get IL2 to run well on Vista? I loaded it and much of it worked, but no sound and some erratic movement/frame action. Too erratic for me to endure.
Thanks.

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by Stukadriver

I probably made a mistake by buying a new machine a while ago with Vista Premium on it. Rise of Flight works great on it. Is there a way to get IL2 to run well on Vista? I loaded it and much of it worked, but no sound and some erratic movement/frame action. Too erratic for me to endure.
Thanks.

It will runing good on Vista. We almost all run it here on Vista and several guys - on W7.
I'm on XP and Vista

[Auger73]

Originally Posted by Stukadriver

I probably made a mistake by buying a new machine a while ago with Vista Premium on it. Rise of Flight works great on it. Is there a way to get IL2 to run well on Vista? I loaded it and much of it worked, but no sound and some erratic movement/frame action. Too erratic for me to endure.
Thanks.

I would strongly suspect you are having driver issues.

I've run IL-2 on XP Pro, XP Pro x64, and Win 7 x64. Aside from the installer quirks, it runs well on all of them.

[Stukadriver]

Good site...thanks.

[ZaltysZ]

Originally Posted by tourmaline

2 years in gaming industry is a very long time.

Flight sims are exception, because such products are not "mass produced". Basically, if SoW survives (likely) a week in my PC, it will live there until better WWII sim comes out.