Friday 2010-10-29 Dev. update and Discussion

[scrope]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Check out this vid, move it on to 3.40 you will see a guy flying over the ground, unfortunatley it runs like a slide show

From what you can make out it looks like Dover has been paid attention to,
The Castle, Western Heights, Shakespeare Cliff ,River Dour, great, maybe i will be able to see my old house at St., Radigunds, My younger brother was having a bath when a Heinkel machine gunned our house, we found some lodged in the hip rafters, which were 8x2 in those days, if they had been the modern roof trusses they now use, he would'nt have been so lucky. Like the rest of you i can't wait, Pills are getting exspensive. Cheers all.

[Ctrl E]

it looks wonderful but the the whole system seems to slow to a crawl when he flys over land.

[Dano]

Originally Posted by Ctrl E

it looks wonderful but the the whole system seems to slow to a crawl when he flys over land.

Which has been explained... the demo pc's only have 2GB of ram which is not enough to run the huge BoB map, thus the massive fps drop and stutter normally associated with massive paging operations when the system runs out of available ram.

[Richie]

I'm really surprised it runs that well with that system.

[Flyby]

Originally Posted by Ctrl E

it looks wonderful but the the whole system seems to slow to a crawl when he flys over land.

I find it curious that the sim should be shown to business people, while using either a system that's too slow to render it smoothly, or by whomever set up the demo without first making adjustments to the settings so as to render smooth game play. Of course I wasn't there. So I don't know what was really going on. It would have been encouraging to see the terrain flashing by smoothly. Who knows? Maybe it was just a bad driver.
At least we can get a sense that it won't be too many more months before we're all in the air trying to do damage to the other side.
Flyby out

Edit, I see there was an explanation of low system ram having difficulty loading the huge BoB maps. So I guess 2megs of ram is the minimum spec.

[Splitter]

Originally Posted by Flyby

I find it curious that the sim should be shown to business people, while using either a system that's too slow to render it smoothly, or by whomever set up the demo without first making adjustments to the settings so as to render smooth game play. Of course I wasn't there. So I don't know what was really going on. It would have been encouraging to see the terrain flashing by smoothly. Who knows? Maybe it was just a bad driver.
At least we can get a sense that it won't be too many more months before we're all in the air trying to do damage to the other side.
Flyby out

Edit, I see there was an explanation of low system ram having difficulty loading the huge BoB maps. So I guess 2megs of ram is the minimum spec.

Actually, a further explanation put the minimum at 3GB RAM and they were stuck with using rental computers from the expo company. I'm thinking Oleg was unhappy when he saw the performance....

Splitter