Good thing SOW is Nvidia's friendly !

[JAMF]

Originally Posted by swiss

You get those Steam numbers because a lot of ppl (I guess) play on the laptop, where duocores still are very common.
But then again the steam average is useless - flight sims are a niche, if you play them on a laptop your not really the average flight sim customer.

Sure, but with such a large survey, one can get a good idea of what's out there.

If they want a better grasp of their user base, they can add an information gathering HW/SW tool to "Patch 4.10" and get that data send back home.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by JAMF

Sure, but with such a large survey, one can get a good idea of what's out there.

If they want a better grasp of their user base, they can add an information gathering HW/SW tool to "Patch 4.10" and get that data send back home.

A survey on a the il2 community will do no good - we have lots of ppl playing on stone age PCs.
Why? Because Il2 runs pretty ok on those toasters, there was no need for a new system.
A survey on the dcs/ed forums would get more realistic results.

Again, a guess.

[JAMF]

Originally Posted by swiss

A survey on a the il2 community will do no good - we have lots of ppl playing on stone age PCs.
Why? Because Il2 runs pretty ok on those toasters, there was no need for a new system.

And where do you think 90% of the SoW users will come from? You want to know all your customers that will buy your game, not just the ones that had money for upgrades. If it runs only on their bleeding edge high end systems, you'll sell maybe 20% (if you're lucky) of what you could have. Mr. Maddox wants to make some money as 1C:Maddox is not a charity.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by JAMF

And where do you think 90% of the SoW users will come from? You want to know all your customers that will buy your game, not just the ones that had money for upgrades. If it runs only on their bleeding edge high end systems, you'll sell maybe 20% (if you're lucky) of what you could have. Mr. Maddox wants to make some money as 1C:Maddox is not a charity.

What I said is: We have a lot of ppl running old systems because, so far, there was no need for a new one. No-need...but willing to upgrade.
Defining min specs up the sky is just as wrong as coding it for methusalem systems, for the latter you dont even have to start.

But that was not the point: I just said the steam average is useless if you want know your target customers' average system.
The niche for flight sims is imho very very small, and those customers have systems above average.
(although It cant be that small if there are at least three companies offering joysticks in the $300+ range...)

Considering the min specs, I would put them to a level which was upper mid-end 2 years ago(which seems to work, if you look at BF:BC2) - but it's not up to me, and honestly I don't give a flying f***.
The day the game published we will know what we have to buy or not.