Friday update and discussions 2011-03-04

[philip.ed]

Nice video, I think I saw it before on some Russian site.

However, no wonder the game is called Cliffs of Dover; the game is a slide-show over land! I know WoP has a postage-stamp map, but I can play the WoP demo at full settings on my ageing core-2 duo (2.00ghz) and ATI 4650 without any fps loss, and similarly I can fly the 352nd CCM in Il-2 (everything set to max) with tons of objects and trees on the map, and no noitceable FPS drop like that.
I understand CoD has a lot more in it than either of those sims, but if the game runs like that on most systems, I can see many people shelving it for a year until it's properly playable. I hope I'm wrong.

[McHilt]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Nice video, I think I saw it before on some Russian site.

However, no wonder the game is called Cliffs of Dover; the game is a slide-show over land! I know WoP has a postage-stamp map, but I can play the WoP demo at full settings on my ageing core-2 duo (2.00ghz) and ATI 4650 without any fps loss, and similarly I can fly the 352nd CCM in Il-2 (everything set to max) with tons of objects and trees on the map, and no noitceable FPS drop like that.
I understand CoD has a lot more in it than either of those sims, but if the game runs like that on most systems, I can see many people shelving it for a year until it's properly playable. I hope I'm wrong.

I have to buy myself a new machine to be able to play this, which won't be within a year from now... unfortunately. It's just like when I started playing Il2 in 2004, three yrs after release, but that's life -sigh-.

@Hecke: I didn't know the vid; it's old you say... so be it

[The Kraken]

In this case it's the video that stutters, not the game. The original video is way more fluid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kVocagsoUY