Cliffs of Dover Video Thread V1.0 [Closed]

[335th_GRAthos]

Originally Posted by jg27_mc

Dang, if that video was made with your system, I really can't understand why on mine CloD doesn't' look or run in such a fashion.

Hmmm.... I think I can recognise the familiar number of an ATI card in the signature....

[jg27_mc]

Originally Posted by TUCKIE_JG52

Another entire online flight, this time I left enough disk space to record and I coud do it until landing without the typical stutterings that appears when fraps eats all available disk space. Take into account that tis video was flown at 1920, but rendered at 720HD... even seeing it well on youtube on its max quality, when I fly I have almost three times more visual quality than in the video...


Had to go back because I overrevved the engine by mistake and it all started vibrating, but was able to land before the damage was catastrophical.

Sorry but my comments are in spanish only, I'm not a good english speaker...

Nice video and flying, the terrain mesh is pretty awful and the map is ridiculous. I'm more or less OK with the Spanish commentary cuz I speak Portuguese.

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

Hmmm.... I think I can recognise the familiar number of an ATI card in the signature....

The quality of some videos and screenshots posted are amazing, It almost seems that my game is a different piece of software.

[TUCKIE_JG52]

Originally Posted by jg27_mc

Nice video and flying, the terrain mesh is pretty awful and the map is ridiculous.

It's a small online map, like the "Online Islands" in 1946. The 1940 Channel map is a completely different thing.

[jg27_mc]

Originally Posted by TUCKIE_JG52

It's a small online map, like the "Online Islands" in 1946. The 1940 Channel map is a completely different thing.

I was aware of that, but even in a PTO scenario that map was going to be utterly ugly. Low quality mesh plus those ugly trees. Come on... Even 1946 does better than that.

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

I think he's referring to your video card, lots of problems with the 6950s according to threads on these forums. Hopefully a fix will be on the way.

I know... But one thing is to have bugs like the 3 lines on the horizon lack of AA (this one makes me crazy) or the flickering shadows, the other is to be unable do fly with an acceptable look and performance.

Like you've said.... Let's wait and see.

[TUCKIE_JG52]

Originally Posted by jg27_mc

I was aware of that, but even in a PTO scenario that map was going to be utterly ugly. Low quality mesh plus those ugly trees. Come on... Even 1946 does better than that.

If you said that, I assume you have not flown in any of the unrealistic online small maps of 1946. You are still comparing that map with a realistic one.

Small online maps are unrealistic yes, that's a fact. But it happpens on every simulator that has one map in that concept.

Big on/offline maps... nothing to compare, CoD has no rival! I cannot understand why you feel that trees are horrible, horrible is what we had in 1946... have you stopped to watch a tree in CoD from short distance?

Anyway that's your oppinion, I'm not agree but I will defend that everybody can expresss himself

[jg27_mc]

Originally Posted by TUCKIE_JG52

If you said that, I assume you have not flown in any of the unrealistic online small maps of 1946. You are still comparing that map with a realistic one.

Small online maps are unrealistic yes, that's a fact. But it happpens on every simulator that has one map in that concept.

I am aware of this too. I am a experienced online 1946 pilot, started flying online in 2004 (almost exclusively in the War Clouds Western Front Server, I'm guilty of being used to historical/quality maps).

I guess I expressed myself badly. The point I was trying to say was that, IMHO, the overall quality of the terrain (mesh, colors and how trees are placed) don't match 2011 standards.

Originally Posted by TUCKIE_JG52

Big on/offline maps... nothing to compare, CoD has no rival! I cannot understand why you feel that trees are horrible, horrible is what we had in 1946... have you stopped to watch a tree in CoD from short distance?

Agree regarding short distance (it has no rival)... However, since this is a flight sim, I consider far more important the look and "feel" from a certain distance.

With those colors,trunks and the way they are placed in some parts of the terrain (like in elevations of the volcano map or in the Cliffs of Dover beaches), I always have the feel I'm looking to some tropical tree specie, not what we would expect to find in southern England.

Originally Posted by TUCKIE_JG52

Anyway that's your oppinion, I'm not agree but I will defend that everybody can expresss himself

Not a problem... After all this is a forum. Just thought to express my feelings regarding the videos posted.

I also consider CloD has no rival in some aspects (e.g. cockpits, CEM, FM, DM), but there's a lot of tweaking to be made in the map/terrain and sound aspects.

Every time I watch terrain/map videos of RoF and WoP (altough not perfect), I always feel that CloD had a big fail in this particular department.

Originally Posted by LoBiSoMeM

Saturday I'll get a NVIDIA 560Ti and will record again and will post a new video with same recorded track, with average FPS too, for comparsion.

That should be interesting.

BTW, the clip you've recorded is great/beautiful considering you system specs... But it was done over water, I wonder how much fps you can achieve over land without lowering in-game settings.

[LoBiSoMeM]

Originally Posted by jg27_mc

BTW, the clip you've recorded is great/beautiful considering you system specs... But it was done over water, I wonder how much fps you can achieve over land without lowering in-game settings.

As I said, with the settings saw in video, I get 35 average FPS over water. Without shadows, can get 50FPS average.

Over land, with textures medium and forest low, without shadows and with medium/low shading, can achieve 25/30 FPS average in this rig, without much trouble. Some drops just over London with clouds, but nothing that go lower thar 15 FPS sometimes.

The video itself isn't good to show FPS performance. I recorded in internal CloD recorder, so, fixed FPS. That's why I put the average FPS I get with the settings saw in video, in the title of the post. Over land, as over sea, no stutters at all with lower/medium settings, due to low VRAM: textures medium, forest low and no shadows = no stutters and fluid gameplay. And good visual.

[ATAG_Doc]

Originally Posted by jg27_mc

Snip...

BTW, the clip you've recorded is great/beautiful considering you system specs... But it was done over water, I wonder how much fps you can achieve over land without lowering in-game settings.

Here are a couple of videos over London.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwwwPjdFxVU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRmtTLtBOjU

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzfXWJ1xxUo

Understand we may not have same system specs but even then if we did I try to keep the system as quiet as I can.

[jg27_mc]

Originally Posted by timej31

...Understand we may not have same system specs but even then if we did I try to keep the system as quiet as I can.

What do you mean? Sorry, I didn't catch the idea in your last reply...

What's your in-game settings in those London videos?

Cheers.