Battle for Moscow

[ATAG_MajorBorris]

Hey Tree,

You must not have played Microsofts Combat Flight Simulator3, the definition of unplayable at release and 1-2 years after for some. Needless to say, that was the end of big bucks MS and it's cfs series. The sim (COD) plays fine for me just needs some optimization or a next gen video card to realy get going(some planes need a fix here or there too), hey that sounds like IL2 back in 2001.

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by kalimba

That bad ? I tought the majority was able to play the game as is on good machines...
But I still think that the new game will be out before major patching is done on COD...Hope I am wrong !

Salute !

you have to bear in mind that in Trees world he is the majority

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

All that im waiting for is the fix for the CTD, before that I was waiting for the multi-player sound fix, the game as never been playable for me without a major problem. When the CTD is fixed maybe I cant start to sing its praises but its going to have to be amazing to justify the long wait pre-release and then the fix post release. I have never in 20 years of gaming ever purchased a product that was so bad out of the box in terms of bugs and completely unfinished features.

While you wait Tree. I know you build and have built a top end system to fly. Could you humor me and install COD and your flight peripherals on a separate SSD with its own Windows 7 64bit OS. You might not want to spend another dollar on COD, but I never have CTD's with this setup. The only draw back is you have to reboot to that particular OS when you want to fly COD, but the reboot is very quick, and the sim load times are awesome.

Originally Posted by Chivas

While you wait Tree. I know you build and have built a top end system to fly. Could you humor me and install COD and your flight peripherals on a separate SSD with its own Windows 7 64bit OS. You might not want to spend another dollar on COD, but I never have CTD's with this setup. The only draw back is you have to reboot to that particular OS when you want to fly COD, but the reboot is very quick, and the sim load times are awesome.

Hi Chivas, this is something i would like to try actually and could possibly be the reason why you are not suffering the same CTD's as the majority. It would be intersting to see if it works but I wouldn't consider it to be a fix, I was rather hoping that maybe one of the Dev team might pick up on this and actually try it to see if it could lead to a fix. However, Luthier did tell us that the CTD was caused by thier graphics engine and if he is to be believed then i cannot see how a seperate SSd drive would resolve that. That said, it is very hard to pin anything on what Luthier does say these days, its normally rash statements which are followed by backtracks or silence.

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by Chivas

While you wait Tree. I know you build and have built a top end system to fly. Could you humor me and install COD and your flight peripherals on a separate SSD with its own Windows 7 64bit OS. You might not want to spend another dollar on COD, but I never have CTD's with this setup. The only draw back is you have to reboot to that particular OS when you want to fly COD, but the reboot is very quick, and the sim load times are awesome.

You are right. Several people reported that reinstall to a separate disk helped here http://translate.google.com/translat...hp%3Ft%3D73504
OP installed system and CloD on separate HDDs though, took care of temperatures 9both CPU below 51 and GPU below 70 degrees), increased RAM to 16GB, cleans windows Temp/Tmp folder regularly, runs BoostSpeedPortable before playing. No launcher crashes since reinstall. At least 2 others replied that it helped them too.

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

I have never in 20 years of gaming ever purchased a product that was so bad out of the box in terms of bugs and completely unfinished features.

Me too.


Probably get banned for replying to that lol

[Dano]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

I have never in 20 years of gaming ever purchased a product that was so bad out of the box in terms of bugs and completely unfinished features.

Nor me, but my brother did, some role playing game back in the windows 98 days which was so bad he uninstalled it and it wiped out a load of critical windows files at the same time and left him with an unworkable machine

Originally Posted by Dano

Nor me, but my brother did, some role playing game back in the windows 98 days which was so bad he uninstalled it and it wiped out a load of critical windows files at the same time and left him with an unworkable machine

lol, now that is bad!!

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Hood

This thread isn't about any of the CloD problems - we all know what these are. It's about rebuilding the fan base/developer relationship and BoM providing a great opportunity to do so. You could even do this with CloD if the will to do so is there.

Hood

Unfortunately the animosity has gone both ways, between the developer and community in the past few years. The biggest problem is some in the community not understanding the difference between what the developer is trying to achieve and a promise in past updates. Now the developers have to be very careful on how they word every statement, but that doesn't work either, when they state there is no promise with this particular features, its ALWAYS thrown back in their face as a PROMISE later.

A week goes by very slowly for the community, but its a nanosecond for the developer. A bi-weekly update might work, but I just as soon they wait until they had something worth reporting.

Hopefully in the next year the game engine will be optimized and it will be more just a matter of adding content, rather than a Keystone Cop's fire drill.

[addman]

Hey Tree! You need to put your money where you mouth is. I actually sold my gaming rig last week because I wasn't playing CloD anymore (play all other games on my Xbox360, Wii or PSP). Figured I'd sell it while it was still worth something. I'm gonna build myself a mini-itx PC just for the heck of it and because it consumes about as much electricity as a 60 watt light bulb on full load. Back to Clod though, I'll still be around the boards and wait for Battle of Moscow to see how it will work out. To everyone else, you don't have to hear my "complaints" anymore since I don't even play the game, I guess those of you glass "half-full" people should be happy about this. Still be flying IL-2 though, especially now when the Pe-8 is flyable, hellz yeah!

P.S Kept the Samsung SSD for my soon to be mini PC