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startrekmike · #1 12-19-2012, 08:22 AM

I think you would find that DCS World somewhat lacks in terrain quality (mainly due to it's size and the fact that it is a older map that has been retextured as time has gone on).

While it lacks in that, it more than makes up for it in both the aircraft and cockpit models, I would even say that the lighting is vastly superior to CloD, while it may not be DX10, they manage to use DX9 to better effect.

The DCS titles are in a league of their own at this point, CloD looks good but DCS World just looks much more polished and the overall feeling is of a more professional product.

Still, they show what you can really do with DX9, hell, they have made it so that you can both fly aircraft (multiple types on the same server) and command and operate land forces (with the combined arms addon), overall, DCS World proves that all this jabber about DX9 being horribly outdated is false.

Blaf · #2 12-19-2012, 08:52 AM

DCS looks in my humble opinion terrible and 100k polygon models won't save it

Don't get me wrong, it's masterpiece among simulators, but has poor graphics (and even worse particle effects)

Wolf_Rider · #3 12-19-2012, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by startrekmike

Still, they show what you can really do with DX9, hell, they have made it so that you can both fly aircraft (multiple types on the same server) and command and operate land forces (with the combined arms addon), overall, DCS World proves that all this jabber about DX9 being horribly outdated is false.

All true... but... DCS also has a new graphics engine (EDGE) on the way, which has been being worked for a while now, and we're all patiently waiting for that baby to arrive.

By the time XP falls off the supported list (and it is starting to fall off the lists now), DX9 will be outdated