So, Nehalem is OK?

[SPUDLEY1977]

OK,
Running Kamikaze on 4.04M with the following results:

ALL settings MAXED, including Landscape = Perfect:
Primarily 60 FPS +/- , a few drops to 37 with the lowest FPS circa 1:4x where it reads 25 FPS once or twice.

All settings MAXED, except Landscape = EXCELLENT:
(I prefer this setting since on Perfect the water and reflections really look a bit surrealistic and thus detract from my visuals)
Primarily 60 FPS +/-, with the lowest FPS again circa 1:4x where it drops to 41.

Hope this info is useful.

YOURS TRULY TESTPILOT

[Flyby]

Spudley, you are indeed a test pilot. Thanks fo rgoing through the trouble, man. Your rig shows how far things have come since the days of Kamikaze chugging down to 7 fps on my defunct system. I don't recall the time events you quoted, but I'll say that towards the end of the track is where I saw the lowest fps, when the Zero was crashing the carrier, iirc. That explosion was an fps-killer. So yes, your test was useful to me, TESTPILOT!
thanks!!
Flyby out

[alert]

Just came along to this little but neverthless telling snippet from Oleg's room:
"There will be many surprises in time. Like with Il-2 we put in engine many things that will be open later later depending of middle PC power on the market.
With 4.09 we will stop any work with Il-2. Really we did it already... just waiting finalization of new maps."
So it indicates, that highpowered Nehalem/extreme quad edition PC might be just waste of money and SoW "entry level" rig beased on DualCore Exxxx will be more then enough for decent gameplay and even the most powerful quad wont be enough when all those "thing are open later".

[Flyby]

Originally Posted by alert

Just came along to this little but neverthless telling snippet from Oleg's room:
"There will be many surprises in time. Like with Il-2 we put in engine many things that will be open later later depending of middle PC power on the market.
With 4.09 we will stop any work with Il-2. Really we did it already... just waiting finalization of new maps."
So it indicates, that highpowered Nehalem/extreme quad edition PC might be just waste of money and SoW "entry level" rig beased on DualCore Exxxx will be more then enough for decent gameplay and even the most powerful quad wont be enough when all those "thing are open later".

So I've been selling blood and robbing beer trucks for nothing?! Or maybe I just need to curtail my money-making duties until those "things" are opened later.

[SPUDLEY1977]

http://techreport.com/articles.x/15818/6

FLY: Some interesting comparisons, granted they did't test a flight sim like LOCKON or IL-2. THought you might find them useful.

PEACEs

[Flyby]

thanks for the link SPUDLEY,
I'd actually read that article (using my secret identity on TechReport). But it was good to read the conclusion again as it points out a major dilema for anyone such as I considering a new gaming pc. That dilema is in the selection of either a dual core or a quadcore cpu and the dependency of that decision of what the gaming future holds. More to the point, I can't see sufficiently into the future to know if there will be any combat flight sims on the horizon which might help with that selection. One exception is the Rise-of-Flight WW1 air combat sim released it's recommended system specs on it's website: http://www.riseofflight.com/en/Gameinfo.html I'm not sure of the release date, but here is a Youtube video on the progress of the sim:

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=rtMw02fqr_g

***hint cough***Oleg!***cough***hint.
Well, I've got time on my hands anyway as I am continually plagued with setbacks that keep me from financing a new system. But that's beside the point.
thanks again!
Flyby out