min specs for SOW

[icuucme37]

Has any min specs been released yet for SOW ? I just order parts for a new computer and know I'll be over the min specs, but want to know if I will be middle of the road on specs or top-end.

New computer specs are............Window 7

Radeon ATI HD 5770 1 gig GPU

Intel Core i7-920 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Desktop Processor

OCZ Gold 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) Low Voltage Desktop Memory

ASUS Rampage II GENE Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 750GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

OCZ Promod 600w 2 rail SATA, PCI-e ready power supply

[hellbomber]

you left off the most important part for gaming a graphics card, thats a great build but the GPU will make it or break it, if you want to pwn SOW get a 5850 or 5870 and slap an after market cooler on your cpu, i recommend Prolimatech Megahalems

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835242001 just make sure you have case clearance if not you can get something small cheaper

slap 1 or two 120mm fans on that thing and you can OC the 920 to 3.8-4.0 easy no problem, ive got mine at 4.2 and never goes over 75C max or you could leave the stock cooler and go for a mild 3.2 - 3.4 OC

to put anything less than a 5850 on that system would be seriously GPU bottle-necking the system

[Thunderbolt56]

Yes, you've got so much overhead on the i7 920 that you can oc that thing up to 3.6ghz without a sweat and provided you have a half decent cooler (I put a Thermalright TRUE on mine) you can take it to 4ghz. I have 3 profiles on mine and switch them depending on what I'm doing. I boot at 3ghz for general use, 3.5ghz for most other games and 3.8ghz for all my flight sims and even the first two are overkill most times. I have a profile that runs 4ghz solid as a rock, but I try not to run that profile except in the fall/winter.

That and a solid GPU with ALOT of VRAM (more than 1gb for sure) and you should be fine. You still may not be able to run everything at high (or highest) settings, but it'll still look good without a doubt.

Back to the original question, at this time we have no system specs from Oleg. I would imagine we should most likely have an idea early next year.

[zapatista]

just by looking at the thread title and seeing it then contained a post by Tree, it was fair to presume he used the occasion to add more of his monotone whining

and hey presto, i was right !

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by icuucme37

Has any min specs been released yet for SOW ? ..... want to know if I will be middle of the road on specs or top-end........

no official announcement has ever been made so far about specific pc specs for BoB-SoW. but what is safe to presume is that, whatever high end gaming pc you might have AT RELEASE TIME will then allow you to run BoB on the higher settings with more eye candy and decent frame rates

if you search this forum you will find more in depth reasons why that should be the case

for your current new pc specs, you have a high end cpu, a fair amount of ram, so all you would need is a high end gfx card to go with it. that is of course presuming you will play on a medium level resolution with a single monitor. high end resolutions like those on a 30', or wanting to use multiple monitors, will need multiple high end gfx cards presumably.

all this of course is just deduced by applying common sense and additionally knowing something about oleg's previous release strategy in the original il2 series. if you want more certainty, then wait till release BoB time or for a formal spec announcement before you spend your money. by all current indications BoB should be released later this year, so it wont be far off. if a delay occurs, then obviously pc specs continue to evolve and oleg will tailor his product for the high end technology being available at that time.

Originally Posted by zapatista

just by looking at the thread title and seeing it then contained a post by Tree, it was fair to presume he used the occasion to add more of his monotone whining

and hey presto, i was right !

How on earth can my comment be at all percieved as whining??

Originally Posted by zapatista

no official announcement has ever been made so far about specific pc specs for BoB-SoW. but what is safe to presume is that, whatever high end gaming pc you might have AT RELEASE TIME will then allow you to run BoB on the higher settings with more eye candy and decent frame rates
if you search this forum you will find more in depth reasons why that should be the case

for your current new pc specs, you have a high end cpu, a fair amount of ram, so all you would need is a high end gfx card to go with it. that is of course presuming you will play on a medium level resolution with a single monitor. high end resolutions like those on a 30', or wanting to use multiple monitors, will need multiple high end gfx cards presumably.

all this of course is just deduced by applying common sense and additionally knowing something about oleg's previous release strategy in the original il2 series. if you want more certainty, then wait till release BoB time or for a formal spec announcement before you spend your money. by all current indications BoB should be released later this year, so it wont be far off. if a delay occurs, then obviously pc specs continue to evolve and oleg will tailor his product for the high end technology being available at that time.

1. Why is it 'Safe' to presume that you will be able to run SOW on higher settings with this spec PC, you are completely guessing, at this moment in time we have seen no high res video with multiple aircraft flying over a city. Its impossible for you to make that statement. Of course you could be right, but you simply dont know.

2. There have been no indications that SOW will be released this year, in fact if you use your 'common sense' you would most certainly feel that all indications show that it will 'not' be released this year, christ its not even in 'beta'.

Take a re-look at this list that Furbs compiled of the things we haven't seen, and im sure you will agree a release this year is most unlikely.

Sqd take off and landings from a working airfield.
Aircraft sound.
Finished landscape seen in full detail and at high res with AA, AF.
Rivers.
Bad weather, overcast sky, night time.
How radar will work.
Working GUI.
SOW website.
System specs.
Any aircraft crashes showing physics model.
Sound of coms between pilots or ground control.
Anything showing how the single player will work.
Anything showing how MP will work.
finished coastlines.
Anything being bombed...or bomb damaged buildings...craters.
Bombsights...and how level bombing in formation will work.
Anything showing how being injured will be shown and how it will affect pilots.
Ground straffing.
Anything showing how the good the AI is.
More than 10 planes in the sky at one time.
Finished clouds.
anything in DX10???...but def nothing in DX11.
Explosions.
Cities(london).

3. Stop being a smart arse.

[furbs]

i cant see how Tree's post could have been seen to be "monotone whining "...just looks to be "common sense" to me...as you can see by my list, we have a long way to go.

the best way to go i would say is start saving now...wait till SOW goes gold and buy the best system you can get.

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

How on earth can my comment be at all percieved as whining??

because it is a thread discussing computer specs, and without contributing anything to the topic under discussion you just use the occasion to echo your exact same same negative defeatist banter about BoB you always post here

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

I would imagine we should most likely have an idea early next year.

can you spot it ?