Friday 2010-10-29 Dev. update and Discussion

[Flyby]

Originally Posted by Ctrl E

it looks wonderful but the the whole system seems to slow to a crawl when he flys over land.

I find it curious that the sim should be shown to business people, while using either a system that's too slow to render it smoothly, or by whomever set up the demo without first making adjustments to the settings so as to render smooth game play. Of course I wasn't there. So I don't know what was really going on. It would have been encouraging to see the terrain flashing by smoothly. Who knows? Maybe it was just a bad driver.
At least we can get a sense that it won't be too many more months before we're all in the air trying to do damage to the other side.
Flyby out

Edit, I see there was an explanation of low system ram having difficulty loading the huge BoB maps. So I guess 2megs of ram is the minimum spec.

[Splitter]

Originally Posted by Flyby

I find it curious that the sim should be shown to business people, while using either a system that's too slow to render it smoothly, or by whomever set up the demo without first making adjustments to the settings so as to render smooth game play. Of course I wasn't there. So I don't know what was really going on. It would have been encouraging to see the terrain flashing by smoothly. Who knows? Maybe it was just a bad driver.
At least we can get a sense that it won't be too many more months before we're all in the air trying to do damage to the other side.
Flyby out

Edit, I see there was an explanation of low system ram having difficulty loading the huge BoB maps. So I guess 2megs of ram is the minimum spec.

Actually, a further explanation put the minimum at 3GB RAM and they were stuck with using rental computers from the expo company. I'm thinking Oleg was unhappy when he saw the performance....

Splitter

[Richie]

Hmm ...so puzzling? Although in a way I'm glad I could see it run on such an inferior system.

[Richie]

Is this event over now and is there an update tomorrow?

[Dano]

Originally Posted by Richie

Is this event over now and is there an update tomorrow?

No, it runs until the 6th I believe, Oleg said no update tomorrow, no biggie, we've had loads of awesome stuff

As far as I am concerned BoB is looking immense and I have no doubt whatsoever that Oleg is going to deliver big time.

[Solnyshko]

Quoting Luthier from the Sukhoi forum

Должен всех предупредить. Компы нам подсунули слегка не те, которые мы ожидали. Узнали мы, естественно, вчера. Компы новейшие, core i7, Nvidia 460, но... Всего 2 гига памяти. Какой-то нонсенс, а не компы. А с двумя гигами, на основной гигантской карте на максимальных установках в 1920х1080 оно быстро летает только над водой.

Так что у нас была дилема. Или урезать установки и разрешение, и порхать, или показывать максимальное графическое декаденство, но тормозить. Выбрали мы второе.


Must notify all. Comp us slipped slightly off, which we expected. We learned, of course, yesterday. Comp newest, core i7, Nvidia 460, but ... Only 2 gig of memory. Some nonsense, and not component. A two-gigami, the main giant map on maximum settings at 1920x1080, it quickly flies just above the water.

So we had a dilemma. Or curtail the installation and resolution, and flit, or show the maximum graphic decadent, but slow. We chose the latter.

[ElAurens]

More decadent graphics!!!

A cause I can believe in.

Be sure!!!!

Originally Posted by Solnyshko

Comp newest, core i7, Nvidia 460, but ... Only 2 gig of memory.

i7 Processor . . . BF-109K Engine
Nvidia 460 . . . P-51D Fuselage
2GB RAM . . . Cessna 172 Wings

What were those guys thinking? It's a wonder Oleg didn't send someone to the shop to grab them some more RAM.

[Splitter]

Well, between this and X-Plane 10 which I will also buy, I figured it was time to plop down some cash for the CH throttle quadrant. Gotta be able quickly change the throttle and prop pitch!

SoW better be good .

Splitter

[Skoshi Tiger]

I'm actually surprised it's running as good as it is.

Compare the detail in the maps to what we've got in IL2. What we've seen just blows IL2 away.

There's a benchmarking tread http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=17195 looking at a track called "FinalDaysBenchmark". Although generally playable, at the start when it's over a populated section of the map it brings most modern pc's to their knees! Compared to what was in those SOW video's IL2 is a barren wasteland!


Well done Oleg and Good Luck with the remainer of the expo!