SoW: Battle for Moscow and other Igromir news

[Baron]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

It works, i wouldn't say it runs from what ive seen, even with just one aircraft it locks up over land.

I was more referring to the pc specs and the "MAXIMUM graphics" part, wich is, in all honesty way more than alot of us expected. Wouldnt u agree?

And 2 more gigs of ram would do alot of differance.

Originally Posted by Baron

I was more referring to the pc specs and the "MAXIMUM graphics" part, wich is, in all honesty way more than alot of us expected. Wouldnt u agree?

And 2 more gigs of ram would do alot of differance.

It looks like they are running it with everything maxed out and on big monitors (high res), which is very promising, although I cant figure out how an extra gig of ram will help, it certainly doesn't in most games, i guess time will telll, but it looks very good indeed.

[Dano]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

It looks like they are running it with everything maxed out and on big monitors (high res), which is very promising, although I cant figure out how an extra gig of ram will help, it certainly doesn't in most games, i guess time will telll, but it looks very good indeed.

Simplified:

When the system runs out of available ram it will start paging it to and from the hard drive, because the hard drive is so much slower than ram this is what causes the stutters and FPS issues. Thus adding more memory so that it doesn't need to page will remove the stutters you see over land.

[Qpassa]

please, upload more videos.thks

[Baron]

I think the recommended ram is 3 gigs

[Dano]

I think Luthier said it was 3GB Minimum not recommended.

[Baron]

Originally Posted by Dano

I think Luthier said it was 3GB Minimum not recommended.

Of course, my misstake.

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

It looks like they are running it with everything maxed out and on big monitors (high res), which is very promising, although I cant figure out how an extra gig of ram will help, it certainly doesn't in most games, i guess time will telll, but it looks very good indeed.

To be fair Tree, most games have quite different demands to flightsims in terms of memory, the best comparison I can think of in the sense of sheer size of the terrain map is the Arma series or maybe Oblivion or another one of the big sandbox games. Arma is similarly demanding at high settings and with Oblivion they used a cell system where only the objects in the current cell were rendered with the exception of certain objects specially defined to be shown all the time (and it was still a nightmare to run when it came out).
You're right though, at high settings, fighting a huge formation over land looks like it would be a PC-slaying activity for any current PC. Although we *have* seen one video of a fair few aircraft on screen at a time with the game running smoothly at what are presumably slightly lower settings (and with much less complete terrain) earlier on in development.

[ChrisDNT]

I'm so much impressed by the quality of the lighting in these videos, this is nothing to compare with the latest "so-so" screenshots !!!

[ChrisDNT]

Btw, the landscape looks quite good too, much better, I repeat, than the latest screenshots (I'm beginning to suspect that the latest screenshots were some kind of cover traps).