Friday 2010-12-24 Dev. update and Discussion

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

It is slightly worrying that no-one at 1C as got a PC good enough to show us any video, and there were no PC's good enough at the Russian exhibition to show SOW running without turning into a slide show at certain points.

For Oleg, you said two years ago in an interveiw that the game was 80% completed, in percentage terms could you tell us where we are today? many thanks.

They certainly have top notch PCs over there...Otherwise, how would they be able to tweak all the hi res details at maximum playable settings ?

It is obvious to me that they keep the final eye candy video for an official announcement regarding launch date and specs and ...publisher...

Salute !

[tourmaline]

Merry christmas and a very happy new year to Oleg and team!

[SlipBall]

I agree that they must have state of the art machines over at head quarters. How else would they gauge the possibilities...what they show us each week, is what the masses can expeck on their weaker PC's, that most of us run

[luthier]

Originally Posted by kalimba

They certainly have top notch PCs over there...Otherwise, how would they be able to tweak all the hi res details at maximum playable settings ?

It is obvious to me that they keep the final eye candy video for an official announcement regarding launch date and specs and ...publisher...

Salute !

We have top-notch machines where they are most needed, with the programmers. I have a mid-range or probably even a low-end machine by today's standards myself, which is very helpful in ensuring a lot of you guys get decent performance out of the game! If everyone had a blazing fast PC, who would worry about the framerate?

We've just finished a major round of optimizations last week that drastically improved framerate compared to the Igromir build. We couldn't have done it if everyone at the office ran it at 80 fps to begin with.

And since I take the majority of screenshots for the updates, you guys are stuck with what I have! In order to take screenshots on other machines, I'd have to bump off a programmer, and I'm sure we can all agree it wouldn't be good for the project. Most of them run weird versions of the game unfit for human consumption anyway.

[Solnyshko]

As I expected... and good to hear

[Richie]

That's great news

[Sutts]

Originally Posted by luthier

We have top-notch machines where they are most needed, with the programmers. I have a mid-range or probably even a low-end machine by today's standards myself, which is very helpful in ensuring a lot of you guys get decent performance out of the game! If everyone had a blazing fast PC, who would worry about the framerate?

We've just finished a major round of optimizations last week that drastically improved framerate compared to the Igromir build. We couldn't have done it if everyone at the office ran it at 80 fps to begin with.

And since I take the majority of screenshots for the updates, you guys are stuck with what I have! In order to take screenshots on other machines, I'd have to bump off a programmer, and I'm sure we can all agree it wouldn't be good for the project. Most of them run weird versions of the game unfit for human consumption anyway.

Thanks Luthier, as always your feedback is valuable and really appreciated.

Originally Posted by luthier

We've just finished a major round of optimizations last week that drastically improved framerate compared to the Igromir build.

Sounds awesome. So theres again plenty of room to include new stuff.




P.S I think any trader would donate you a high end machine if you tell them what you're doing with it.

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by luthier

We have top-notch machines where they are most needed, with the programmers. I have a mid-range or probably even a low-end machine by today's standards myself, which is very helpful in ensuring a lot of you guys get decent performance out of the game! If everyone had a blazing fast PC, who would worry about the framerate?

We've just finished a major round of optimizations last week that drastically improved framerate compared to the Igromir build. We couldn't have done it if everyone at the office ran it at 80 fps to begin with.

And since I take the majority of screenshots for the updates, you guys are stuck with what I have! In order to take screenshots on other machines, I'd have to bump off a programmer, and I'm sure we can all agree it wouldn't be good for the project. Most of them run weird versions of the game unfit for human consumption anyway.

Luthier you are da Boss!