Ilya answers regarding CoD scaleability

[Baron]

Originally Posted by =PF=Coastie

Well yeah they had to turn stuff off. They can't even take a single pic at high res with AA. But then again, they may only have a 2006 machine they are testing it on....LOL!

They do have high end machines, reserved for programmers and "important, have to stuff". And before u say: "well, borrow one such machine for an hour and snap some screenshots", they allredy said that the "gameversions" on the high end machines are not fit for "human consumption" ...Iliyas words i belive. (correct me if im wrong).

[Blackdog_kt]

Just like i was suspecting, they went about it the same way as with IL2.

We didn't have perfect landscape mode or detailed water in the early versions of IL2 either

I like the way they are doing it to be honest.

hopefully they don't scale back too much. When new kepler is out, which is meant to be 3 times faster than fermi, there's again plenty of room for better graphics and physics.

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Just like i was suspecting, they went about it the same way as with IL2.

We didn't have perfect landscape mode or detailed water in the early versions of IL2 either

Exactly

I cant believe they built a 2013 game built on DX9-10 and not DX11. That just doesn't add up.

[TheSwede]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

I cant believe they built a 2013 game built on DX9-10 and not DX11. That just doesn't add up.

With some common sense I think they prepared the engine so it is competitive in 2013 => DX11, DX12 etc AND prepared to handle the mainstream market of today => lots of computers out there with DX9 gpus.

Ilya has already mentioned that they have lots of features in store ready for activation when they are needed.


Bad comparison but BWM doesn't launch the M3 right away together with their newest iteration of the 3-series.

@ TheSwede, surely thats because they hadnt built it back then, but the sim has been built already.

Originally Posted by TheSwede

With some common sense I think they prepared the engine so it is competitive in 2013 => DX11, DX12 etc AND prepared to handle the mainstream market of today => lots of computers out there with DX9 gpus.

Ilya has already mentioned that they have lots of features in store ready for activation when they are needed.


Bad comparison but BWM doesn't launch the M3 right away together with their newest iteration of the 3-series.

well i guess time will tell, but if DX11 isnt switchable, it only leaves us waiting for bigger CPU's and Graphics cards to cope with any features that are currently disabled, personally i think that is very short sighted.

[addman]

Funny thing about all this is that a large part of the PC owners still uses WinXP and we all know WinXP won't go any higher than DirectX 9. Even though many gamers have bad-ass graphic cards that supports DirectX 10/11 they still use WinXP. Might be ONE of quite a few reasons why they choose to have the game scalable. If you make the game DirectX 10/11 only then maybe many potential customers might be lost.

[bf-110]

Not sure if this is off topic,but how flexible is SoW engine?
I mean,if it´s a game that can get outdated in a few years,if it will still be a modern game in 2014,if the game can be upgraded to have better graphics/sounds/etc.