...2011 standards for realistic sceneries

[ChrisDNT]

I don't know for what reasons, either technical or editorial ones, an aviation sim with combat features must have by nature a crappy landscape in 2011.

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by ChrisDNT

I you want to look the future, look at Outerra :

http://outerra.com/

The first sim which will use Outerra will bomb all the others to the ground !

Now that's impressive.

A few of the clips on the the tube are gob-smacking.

Wonder what sort of pc you'd need?

[Wolf_Rider]

its nice, but still has that luminous green grass colour... they need to revisit "Lukla" as well

[ChrisDNT]

...today we still have to sacrifice everything for our further advanced physics and object calculations.
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Yes, this may be true, but this may be also a cheap trick to excuse bad coding optimisations.

I still have an Athlon 3000 with 1 giga of ram and a Radeon pro 9700 - so basically now a third-world pc -and IL2 is still quite smooth and pretty on it.

I will have in a few months a Bulldozer octocore with 12 gigas of ram and a Nvidia 580 with 3 gigas (for rendering work) and I'm no more ready to believe that with a 2011 config (even with a less powerful one) it's still not possible to have, at the same time, enough ressource for physics calculations and graphic calculations, at least at a level noticably different than ten years ago.