SoW specifications

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Forgottenfighter

The Gfx card will likely have a greater impact on performance than the CPU, though a good CPU is necessary so as to avoid bottlenecks. The GTX285 looks promising but I haven't read much about it yet, the GTX295 is too power hungry in my opinion. I think I will stick with a 9800GTX+ and a Q6600 until there are some major breakthroughs.

Il-2 has always been very cpu intensive, I don't see that changing in SOW. Especially now that the SOW software will use multicore cpus effectively. I recently upgrade my 7900GTX gpu for another Nvidia XFX GTX260-216 Black edition and seen no increase in fps unless I went to higher resolutions. I see a much greater increase in fps when overclocking my cpu from 3 gigs to 3.8.

[Forgottenfighter]

That is a fair point Chivas, and you're probably right, but Sow Bob will have textures with four times the resolution of Il2 textures, aircraft will have 5 times the polygon count and there will be other things such as shadows in the cockpit which will be renedered in real time, based on the position of the sun etc. These tasks will be Gpu intensive, and there is no way that the likes of a 7900GTX will handle that, you should definately see the extra power of the GTX260 with Sow Bob. Like I said in my last post, it will be important to have a good CPU also. The CPU will have to handle things such as the flight model (I assume), radar, AI etc.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Forgottenfighter

That is a fair point Chivas, and you're probably right, but Sow Bob will have textures with four times the resolution of Il2 textures, aircraft will have 5 times the polygon count and there will be other things such as shadows in the cockpit which will be renedered in real time, based on the position of the sun etc. These tasks will be Gpu intensive, and there is no way that the likes of a 7900GTX will handle that, you should definately see the extra power of the GTX260 with Sow Bob. Like I said in my last post, it will be important to have a good CPU also. The CPU will have to handle things such as the flight model (I assume), radar, AI etc.

I agree Forgottenfighter, SOW will also require the best gpu/gpus along with multicore cpus if you want to turn on most of the bells and whistles of SOW and ROF. The best advice is give yourself atleast one cheaper upgrade path. You usually only get one upgrade chance as the cpu sockets and memory change to often. If SOW is successfull we will be upgrading many times over the life of the series.

[Tigertooo]

Thank you gentlemen, much obliged.
I'll wait

[RCAF_FB_Orville]

Originally Posted by Tigertooo

Thank you gentlemen, much obliged.
I'll wait

"Waiting for Godot".....Hehehe . Thing is, I couldn't afford to wait since my old rig was dying on me and there are other good sims out there too......Bottom line is, I'm not going to base my entire life around one sim (which I am admitedly looking forward to), as I use my computer for other things too (like keeping a roof over my head/work for example lol).

Each to their own........

[Thunderbolt56]

Here ya go: http://wwiaircombat.com/games/rise-of-flight

[llama_thumper]

is there any info on whether SOW is being built to take advantage of 64 bit systems (ie no limitation to 3 or 4 gigs of memory)?

i know ROF isn't, but haven't been able to find anything on this for SOW.

Originally Posted by Chivas

Il-2 has always been very cpu intensive, I don't see that changing in SOW. Especially now that the SOW software will use multicore cpus effectively. I recently upgrade my 7900GTX gpu for another Nvidia XFX GTX260-216 Black edition and seen no increase in fps unless I went to higher resolutions. I see a much greater increase in fps when overclocking my cpu from 3 gigs to 3.8.

100% correct Chivas, i have 2 X GTX285 cards running in SLI and have seen no fps increase than when i had my 2 X 8800GTX cards. The only significant increase i have seen is when i have overclocked, like you i am running my quad core at 3.8ghz.

[Tigertooo]

pfff... and i thought i asked a simple question
anyway thanks for the replys so far chaps, i still have to learn a lot...
One more question: could i do a serious upgrade now with what is on the market right now,and with a fair chance to play SOW comfortably when it comes out, or should i wait for the release of official specifications?
Of course any reply to my question and what i will do in the end is only my responsability, i just wanted advise from chaps who know mare about it then i do
Thanks again

Well, personally i would wait, we all have seen how much technology has moved on since Oleg first mentioned that he expected SOW to be released in Q4 2007, If we had all purchased new PC's then we would be well out of sync. I cannot for the life of me see that this game will be released this year, some say i am pessimistic i think i am simply 'realistic'. We will certainly have a new generation of CPU's and GPU's by this time next year and i would wager that would be an approximate time for an SOW release, or though i would be very very happy to be wrong.