[Vonte]

Hello Nearmiss, Oleg and co.

As you may gather from my title, I'm an old pilot who is sometimes bold. Being born 6 months after the BoB, I've had experience of flying sailplanes for many years and flight Sims from the first MS Sims and many Il2 Sims. I waited with bated breath for the launch of CoD, but was dismayed by the poor reviews on launch. I therefore waited until August before I took the plunge and bought the DVD for £13.99, thinking that if didn't work on my low spec PC, I hadn't spent too much! I ignored all the moaners and concentrated on the positive reports. I took on board the excellent advice given by PC Pilot on how to get better FPS which in a nutshell was: Let your GPU do all the 3D rendering and turn off the
3D functions within the game. They also said that turning off Grass and lowering Forest, gave better FPS. I found that with the settings I use (see below), flying a Tiger Moth, I can land on the MALL and taxy up to BUCKINGHAM PALACE and not drop below 22fps.. Flying in CoD is a joy, taking off from Manston with the sun rising over The Channel was a "jaw dropping" experience. The attention to detail in the cockpits and on the ground has to be seen. Even without combat, the flight models allow "site seeing" trips. Having flown Wings of Prey for the last 12 months and being a squadron member of JS 109, I have made many friends and hope to do the same in CoD. With regards to Wings of Prey, I and my squad mates can no longer fly in it as we feel it is too "Arcadey". Now for the one thing that needs to be urgently addressed by the developers, this is: LAUNCHER exe failure, could they please, please. please sort this problem out on the next update. I know I'm not alone looking at the forum gripes, and before you ask, yes, I have tried every one posted, and I do mean EVERY solution posted. Thank you for reading thus far, as you can see I'm hooked on the game, I just want to crash land, not crash to desk top!!!

Kindest regards

Vonte JS109 aka Jester
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System spec:
Intel Q6600 2.4Ghz (O/C to 2.7Ghz) 4Gb 667Mhz Ram MSI N460GTX Hawk
1Gb (O/C 850 core 1950 Memory) Artic Cooler Pro V2 Vista 32 OS

In game settings:
22" Monitor 1680x1050 - 1440x900 (ie one res down)
Everything set to Medium except: Forest-Low Texture-High SSAO-On
Grass-Off Shadows-On Roads-On
All other settings done on GPU 3D Settings