Oleg Maddox's Room #2 QUESTIONS & REQUESTS TO OLEG ABOUT BOB SOW

[Flyby]

Originally Posted by Bobb4

ATI cards have traditionally never performed well with IL2 games. Has this problem been addressed in SOW.

with the new ATi cards out now (the 5850 performs as well as the GTX285, costs less, is quieter, and uses less power at idle and full load) I hope Oleg will have reconciled ATi issues by now. Also, for goodness sake, where is the update?
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[zakkandrachoff]

I need change my videocard and i ask to myself if a GTX 275 or a Radeon 4890 will be work fine for the BOB... i cant wait to next year for know it





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[lep1981]

As a user of an ATI 4890, I'd say it should do the trick quite easily... HOWEVER... a year is a year, and depending on the engine BoB is going to use this could change, but personally, for a game that's supposed to be in development for the last 5 years (or more) either of those cards you mentioned should handle it fine. Worst case scenario... plug 2 in SLI or CROSSFIRE mode if a single one can't manage the load OR wait for the game to be release and buy the graphic card that suits you best

[RyansPlace]

These days, it seems you can't make a decent flight sim without rebuilding the better part of WWII. Good luck, guys.

-Ry

[KG26_Alpha]

Oleg

Regarding COOP mission transfer encryption.

IL2 had many COOP hosts before the missions were encrypted, once encrypted the dogfight numbers grew and we lost a lot of fun coop hosts.

If I'm correct the missions were encrypted due to 3rd party licence sales (addons).

Is it possible to have the host select to encrypt his missions when hosting, this way he can release a mission or protect it at his discretion, with 3rd party addons already protected.

One way a lot of people (myself included) learned the full mission builder was to look at a mission someone had just hosted and you had flown in, then see how they "made it" , this encouraged at lot of new pilots to tweak and build missions and could do the same for the new sim.

The "art" of mission building has been left to a handful of people and needs new blood in the "new sim", the ability for hosts to directly share their missions once again will encourage more COOP hosts and mission builders alike.

Cheers

[Ernst]

How about game internal radio comms, it ll be possible to block ventrillo, TS etc if the server owner wants?

Some players searching for ultimate reality could want to play this way. It ll be interesting if server configs allow this. Transmission ll depend of sources distances, some planes does not have transmitters etc!

[Flyby]

Originally Posted by zakkandrachoff

I need change my videocard and i ask to myself if a GTX 275 or a Radeon 4890 will be work fine for the BOB... i cant wait to next year for know it





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Well if you can't wait for next year, at least try to wait until the end of this year. Nvidia will have it's next line of cards out by then. If that's too long to wait then you really might consider the new ATi 5850. It's less expensive than the 5870, but is faster than the GTX275 or the 4890. But both of those cards should work well in Sow, hopefully. Unless you're using a 30 inch monitor (and running at 25x16 rez) I don't think you'll need two video cards in your system, but surely get a video card with at least 896 mb of ram (like the GTX275), the more ram the better (but ram alone does not make a video card good for gaming). I'm sure if you read some online reviews of the 5850 you'll like it's performance (and value). Let us know what you decide.
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[JG52Uther]

Why bother? That £300 card will cost you £150 by the time SoW is released!

[zakkandrachoff]

I don't thing gtx275 or ati90 will off prices in a year. And if SOW don't work whit this, only i rest is cry

[Flyby]

Zak, don't sweat it. I'm sure SoW will be playable with many cards. You may just have to turn down some of the settings to get smooth gameplay (until you can afford a better card). That's what I did when IL2 first came out.)
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