what to upgrade first?

[jibo]

your computer is not that crappy but you should wait and see at least a month especially if you're on a budget

[Helrza]

Biggest performance upgrade for any system would be the RAM itself mate, followed by the vid card for gaming. If you nail both at the same time ur laughin

Personally I would wait before upgrading David, lets see what happens with the patch(s) and also what the Dev's discover when they have another look at the code. It appears that the game currently is not taking full advantage of either the CPU, GPU or ram, once this as been determined you should get a better idea on where to spend your hard earned cash.

[David198502]

thx to all of you!btw, i dont want to buy anything immediately anyway.i will wait as you suggested how the game evolves and then upgrade it.so ram and video card are the two parts that will have the most effect?

[scorpac]

there was a thread of a guy who worked for il2 and made some rating about CoD. he told that no computer of the world could run the game nice and smooth because the game doesnt support much newer hardware better than the old one... so i think if you can play it at the moment i would wait until major fixes of the engine

[David198502]

true the video card was a pretty cheap one.but to nats:i already have 4gb ram,although the more the better.
i will wait and see if it is better to buy a new processor or video card and ram.both at the same time a cannot afford at the moment.

while waiting, i enjoy the game how it is.today i set up a mission in fmb with 18 hurries and 8bfs over france.i still had 25fps average(although there were only small villages nearby)i set the time to 5:30 in the morning.it looked awesome.the colours are much better in evening or morning in my opinion.the fields and the shadows of trees and buildings just look real at dawn.and also the water of rivers look way better than at high noon where it looks a bit too deep blue in my view.i love this game with all its problems.

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by David198502

true the video card was a pretty cheap one.but to nats:i already have 4gb ram,although the more the better.
i will wait and see if it is better to buy a new processor or video card and ram.both at the same time a cannot afford at the moment.

while waiting, i enjoy the game how it is.today i set up a mission in fmb with 18 hurries and 8bfs over france.i still had 25fps average(although there were only small villages nearby)i set the time to 5:30 in the morning.it looked awesome.the colours are much better in evening or morning in my opinion.the fields and the shadows of trees and buildings just look real at dawn.and also the water of rivers look way better than at high noon where it looks a bit too deep blue in my view.i love this game with all its problems.

What resolution you playing at?

[David198502]

well i have to confess i play at really low resolution of 1024x768.so its a bit blurry although i dont really mind.

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by scorpac

there was a thread of a guy who worked for il2 and made some rating about CoD. he told that no computer of the world could run the game nice and smooth because the game doesnt support much newer hardware better than the old one... so i think if you can play it at the moment i would wait until major fixes of the engine

Until the code has been thoroughly optimized there is no telling what the real specs are. Thats probably why they didnt want to talk about what hardware was need becasue they still dont know how good this will run once finished!!