Friday Development Update - November 18, 2011

[Redroach]

There's just nothing about radio functionality. But the x-th graphics rewrite still seems to excite people (for the record, I'm just fine with graphics as they are right now). I just can't believe it... seems CoD will stay on the shelf for a looooong time...

[snwkill]

Originally Posted by Redroach

There's just nothing about radio functionality. But the x-th graphics rewrite still seems to excite people (for the record, I'm just fine with graphics as they are right now). I just can't believe it... seems CoD will stay on the shelf for a looooong time...

I shouldn't even give this quote the pleasure of being reposted but I could care less about graphics, just like you.... BUT

He has confirmed the CTD's are a direct result of the graphics engine, and I think he is very concerned about performance, I think he said he wants 50% better performance to do things like, weather... Yea there are some other things that will be nice when they are done but in the mean time getting these CTD's ironed out and getting smoother gameplay for the guys with rigs that are modest is a noble area to work on...

Thanks for the info Luthier, good to hear we may have a new beta in a few weeks.

[FlyingShark]

Thanks for the heads up, thank you for your hard work.

Keep it up.

~S~

[BigC208]

"Yea there are some other things that will be nice when they are done but in the mean time getting these CTD's ironed out and getting smoother gameplay for the guys with rigs that are modest is a noble area to work on..."

This last paragraph worries me. Scalability so far has been horrible. On my one month old rig the game looks fantastic and it runs like a dream. On my 5 year old, duocrore at 3.4ghz, historic machine it does not run at all over land and barely over sea. If I turn the graphics down to the point where it works it looks like something from the early nineties. No kidding.

I'm now worried that after upgrading and being happy with the game's graphics state they're now going to tune the graphics engine down to the point where the wow factor is gone. We're then left with a slightly upgraded il2 1946 that'll run on most machines. Maybe Oleg's vision is not realisticly achievable on last generations hardware. The only way forward maybe to have a game engine that's scalable enough to keep us all happy or have a cutoff point about a year back. Make Windows 7 64bit and DX11 part of the min requirements. People with older equipment can stay with Il2 1946 untill they move up in a year or two. I know this is harsh and you'll throw a group of less financial able people under the bus. Most sim nuts have at some point in time bought a new rig for a specific piece of software.

One thing is certain. I'll make a copy of the current version before I update to the next.

Thanks for the update. You keep up the good work and I'll keep the faith.

[albx]

Originally Posted by BigC208

"Yea there are some other things that will be nice when they are done but in the mean time getting these CTD's ironed out and getting smoother gameplay for the guys with rigs that are modest is a noble area to work on..."

This last paragraph worries me. Scalability so far has been horrible. On my one month old rig the game looks fantastic and it runs like a dream. On my 5 year old, duocrore at 3.4ghz, historic machine it does not run at all over land and barely over sea. If I turn the graphics down to the point where it works it looks like something from the early nineties. No kidding.

I'm now worried that after spending a grand and being happy with the game they're now going to tune the graphics engine down to the point where the wow factor is gone. We're then left with a slightly upgraded 1946 that'll run on most machines.

One thing is certain. I'll make a copy of the current version before I update to the next.

Thanks for the update.

do you know what mean the word optimization?

[BigC208]

Originally Posted by albx

do you know what mean the word optimization?

I don't have the foggiest idea what you're asking me. I'm Dutch and a bit slow and have not had my coffe yet. Not a good combination. What the hell I give it a try. I know what optimization means. I may just not be happy with what they think it means. If optimizing means the game runs better and looks better I'm all for it. If it means the game gets dumbed down so a kid can play it on his PS3 or XBOX in 2 years (sarcasm) I'm not a happy camper.

[albx]

Originally Posted by BigC208

I don't have the foggiest idea what you're asking me. I'm Dutch and a bit slow and have not had my coffe yet. Not a good combination. What the hell I give it a try. I know what optimization means. I may just not be happy with what they think it means. If optimizing means the game runs better and looks better I'm all for it. If it means the game gets dumbed down so a kid can play it on his PS3 or XBOX in 2 years (sarcasm) I'm not a happy camper.

I don't think they are dumbing down something (well, I hope), what i mean and what the dev team are doing in my opinion, clearing the code, removing the part of it with bugs and bad performances, so everybody will be happy, from who have an old pc till you with your new rig.

[smink1701]

Luthier, you are turning into quite the game ambassador. Way to go!

[CWMV]

Thank you for the update!

[Luno13]

Excellent news!