Friday 2009-11-27 Screenshots Update discussion thread

[GF_Mastiff]

Wow she's tiny, hope she loves this game I see you got her a joystick..

Thanks for the updates.. I hope she doesn't take offense to that I just mean she barely fits in that chair..

[furbs]

its a place of work yes...making state of the art flight sims for the PC market ....im just saying they might have moved on from XP and 15 inch monitors.

[dflion]

Thanks for the photos Oleg, good to see the team getting stuck into BOB.

I have a question regarding the Mission briefing screen - will you be able to transfer mission information into the cockpit after the briefing, to refer to while you are flying, for example, mission notes to remind you what are the key mission objectives, oblique target photos and what to be careful of (barrage balloons, AA concentrations, etc.)

DFLion

[ECV56_Guevara]

I loved the photos! Especially the briefings ones!

[fuzzychickens]

Much nicer and healthier than where I worked for 7 years.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by furbs

its a place of work yes...making state of the art flight sims for the PC market ....im just saying they might have moved on from XP and 15 inch monitors.

I expect the development team that made MS Flight Sim X had lots of 30" LCD screens and Quad core systems that ran at 3.? GHz. At see what good that did them in the end.

Remember that we are enthusiasts! We lie and cheat and buy the latest hardware behind our wifes backs just to get those extra few fps from our sims! (well I do at least! Within reason )

"Average gamers" have average systems and XP would be the most common OS out there at the moment and for a long time to come. Hell, if this sim was developed on the system and required the latest hardware the is no way that 90% of the "average gamers" will be able to run the thing without putting the slides down to minimum!

I expect developing the system on average systems will give the developers a reasonable understanding on how the system will run and when they get down to performance tuning.

Also, from my experiance in 3D modeling and image manipulation (very amaturish to say the least) I spend most of my time scratching my head and wondering why the thing on the screen doesn't look the way I want it! Machine performance isn't critical for some jobs!

Cheers!

[AdMan]

buying brand new OS' is for suckers

though I was surprised to see a CRT monitor, just looking at that gave me a slight headache

[luthier]

Originally Posted by AdMan

buying brand new OS' is for suckers

though I was surprised to see a CRT monitor, just looking at that gave me a slight headache

We have XP machines for a reason. We want to have this guy run on XP and DX9. We can't very well develop for XP without XP machines. That's why we have different OSs, different brand CPUs and video cards, etc.

CRT monitors? Well, somehow, every time we get a hardware budget, it seems to get spent on other things. We actually just did a major upgrade earlier this month. Those cases you see are pretty old, but they're filled with bleeding edge stuff. We bought lots of CPUs and RAM, terabyte HDs, latest video cards, newer bigger pen tablets, etc. Somehow, when we were done, we just didn't have anything left for monitors. Again.

[mark@1C]

Originally Posted by luthier

Somehow, when we were done, we just didn't have anything left for monitors. Again.

Well,every pilot shoud learn that,
Take care of your eyes,just like your body and plane,and so on....

Take care of yourselves,all members of Maddox Team.

[Feuerfalke]

Using CRTs is hardly a hint for lacking behind modern hardware. Depending on what you are working on, old CRTs can present you a better idea of realistic colors than most common TFTs do.