Announcement of the game "IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad"

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by vranac

I'll tell you one analogy. I started playing il2 online with old and slow PC and it was almost unplayable. So I decided to upgrade. Some Athlon AMD CPU from good batch and OC'ed it to 2.1 GHz, very fast for that time (Intel was faster but AMD was better in games then). I bought midrange GPU 6600 also chosen model which could run on frequencies like 6600gt.
That was decent midrange PC of that time. And you know what, when I joined populated server 50-60 pilots with some flak around I got clap, clap, clap... 15 fps.
And that was 4-5 years after the release of il2. Only release of dual core CPU's solved that.

You spent your money wrong. I had an Athlon 1GHz (not overclocked) and a Geforce 2 GTS (a £300 card in 2000 ad) and IL*2 ran fine, offline as I always play, but fine up to Forgotten Battles. For Pacific Fighters I went up to a Althlon 64 3000, and a Radeon X800, and again, no problems whatever. You want to game with a crap GPU you will have to put up with crap framerates.

On the other hand with CloD I upgraded before the release with fast CPU and midrange GPU and had no problems at all.

Oleg listened to the people who thought cheap GPUs were the answer. It was a mistake.

There were bugs, but most of those affected mission makers. I have nice collection of tracks from that spring summer.

You're right about that CloD sold badly. My opinion is that there is no more than few 10.000 flight sim fans out there and 1C expectations was huge.

Do you think BoS will sell 200.000 copies ? I really doubt that.
That number is from Loft.
They'll be lucky if they hit 50.000.

I dunno. I think that there are a lot of potential fans, but it will depend on what shows up, what the DRM is like (I have no problem with copy protection, but tell me I have limited installs and crap like that, and I won't play. I won't "pirate" but I won't pay either, and "freeware" with pay for everything after the install? not for me).