Friday update and discussions 2011-03-18

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

You lot are like 12 year old kids. Can't you accept that certain people have certain opinions? Unless you have nothing better to do with you lives, stop wasting your time arguing, please, it's getting really boring now.

I am procrastinating, dont take away my favourite passtime

-Also the point made about the graphics options is valid. It all could be worked into their general settings, but that would mean big jumps from dx9 - dx10 because if you cant tweak shadow and lighting settings/features that means you have a big performance gap which is bad...
But its worse that it doesnt have the setting their at all...

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

ROFLOL - WIN!

I love your logic, Tree: Eat xxxx, thousands of flies can't be wrong!


LOL - sorry, but two people posting the same non-sense doesn't form a "common sense".

lol, I like that im going to use it myself.

[kaisey]

Originally Posted by Heliocon

Well yes and no. The reason the clouds and water are behind is because the tech that would allow them to really push clouds and water graphics are dx10/dx11. Dx11 for direct compute (physics), and differed lighting along with other lighting and particle effects that are in dx10 (but much improved in dx11), which could greatly reduce the burden on rendering these elements.

DX11 is not a niche market, there was a huge thread/argument about this last year and I made a prediction back then about market share and cards, which was that by 2011 win7 64bit would be the primary OS and that dx11 card market share would skyrocket at the end of 2010 and for the first half of 2011. Months after and even now, steam 100% backs this up and at the current rate in 6 months dx11 may even be the majority (by % increase last month out of the 15 cards that had the strongest % growth in market share, 14 of them were DX11 and represent probably around roughly 8%+ growth for dx11 card market share last month alone).

DX11 isnt only a rendering path, it has alot more to it which makes it far better then dx10, alot of that is it is made to work in sync with multicore cpus/multi threaded apps. It has a new shader model which gives alot of new features (shader model 5, dx9 = shader model 2).

Also crysis is consolised to hell and back, thats why it has no dx11 on release, in its video settings there are 3 options, gamer - advanced - hardcore and there are litrally no descriptions of even what each setting has in it... The tutorial uses console gamepad button instructions etc etc. Also the engine looks worse then the original crysis did.

Helecon, are you and Tree related?????????????

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by kaisey

Helecon, are you and Tree related?????????????

Cant be, my nose is not that big.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Heliocon

Chivas, calm down kiddy - you already tried to argue in the other graphics thread (horribly because you didnt have an argument) and failed, dont do it again.

DX11 is not in the release version, full stop. Unless you can run it in DX11 its not DX11, that does not mean it wont feature DX11 in the future but for now it does not. If I make a new game with DX8 is it brand new because I just released it? No its not, use your brain.

My statement was solely a response to the post saying that the game would be so advanced upon release that it would be impossibly to max out and that its built for pcs years from now. That is completely incorrect for the release version as of now.

Your still wrong and still posting misinformation. The game engine isn't antiquated because it delayed using an unstable API.

[nearmiss]

Antiquated?

You are going really enjoy antiquated. Oops, and the DX11 whiners, along with the weather, cloud, and other think up anything and everything whiners will too.

The BOB COD is a done deal. Patch whiners will start the day it releases of course.

Originally Posted by Heliocon

I am procrastinating, dont take away my favourite passtime

-Also the point made about the graphics options is valid. It all could be worked into their general settings, but that would mean big jumps from dx9 - dx10 because if you cant tweak shadow and lighting settings/features that means you have a big performance gap which is bad...
But its worse that it doesnt have the setting their at all...

But at this point, we have to admit that what we have seen so far from COD are really bits and pieces...Even the video was made at medium settings with many features turned off...from a Beta version...
And it is very possible that the control pannels are also from a Beta version excluding many "hidden" features available in future updates...
And yes Oleg implemented some DX11 features but was disapointed by the results...So he's holding back for now...
To conclude my taughts, I would say that we are soooooooooooooo speculating about sooooooooooooo many aspects of COD that , though it is interesting to see how some of us forsee this project, as the maker of this video said, we will probably all be very happy with COD at release, and even more happier in few months from now...

SAlute !

[MD_Titus]

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

ROFLOL - WIN!

I love your logic, Tree: Eat xxxx, thousands of flies can't be wrong!


LOL - sorry, but two people posting the same non-sense doesn't form a "common sense".

slightly less rare sense?

[easytarget3]

Originally Posted by Richie

Does anyone know why these release dates are so staggered? Almost a month apart from Europe and the States and Canada. Seeing movies on youtube of other folks flying will be pure torture while I sit here in Canada waiting till the 26th of April for my download on UBISOFT.

so go with steam version, or is it diferent on steam for canada as well? I will use steam because here in the czech rep. its also april for dvd version.and steam has march release.

[David Hayward]

Do the people who think this game is going to be disappointing have any suggestions for better WW2 flight sims? I already removed Wings of Prey from my machine, so that isn't an option.