Author Topic: How many really like the clouds?  (Read 1270 times)

Offline daddog

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Re: How many really like the clouds?
« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2008, 01:19:16 PM »
I'm gonna fashion something for you for next month Kurt.  I'm gonna call it the "Pigpen Effect".  Wherever you go, you'll be followed by a cloud.[/quote] LOL Shoot, just do it for his whole squad. ;)

I love the clouds/weather.
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Re: How many really like the clouds?
« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2008, 06:46:19 PM »
LOL Shoot, just do it for his whole squad. ;)

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Re: How many really like the clouds?
« Reply #17 on: March 25, 2008, 07:20:54 PM »
The weather adds a little realism in the dogfight. I heard from frame 2 where did all those Zeke's come from?

HEHE! - Good job on the weather. Rain & snow would be a good effect for the Aleutian of islands.

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Re: How many really like the clouds?
« Reply #18 on: March 25, 2008, 09:41:34 PM »
Now it'd be cool if we had the old clouds without icons inside them.
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Re: How many really like the clouds?
« Reply #19 on: March 25, 2008, 10:47:34 PM »
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Re: How many really like the clouds?
« Reply #20 on: March 28, 2008, 03:16:56 PM »
Due to the way AH has different ways of displaying on nvidia cards vs ati cards, the clouds are not a good option for me.

Say you have a wispy cloud layer, darker grey haze/fog, then another wispy cloud layer.

On an nvidia card, player names actually disapper between the 2 wispy layers, as the icons are displayed behind the haze somehow. This was repeated many times the past 5 frames (counting north sea).

Also, nvidia graphics tie the clipboard and all clipboard icon colors to the sunlight. Darker sunlight dims the green colors, and against the blue background with limited light, I was literally struggling to read the clipboard to find my start base.

Somebody else told me (when I brought this lament up) that they never had this problem. On a hunch I asked the make of their vid card, and it was ATI. I've had it on 5 major PC upgrades, 4 motherboards, 3 nvidia graphics cards, and 3 CPUs. Across the board, nvidia cards seem to get the shaft in these settings.


I'm hoping to get an ATI soon, and that should put these, and many other bugs behind me.

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Re: How many really like the clouds?
« Reply #21 on: March 28, 2008, 07:06:54 PM »
I'm hoping to get an ATI soon, and that should put these, and many other bugs behind me.

My old ATI card obscured the icons behind clouds and linked the clipboard colors to the sun.  I'm not sure you're going to find what you're looking for.
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Re: How many really like the clouds?
« Reply #22 on: March 28, 2008, 07:25:08 PM »
If you got a ATI 1600 - 512MB RAM - video card is a pretty good starting place. If you go lower you may run into video problems. And some up dating your video card bio's. You may also want to have 512MB of extra video ram that comes with the card. It sure don't hurt.

ATI has been known to make their video cards for flight sim games in mind.

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Re: How many really like the clouds?
« Reply #23 on: March 28, 2008, 09:24:27 PM »
If I can afford it, the 3870 is my goal  :O

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Re: How many really like the clouds?
« Reply #24 on: March 29, 2008, 12:28:49 AM »
The weather has added a lot for me, the last 2 FSO's were much more exciting having to look hard for targets. I have an Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT and don't have any problems with it. The last several FSO's have looked great and I don't think my frame rate has been below 50 yet.
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Re: How many really like the clouds?
« Reply #25 on: March 29, 2008, 09:24:47 AM »
Clouds and visibility settings have added a lot to the last two events. 

Regarding nvidia cards, I have an 8800gt and I don't loose the icons in the cloud layers or find the effects too dark to read the clipboard or other maps.  Last night I was able to keep track of our escorts as they were in and out of the cloud layers.  No loss of icons.