A Sweet Game!

[Anodizer]

AH is about combat, not pretty pictures 

**sigh**
I find backward thinking annoying..

Don't insult by using the term "pretty pictures"..  "Pretty Pictures" and graphic quality have nothing in common..  A "picture" is in those old 1980's playboys underneath your disgustingly filthy bathroom sink that your wife has been urging you to remove for that last 30 years..
A graphic engine is something else entirely...

[valdals]

i think that might be your setting or your graphics card. my graphics was clear now they are distored a little. it hurts me in gvs. i have trouble spotting and hitting some targets at long range.

[VonMessa]

i think that might be your setting or your graphics card. my graphics was clear now they are distored a little. it hurts me in gvs. i have trouble spotting and hitting some targets at long range.

distored ???????????

<sigh>

One down, one to go.

[Fulmar]

AH is about combat, not pretty pictures 

This is true, but to attract new customers...eye candy is what they usually see first.  Not gameplay and comradery.  With the exception of the summer squeakers, the influx of new pilots is getting stagnant IMHO.

[TheDudeDVant]

Looks pretty good to me at 2560x1600 res and the hi-res stuff installed..   

[angelsandair]

Aces High is probably all you've played then..   IL2 has another series being released called Birds of Prey that will pretty much CRUSH any other WW2 flightsim in every aspect from physics to graphics, including Aces High.  There are a TON of other flightsims out there with 10 times better graphics than Aces High.. 

I think Aces High graphics are kind of behind the times to allow playability on a larger scale with those who have systems that
may be more than a few years old.  Marketing bro!  Gotta keep yourself open to a large market!

Also, I don't think Aces High is very efficient graphically.  Especially on older systems, 2X AA will drop your FPS levels to damn near unplayable.  Not sure about you, but I like to play my games cranked to the max when it comes to graphics and I have the system to do so..
From my perspective, if I can't play something that looks pretty, there's no point in playing it.  If I had to play COD4 or Crysis at med graphic levels, I'd probably pay my 3 years old to punch me in the face and say "What are you doing papa!!???" 
A "simulation" indicates a degree of realism.  Graphics enhances that realism.. 

Course it's not, I need to be able to support it on my 2005 system. I've played CFS1, CFS2, CFS3, IL-2 (both versions) and AHII is still a way better sim than all of them. Just because you can make nearly any system support Aces High. HTC has that over nearly all other sims who require the best systems to play.

[angelsandair]

What new Il2?  The newest IL2 doesn't come out until next year..  What you're playing isn't new..  The latest release of Il2 is 1946 and that's several years old..  Seriously man, get up to speed.... 

All the same to me, still 40$$ at Wal-Mart, so it's new. Plus, I wouldn't wanna waste my money on that stupid game anyways. Thank god I played it at a friends house before he returned it.

[Softail]

I was wondering why HTC doesn't give us good looking graphics. For example , the trees look like garbage , the ground looks like poopy green patches , the beaches look like someone spilt some whitish yellowish paint on them , The sky is always one color and really never changes , meaning we dont even get something they have , night time , better water. And the list goes on. Now heres everyones answer: It would absolutely destroy the frame rates. Understood ; that being said , I dont know if anyone remembers but awile ago , before we started getting all the updates , we had something called animated water. Now that looked awsome and realistic. Now , everyone didn't have to have that on , only the people that could handle it. You would go to graphic details for that , and thats where the ground and the water and the trees and all the other stuff I mentioned should be , in the graphic details. I think that really solves everyones problems. That way people that cant handle it has the normal , and people that can may have some decent looking graphics.

Wow...good thing you weren't here for AH I.    When all the trees were the exact same and formed perfect squares.

[bizz]

Anodizer = shade????

[Rosscoe1]

16GB, I have extra planes installed.

Its base witout any add ons is 15GB... now with extra planes and accelration and all... it goes higher. somehow my laptop can run it all at ultra high and then some. 

[Noir]

we don't need new players....as for the physics, a better game that AH has to be found yet.

[redman555]

lol, poopy green patches


-BigBOBCH

[Anodizer]

Anodizer = shade????

Oh yeahh...  This is my shade account...  Uh huh...
Yeah...  Definitely.. 

Talk about  ....

My game ID is the same..  I'm in the DA all the time..  Look me up...

[Anodizer]

we don't need new players....as for the physics, a better game that AH has to be found yet.

I agree on the physics portion of your statement..  It's the most accurate of any WWII flightsim I've used..
But not needing new players?  What's your reason for that?
Some of you guys sound like old pissed off grandfathers who hate your grandkids..   

[Anodizer]

All the same to me, still 40$$ at Wal-Mart, so it's new. Plus, I wouldn't wanna waste my money on that stupid game anyways. Thank god I played it at a friends house before he returned it.

Well, first of all, he got RIPPED OFF paying that much for IL2..  He should've tried gamestop or eBay..  Can get it for around $10-$20 there..
Also, it just shows HOW BEHIND on the times you really are..  No offense..  Can't expect to post info like that and not get "corrected" by someone who knows the market..  Also, stores like Walmart, Target, etc. are the WOST places to buy games..  I still see games released in 2004 going for $40-$50.  This is insane and shows that those who are buying games there don't know the first thing about PC gaming or where to buy their games (again no offense    )  So many games can be bought second hand for next to nothing..  Go to one of these small games shops and they'll have racks of used PC games on the cheap.  COD4 for $20!!  Crysis for $17.99!!  FSX for $25.99!!  And that's just the one in town here..  I'm sure ones closer to bigger cities would have much more..