Awesome animation!!! But that is really a 2nd tier thing in your thread sir..........
Graphics ability in game or on your monitor has less to do with performance than most of us realize. The backend of the game works hard with the processor to give us perhaps the most accurate modeling of WWII aircraft anywhere. That is the biggest cause of FPS slowdowns, not really any graphics issues.
So at this point somebody is going to jump in with " but my fps only drops when I get near a bunch of other people." True..... Because now your computer is getting relayed data about the flight physics of 20 other planes. At the point of fps slowdown, all those planes are still just a few pixels on your screen. But your computer still has to plan their path of travel. Each plane is basically more then just one straight line, or vector, flying through the air.
BnZs, just yesterday brought up a great fact about such flight modeling........
Anax: I fool around with a non-combat flight sim called X-Plane. In the "Plane-Maker" module, you can set the number of elements along the wings and stabs for which lift and drag are measured. Simply increasing the numbers of points being measured for flight modeling purposes from say 4 to 10 on all lift surfaces for a given craft can cause a notable slow down in frame rates when flying that craft.
I can only guess but knowing that HTC has been in rough water in the past due to making vast changes in game dynamics, I would think that we are in a "happy medium" area of flight sims. Best modeling, but maybe not the greatest graphics.....Yet the graphics heavy iL2 has 2-dimensional trees........ (When I say best modeling, I am not including MSFS.... never played it but I hear it is nice) And as for the 2d trees in iL2, I'm sure there is a whole bunch more in the game that have crappy looks to them. So for iL2, they decided to sacrifice the backgrounds for the foregrounds.
BUT.......... I think we shouldn't get down about graphics really as we have a GREAT update coming....
And from the looks of it, this will make us rather equal to iL2. I don't want to think our trees will change so much, but for the flying experience, you will be able to easily compare the two.
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