TO thoese who say aces high as bad graphics.

[curry1]

Wings of Prey, IL2: Cliff of Dover, and Rise of Flight.

The first two have poor modeling but excellent graphics. Rise of Flight has both but is WWI only, and requires a monster of a machine to run fully maxed out.

I wouldn't say monster at any stretch.

[Ack-Ack]

I wouldn't say monster at any stretch.

That screenshot I posted was taken on my old machine (2.3GHz Dual Core; ATI AGP 3850; 2gigs RAM; WinXP) with high settings for everything but terrain (medium settings) and I was averaging a steady 40fps.  Now with my new machine I can run at full settings on everything and get an average of 53fps.  The RoF developers have made good improvements in lowering the resources needed with the updates during this past year.

ack-ack

[titanic3]

Hmm, maybe I'll take it off my shelf and redownload it again (3rd time), like I mentioned, I have a Radeon 5570 which is pretty low end. But my CPU is stronger than yours so I guess we'll see. Only I don't like from the last time I tried it was the fact that AI rear gunners seems to have some sort of 21st century laser targeted technology. It was either stay out of their line of fire or die in 2 bursts.

[PFactorDave]

Hmm, maybe I'll take it off my shelf and redownload it again (3rd time), like I mentioned, I have a Radeon 5570 which is pretty low end. But my CPU is stronger than yours so I guess we'll see. Only I don't like from the last time I tried it was the fact that AI rear gunners seems to have some sort of 21st century laser targeted technology. It was either stay out of their line of fire or die in 2 bursts.

There are a couple of mods available that help with that and also improve the way the AI fights.

[Midway]

wrong, thanks for playing  

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[Bear76]

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Ummm.....no 

[MickDono]

Would be nice to have a sky and terrain looking like this in AH.

+1   but can't see AH ever competing on the graphics front.

[Midway]

How dose these pics look bad?
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and this must look like its from 1998 
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and no image editing was used. my point for posting this is for the people who say "the bad graphics drive people away" how the??? how are these graphics bad? really get a new computer before you start making a bad rap for the games graphics when u can even run them on high and have video on 800x600

Same thing I see.  AH graphics pretty nice.  Can always improve but nice already.  

[chaser]

+1   but can't see AH ever competing on the graphics front.

Me either. Its a shame really. AH would be truly amazing with better graphics. The only reason I'm still here is because of the GV's. If not for them I would have switched to another game with better graphics already.

[MK-84]

I can not run any of those games on my laptop.
I can play AH just fine, although low res with almost everything turned off, or way down.  It looks pretty good to me.  Especially the new plane and GV models from the last couple of years. (and I'm not even with hi res)  The terrain is MEH..and clouds are worthless (which strikes me as odd considering it's a combat sim)
...but if those improved then it wouldnt run on my pc I bet...

[Raphael]

yeah the only thing now that could get a nice improvment would be the skies IMO, clouds and stuff would create one dynamic feel to the simulator, but then if you go to AvA right now you will feel one amazing difference.
the beta has some new ground stuff and I think Aces high is moving forward, step by step, on the graphic's matter, imagine with all the planes remodeled just like the A6m's, this would already make a huge difference and I bet it is in work already 

[Kazaa]

+1   but can't see AH ever competing on the graphics front.

You'll be very surprised at how good Aces High would look with post processing effects - HDR, bloom, dynamic exposure, volumetric light scattering (god rays), screen space ambient occlusion.

Just adding a few of the above would transform the way Aces High looks.

[lulu]

I like AH graphics in general.

I don't like the colors used for terrain.

TOO MUCH DAMNED GREEN   


 

[33Vortex]

Rise of Flight would be good if it featured WW2 era airplanes, and a different business model.

[dhyran]

looks pretty but sux hugely compared to AH.....if we had the graphics of crysis AH would not run the way it does. half the people wouldn't be able to play(half) is used figuratively

well,

i fly AH2 at 1900 * 1080 all features maxed out, just not self shadow, i get steady 70-85 frames. using vsync steady 60, never below
Wings of Prey at 1900 * 1080 all graphic features maxed oout, all shadow etc on, 3d clouds, i got 110-130 frames

suggestion, first checkout what you talking about! Better graphics does not mean lower framerates. AH2 compared with all other current avaible ww2 Fligh sims has one unique thing. The Arena concept. Dozens of events and scenarios, player driven content, sound packs etc. Currently there is no other Flight which reaches the overall level. But all new coming sims have new graphic engines. At Wings of Prey you can fly through real 3d clouds and have raindrops running over you canopy, looks and feels absolute amazing and gives a great feeling. Most long timers doesen't hurt that fact that other have better graphic, but new player just only see the graphics at first! Humans being controlled by the first impression! What you see is what you get! They see all the other great things at a second view, but only if they still here.....
Thats why i like to see these changes to bump mapping etc. Maybe HTC will change the clouds also soon. Its just great! So don't be so childish and wanna keep the old graphic engine, the world is turning, nobody waits for us. We need new customers, so we are in need to make the game look better. Thats what HTC is doing right now!

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