TO thoese who say aces high as bad graphics.

[Kazaa]

Wings of Prey has a fantastic game engine. Back when I was testing the beta I could pretty much run the game maxed out and still achieve a triple digit frame rate. I've not touched it since because it wasn't a hard core sim.

Rise of Flight also looks fantastic but I would say that it's definitely not that well optimised.

IL2- Cliffs of Dover has fantastic plane models but that's about it:

[Ack-Ack]

IL2- Cliffs of Dover has fantastic plane models:

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Sadly like IL2, the flight model isn't up to par.  RoF on the other hand, has the eye candy and a flight model that is the equal, if not better than AH.

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[PFactorDave]

RoF on the other hand, has the eye candy and a flight model that is the equal, if not better than AH.

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RoF's flight model definitely "feels" more right then AH's WW1 arena.

[titanic3]

Sadly like IL2, the flight model isn't up to par.  RoF on the other hand, has the eye candy and a flight model that is the equal, if not better than AH.

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But the game engine is not equal to WoP. The graphics between WoP and RoF are very similar, yet I can't run RoF without seeing a slideshow (unless on the very lowest settings), while I can run WoP maxed out with 60+ FPS.

Radeon 5570, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 32 Bit, 2.9GHz Core2Duo.

[Kazaa]

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

I don't believe you when you say no post production image editing was used. These images were clearly tampered with, you made AH look like Crysis with WW2 planes!!!

[Kazaa]

But the game engine is not equal to WoP. The graphics between WoP and RoF are very similar, yet I can't run RoF without seeing a slideshow (unless on the very lowest settings), while I can run WoP maxed out with 60+ FPS.

Radeon 5570, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 32 Bit, 2.9GHz Core2Duo.

I got the same result when I tested RoF some time ago. I also didn't get much gain in FPS when lowering the settings, it was very odd.

Intel I7 @ 4.2Ghz
2x ATI 5850
6GB DDR3 RAM @ 1600mhz.

[PFactorDave]

I got the same result when I tested RoF some time ago. I also didn't get much gain in FPS when lowering the settings, it was very odd.

Intel I7 @ 4.2Ghz
2x ATI 5850 OC
6GB DDR3 RAM @ 1600mhz.

You might try RoF again, if it has been a long time since you tested it.  I had purchased it when it first came out, then shelved it for over a year.  When I came back to it a few months ago it seemed to run better then I had recalled.

[Kazaa]

You might try RoF again, if it has been a long time since you tested it.  I had purchased it when it first came out, then shelved it for over a year.  When I came back to it a few months ago it seemed to run better then I had recalled.

Thanks, I did exactly the same thing, shelved it. I'll give it another chance even though I'm not really into WWI era of aerial combat.

[Volron]

Il-2: Cliffs of Dover has absolutely beautiful graphics.  The Do-17 and He-111 in it are SEXY BEAST.

I think AH would EASILY contend (if not out right beat them) with the other flight sims that are out there in both eye candy AND flight modeling if they had the manpower and financial power that the others possess.

[Peyton]

What are the other 2 flight sims are you guys talking about and are they cool to play?

[bustr]

Well at least IL2: Cliffs of Dover has the correct Barr & Stroud GM MKII gunsight in the spitI.

Round 76MM(3inch) glass with the 120Mil 100m.p.h. ring.

The generic MKII in our spitfires and Hurri is a MKII* POST BoB 1941 with the 114mm(4.5inch)  square glass. The corners of the glass should also have pronounced quarter rounds. Hitech must own a real one becasue one of the serial numbers show a (/48) in at the end of it which means it is a MKII* refurbished in 1948. Or it's one of Waffels jokes to catch players like me.

Our spitI and HurriI should have the MKII round reflector glass Barr&Stroud model.

By the way if you look in the Typhoon you will notice the glass reflector rectangle is rendered vertical in front of the projector lense rather than angled toward you from behind the projector lense on the MKII gunsight. It is not attached to the two angled mounting brakets. But, then again in the F4U-1 the projector glass does not render on top of the gunsight body. It's just a black metal plate and it looks like the lense is rendered under it. Oh the inhumanity of it alllll.....

Waffel could put a Type I MKIII Beumont modfied gunsight in the Typhoon which renders a dot on the inside of the windscreen. That would be accurate for the late war Typhoons. Thats what is being attempted in the Tempest by not rendering the MKII's(/48) with reflector plate. At least when the Mossi VI was remodeled it got a properly rendered MKIII N projecting the graticle onto the windscreen.

[Midway]

Rise of Flight.

Really Tobias?  Really?  Haven't seen that one.

 

[Bear76]

Really Tobias?  Really?  Haven't seen that one.

 

wrong, thanks for playing 

[titanic3]

What are the other 2 flight sims are you guys talking about and are they cool to play?

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.

[Ack-Ack]

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.

What taxes your system with RoF is running the game with the terrain on max detail.

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