Smoke from fires

[Arlo]

... not trying to put your system down ...

You'd be wasting your time, if that's where you're going. But then, so is a
'we want more smoke!' wish. 

[Zacherof]

Ink wants more smoke, is ki isn't high enough

[Arlo]

Ink wants more smoke, is ki isn't high enough

Ink wants to run with all the bells and whistles (I can't blame him) ... but I haven't
seen him chime in on either side of the smoke wish.

[Zacherof]

Ink wants to run with all the bells and whistles (I can't blame him) ... but I haven't
seen him chime in on either side of the smoke wish.

I did.
  No one got my joke

[ink]

Ink wants to run with all the bells and whistles (I can't blame him) ... but I haven't
seen him chime in on either side of the smoke wish.

smoke from fires is cool...but I really don't care about graphics.....

I play AH to kill people

Ink wants more smoke, is ki isn't high enough

can never get "high" enough

I did.
  No one got my joke

I did

[Zacherof]

smoke from fires is cool...but I really don't care about graphics.....

I play AH to kill people

 

can never get "high" enough
I did

[gyrene81]

660 kills the 650. Way more stream processors.

and a $100 difference in price, you going to buy one for everybody that can't afford one?

RAM is useless in aces high. 2 gig of RAM would work to be frank.

wrong

gigahertz mean nothing when comparing a dual core athlon to a 4 core i5. lets look at a nice graphic.

depends on the task.

not trying to put your system down im just saying don't use it as a average baseline.

why not? it is about average right now. ah only uses 2 cores on a cpu anyway.

Smoke would do nothing for a average system there Ringo.

wrong, you're not in the extreme gamers forum where the "average system" is an ivy bridge i5 overclocked to 4.2ghz.

eople playing on 2009 laptops is what is holding us back.

wrong

[Tinkles]

The good ole debate on "What junk you got in the trunk".

Perhaps, HTC would benefit from a poll on what quality system everyone has.  Maybe not, I don't know.

Why I don't want to hinder others from playing, what gives them the right to ask more from HTC to make the game better for them, if on the same token it makes me unable to play?

I know it is quite hard to believe that someone hasn't been able to afford to upgrade their system for 10 years +, but I am sadly one in that crowd. While I am currently saving to get a good system, I am unable to get it right now.

For now all I can do is ask those with better systems than mine, who want eye-candy and all that, to please wait. Endure it for a little longer.

Not only that, there is something else to consider.  What about if HTC was willing to upgrade their systems? They would have to spend all their 'work-time' on that, improving the terrain and graphics and all that, instead of making new planes/tanks/submarines/sheep.

I understand your request for newer content and better looking content, but is it really worth it?

Look at Mario Bros. Would you have played that anymore if it had uber graphics ? Or if it was still a 2d scroller?   Sometimes it's just the content the 'character/quality' of the game than what it looks like, but what you get from it.

For Mario, it was hundreds of hours of jumping on turtles and falling to my death.


Yes, I would love for aces high to get the upgrades to look like Far Cry 3 or skyrim, but HTC hasn't released anything on that.  Sure it might be in the far future or even in the near future for all I know.  

But I have one question for you.









Why do you play Aces High?  



Just my thoughts.

Tinkles

 

[Karnak]

I have an Athlon 64 X2 4400 with 2gb of RAM and a Radeon HD 6900 running on Windows XP Professional 32bit.

I do not get the best frame rates.

[Zacherof]

Idk what I have but my system struggles with clouds. Everything off I get 44-33 and 10 with the massive hordes

[Tilt]

IMO it's the flames that don't look right..........

I would vote to shorten the flames to no more than 1.5 times the height of the object............

[olds442]

and a $100 difference in price, you going to buy one for everybody that can't afford one?
wrong
depends on the task.

why not? it is about average right now. ah only uses 2 cores on a cpu anyway.
wrong, you're not in the extreme gamers forum where the "average system" is an ivy bridge i5 overclocked to 4.2ghz.

wrong

100$ difference.... so you know you can save up right? i mean thats what i did...

Aces high dosen't need more than 2gigs of RAM if BF3 can run on 2 gigs of RAM (tried it myself )

sure if aces high only uses 2 cores thats not the point, point is that those cores are worse than the cores of the i5 2500, hell the 245 dosen't have L3 cache..
A perfect example, before i upgraded my AMD athlon x4 630 (made in 2008) which could play ANY multi core game perfectly fine would kill itself on Aces high. AMD has horrible single thread performance and it really shows in aces high.

I have an Athlon 64 X2 4400 with 2gb of RAM and a Radeon HD 6900 running on Windows XP Professional 32bit.

I do not get the best frame rates.

That video card is fine, again common that CPU is holding you back.

[gyrene81]

100$ difference.... so you know you can save up right? i mean thats what i did...

ya that would be easy if i had someone else helping with the bills, or i lived with my parents...but i work for a living and support myself.

Aces high dosen't need more than 2gigs of RAM if BF3 can run on 2 gigs of RAM (tried it myself )

just running your computer can take 525mb (winxp) up to 1.5gb(win8 64bit) on a desktop system. and there should always be 1-2gb of memory to spare after starting your game. contrary to your statement, ram is not useless.
if only you knew what you were talking about.

sure if aces high only uses 2 cores thats not the point, point is that those cores are worse than the cores of the i5 2500, hell the 245 dosen't have L3 cache..
A perfect example, before i upgraded my AMD athlon x4 630 (made in 2008) which could play ANY multi core game perfectly fine would kill itself on Aces high. AMD has horrible single thread performance and it really shows in aces high.

it comes down to what people can afford. most can't afford what you can.

[thndregg]

it comes down to what people can afford.

Very much agree. Although it is possible to stash the nickels & dimes away for upgrades, it is difficult for those of us like myself who are single wage earners supporting family on basically a subsistence income. I've managed keeping up with AH since July of '04 regardless. Just have to plan ahead the best you can with regard to everything else.

[olds442]

if only you knew what you were talking about.

Well then, I do. You see if your desktop is running 1gb of RAM AT IDLE you are loaded with bloatware buddy. A system with 2gb of DDR3 RAM would run aces high fine. when playing aces high 2gb and 32gb would play the EXACT same because aces high is not using more than 2gb of RAM. Sure if you have 50+ processes running while playing aces high then 2gb won't work of course. Also one could set all of those to background which would put the game first and only pagefile THOSE processes and NOT THE GAME. 2gb of aces high is plenty enough if you are not running 50+ processes i say again. My self I have 8gb just because I do infact run a lot of things in the background while playing games. yet not 1 single game EVER uses more than 1gb of RAM.... perhaps 1.5 gb... but never 2gb. I don't care if its BF3/BF4, farcry, metro 2033. There is no way a game is going to use that much. Lets translate 2gb means 268435456 memory locations on a 64 bit system with each location holding numbers up to 2^64 or 1.8446744e+19. I have no idea why 1 single game needs that much unless you are running a lot of background apps.

it comes down to what people can afford. most can't afford what you can.

a intel core i3 3220 is 110$ Im sure most can save up for that in a years time. People should build there own systems as its much cheaper.