Finally i got IL2. Not that AH is bad,but I really wanted to strafe troops and see them run around
First of all,the graphics are awesome...and that's not so good. My system is nothing to brag about,but right after I got the game I also decided to upgrade my memory(I had 192,IL2 says 256 reccomended) So now I have 256. The problem,before the upgrade, was that the frame rate was getting choppy when there were many airplanes in the sky.-For instance, a mission with 12 vs 12 was almost unplayable. After the memory upgrade-same problem. wtf?!?!?!?! the manual says reccomended system 600MHZ processor and 256 mb of ram-I have a 733MZ Celeron and that amount of RAM-conclusion,my Video Card is to blame.
Still in the graphics department, the instruments are unreadable at 640/480. Switching to 800/600, with the necessary decrease in framerate, the cockpit becomes much more crisp, but I just discovered that,if I switch to a more panoramic view-that is,so i can see all the instruments-they become quite unreadable again.
Therefore,unless I keep panning around the cockpit or I get a huge monitor and play in 1024/768 the nicely rendered detailed cockpit is not very useful
Btw-reading through the IL2 BB-some people play it wih 3d glasses.
As for realism, since I spent most of my time playing with the 109 F, that's the plane I will use for comparison with AH.
1: Engine overheats quicker when using WEP than in AH.
2: Plane is harder to stall but spins are harder to recover from-makes sense cause the 109 had leading edge slats that depolyed automatically to prevent stall.
3:No stall horn,buffet simulated well enough though so you don't find yourself spinning without any warning.
4:Gunnery-I discovered that I suck.Part of it is due to the frame rate.
5:Strafing troops-I couldn't see any from the plane even though ,after I crashed and started looking around from the crash site perspective, they appeared quite nicely,detailed and running around.
Conclusion: With much lower system requirements, AH still not far behind IL2 in graphics and realism.
