I hadn't played my offline sims in a while

[Zigrat]

and i forgot how beautiful they were..

         
         
         
       
     

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[Mathman]

Ok, you are right Zig, the WW2F cockpit is better... been awhile since I have seen it  

Heheheh, this kind of relates to one of my big gripes about AH.  With it being as addictive as it is, I don't get to play my offline sims as much either    There are some pretty good ones out there.  WW2F was/is good (for some fast and furious action).  EAW great immersion.  CFS2, excellent mix of both.  And my all time fav, PAW.  That sim captivated me as much, if not more than AH (probably more due to its being a PTO sim and my not being into online sims yet).

Anyways, gotta go get my moneys worth out of CFS2.

-math

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"Any American fighter near Orote Penninsula.  I have forty Jap planes surrounded and need a little help."
-Ens. W.B. "Spider" Webb during the Marians Turkey Shoot

[funked]

What kind of system are you running that on?  Looks nice but can you really get comparable fps to AH on the same system?  I say this because I am under the impression that graphic detail in AH is intentionally limited to preserve fps.  My fps is barely playable as-is.  If more eye candy means lower fps, no thanks.

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[Afrika9]

Speaking of EAW, Ive been offline awhile and discovered some really cool downloads for new skins and terrain.  Worth looking into, if you want to freshen up an already great offline sim.
 http://eaw.thrustmaster.com/frames.html

Id seen some earlier ones which didnt impress me too much, but these are great.  Dont forget to download the Stab tool which will allow you to change skins and terrain with the click of the mouse.  (geesh, I sound like a commercial) hehee

[tshred]

I was under the impression graphics were kept to minumum to avoid big downloads and to limit the amount of data between the players and the host.

ts

[hblair]

I was under the impression that you fellas are pretty impressionable.

 

[Zigrat]

My FPS in aces high is 45 FPS at 1024x768 2x fsaa (the res i play at)

In EAW 1280x1024 2x fsaa (res i played at) fps is 45 down to 30 when going thru the buffs

in WW2F, FPS is 40 down to 27 or so when action gets really hot , usually arond 35 (1280x1024 2x fsaa)

I ran Mig alley in 1024x768 4x fsaa, gettin 33 fps as you can see in upper corner.

system is 600 mhz, 128 ram, v5 5500

[Duckwing6]

Tell ya something Zig .. onn the last 3 pics  the terrain doesn't look all too impressive ...

[juzz]

The textures in that second last shot(WW2F) look like someone took a photo of their loop-pile carpet and coloured it green. Maybe their carpet actually is that colour though...

[Staga]

Imagine if we could gather the best parts of all those sims  

Guess I had to find my Jane's WW2 again...

[Kieren]

From what little I know (and that is little) the poly count is what is important.

Here is something to try (to get the idea of what I mean); If you have CFS2, download some of the better player-generated aircraft. Start up Quick Combat, and play with the planes that came with CFS2. Notice the smoothness of play. Now, reset the arena with all player-generated planes. Notice how you are watching a slideshow now.

I think there is far more to this game than most of us know...  

[Zigrat]

man i love these pics hehe  
but the FM in those games just isnt as good after flying aces high...

but damn they aure are purdy

[Pongo]

Time between new planes if Nate and Superfly had to do cockpits like that for every plane...
6 months.

[Snoopi]

Polygons is what it's all about.
More polys less fps.
There are other things like lighting,texture size etc. etc. but polygons are the biggest most obvious problem for fps.

What I don't understand is..
Why online/offline "quality" difference ?

You don't send the terrain over the connection while flying.
All the graphics are done by the front end.
Only damage and position,speed,attitude etc. are sent during the actual game.

My assumption is that the  process of;
crunching the numbers and send the data and receive the data and interpret it...is using a lot of CPU so the graphics can't keep up on some boxes.

Development time would be a BIG issue too.

I would also assume if all of us cheap, poor bastiges would buy 700mhz CPUS with Geforce2 PRO cards, then HTC could make us WW2F+EAW+CFS2+AH=Aces High: Uber Edition  

OK...How's this

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Add you name to the bottom of this list
ad then send a uber computer to the person  at........




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[Ping]

Try the new luzon2 terrain. The Graphics look REEEEEELLLLL good there