DETAIL LEVEL OPTIONS

[Torque]

Can we please please have  detail levels for ACs and explosions, I don't need to see all the pretty colors just outline.

Lanny skins kill my fps and so do explosion.

please....

my poor low end user ass.



[This message has been edited by Torque (edited 09-17-2000).]

[AKSeaWulfe]

Them perty skins aren't gonna kill your FPS nearly as much as those high poly's on some of those planes. Isn't there already an LOD setting(terrain distance)? I think it's Shift-F1, SHift-F2 and Shift-F3? That will help a great deal for your sorry low end bellybutton Torq. ;-) Also, what you really should ask for is a toggle to reduce poly's on the airplanes. That would help a great deal, notice how you take a big FPS hit when you get close enough to a P38 for it to switch over to it's high poly model? OUCH!

The skins don't do much to your FPS though simply because they are fairly small bitmaps and all the same on each plane(All SpitIXs are the same, etc). The hit would definitely be noticeable if each plane type could have different textures because you would need more texture memory. This is why EAW can run those huge bomber formations with minimal hits. Low polygons on aircraft and each plane type has the same skin.

-SW

[Sharky]

Hi all,

Well I just broke down and ordered one of those new fangled video cards.  I bought the Gforce2MX because I've heard that it's a great card for the price (about 100-110) dollars.

The point is that as these sims evolve our hardware is going to evolve too.  Just look at some of the hardware requirements that iEN is posting for WBIII, and I think you'll find that WWIIonline is going to be the same.

Funny I still think that the eye candy in AH is still a little weak, you have to be very very close to see any of the really cool effects like flames.  I also have always thought how much better the planes would look if Nate and Fly were given a couple of thousand more polygons to work with.

I don't like spending more money than I have to on puter upgrades either, but I also don't want to play wire frame games either.

Sharky

[Hangtime]

The current 3 detail setting boost frames right nicely.. sadly they also remove your horizon making them worse than useless.

HTC; any way you can accomplish the same or similar net frame boost AND preserve the horizon?

Hang

[Minotaur]

LOL  

Whiner!  I like it and give me more...

Your point is well taken however it would be a nice option for lower end systems.

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Mino
The Wrecking Crew

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[Robert]

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[funked]

My FPS drops with every release.  It's borderline unplayable in dogfights now, and downright unplayable at airfields with smoke.  P2-400 TNT2 Ultra.  I guess I need to upgrade or find another game to play.

[Torque]

I hear ya Funk, smoke trails with explosion D2 infront freezes my FE
Hang I know reduce fields kills orientation.
Mino it's not a whine.<finger>
Deja i'm sure a generic skin would help fps alot<hoping>.

[AKSeaWulfe]

Torq you tool it's SeaWulfe(SWulfe) not Dejavu. Loser!!! :-) But really it's not the skins that are messing up FPS that bad, it's the polys and other things being drawn.
-SW

[Torque]

sorry just came outta your 109 post

Fek me sorry thought fer sure it was Deja i'm ready..........
><SLAP><SLAP>
..........ouch.....ouch....

[AKSeaWulfe]

'tis okay Torq, we'll settle this... IN A DUEL! Yes a DUEL! You'll fly a zero and I'll fly a P51D. Hehehehe :-P
-SW