So, having replaced some PC components with superior parts scavenged from the wife's computer, I think I might be able to run AH again with playable online performance. So I update my client from whatever version there was in mid 2004 and I give some of the new and updated planes a try....
....only to find that I can barely read the cockpit instrumentation.
Am I getting old or something? Are my eyes that bad? Were the new cockpits designed by someone running the game at 1600x1200 on a 21-inch monitor? At 1024x768 on my 17-inch screen the P-51D's instruments look fuzzy and are barely legible. 800x600 is an exercise in futility. I like the moving control stick and rudder pedals, but the actual playability of the new cockpit art is considerably reduced from the previous version.
I can "read" them in the sense that I can memorize what the position of the needle means, but the actual numbers are usually too dark and blurry to make out without zooming in and altering my view considerably. So, shy of buying a brand-new computer and monitor, or paying for laser eye surgery, what can I do to make those instruments more legible?
Also, is there an option to turn off the smoke when you shoot your guns (not tracers, but the firing smoke)? It kills my already marginal framerate.
Is the instrument issue common, or am I just getting old?
J_A_B