Clouds in FSO

[Pand]

Not disagreeing with you, I agree with you that finding entertainment like this for the cost is a real bargin. But if i have to give up some clouds for others to enjoy it, Ill do it every day of the week.  (not saying you wouldnt...just my thoughts on the subject)  

I understand completely... it was just really cool last frame looking up and seeing nothing... and then a few moments later glancing up again to see a pair of 205s ripping through the clouds in on me from above.

I can't afford this bloody subscription much less upgrade my rig... This will probably be my last tour for a while until the "weather" improves since I can't even enjoy FSO...

Are you able to play in the MA at all--- at least on the maps I've seen , the clouds are limited to a very small area of the map, i.e. tanktown and clear skies everywhere else.

[mbailey]

I understand completely... it was just really cool last frame looking up and seeing nothing... and then a few moments later glancing up again to see a pair of 205s ripping through the clouds in on me from above.
 

Would make a good screenshot    Although im sure you had bigger fish to fry at that moment 

[phatzo]

It seems to me that it is not simply a case of frame rate hit = outdated machine. Because of the amount of people effected, ~70% by this poll, I think there is something else going on.

Considering my outdated machine is only taking a slight hit, I'd be willing to bet my machine is in the bottom 10%.

[Scotch]

Changed my vote to unplayable. that was garbage tonight.

2.6ghz quadcore Phenom II, last years ATI Radeon, 8 gigs ram, win7 and a "clean" system

I run the MA with most settings on and a solid 60fps. I was at 60fps in fso until i hit the clouds. then it dropped to 8.

[Nefarious]

There was supposed to be no clouds tonight. I created a new weather file with NO clouds and it appears it only deleted 2 of the 3 original fronts from last week.

[Shifty]

Changed my vote to unplayable. that was garbage tonight.

2.6ghz quadcore Phenom II, last years ATI Radeon, 8 gigs ram, win7 and a "clean" system

I run the MA with most settings on and a solid 60fps. I was at 60fps in fso until i hit the clouds. then it dropped to 8.

Yep same here. I run a solid 59 FPS in LWA and other special events. Every FSO frame in Jan and Feb for me have been at 8FPS.
Hard to do anything but die in that situation.

[Molsman]

clouds are Great and Fun and bring out the Real Life flight but tonight when I was in clouds I dropped to a solid 5 I was lucky I did not get booted even with all settings off... I love the updates and all tot he game but I am just in my mood and can not handle them so looking at for the guys who can not upgrade their system's


Molsman

[kilo2]

My frame rate was fine last week solid 60 fps and tonight it bounced around between 60-36 fps very all over the place.

[FBDragon]

tonight my frame rate never got above 7, if this is whats it's gonna be I'm gonna have to not play. I love the FSO but this just makes it unplayable. I do not have the finacial means to upgrade my system so I don't know what else to do!!!

[Nefarious]

tonight my frame rate never got above 7, if this is whats it's gonna be I'm gonna have to not play. I love the FSO but this just makes it unplayable. I do not have the finacial means to upgrade my system so I don't know what else to do!!!

As mentioned above, There was supposed to be NO clouds tonight. It appears there may be an issue with the Editor as the cloud file did not save or load properly. I'm leaning towards a bug as it seems from reports on text tonight, only 1 front was showing and we had 3 fronts in frame 1.  I created a new cloudless weather file today and uploaded it and set it hours before the FSO. Not quite sure why it didn't work.

Clouds are not going to be used due to player issues with frame rate hits. It's not the path I want to take, but obviously we have to keep it playable for everyone involved in FSO.

[Pand]

I had a huge FR hit on takeoff, but once we got into the clouds with only 5-10 aircraft in range it stabilized back to 60 FPS in and out of the clouds... Its seems as if the ton of aircraft affected my FR hit more than the clouds this week.

[phatzo]

After saying I only had a slight hit tonight's FSO was crappy, our whole squad was sitting on about 30fps. I was on fire before I could see the spit shoot.

[WxMan]

My frame rates were a steady 58fps in the clouds with my squadron and I didn't think it would be a problem until we met with the strike at A115. With all the additional enemy fighters and bombers the frame rate dropped to 10.

Motherboard - ASUS P5W Deluxe
Processor –  Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 3.0Ghz
Video – Nvida GeForce 8800GTS 512mb
Audio – Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
Memory – Kingston 4 GB 800mhz DDR2

[perdue3]

The clouds do not bother me. However if clouds keep others from enjoying FSO the clouds need to go away. The only argument to keep the clouds you could have is if the clouds bring more people to FSO than we lose. But who the hell is going to decide to fly FSO because it is pretty?

Any factors in this event that causes people to not participate should be erased. This event is the best thing Aces High has to offer. It is the pinnacle of my experience. On my weekly schedule this is what I look most forward to. Anyone who has not tried it has my pity.

If you take FSO's greatness for granted or do not fully appreciate FSO like I do, fly a Scenario and you will see the light.

[STXAce8]

I really don't think it was the clouds, I think it was the game in general.....