November 10th 2002
Smooth frame rates?
The frame rates I was getting in this sim were good - it was the stuttering on changing views that was annoying. With a
AMD Athlon XP2200+ processor I thought I could max out the sim's graphics settings. Wrong.
The answer is to knock those sliders back to the left a bit - I have Aircraft detail still on 5 - that didn't seem to affect the frame rate anyway,
effects on 1 for now (they still look good), and the scenery and clouds set back to 3.
I reckon that it will take a 4 GigaHerz processor with a 128 MB graphic cards to max this sim out.
With the most detailed modelling of low level terrain yet seen on a PC, the sim is trying to push a massive amount of data through the architecture.
Even on the settings I mentioned it looks better than
Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2
and better than Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002. Next week I'll put up shots of my first campaign in the
Typhoon.
Email MiGMan with your experiences or any information related to this sim.
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