| dancho 2005-06-18, 8:34 pm |
| > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:24:38 GMT, AN Other <AN[vbcol=seagreen]
> Other@forums.militaryforums.com> wrote:
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It's important to learn from the past. "U.S. Navy Fighters" from EA was
always a little slow-- and when it first came out the frame-rates were
really bad. Just like the situation now with LOMAC, everyone said "your
system is slow" "your video card is the bottleneck" "you need more RAM"
yadda yadda yadda.
U.S. Navy Fighters (and the other other Fighters Anthology Sims) were
supposed to run on a Pentium 200 machine. But they never did. Not
really. But somebody always said that it was some "tweak" or other than
would explain why it ran poorly on "some" systems.
Fast forward to the year 2000. Now we can see what Fighters Anthology
looks like on a system with an 800 mghz processor! A video card with
64mb of ram! Surely, it will SCREAM, right?
Not really. It turned out the the whole Fighters Anthology series was
only going to run so fast. It was just slow. No amount of fast
hardware would speed it up. Of course, by the time most of us got a
fast enough computer to prove this, we uninstalled the game!
Does this sorry episode from sim history teach us anything? Let's see--
maybe LOMAC is never going to be fast. Even with a 30 gig processor and
a video card with a terrabyte of ram.
Maybe. It's happened before.
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