Brain32

Can you tell me what hardware and catalyst version exactly you use?

Well I just tried, set the horizon to "normal", shadows to "low(aka no shadows whatsoever)", then I had to turn off mirros and canopy reflections and now I can atleast play it...wonder what will happen when I add mods...

Sorry you missed the point by a few miles... First of all if all other super high end games would run like sh1t I wouldn't say a thing, THAT IS NOT THE CASE here. Infact all the latest games work smooth as silk on my rig except WoI Other than that WoI believe it or not is not as intensive as you may think actually the games that are much more intensive run very(ridiculously) smooth on my system. Not to mention how GFX cards with less power(nVIDIA) perform better in WoI than mine, I have a mid-high end ATI card for God's sake not "Bulgarian Electronics GFX 2000" I think it's pretty sad when game can't support both MAJOR gfx cards manufacturers, I mean it's not like there are 50 different brands out there. How can you explain that the game runs pretty much the same if not even worse now than on my 2003 system I upgraded from? There's simply no explanation, I just hope TK will drop by in a thread I posted on TW forum and tell me where I am, I would respect that....

Well I posted on thirdwire forum, I hope the issue can somehow be resolved, otherwise I'm gone until it is solved, the current performance with ATI is unacceptable. My card can eat GF9600GT for breakfast and ask for more in every game yet in WoI it can't perform 1/12 of what 9600GT can, that's just ridiculous. I still hope it has something to do with current drivers, maybe they have a switch: -"perform extremely badly in WOI" or something lol

Well before I learned ATI is nearly not supported by the game lol I was USAF all the way, primarly my fav. plane ever - the F-15 Eagle, also I used EF-2000 and Gripen A LOT, Navy planes came after that(F-14/F-18) As for the bad guys MiG-21F-13 is probably most used, then Su-27/33 and recently MiG-31 and J-10A

Darn, that looks awsome, good thing I have a new system Off to check it out in-game :)

Well I upgraded to a new system a few days ago: A64 5000+ Black Edition - currently stable at 3GHz 2GB DDR2 - waiting for another 2GB stick to come, to lazy to go far for it lol ATI4850HD - yes one of the new ATI series 48xx kick @ss cards Since it seems I'm the first one here to get a new series ATI card and have a habbit to collect a bunch of games from my friends and test the living sh1t out of the new hardware, let me write a short non-proffesional review: 1. The card is by Sapphire it seems it's a lightned edition as it came with only a few necessary cables and a driver installation CD, what I especially appriciate it came in a small box not much bigger than the card itself. Don't you get pis*ed when they sell you a freakin' USB sitck sized product in a box sized for dishwashing machine. -"Yeah sure I'll rent a pickup truck and come back to the store for my USB stick, thx." Ok enough ranting... 2. The card itself is nothing special, unfortunetly it comes with reference cooler so I knew immidiately it will go hot as hell, in idle it came as high as 80C and about the same at load. Fortunetly there's a nice tweak via control panel to increase the rpm of the cooling fan on the card, increasing it to 44% did the trick, the card is now 50 idle and less than 70 under heavy load and is still quite silent. 3. I didn't use the drivers that came with CD as I pre-downloaded the latest Cat's 8.7 this may had been a mistake... Let's go for testing, not all tests were done at same CPU speed so I'll just write it next to it, card was always at max image quality only AA and AF were varied, and resolution in all games is 1024x768 due to my 17" CRT monitor: 1. Lock On Modern Air Combat v1.02(CPUat2.8GHz) - always wanted to play it, never had the hardware, well now I can. The game runs super smooth maxed out with 4xAA and 16xAF! I think I saw it at 23fps...once lol 2. il2 sturmovik 1946 v408 - maxed out super smooth(never below 60fps online) with 4xAA and 16xAF, with standardized bench tracks things were not so good until I OC'ed the CPU to 3GHz, I still think it must go better...but generally OK 3. 3DMark2006 - 11100(can't remember exactly) marks, CPU at 3GHz, standard 3DMark testing 4. FEAR - couldn't find anything more to max out, built-in benchmark Min:48, Avg:126, Max:327 5. Quake4 and Oblivion - I didn't have a special benchmark I just took very messy levels and played looking at FPS, I saw Oblivion at 32fps once lol 6. Wings Over Israel - the biggest WTF for now... I used clean install with April patch, F-15 and my wingman over nothing but the desert, game was maxed(shadows medium) out, in def.view I only managed 29fps, when I zoomed out in wide view I only got 16-19fps!!! Something is not right here and I hope I'll solve it soon. Other than that, there are no visual problems the picture quality is waay better than on my old GF6800 All in all the card is performing waay above what my monitor can display and aside from this WOI low fps issue I'm VERY happy with it, I'll experimet with it for the next few days and report my findings ;)

UGH, I use to like the Spitfire, now I can stand a freakin look at it... HB anyway, it's not the planes fault

Su-37 Terminator will never be produced, it's a demonstration aircraft only. What will be produced are two "Super Flankers". The starting point is/will be what I know as Su-27SM2 with greatly improved avionics, new cockpit, 3D thrust vectoring, new more powerfull engines L-41F, new monster radar. This version will be for Russian Airforce only. Other derivative will be Su-35BM, pretty much everything the same as Su-27SM2 but with reduced radar capatibilities, probably with lesser avionics package and maybe even a bit less powerful engines(2D thrust vectoring only???). Su-27SM2 has no canards, IRST is moved to the left and there are two ECM bulges on leading edge slats on the wing, there are some more stuff probably but I can't remember it now, Su-35 will look the same but I've read that canards will be available to the buyer as an option. In recent accident I lost over 100 of my aviation bookmarks, I had data, cockpits,drawings pictures, all lost now. However if you give me some time I'll try to find and post some detailed drawings/pictures. Thx for doing this

First thx for the input, I'll go for Radeon 4850HD then, I've read some reviews it seems that thing is sweeping the competition... @viperBAT32 - Radeon9550 is very old card in aGP version only, I doubt you can even install it on your computer. It's super cheap theese days and people usually use it for cheap office computers. I had R9550XT several years ago, it was a pretty good card for it's price back then, but today it's totally obsolete...

Hi guys :) I'm planning an upgrade for my aged system and strongly think about ATI4850HD GFX card, it's a great video card especially for it's cost, however I would like to know if you guys that are already ATI users have some issues with this game because of it. Thx in advance.

BLA BLA BLA BLA - ROFL :D

Well this is what our main ReadME says :D From WoI manual.pdf

Ugh yeah, they are TGA's lol

No adding this will create another different problem, this looks to me as if you used sea tiles (vietnams1.bmp and vietnams2.bmp) from somebody else thus the colour mismatch... I would recommend that if you plan to use my tiles to simply delete those two files I mentioned above as since this is my first work it still used default sea textures...

Easiest way to send message to someone or find his files or check out his recent pics is to click on the profile...it's as simple as that ;-)

Jaw dropping as always, great job man

Ugh to explain all this to a begginer would take A LOT of time, patience and a clear mind, and I'm really too wasted now :D You could try Gepards Terrain making guide in the knowledge base, it really explains it all very well

That's cool, I've been visiting it for a while now but never posted...

I've told you 100 times not to buy low quality overhauled tyers but noooooooooooooo... :D

It's awsome, I've been enjoying it for a long time now :whistling: (it's really not THAT complicated to make it work ;) )

The release can not be counted in days! I know for certain there's only 1 209 600 seconds left to release!!!

..then again, you might have fired a large AGM on a target that was right below the poor low flying mig and it took it out...

Hmm, MF preview on Friday usually means... :D

My biggest killer are those damn Shilkas, I shoot down a flight of Su27's(mind you, my modern Soviet A-A missiles are un-lamed and no joke at all) I evade several SA6's and then the darn Shilka cut's my F-15E in halfwith 0.5 sec burst when I get to bomb their runway....