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Una salus victus nullam sperare salutem.
The one hope of the doomed is not to hope for safety.
Virgil's Aeneid

The comic book interface, well when I first read about it it sounded silly, then I got it and it sort of grew on me, then a couple days ago I realised gangrene grows on people too so I did the prudent thing and "de-comic'd" my CFS2. I'm feeling much better now. LOL

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- Schatt

Anybody tried it yet?

I get 25-45fps with CFS2, on a 500Mhz, with 256Mb, and a TnT (ONE) @ 1280x1024, with everything as high as it will go, except the terrain complexity.

That is good code, and a nice rendering thingy.

I like the cartoon interface too. Just a shame about the gameplay

On my PII-300, 192 RAM and Voodoo3 setup I got at least 20 fps in all views, in combat over land. Over the sea and in 3D cockpit I got 30+. It ran faster than Falcon 4, actually.

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-Ajax out

The pauses I was experiencing went away after a degrag. The flight models are working properly now that I have managed to tone down the stick forces. I was really encountering some alarming stuff in that the body mechanism of the stick was getting far too hot and emitting a high pitch sonic shreak. My hand, wrist and forearm was getting really sore after wrestling constantly out of stalls and spins that were happening with far too much frequency and violence. Something was definately wrong as the planes seemed pretty much unflyable in anything other level flight and shallow turns. As an experiment I turned off the force feedback and the planes performed "normally". I had to get the FF effects toned down somehow. Usually I can adjust the level of the FF in a separate Profile but for some reason the Wingman profiler software is being disabled in CFS2. I tried turning down the FF "global" properties (60% seems to be the best) in the Windows Game Controller settings and that seemed to do the trick. I had to go through all my other individual game profiles and increased them to compensate them back up.

Within CFS2 settings I used the "simple" joystick adjustment to set my sensitivity to maximum and the null zones to "0". Now CFS2 works really well, I get plenty of FF feedback effects, nice, crisp response from the control surfaces but there is enough damping to stop the twitchy performance of the planes. The gyropscopic precession is still there but it is not like flying a Sopwith Camel all the time. CFS2 now matches CFS in terms of FF which I often fly in a resized window while watching TV in another window on my monitor.

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-Ajax out

quote:

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Originally posted by Guardian Angel:
How do you tell your frame rate?

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In CFS 2 hit Shift Z twice. The first time displays longitude and latitude. and the second time give you frame rates.

I have a 500mhz/256mg RAM,32mb with a 3D Prophet card. I just added the extra RAM after following the huge debate over at the CFS 2 forum. This debate had at least 165 posts when last I looked, really got heated at times. Actually the proponents against
sound the most intellegent and present the
most logical case, while the ones who are
for more RAM come off sounding like passionate zealots.

Cost versus benefit is the crux of the
argument. While I have noticed no appreciable
frame rate improvement, I have noticed that
stuttering has gone away in both CFS 2 and
Crimson Skys. Hey, I feel pretty stupid
spending that kind of money if I couldn't
claim at least some improvement. Also I
got a $30 rebate and still have 10 days to
return it to Best Buy, if I want. It's easy
to add or remove, so I can always save it
for my next rig.

I am averaging 25 to 30 fps at a global effects setting of 5 (6 is the highest). The only bad slow down was a mission over an island with lots of planes and lots of ground fire and flak. I was also fighting the infamous no roll damage effect after a gnat hit my engine cowling, so I must have
reflew this mission 9 or 10 times before
success.

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Artillery adds dignity to
what would otherwise be a vulger brawl!