posted 02-03- 01:49 AM               

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posted 02-03- 04:22 AM               

If it's neither of these then it is unlikely to be plane specific. Did the Bf109g-6 work with PP5.2? If it did many of the textures are identical (as are the memory requirements). MPosis and myself have just finished optimising the texture usage of all the 109s and new 190s for the full release of the pack. This will help users who are currently hitting the video ram limit.

posted 02-03- 06:05 AM               

It sounds like a texture memory thing to me, what video card are you using?

We do go overboard on textures with the WWI planes, we just have too many damn wings! Also we want to have seperate maps for oposite sides - this requires us to use about twice as much texture size. Also since we have a seperate damage skin, this adds to the trouble.

We may have made a very big boobo here. Since we don't have any test systems other than our own machines, we tend to trust that anything that works on our systems will work on other's systems.

Is there any math we can do do determine exactly how far we can push texture memory? Also, are there stats on how much texture memory popular cards have? Texture memory is not the only memory on the cards, right? I get confused here...

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posted 02-04- 01:03 AM               

K well just for reference i have a voodoo banshee 16 meg (same card pretty much i think)

And when me and mad dog made a mission with everytype of plane in pp5.2 we get the same problem 2 or 3 of the planes are black. I really think its a texture ram limit being hit.

posted 02-05- 04:10 AM               

It's easy to limit the memory demands, we just create 256 colour texture maps like EAW. Choice: ugly low res textures (mirrored on both sides of the aircraft) or what we a currently producing. Since I'm making the choice it's going to be the latter. I'm only using a V2 SLI in one of my machines and a Banshee in the other and never run into significant problems. Heavy bombers hog texture memory in this sim (and IMO the way they are implemented are a waste of time) so stick to fighters and design the mission according to what your hardware can handle.

As far as cards are concerned I'm looking to upgrade both my PCs in the near future. BTW Kite you never told us what your card is. 2 choices:

V4 - raw power, Glide support but bloody expensive and no T&L; or
GeForce - fast, T&L, good value, but no Glide (and hence relatively slower in sims that support Glide) and visual artefacts in SDOE.

I only wish 3dfx had continued making secondary cards, then I could have both. That's what was so nice about V2 SLI, TNT combo - one card is better with one game, the other card with another

posted 02-05- 04:31 AM               

Yard. Yeah 10 planes was too much. we just wanted to play with all the planes without having to exit back to the interface first.

I would like to have at least 2-3 different bomber types and up to 5 different fighter types. That should cover practicaly any situation. We fly all the time with at least 7 diff plane types and it seems to work fine so i figure at least for a 16 meg card that is a good number.

I like the present texture res and color count. I wouldn't mind seeing the res go up a step but we have to be carefull.

Also i wish more stuff was using glide. I have tried D3D mode and in SDOE it just doesn't work for me. AS in the FPS and look just don't compare to glide mode.

I wish we could just get all the companys (as in OS makers. Vid card makers and game developers) to decide which vid mode to work iwth and stick with it. Then we would all be alot better off.