Lock on: Modern Air Combat

You can pretty much ignore minimum requirements, these are system specs that are technically feasable, but in reality youll get a slideshow framerate. Recommended still means very low settings, and youll probably have to run at 800 x 600 to run well (800 x 600 is yucky!). Best configuration is what you REALLY need to be able to play the game at normal settings.

Agree, but it is interesting that the game’s own developer would advertise these specs on their website, as that is where I got them from.

LoMAC: Buggy game that the patch 1,02 made it worse .And the game is heavy like and elephant but if you have a nuclear powered system and dont bother trying installing uninstalling the patches then you should get it . Its graphics rocks but to you have a proper idea is the Flanker 2.0 engine improved with a few more planes for you .

You can pretty much ignore minimum requirements, these are system specs that are technically feasable, but in reality youll get a slideshow framerate. Recommended still means very low settings, and youll probably have to run at 800 x 600 to run well (800 x 600 is yucky!). Best configuration is what you REALLY need to be able to play the game at normal settings.

GDL,
i have just started playing these flight sim games recently…. anyways… the JANES game although “old” runs pretty well on my comp and that too without a graphics card ! buying the latest games is not of much use for me as i will not be able to play it on my comp and aslo i dont have a complete system upgradation on cards… maybe i will play LO-MAC after 2-3 yrs :rolleyes:

and yes… the F-22 lightening 3 demo has a usable thermo-nuke(B-61)…
i enjoy dropping it on my own base… 😀

neways end of LO-MAC chapter for me…
BTW does the il-2 STURMOVIK also have similar sys requirements as that of LO-MAC ?

nirav,

You have still got a good system for older games, so no surprise they run well. Have fun!

And on IL-2 Sturmovik:

Minimum system requirements:
PII 400, 128 MB RAM, 3D Accelerator with 16 MB RAM (voodoo3 at least or equal)

Recommended system:
PIII 600 or better, 256 MB RAM, 32-bit 3D accelerator with 32 MB RAM or better.

Best configurations for full graphics options:
Processor 800 MHz -1,0 GHz or better, 256 MB RAM, GeForce 2 3D accelerator or better.

A taste..

You will definitely need a good 3D card. 🙂

As the guys have said, you will need an upgrade. The site you got the demo from should have had a section on system requirements. Pays to check for this. Anything from Janes is now old, as they have gone as a Sim developer. I believe A-10 Warthog was their last project they were working on that died when their work did. And I think F-22 Lightening 3 is also pretty old, I recall playing the demo of that at least 2-3 years ago. Is that the one where you have the nuke? I used to love dropping that!
😉

GDL,
i have just started playing these flight sim games recently…. anyways… the JANES game although “old” runs pretty well on my comp and that too without a graphics card ! buying the latest games is not of much use for me as i will not be able to play it on my comp and aslo i dont have a complete system upgradation on cards… maybe i will play LO-MAC after 2-3 yrs :rolleyes:

and yes… the F-22 lightening 3 demo has a usable thermo-nuke(B-61)…
i enjoy dropping it on my own base… 😀

neways end of LO-MAC chapter for me…
BTW does the il-2 STURMOVIK also have similar sys requirements as that of LO-MAC ?

Well… 733Mhz Celeron, 128MB RAM, 20GB HDD… windows 98 and 2000 installed on my comp…
the config isn’t that spectacular…. but i can run ‘Janes USAF’ and novalogics ‘F-22 lightening 3’ without any hassels…

As the guys have said, you will need an upgrade. The site you got the demo from should have had a section on system requirements. Pays to check for this. Anything from Janes is now old, as they have gone as a Sim developer. I believe A-10 Warthog was their last project they were working on that died when their work did. And I think F-22 Lightening 3 is also pretty old, I recall playing the demo of that at least 2-3 years ago. Is that the one where you have the nuke? I used to love dropping that!
😉

🙁 oki… so all the download effort in vain !

ne ways thnx for replying guys… i guess i am better off with JANES USAF 😮

LOL ok, I see… :p

For example, I have a XP Barthon 2500+ (2.3 Ghz), 512 Mb RAM, GC ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 256 Mb DDR and 120 GB for HD. And this is a minimum for LO:MAC. So, I’m not surprised if this sim doesn’t work on your computer. You should upgrade your system, Lock-On requires a very hight system.

IIRC the min specs is 1.4Ghz P4 or Athlon, 64mb 3D card and 256Mb RAM so your machine might chucking a Hernia 🙁

Well… 733Mhz Celeron, 128MB RAM, 20GB HDD… windows 98 and 2000 installed on my comp…
the config isn’t that spectacular…. but i can run ‘Janes USAF’ and novalogics ‘F-22 lightening 3’ without any hassels…

What’s your CPU, RAM, Hard Disk capabilities, etc…?

i have just completed downloading the LO-MAC demo from www.lo-mac.com …
after installing the demo… it simply just wont run… it took me awful lot of time to download the demo and now it wont work….

Suggestions anyone….??

FS2004 has code to run multiple views I’m sure, however I don’t know about LOMAC. My problem was I saw LOMAC running on a friends machine, thought it looked fantastic and rushed out to buy it. Got it home and realised the true difference between my GeForce4800 and his ATI 9800 PRO 🙁

Anyway I’ve got myself a Hercules 9800 PRO now, which is overclocked to almost XT speeds! 🙂 So now I can run it with all the effects switched on at 1280×960 (my monitor won’t go higher 🙁 ) I always expect more from my PC than it can actually manage.

Are specifac sims designed to allow the game to simutaneously display 2 or more views? That would seem very taxing on the game engine like LOMAC that works hard enough to show one view. And if you were to run it on two seperate machines, I would think you would need some kind of network connection to sinchronize the screen action. I want to mention I can play LOMAC no problem with my Athlon 1.6 ghz and ATI 9000 128 mb with only a little frame stutter at really busy moments, so I dont think you go out and get an Athlon 64 with a x800 XT just to run this game.
adwwebber- Where do you download plane ad-ons for LOMAC?

Its a cracking sim and I really do like it, unfortunately since FB introduced Spitfires I have neglected it. My last muck about was when the latest patch came out last week but I’d forgotten everything and fired up FB again instead. I will go back to it but only when I’ve a little more time to play with.

They can be run from the same machine, esp if you have a card with dual vga outputs, not sure about two cards in one machine, I guess you could do that if you ran one AGP one PCI. But that said there aren’t many PCI cards around now.

You don’t need a beast of a machine to run periphal views though because you don’t have to have the detail level as high, so an average machine can run both side views at lower res etc. Some really hard core simmers then use another machine and monitor to run the instrument panel!

Would be nice but my study is big enough to even contemplate it.

can’t they be run from same machine then ? cant you add another graphics card ?must admit l like the idea but not really looked into it that much, got the idea from some of the cockpit layouts shown in pc pilot magazine

Thats really my issue as well, space, although the lack of 2 extra monitors doesn’t help 😀

Imagine a 3 TFT display!!!!! One down, only 2 to go, at least I have a spare machine to run the other two views.

the speed on take off is ok but the manouvers achievable immediatly afterwards are not. just checked to make sure and the landing speed of the phantom can go as low as 100knots ! surely not !

i am also toying with the idea of multi monitor setup, restricted to having pc in lounge at the mo, and i know someone who would’nt agree !

better post this quick before she peers over my shoulder again to see what i’m doing……….

I’ve always found sims to be poor in relating the speed of aircraft on take-off. Perhaps its a limitation of the simulation experience with just one monitor in front of you. I should try hooking up more than one monitor at some point.