It does appear to be using multicores here, and they even say that it is meant to. Not a great deal for sure, but then very few games do anyway.

There wouldn’t be any great gain for it to be 64bit unless it needed the memory, which apparently it doesn’t. Again, I don’t know of any games that are 64bit.

I think what everyone is upset about is that, yes, to run it smoothly you do need to turn the visual settings down, even on very fast computers. But that’s not unusual for a new game. I think what’s upsetting is that even at high quality it doesn’t look as good as it should. There just isn’t the atmosphere and polish that we’re used to from games like Call of Duty, Crysis and etc.
I think it should be remembered that this is a niche market game that has nowhere near the value that those properties have.

Engine management, yes, it’s all there. Haven’t tried it yet.

I hate to disappoint you, but the Tempest bit is more or less word for word his blog post from 20 June this year; and the Mossie information again is from his blog, from August.

http://blog.kermitweeks.com/

Didn’t know he had a blog, I’ve just sat here reading it for over an hour now!

An interesting update in the Tempest comments:

“# Kermit Says:
November 21st, 2010 at 7:29 pm

Brett,

Hope to have it headed this way for display in 2011!

Kermit”

http://blog.kermitweeks.com/?p=1337#comments

Amazing stuff! Imagine what could be done given a Hollywood budget?!

I think if this had a Hollywood budget it would also come with Hollywood ‘creatives’ and then we’d be back to Pearl Harbour sillyness again.

Matty,

Indeed, but perhaps with a slight case of chip on shoulder? Orlebar is very stiff-upper lip but a ripping yarn never the less. I just wish others of the HSF had put pen to paper, other than the odd short article.

Cheers

SM

Ohh, don’t ruin it! He’s only just finished WWI, not even onto the fun stuff yet.

Thanks for the Orlebar book though! He was a funny fella, just wish he’d opened up a bit. He was way too ‘sporting’ and British, almost difficult to imagine these days.

btw, managed to pick up the Schofield book on e-bay for a bargain price really, 30 quid I think. It’s going for much more than that elsewhere!

They could have at least asked the Comet pilot to avoid flying in front of the magazine logo… jeeeez!

they know it is a polish spitfire as they asked the pilots permission. or so I was told by one of the knuckle dragging oafs!

Perhaps more importantly they didn’t ask the permission of the artist who created the image.

I think what’s particularly ironic about this is that it’s a CGI image and the Spit model was created by a Polish fella.

He is particularly miffed, see for yourselves:

http://forums.luxology.com/discussion/topic.aspx?id=32748