ORIGINAL: kochj
Da Rock,
I guess I look at the HX or simulation in PC car racing....
Nascar and the new release of Nascar2 and all the way up to Nascar 2003 season.......
There was always a jump in performance But you always neede a faster processor to deal with the new game graphics and fixes....
Like NHL 2001-2007 each year the new game had more realistic figures and replays and more demand on the Graphic carn/processor....\
That has been my experience with this stuff so far.....
Even with the suseccion of the Realflight......
Each new release required a better more powerfull processor to take full advantage of what the sim can offer.....
No direspect to you, as you are one of the last boyscouts and a very optomistic one at that....
I am unfortionately not this, and can be quite pessamistic.... I wish I could see things in you mannor....it is rare these days!!!
Justin
Yeah, I am an optimist and always smiling HOWEVER............
When I saw the graphics improvements AND the performance improvements that actually happened, it made me wonder. I'm retired from the mainframe computer industry and got a fair amount of experience in software development. And I'm basing my guess on that.
I'm guessing for that to have happened, it wasn't from a major effort by the codies working for that developer. Major rewrites don't usually happen as quickly as that new release appeared following the previous. I'm guessing a coder stumbled on an easily retrofitted technique. And it'll be all over the industry in short order. I figure it's already being discussed in cubes as we speak/type.
We can dream can't we............
BTW, good coders very often make their code more efficient simply because it's easier to work with. And if you look at the production of product from Knife Edge, it's obvious they have maybe the best coders of the lot. Or maybe it is only that they have programmers that actually work when they're at work.
