When I upgraded from a 21' CRT monitor to a 1920x1200 LCD everything looked better except one thing - the distance I could see and id planes seemed to half. Fighters as dots set by server at 15km don't seem to appear until about 8km against a clear sky. If they are there as one pixel, I certainly can't see it. Picking planes out against the ground at only a few hundred meters can be a challenge. This is not right, real aircraft are much much easier to see. This is a serious disadvantage when flying no icons against opponents using low-res. Will there, can there, be hope for hi-res users to rectify this in the future as more people move to hi-res and we don't have a replacement sim?
In WW2 they couldnt just spot a low flying target with good camo could they
hence they used camo
Im guessing that planes were hard to spot but hmm
and with the better the performance of the computer the lower the visual range
i no someone hu was on a laptop and could see things at 30 kms where we can only see at 20 so hmm
S! RAF_Leigh
Visibility distance has been debated at great length here and elsewhere, but I think it's generally agreed that aircraft could be spotted at much greater distances in real life than in the game (depending on weather conditions, etc.,).
The game assigns either an LOD image or a certain number of pixels to different distances- if your resolution is higher, the result will be smaller on screen. The game was developed for 1024x768 resolution, which was good at the time. Now most LCD monitors won't even support such a low resolution on a big screen, so ironically we get worse plane spotting, even as we get better image quality.
Could some sort of mod be developed to assign more pixels to a "dot" than the game now uses? Or could that be used as a cheat online?
I use a 19" LCD but I run the game at 1024x768 (which my monitor supports as one of it's "native resolutions").
I would like to go for a new 22", but his is one of the reasons I've hesitated to do so.
murph what monitor you have, cause i want to go for a 19 LCD.
Potenz
It's a ViewSonic VA902b. It's not that great in that it has a relatively slow (8ms) refresh time and it uses an analog rather than a digital connection.
Not expensive, though.
