I really like Il-2 1946, and I've been thinking of getting Rise of Flight as well. It looks like a lot of fun!

I'm wondering if Rise of Flight might be too much for my computer to handle. Right now, I can run Il-2 1946 pretty well, so long as I don't have my graphics turned up too high and there isn't too much going on at once (flak, etc.).

I don't know as much as I should about computers, but here are my specs:

Toshiba Satellite A505-S6980
Graphics: Intel GMA 4500 MHD Dynamic Video Memory Technology 5.0
Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 processor 2.2 GHz
4 GB DDR2 RAM

Thanks for your help!

DOWNLOAD THE DEMO from the Official site.

...then head over to HERE and set up an account.

(use the first download link for latest version - not the download link from account page - that links to old 1.017 version )

And check how it works on your machine! You're kinda' on the edge, but some folks have had great results on lower end machines.

Worth a shot.

I agree with Brian. Try the demo its the only way to know for sure. Im not too familiar with your laptops video card. That might be your weakest point.

Rob

An integrated Intel laptop chip is pretty much the worst modern GPU you can get. They are designed with power consumption in mind, not 3D rendering. Definitely still download the demo and give it a shoit if nothing else, but (as I'm sure you realise) you shouldn't expect much if anything.

Still, I really hope it does work for you, it's a fantastic piece of software.

Also, remember that the demo IS the full sim, it's only limited by time and aircraft permissions. If you elect to go with the retail version, don't uninstall the demo, just enter the retail license key at the ROF site at the profile>license link. Fire up the sim, log in online with your chosen email and password, it'll synch with the ROF server which holds all your details and you'll have the full sim ready to go.

Hope it works out for you!

=MFC=Gunloon

PS- if you liked IL2 1946, ROF will blow you away...the planes in IL2 feel like crude tinkertoys by comparison. Definitely hope it works out

Hi LennysCopilot,

Dont waste more time, donwload the demo, try all kind of settings and see if the girl smiles to you
I have a average/low machine and runs very well here
you have 14 days to test all the possible (game and video card) settings and you surely will not regret, this is the best flight sim nowadays.
btw the demo option it's a great idea to deal with this kind of doubts, and to get a real impression about the sim, and at the end you are hooked
Thanks for this opportunity 777Studios

Good Luck LC

Cheers

Thanks for the advice, guys! I will try the demo.

Regards,

LennysCopilot

You may find that you can run some missions smoothly while others make the game run in "slow motion", regardless of graphics quality setting. If that is the case, it is because your processor can't handle that many rendered objects, and turning down the game options won't help. Quick dogfights should not be a problem, but campaign missions could.

Yeah but download the demo from the alternative mirror site not the RoF site as I tried about three times to download the demo on RoF site and gave up due to it being too slow - until I found the alternative mirror site which is much much faster. I probably would have bought the game ages ago if I had actually been able to try the demo.

Let us know how things turn out Lennys'

Just finished downloading the demo. Have flown a little, still settings up controls and other stuff.

Great graphics and sounds. Now its just............try it and play it and then....buy the full game right?


Looks like I'll have to re-install TrakIR again.

I'm sorry but I think it will be impossible to run RoF on that rig, or any other demanding game. I have a Sandy Bridge i5 laptop with the "Intel HD Graphics 3000" GPU that is way faster than any old integrated CPU:s like the GMA 4500. I can actually run Civ 5 on it with low settings, but it is a slide show. These integrated GPU:s are really way off any real GPU in performace... The problem will unfortunately get even worse if you run Windows 7 x64 as a dual core CPU is a no-no in RoF with W7 x64... I have really bad stuttering on my Core 2 Duo E8400 with a GTX580 GPU. It is simply unplayable but Jason (the producer of RoF) has been frank and said they don't support Windows 7 x64 on dual cores and recommend XP instead so that is fine with me.

The reason for the weird combo of a GTX580 in a E8400 rig is that I have all the other hardware for my i7 2600k Sandy Bridge rig accept the Obsidian 650D chassis that is in high demand and arrives tomorrow.... Had to open one of the boxes at least and get some joy out of the last hours of my old Core 2 Duo rig

The whole reason for upgrading to an i7 2600k is actually RoF as CoD actually runs OK on my old rig with the latest beta patch. Was waiting to upgrade for CoD but it is the RoF stuttering when having a dual core in Windows 7 x64 that pushed me over the edge. Tomorrow my agony in RoF will be over!

Having said this - RoF is an awesome game so get another rig and buy it! And in any case, follow the advice and try the demo on your current rig - it may work on low settings to get it running at enough fps to understand you need this game!

Well, I downloaded the demo and was able to get it running, thanks in part to Viktor from 777 Studios. (Thank you, Viktor!) I'm sorry to say that I will have to wait to buy a new rig. I turned the graphics way down and ran one of the sample missions (a series of dogfights in a Spad XIII). The game looked like a series of snapshots, unfortunately. Very beautiful snapshots, along with the sound of the wind in the airplane struts, but snapshots nonetheless.

Still, I plan to get a better rig one day, so I can play this game. It looks really neat.

Thanks for your help.

Bad luck mate; you are missing a treat.
You don't have any school-age children do you?
I (and I suspect many other here) have used the:
'but darling, I'm only thinking of the children! Their education will suffer if we don't upgrade!'
scam.
Combined with finishing off long-standing unfinished DIY tasks to soften up the target, or after just after inducing multiple orgasms (hers not yours)
if timed right usually works.

Thanks for the tip

Yeah, we have an infant son. My wife is quite clever, so I doubt she will fall for the "childrens' education" argument.

Okay, I'm back. I'm shopping for a rig that I can run RoF on.

Because we live in the smallest house EVER, I've got to buy a laptop. There is no room for a desktop.

I've come across a couple of promising candidates that won't bankrupt me. I was wondering if anyone had any input as to whether this machine would do the job:

Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q8100.
Processor: Intel Core i5 2410M, 2.3 GHz, with 2.9 GHz "turbo boost"
4 GB of DDR3 RAM (8 GB max)
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

The system requirements listed on the RoF website call for either an i5 or i7 processor at 2.6 GHz. Do you think the above processor is powerful enough?

For about $300 more, I can upgrade to the Qosmio X505-Q8102. It has an Intel Core i7 2630QM processor and 6 GB of RAM. Same graphics card.

What are your thoughts? I know a desktop is preferable, but there is literally nowhere to put it -- too much baby stuff!

Thanks for your help.

As your in the states have a look at sager - the clevo P150 with a sandbridge CPU and a ati6970M will give better performance for the same price or less.

I'm running ROF on a Medion x6811 - i7-740QM, 6GB RAM & GTX 460m (a rebadged MSI GT663) - at 1080p at medium reflections/shaders, landscape high, trees at near, bloom/HDR off, raidrops on and x2 AA I get 30fps pretty much constant in a 30 aircraft quick mission. The 6970M (desktop equivalent 6870) has twice the horsepower of the gtx 460m (desktop equivalent GTS 450) so coupled with a quad sandybridge cpu you should get 10+ more fps easy. From my experience any quad core will do with the graphics card being more important - my i7-740QM seems to run ROF at 100% on one core with the others at 40% or below. The GTX 460M is my limiting factor.

Its worth looking at notebookcheck.net for reviews/comparisons and notebookreview.com for owner comments in the forums there.

Hope that helps

You must be psychic! I was just looking at Sager's website.

Tell us what you end up getting!

I will! I've got to save up the dough first. Sager looks promising. I might be able to get something tasty for about $1,500 U.S.

Howdy! I posted here a while ago about whether I would be able to run RoF on the laptop I currently have. I downloaded the demo, and, unfortunately, I couldn't run the game very well at all.

I've been reading up on PCs, and I've decided I'm going to build my own desktop gaming computer. I've never done it, but I think I will be able to figure it out.

Anyway, here is the build I've decided on for my budget. Do you think it will run RoF okay?

AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition CPU
ASUS M4A88T-V EVO USB3 AMD 880G Socket AM3 Motherboard
EVGA GeForce GTX 550Ti Video Card
Corsair 4GB DDR3 RAM
Cooler Master 650W Power Supply
Seagate Barracuda 1 TB Hard Drive
Windows 7 Home Premium Operating System
Thermaltake V3 Black Edition Mid Tower Case

I've been ordering the parts bit by bit, with each new paycheck. So far, I have the CPU and motherboard.

Thanks

It may not run on absolute maximum settings , but it will run very well! I run it on C2D 2.66Mhz, 2Gb RAM, 460 GTX - couple settings on medium and everything else on high. The most important thing for ROF is processor, it really needs a good quad or i5- your choice seems to be ok in that.

If you can trim a little off some of the other components (besides CPU and motherboard) or save a bit more, it might be worth the extra $100 for an nVidia GTX 560ti based card. Something to look into anyways.

Thank you, Borsch and Aero!

Aero, I think I will take your suggestion and splurge on the GTX 560Ti.

By the way, what does "Ti" stand for?

I'm getting my parts, bit by bit! I should have all of the components by October, I hope.

Thanks again.

All right, it is four months later. I have just built my first machine! Remarkably, it worked the first time I turned it on. No one was more astounded than my wife.

Anyway, here are my specs. They're pretty much the same as I posted back in September:

AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition CPU
ASUS M4A88T-V EVO USB3 AMD 880G Socket AM3 Motherboard
EVGA GeForce GTX 550Ti Video Card
Corsair 4GB DDR3 RAM
Cooler Master 650W Power Supply
Seagate Barracuda 1 TB Hard Drive
Windows 7 Home Premium Operating System
Cooler Master Storm Scout case (I like the handle!)

I'm going to download the ROF demo and see what happens. Wish me luck.

Your card is a bit better than mine and our CPU is about the same and I have no issues on mid to high settings. You could use more RAM tho'.

Keep in mind the "demo" is really the full featured game w/ only two flyable a/c. So if that works you are good to go.

Well come on Lenny---what's the word!!!!!!!

p.s. more ram

@LennyCP, please tell us you're not using the keyboard to fly, huh?

If all works out for you, welcome to the best flight sim community going.

Ha! No, I've got a CH Products ProThrottle and FighterStick, as well as TrackIR. I tried the sim last night. I must like it, because I was up until one o'clock. It is a LOT harder than Il-2, or maybe I'm more used to Il-2.

I agree with a lot of things that Dart wrote in his review. The sound is amazing. I stuck my virtual head out beyond the windscreen and got a real blast of air.

It is also frustrating, because even the novice AI are lighting me up like a Christmas tree. That said, I think I'm in love.

I find myself drawn to the Fokker Eindekker and the Nieuport 11. For some reason, I always prefer the earlier aircraft in a given conflict.

What will purchasing more RAM do? I remember reading that it is an inexpensive way to upgrade.

The N.11 is a darn fine plane. One of my favorites in the campaign. I always enjoyed early war more than late war--hopefully we'll get more of these planes in the future. There's just something fun about wrestling with an ancient crate trying to beat the most life out of it.

It always brings a smile to my face when I see a post like this. Someone just wonders whether their ageing PC will run sim X, doesn't so they say 'well never mind'.

Couple of days later they are asking advice on a new PC to run sim X as they really want to play it

We are, as I think we all really know, big kids and the thoughts of wanting to play simx, buy exotic hardware Y become too much and we have to give in.

You're right about the "big kid" bit, MaceUK.

I just bought the Sopwith Pup last night. My first plane. Can't wait to try it out! Need to find some pilot's notes, though.

The Pup is my favourite and I am currently in a campaign flying one.

What will more RAM do in a system that already has 4Gb? Probably not much, Lenny....and for those that are suggesting you shave off a few bits from your current component list to afford a better graphics card: If he "shaves off" any more than he already has, he won't have much IMO.

Lenny, you're already using some of the best "bang for buck" equipment available out there. But if you can afford a BIT better graphics card than a GTX 550Ti, then by all means GET IT. Also, keep this in mind:

The average GTX 550Ti retails for between $130 and $150 USD...it's entirely possible to get something a generation older and more powerful while staying within that price range. For example, right now there's a PNY GTX 460 (1GB) at Newegg.com which is more powerful than the GTX 550Ti for the same price and will work well on your intended system.

The only thing that you should keep in mind is, that the GTX 460 comes in two "flavors" and will consume about 60 more watts than the GTX 550Ti. First, get the 1gb version and second, your 650 watt PSU will be more then enough for either card.

Best wishes.

Get the most powerful Graphics Processing Unit you can afford. THAT will make the most difference-bar none.

If you have a "reasonably" fast processor, the GPU will make the biggest performance increase...

Tom's Hardware provides well respected reviews and data, and is a good place to start comparing your choices. He even makes it easier by breaking them down into price ranges. Try this LINK HERE.