Storm Of War / Cliffs of Dover

[DarrenL]

What stutters? Never had any with IL2.

I don't get stutters with games but I do always make sure my GFX & sound drivers are up to date, I never overclock anything and most importantly make sure all Directx, .Net and other MS installed files like the VC++ redistributable are all up to date and not missing files. Repair fixes problems as some installed applications or games can break them when they install.

Only 1 game has ever stuttered, FSX after I ran the online CFG editor. It added new things and after I got wildly jumping FPS from 115 to 40, but that was fixed by using the recommended FPS limiter.

Ever since I used Steam as a game client and used their "Check file integrity" option and found often that files needed to be repaired because of corruption from recently added files or bad game shutdown that I realised that problems are created not inherent.

Everything else is fine.



Edited on my PC as i posted that from my iPhone and it's a bugger to scroll up and down a big post.

[speedbird591]

Ever since I used Steam as a game client ...

Hi Darren. What's Steam and what's a game client?

Ian

[DarrenL]

Steam - http://store.steampowered.com/

Games that use Steam for installing, updating and online. You can at any point do a verify on your local content (the game is on your hard disk but Steam looks after it) and it will fix, repair or put back any missing files.

You can buy the game via Steam and download/install it or install via a DVD you bought if it supports it.

Games that support it - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Steam_titles

[speedbird591]

OK. Thanks, Darren.

I'm always looking for ways to simplify my life ... this may not be one of them!

Ian

[DogTailRed2]

Steam is great and a pity something similar is not available for FSX.
If you rebuild your pc. Just install steam and it re-installs any missing programs.

[emfrat]

Three or four years back, I downloaded and installed something (forget exactly what) and found that something called Steam had also been installed, without any prior notification and hence without any informed consent from me.
That is illegal.
The Steam software and the item that brought it in were removed from my machine immediately.
I would strongly advise anyone contemplating the use of this product to forget it, simply because of the way its creators go about their business.
ATB
MikeW

[Erich]

I really hope Flight achieves that lighting effect. That's quite amazing.

[DarrenL]

Three or four years back, I downloaded and installed something (forget exactly what) and found that something called Steam had also been installed, without any prior notification and hence without any informed consent from me.
That is illegal.
The Steam software and the item that brought it in were removed from my machine immediately.
I would strongly advise anyone contemplating the use of this product to forget it, simply because of the way its creators go about their business.
ATB
MikeW

No it's not.

It would have said on the box or in the manual that you will need a Steam account.

[tango234]

You will have been informed that the game runs on steam beforehand. Perhaps you just missed it.

[emfrat]

If I had been informed, I would not have installed the thing in the first place.
It is madness to install, from a previously-unknown agency, a software which is going to make its own decisions about my system and automatically update it without asking me first.
I will allow that for a reputable A-V programme, but not for anything else - not even Windows Update, which attempted to install IE8 in the guise of an update. IE has not been my default browser since IE6, so what business do Microsoft have trying to sneak in a later version of it?

Paranoid about computer security? Of course I am - there are just too many bad guys out there.

ATB
MikeW