What kind of Engine will Fighter Ops provide?
Fighter Ops will employ a very high-end DX10 graphics engine, a high-end to mid-range DX9 version and another for very low-end graphics. The benefits of DX10 are twofold. First, some things that are possible under DX9 can be implemented more elegantly under DX10. Also there are certain effects that are only possible with DX10. From a users perspective, many of the noticeable advantages of DX10 cannot be captured in screenshots and can only be appreciated while playing the game. Fighter Ops uses computational resources in various ways. CPU and GPU processing power, disk storage, RAM and fast LAN connections are being used whenever possible. All of the current common hardware features (like multi-core processors) and many of the not-so-common resources are indeed on our radar and will be utilized when necessary to assist in the performance of the Fighter Ops engine.
