[carosel43]

For those trying to run il2 on vista i pitty you, i tried it on a mates pc and it was a nightmare, i we had to turn off all of the security settings to allow the game to contact the ubi game servers, if want to play games, use Xp. Also i have been giving hawk a few pointers to, much the same as you guys have, dual core processor (amd x2 is my preference) decent motherboard with upgrade potential and a decent power supply, power supplies are often neglected but you will pay with poor system stability or the thing might just blow up. anyway, my system

Amd Athlon X2 5200+ (2.6Ghz)
2Gb Corsair dominator ram (800Mhz)
Asus M2N32 Sli mobo
2x GeForce 7950GT's 512Mb each in SLI
650watt antec psu
lots of fans

i can run the game on perfect settings with 8x anisotropic filtering and 4x antialiasing and never get an fps below 25, usually its at about 45-65. i have also enhanced my in game graphics by modifying my config.ini