[FA_Bong]

I reduced from Perfect and amended my conf.ini to those in the 1st post with 2xAA and 4xAF. First time out, I got a warning that my XFX 6800 XT was hitting the max temp warning and was dropping some settings. It usually runs hot ( @ 102-105C) with IL2 after a lengthy loaded mission but this was the first heat warning I have seen. It has never crashed. Timing is too co-incidental to be the aging card, especially with having toned it down. Cleaned out the dust bunnies @ 3 months ago.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Strider

Strider you said you cleaned out the dust bunnies but how is your airflow, are all your fans running up to speed especially on your card, I have all my case fans blowing "in" and a fine 1" paint brush for clearing heat sinks. Once had an issue with the PC running hot and could feel warm air on my desk all the time, turned all the fans around and the case feels cool to the touch now.