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Ok, so this might be a dumb question, but I had set my config.ini per some recommendation years ago (almost the same as KC's, but no dither either), and I have clouds=1 & TexCompress=0 also. Is there any advantage to using texcompress in the first place, or is this just for cards with low memory (I thought I remembered that using compression was a low memory workaround)?

thnx

IL2 will use a pretty huge amount of VRAM with TexCompress=0 (even by modern standards) but if you have a PCIe card and lots and lots of VRAM then TexCompress=0 is probably the way to go. I say "probably" but the bottom line is you just won't know which is best for your machine until you try setting TexCompress=2 and doing an FPS test. If you do try TexCompress=2 then make sure you also set TexFlags.TexCompressARBExt=1 (otherwise TexCompress=2 won't do anything).

BTW, TexCompress=1 should be avoided IMO.

There seems to be a lack of decent conf.ini guides on the web. Maybe I'll write one.