22.11.2009, 17:14
Benchmarking Preparation Phase
Both ATI and NVIDIA owners can learn from this, though ATI users may just wish to skim over it lightly. NVIDIA users: You gotta see this!
More useful ATI and NVIDIA information in this tech topic! Keep reading for powerful understanding of basic IL-2 issues in your computer.
Benchmarking will be the Setup of the computer, IL-2, and whatever enhancement device that you use. (NOTE: The Benchmarking is not the Optimization Stage-LATER.)
In the following posts is the structure of Benchmarking that I use. If you have examined and done all the following instructions, then you are ready for these:
#1 Profile in nHancer Continue to read right here if you are an nHancer user or are interested in learning about it. The nHancer is an NVIDIA based program. Non-nHancer information is a little further in this computer/IL-2 tech help topic. There are instructions and information for both nHancer users and nonusers in here.
You must find the impact of IL-2 in your PC. Seeing if you can utilize multicore and multithreading is like the shoemaker placing the foot into the bench to first get basic dimensions. You need to first make an nHancer profile. Here begins your first benchmarking tasks.
Open nHancer. In the nHancer interface you should see a box with the label "Application" at the top. Listed are all the applications that come with your version of nHancer. You can add more if you need by clicking "Create new profile" page symbol near the top with the yellow sun light in its corner. You should see IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles and probably il2set.exe, as well. If you don't have il2set.exe, then make one-exactly il2set.exe-into the Application listing.
I want to let you know at the start of using nHancer that you must have executable files. Further, it is crucial that you make executable files in the Executables box with file path to the profile. This will send your nHancer settings to the appropriate place and enforce your settings to overide anything that existed previously, even regarding factory parameters. Yes, this file path will generally allow the over-ride of Vista, and other OS, protocal. However, Vista will take control in areas where it needs to do so in order to maintain operation and stability, such as using any or all cores if necessary. If you have cleared the way as instructed in previous sections of this Topic, then you probably have allowed plenty of room for your Operating System to comply with your demands. Here is where many fail, but you will excel! This is absolutely the key secret to success with nHancer and IL-2. You are the master in the central control center of nHancer. Take sure-grip command of it!
Okay, so the name in the Application box is the name of your profile. What an il2set.exe Executable profile does for you is that nHancer will be able to make a connection among itself, IL-2, NVIDIA, and your PC. Essentially, il2set.exe file is where your graphics settings are started after you click to open IL-2. Note the difference between il2fb.exe in contrast to il2set.exe: The il2fb.exe is where IL-2 is started, however, graphics in IL-2 starts in the il2set.exe file. The il2set.exe is like a door: Opening and controlling this file in IL-2 is critical to Optimization. nHancer needs to know the file paths in order for you to control all this. Here is where the line is drawn across Optimization and an only imagined one: File Path.
Make sure that you have il2set.exe in the Application box for the sake of clarity. You can make a different profile in the Application box if you want and build from there. (See instructions earlier) Click on the il2set.exe or other profile name in the Application box to designate it for changes and additions. Next, click the folder symbol with the sun light near the Executables box to name an executable file/folder including its path to the profile. (Do not confuse this with the plain "Add an executable file to the profile" symbol.) This does two great things. First, it causes a bunch of PC optimizations to be activated that overide your PC systems and IL-2 settings. Second, you can have more than one version of IL-2: Each with very different settings and conveniently configured. The unique settings of each will be activated each time that you open one of the versions of IL-2.
For example, I have one profile with file path to my online version of IL-2 which is set a little more for performance. A second IL-2 copy with mods for offline use has higher visual graphics settings with a little sacrifice of performance, which I use to make movies and play offline with a friend of mine. You can also turn the profile on manually by checking the box for that. This is useful if you only have and want one IL-2, but would like to switch on settings that you have in nHancer for a certain change of circumstances. OFF for online flying and ON for offline missions, for example.
Both ATI and NVIDIA owners can learn from this, though ATI users may just wish to skim over it lightly. NVIDIA users: You gotta see this!
More useful ATI and NVIDIA information in this tech topic! Keep reading for powerful understanding of basic IL-2 issues in your computer.
Benchmarking will be the Setup of the computer, IL-2, and whatever enhancement device that you use. (NOTE: The Benchmarking is not the Optimization Stage-LATER.)
In the following posts is the structure of Benchmarking that I use. If you have examined and done all the following instructions, then you are ready for these:
#1 Profile in nHancer Continue to read right here if you are an nHancer user or are interested in learning about it. The nHancer is an NVIDIA based program. Non-nHancer information is a little further in this computer/IL-2 tech help topic. There are instructions and information for both nHancer users and nonusers in here.
You must find the impact of IL-2 in your PC. Seeing if you can utilize multicore and multithreading is like the shoemaker placing the foot into the bench to first get basic dimensions. You need to first make an nHancer profile. Here begins your first benchmarking tasks.
Open nHancer. In the nHancer interface you should see a box with the label "Application" at the top. Listed are all the applications that come with your version of nHancer. You can add more if you need by clicking "Create new profile" page symbol near the top with the yellow sun light in its corner. You should see IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles and probably il2set.exe, as well. If you don't have il2set.exe, then make one-exactly il2set.exe-into the Application listing.
I want to let you know at the start of using nHancer that you must have executable files. Further, it is crucial that you make executable files in the Executables box with file path to the profile. This will send your nHancer settings to the appropriate place and enforce your settings to overide anything that existed previously, even regarding factory parameters. Yes, this file path will generally allow the over-ride of Vista, and other OS, protocal. However, Vista will take control in areas where it needs to do so in order to maintain operation and stability, such as using any or all cores if necessary. If you have cleared the way as instructed in previous sections of this Topic, then you probably have allowed plenty of room for your Operating System to comply with your demands. Here is where many fail, but you will excel! This is absolutely the key secret to success with nHancer and IL-2. You are the master in the central control center of nHancer. Take sure-grip command of it!
Okay, so the name in the Application box is the name of your profile. What an il2set.exe Executable profile does for you is that nHancer will be able to make a connection among itself, IL-2, NVIDIA, and your PC. Essentially, il2set.exe file is where your graphics settings are started after you click to open IL-2. Note the difference between il2fb.exe in contrast to il2set.exe: The il2fb.exe is where IL-2 is started, however, graphics in IL-2 starts in the il2set.exe file. The il2set.exe is like a door: Opening and controlling this file in IL-2 is critical to Optimization. nHancer needs to know the file paths in order for you to control all this. Here is where the line is drawn across Optimization and an only imagined one: File Path.
Make sure that you have il2set.exe in the Application box for the sake of clarity. You can make a different profile in the Application box if you want and build from there. (See instructions earlier) Click on the il2set.exe or other profile name in the Application box to designate it for changes and additions. Next, click the folder symbol with the sun light near the Executables box to name an executable file/folder including its path to the profile. (Do not confuse this with the plain "Add an executable file to the profile" symbol.) This does two great things. First, it causes a bunch of PC optimizations to be activated that overide your PC systems and IL-2 settings. Second, you can have more than one version of IL-2: Each with very different settings and conveniently configured. The unique settings of each will be activated each time that you open one of the versions of IL-2.
For example, I have one profile with file path to my online version of IL-2 which is set a little more for performance. A second IL-2 copy with mods for offline use has higher visual graphics settings with a little sacrifice of performance, which I use to make movies and play offline with a friend of mine. You can also turn the profile on manually by checking the box for that. This is useful if you only have and want one IL-2, but would like to switch on settings that you have in nHancer for a certain change of circumstances. OFF for online flying and ON for offline missions, for example.