[HusarDerLuft]

What graphics card are you using? Open GL is what the game prefers to run on. Also check your reslolution in the setup in the game IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 folder. I'm running that on 1152x864 32 bit Use stencile buffer. On my config.ini I have my stettings as this...

VideoSetupId=17
Water=4
Effects=1
ForceShaders1x=0
PolygonOffsetFactor=-0.15
PolygonOffsetUnits=-3.0

The graphics card I use is a sapphire radeon with 256MB memory ( a rather old one, i admit)
and I also have an Acer laptop that came with an intel graphics card (obviously not the best one for Il-2)

my conf.ini was like this:

VideoSetupId=2
ForceShaders1x=0
PolygonOffsetFactor=-0.0625
PolygonOffsetUnits=-1.0
Water=1
Effects=1

I changed it to "water=4" like your's.
Until i get a better PC im stuck with that..

Whats one of the best graphics cards out there for il-2 .. from your experience.. ?
(preferably an Nvidia, because i want to try something other then ATI this time)

cheers-