[stansdds]

Flashing textures on the aircraft might also be a .dll issue. Over at the 1C forums, in the Il2 discussion there is a thread and link to a replacement dll that fixes this issue for many people. For most, it seems to occur with the 8000 series Nvidia cards.

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[PA_Willy]

A couple of notes that might be helpful.
When this thread made me realize that the visual effects of all those settings that we have in conf.ini only appear when running Perfect mode, I set everything to zero (as suggested) running Excellent mode, I did get a nice increase in frame rate and I basically at no cost in terms of image quality, as I couldn't run Perfect mode anyway.
Continuing on the line of thought "let's see how much I can lower my settings before it starts looking ugly" I started lowering my screen resolution trying to find the best compromise between FPS and nice graphics.

My findings so far are that assuming that the highest resolution is the best is at least as wrong as runing Excellent mode with high settings. It seems that the pixel reseolution of the screen doesn't affect the image quality in excellent mode on a regular 19'' LCD, monitor.
The only difference I could notice was that running at 800x600 ( x3 monitors) is that some ground objects are slightly less detailed when you're looking at them from a static plane on the runway.

NO difference at all once in flight, and the cool thing is that at 800x600 the text of icons, messages etc is switched to a thinner font in order to keep it from appearing to big on screen. the result is that at 800x600 the graphics look pretty much the same as they look at 1280x960, and the text messages appearing on screen look _better_.
I haven't tried to run at 640x480. I I think that a that point it woult start looking ugly but I havent actually tried that yet.

You do what you want, but I'm running 800x600 from now on.
(BTW thx again this thread, it got me on the right way to improve my FPS)

Probably you have got a CRT screen. With a TFT screen, whatever resolution lower than the native one, results in a ugly and horrible image.

Regards.

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[PA_Willy]

Lower resolutions than native one in a TFT screen is the worst thing everybody can do if is interested in eyecandy.

The effect is worse than disable AA and AF filters, or whatever other setting in game.

Playing at 800*600 (or 640*480, worse yet) in a 19" screen with native resolution of 1280*1024 result in bad aspect, bad edges, lose of definition, etc.

Bad idea. If you don't feel the enormous diference in quality you hace to change your glasses inmediately. :wink:

Reagards.

[BigSilverHotdog]

Sorry to burst your bubble there luke but lowering resolution is simply not an option for people with LCD monitors. Less than your native resolution is very ugly and usually blurry and distorted, too. Stick with your native, and if you can't tell the difference... glasses, Lasik surgery, turn your monitors from off to on, etc.

[telecaster63]

Okej i fix a screen pic 4 you, I think a movie could be good !! But dont know how 2 do that
YES!! I tried the dll thing 4 8800 cards but still the same !!
Il de working a long way from home this week so i get back on 7/3,
regards
Tele63

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[BigSilverHotdog]

If you say so!

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[PA_Willy]

err... turns out you were right after all :oops:

landscapes etc looked pretty good and so did aircraft from some angles and in some lightings, but after some flights I started noticing that not everything looked good enough to be acceptable, so I'm reverting to native resolution. Looks like I'll have to get my FPS from somewhere else.

[BigSilverHotdog]

:wink:

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[BigSilverHotdog]

Welcome to my necessary tweaks. The lag you describe is the reason for this guide.

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