[lupin1]

i've just played Cracken's masterpiece the Gabby in Korea. for this reason, i intalled the freddy's wonderful saber cockpit. i found it impossible to fly with this beautiful cockpit as it make the fps droped very shapely.

so i am looking for a simplified saber cockpit, which is more fps friendly.

[Boris Gruschenko]

Same here. Looks nice, but gives me 1-2 fps.

[bohr-r]

Hello,

Same problem here; the fps drop is unbelievable. I get probably one frame every ten seconds, or so.
I would really appreciate a version of this superb cockpit that wouldn't turn the game into a slide show. :wink: And, yes, I do have an older graphics card, but still, is it perhaps possible to get this in a lighter, graphically less demanding version?

Thanks,

RB

[Murph]

What version of the game are you using? HSFX 4.11 uses a more FPS friendly cockpit for the F86. The game as a whole runs with higher FPS as well because of the way it's compressed.

[bohr-r]

Hi Murph,

I am using IL-2 1946 4.09bm +UI 1.0 + SAS buttons. Seeing what you wrote, I guess it's time to upgrade. Does what you wrote about HSFX also apply to UP 2.)?

Regards,

RB

[Murph]

I'm not sure about UP 2.0. Perhaps someone else can answer that one.

[Boris Gruschenko]

The extreme fps drop is not a problem of Il-2 Vanilla 4.09 or UP. Same problem with HSFX 4.1 and the Freddy-pit.

[Drew]

I don't think its fair to bash all of the programmers work on HSFX for FPS drops, I use freddy's pit and HSFX 4.11 fine with no FPS drops with IL2 maxed out ,but I'm lucky to run IL2 on a quadcore.

[FlyingBoxHead]

works fine with me.I get up to 70 fps in the cockpit. .

[HH_Cipher]

Moved to the right area. Keep all mods discussions out of the download sections please!

[F22-Raptor-2006]

Ok, I've never tested this but in theory it should work the textures should still display but not quite as sharp however you will get much more fps:

If you open up the file and resize the image to half the size, (actually it's a quarter in size but half the pixels up and half the pixels across) so for example an original 2048x2048 texture becomes 1024x1024. The textures should still show up and give you more frame rates as it isn't as big a tga file.

Secondly you could also save it as an 8 bit tga which would require you to put it into indexed colour mode first before saving when you are using photoshop. You'll also have to find a way to do it without loosing colour, I can't remember how but there was a way. This is more native to IL2 just like the bitmap skins and will help the game run more smoothly and use less resources so you should have much more fps. If you can't do it in 8bit then the lowest bit you can do which should be therefore 16 bit should also help slightly I think but I'm not sure. 8 bit is the most suitable.

[{HVY-E}Jinxx]

Use 'Bright' to convert/save the image.

Will save the color quite well and resize it automatically to 1024 x 1024

[F22-Raptor-2006]

Use 'Bright' to convert/save the image.

Will save the color quite well and resize it automatically to 1024 x 1024

wow didn't know that, i thought it only does bitmap files not targa but okay.