[Fireskull]

Thank yoiu for the work. I just had to change out my card (to a GTX 470) and was searching for a few days on best IL2 graphics settings. When I found this, I thought I struck gold. I will make the changes at lunch today!!!!

Thank you for your hard work!

Good day, Sluggo

Your GTX 470 should run IL-2 fairly well-it's a good graphics card. Though I am sure that it will accept maximum settings in everything, when you approach an area of the map with many objects then the FPS will surely drop. Whether or not this will be tolerable for you is of course yet to be seen.

The GTX will run Perfect Water in OpenGL and you will have smooth frame rates, but you might need to lower a few other settings. How to activate Perfect Water is near the end of my Tweaking subtopic of the conf.ini file settings. I'm sure that you saw the Table of Contents.

You are going to enjoy this.

[Foxman]

Good day,


What I ment was that you can make IL-2 itself a major folder like Windows, and so forth.


It is looking more like you have a bad graphics card driver, but not sure at this point. You can make sure that you have the correct driver.

If you have ATI, then that could easily explain a driver problem. Can you list all your computer specifications? Check on the right driver first. If that doesn't work, then please post your computer specifications.

Hi Fireskull,

I do have my IL2 File in the major section under C:il2 sturmovik 1946

I also updated my graphics card to 10.5 cataylst, still same issue

I have a

Iten i3-530 Core (2.93mhz, 4 cores if I am reading it right)
6GB DDR3 Ram (1333Mhz)
640GB Hard drive
ATI Raedon 5450 1GB DDR3 Graphics Card (now updated to 10.5 catalyst)
Windows 7 Professional 64bit

[Foxman]

I think I found the issue, I haven;t solved the problem, but may have found the issue

I was searching the the filename on my old hard drive, and found it, it is a file that is included in DirectX 9.Oc, but the version I have is for a 32 bit operating system (or x86) not a 64 bit system (x64)

So if I can find a download for a Dirext X 9.0c 64 bit then I can install it and try it to see if it works

Can you help me out with that

[Fireskull]

I think I found the issue, I haven;t solved the problem, but may have found the issue

I was searching the the filename on my old hard drive, and found it, it is a file that is included in DirectX 9.Oc, but the version I have is for a 32 bit operating system (or x86) not a 64 bit system (x64)

So if I can find a download for a Dirext X 9.0c 64 bit then I can install it and try it to see if it works

Can you help me out with that

Good day,

The DirectX that is included with your Win7 is all that you need. There is a way to reconfigure from 32-bit to 64-bit but I have never done it and don't know the details.


As for the 32-bit configured file in the old hard drive version, the easiest ways to handle that is to first delete the old file, then install the new one in its place or if you have a 64-bit configured copy to slip that in there.

[Foxman]

Hi Fireskull

I got IL2 1946 working on my main new computer now, I tweaked a couple of areas, tweaked them back, installed IL2 1946 to my HSFX 4.1 standard, and now it runs.

I am still slightly confused how I managed to pull it off, thank you for your help though.

Now I am back flying the skies over my Carrier Zuikaku, ahh it feels good.

Thanks for your assistance everyone

[Guest]

Skull, when time is kind, maybe we should edit the contents list in your first post to include links to each section which is possible as one can link to an individual post It'd be quite easy and save a lot of time when looking for an individual section.

[Fireskull]

Hi, philip.ed

That's a great suggestion, but it has been on my mind off and on since I started this topic.


If I make it to too easy to navigate this topic, then that would be like a viewer from the air traveling faster over ground and missing many details down there, like a supersonic jet.

The balance between faster viewing and increasing the opportunity to notice important information is a delicate balance which I am still fine tuning.

For sure, the Table of Contents needs to be improved and made more prominent.

Thank you.

[Guest]

Great

[TomFF]

Thanks for your tips, Fireskull!
(I will read them all again this these days when I'm at my old hometown and have chill-time at hand.)
I currently try different core-settings in 2 different installs. Looks nice, got to learn to be a little more patient
and spend at least one eve with each setting. I can only guess how many hours those tips took to be investigated.
Awesome..
:)

Tom

[ton414]

Hi Fireskull.
Why when flying low, in certain landscapes, with an exterior view, there´s stutter?.

[Fireskull]

Hello, ton

The stuttering happens with all computers using IL-2 when flying over certain areas of the landscape. Those areas are concentrations of graphics data which the system is struggling to process. If just the right combination of different types of intense data streams are being processed at the same time, then we see stutters. This never or rarely happens with only one type of map feature. Stutters are unavoidable on the most poweful computers, too, with our heavily modded IL-2 features added to the map details.

Someday, we probably will see computer graphic systems powerful enough to run the outdated IL-2 graphics engine with no stutters. On Storm of War, for example, the 3D motion graphics are much more efficient, allowing better processing of the simulation with about the same computer capability as you would use for IL-2. Much of the stuttering of IL-2 happens because the technology of that day was clumsy and less efficient than those of today's game and simulation releases.

The only way to eliminate those types of stutters would be for map makers to sacrifice the realisitic details in the map which we all love. We know that such a strategy won't be popular with almost everyone.

We can make adjustment to those stutter zones by doing things such as flying higher, using fewer mods, having fewer guns firing and aircraft flying in missions, and decreasing our graphics card settings.

That's a great question, ton414.

[Fireskull]

This IL-2 Optimization guide has some more information and I clarified a few things.

I feel that you can use these things.

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Fireskull

[RadPig94]

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[RadPig94]

there's a e-book guide for overclocking, the guy has years of experience and has videos too, mind if i share?

[ALLIA29]

If today with computers so powerful that we have in comparison to 8 years and previously worked well and it might not work well now? that is what I will not take it never...or is that never worked well il-2?