Check out what is working from those who have good working COD systems

[nearmiss]

There are some users of BOB COD that are having very good results, and there are the whiners that won't take the time to review the system stats of those who are getting good results.

Many of the videos I've seen indicate a very competent COD, and it is getting better with each patch.

If your system specs don't square up to the specs of people getting good performance you might want to make some inquiries.

I am very sure the people having good results will be glad to share how they achieved their competent installs of COD.

If your system specs don't meet up to what is working you should think about your hardware instead of whining about something that may never be workable.

[danjama]

I've noticed as an observer, that lower systems seem to perform more reliably than newer systems. Just a pattern i've noticed. In particular, older processors - such as an AMD 965BE - seem to perform better than a 2500k for example.

I wonder...

[baronWastelan]

start with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgqr41HA8YA&hd=1

[timholt]

I've noticed as an observer, that lower systems seem to perform more reliably than newer systems. Just a pattern i've noticed. In particular, older processors - such as an AMD 965BE - seem to perform better than a 2500k for example.

I wonder...

You have got that right (sys specs in sig). I get nothing like that video with everything on medium and all the work arounds in place. I don't even bother flashing it up for the (what was a weekly 10 minute session) to remind myself how clunky and annoying it is anymore.

[Crane]

From what Ive seen it doesn't matter what system you have, just about everybody suffers with sound loss whilst on Multi player, I also wasn't aware that my system specs may be preventing me playing co-op missions. Do the system specs have an input into how bad the AI is as well?

[adonys]

my system (look at the sig) is running il2cod flawlessly, without any microstutters, everything on maximum at 1650x1080x120)

[Rattlehead]

Well, it's strange but although my performance has increased with an upgrade, I'm getting a few more microstutters as well. It's nothing to write home about but still something to note.

I've noticed that changing ProcessAffinityMask does absolutely nothing for performance one way or another. As far as I'm concerned, it's best to leave the config file alone as much as possible.

Also, keep various video drivers on hand. For me, the 11.6 catalysts were really bad with Clod, but the 11.5 drivers work fine. Others report otherwise, but no two systems or video settings are exactly the same.

[Ze-Jamz]

You have got that right (sys specs in sig). I get nothing like that video with everything on medium and all the work arounds in place. I don't even bother flashing it up for the (what was a weekly 10 minute session) to remind myself how clunky and annoying it is anymore.

My game runs fine with everythng on max apart from tar amount of building I have in game and the trees on Low running at 1920x1200, my system isn't miles different to yours and I DID notice an o
Improvement jumping up from a HD5770 1gig to a HD6950 2gig.

I have small microstuters when server text comes through sometimes and obviously the loss of sound every 2-3 hours...sometimes more frequently than that

[adonys]

before talking about micro stutters, make sure you have set the amount of buildings to unlimited, that way, everything's cached from far away, not right when you are upon it.

and this is not only related with the buildings amount, but I guess with most of the visual settings.

[RickRuski]

Well I started off with a core 2 duo e6600 2.4gig, 6gig ram, 9600gt 1gig g/c and was able to play with reasonable fps although with video settings turned down to med---low but with a couple on high. After a recent upgrade to a AMD M4N98TD-EVO (yes a sli board but not currently running sli and only 1 gts450 1gb card)AMD 965 Quad @3.4 gb and 4gb ram, and my frame rates have doubled and the game runs very smoothly now with most video settings on High some on med. Now looking forward to getting another gts450 1gb to go to full sli. I have seen a lot of posts about ROF being the best graphically, all I can say is you won't know how good COD is until you have a system upgrade. COD is far superior graphically to me in every way and much more enjoyable. Sure it is not perfect but each patch makes it better. I downloaded ROF new demo to try and I am sorry but it dosen't compare to COD with it's bland landscape. Stop moaning about how bad your system runs this sim and make your settings to get the best that you can and enjoy what is going to be another classic. It took ROF 12 months at least to get to where they are now, Cod is better than that after about 3 months.

[Phazon]

I don't have any really bad performance issues, but I did have to do a fair few tweaks such as deleting the Ubisoft startup video and making sure all the config files were fresh with each new patch.

[roadczar]

The best I can say is I will give it another chance after the US release.:-|
MP Sound Bug and CF Performance are my biggest issues. CF Performance can be dealt with RadeonPro.

[BGs_Ricky]

I get pretty good performance with my system with medium settings (high for a few options) and shadows turned off.

[BigPickle]

There are some users of BOB COD that are having very good results, and there are the whiners that won't take the time to review the system stats of those who are getting good results.

Many of the videos I've seen indicate a very competent COD, and it is getting better with each patch.

If your system specs don't square up to the specs of people getting good performance you might want to make some inquiries.

I am very sure the people having good results will be glad to share how they achieved their competent installs of COD.

If your system specs don't meet up to what is working you should think about your hardware instead of whining about something that may never be workable.

The specs that are given dont match up to what works and what works appears to be random at times.
I have low end system and i get 25-35 fps, with stutter a plenty. My system appears according to others reports to run better than others high end systems.

I think maybe people should not buy any new kit untill the game is presented as fix/stable, I know i wont, and i dont believe in encouraging others to do so when its the game that is problematic more than the system.

[Tvrdi]

There are some users of BOB COD that are having very good results, and there are the whiners that won't take the time to review the system stats of those who are getting good results.

Many of the videos I've seen indicate a very competent COD, and it is getting better with each patch.

If your system specs don't square up to the specs of people getting good performance you might want to make some inquiries.

I am very sure the people having good results will be glad to share how they achieved their competent installs of COD.

If your system specs don't meet up to what is working you should think about your hardware instead of whining about something that may never be workable.

you forgot us, who done everthing what was possible and who has great SW and HW knowledge and experience in beta testing and still "whine" because the performance is *beep!* on our modern rigs

[Rattlehead]

before talking about micro stutters, make sure you have set the amount of buildings to unlimited, that way, everything's cached from far away, not right when you are upon it.



It's worth a shot...although for some reason with the 11.5 drivers I get huge artifacts with buildings on unlimited. But there are some other things I'm going to try before spitting my dummy out. (Kidding.) :)

[VO101_Tom]

The best I can say is I will give it another chance after the US release.:-|
MP Sound Bug and CF Performance are my biggest issues. CF Performance can be dealt with RadeonPro.

Temporary solution: For me, and for four of my pals has no sound problems (MP), since we disabled the forest (different pc configs). I know, is ugly, but the sound is good.

[TeeJay82]

All graphics maxed out... shadows off... close to never below 50fps

[badfinger]

I have everything set on High, and have very few problems. Once in awhile, a strange line in the sky or some ragged edges around a windscreen. Things will only get better.

My biggest complaint is with the campaigns. Some missions just don't load. Others have planes that move in circles, unless you use the brakes. There's one where a ME-109 seems to have one landing gear strut shorter than the other. Can't see my campaign statistics, either.

And, the game statistics don't update.

binky9

[Ataros]

35 - 55 fps online on medium-high settings, no stutters, no sound bug.

See link #5 in my sig for some performance hints.

[pupo162]

There are some users of BOB COD that are having very good results, and there are the whiners that won't take the time to review the system stats of those who are getting good results.

Many of the videos I've seen indicate a very competent COD, and it is getting better with each patch.

If your system specs don't square up to the specs of people getting good performance you might want to make some inquiries.

I am very sure the people having good results will be glad to share how they achieved their competent installs of COD.

If your system specs don't meet up to what is working you should think about your hardware instead of whining about something that may never be workable.

yeah yeah... all of that and bla bla bla. Check the game specs on the box, and compare them with te actual specs needed.

[drewpee]

Best game I've ever owned. I can no longer get into playing IL2 1946 after COD. Sure there's problems, but it's worth it and the best thing is it will only get better. I remember not being able to play IL2 Sturmovik on my average PC when it was first came out.

[JG52Uther]

This is great, here was me thinking it was the developers fault that MP sounds don't work, the AI crashes into the ground, radio commands don't work, buildings pop up, the qmb is worse than il2 etc etc and it turns out it was my computer all along!

Personally I think people using the offensive term 'whiners' when talking about paying customers should get the same penalty as people using other offensive language here.

[Ze-Jamz]

This is great, here was me thinking it was the developers fault that MP sounds don't work, the AI crashes into the ground, radio commands don't work, buildings pop up, the qmb is worse than il2 etc etc and it turns out it was my computer all along!

Personally I think people using the offensive term 'whiners' when talking about paying customers should get the same penalty as people using other offensive language here.

Here here..

[nearmiss]

The specs that are given dont match up to what works and what works appears to be random at times.
I have low end system and i get 25-35 fps, with stutter a plenty. My system appears according to others reports to run better than others high end systems.

I think maybe people should not buy any new kit untill the game is presented as fix/stable, I know i wont, and i dont believe in encouraging others to do so when its the game that is problematic more than the system.

My experience with electronic devices they are consistent. Departures from consistent, intermittents are usually caused by external influences. I'm not saying software is 100% competent. I'm saying external influences can cause intermittent issues that are manifested in software performances that others are not having.

I've had intermittent issues with my mouse, with my joystick etc., over the years showing up in my software usage. I've actually narrowed the problem down to where I thought it was my mouse... bought another one and found my USB port was causing the problems. Microsoft actually created the fix for the USB problem in that instance.

I have had all kinds of problems over the years with memory, configuring bios, setting up proper drivers all that effected computer and software performance. Information was difficult to find, and most often the answers came from another user.

Solutions are not found in whines. A starting place for solutions is found by seeking the advice of others and trying to isolate the problem.

Chances are if no one else has the problem with a very similar system specification, it's usually something you have on your system or something you are doing or not doing.

[carguy_]

Best game I've ever owned. I can no longer get into playing IL2 1946 after COD. Sure there's problems, but it's worth it and the best thing is it will only get better. I remember not being able to play IL2 Sturmovik on my average PC when it was first came out.
Whatcha talkin` bout Willis? IL2 has been dead since 2007 when all the mod hell broke loose. But I do agree with the difficulties long after it hatched. As it turned out, I got a new pc in June 2002 and it was hard to run it on medium at anything more than 1024x768.

My specs :
Intel Quad Q6600@3.1 GHz
Powercolor Ati HD4870 512 MB RAM OCed by 7% (core + memory)
Windows Vista Ultimate x64
4GB RAM GEIL Black Dragon 800Hz
One case cooling 120mm
CPU cooling Zalman 9800Cu
ASUS P5Q Pro mainboard
HDD Samsung F3 1TB 16MB Cache

I take a very good care of what goes on in my disks. Games have their own partition and all the rest has its separate partition. Right now the partition where Steam is located has 84GB free HD space.
Never tried any beta patches, just updated once Steam said so. I have the Ubisoft intro enabled. I stick to the must-have processes in the background
I can`t put a screenshot of my settings, but I remember :
Resolution 1280x768,
Terrain detail medium,
buildings detail low,
buildings amount unlimited,
trees enabled,
roads enabled ,
grass disabled,
SSAO disabled,
AAx4,
models medium,
fullscreen enabled (pseudo fullscreen disabled)
texture detail medium.


Over sea 48-77 FPS, smooth regardless of aircraft numbers.
Over terrain 28-42 FPS also regardless.
Minimum fps I get when looking through revi at biggest cities.
0.2sec stutters from time to time only over terrain.

[carguy_]

Personally I think people using the offensive term 'whiners' when talking about paying customers should get the same penalty as people using other offensive language here.
You`re lucky there`s no penalty on here forums for posting stupidity.

[Albtraum23]

yeah yeah... all of that and bla bla bla. Check the game specs on the box, and compare them with te actual specs needed.

+++

I feel cheated.
When i must read this Bullshit from Nearmiss.

I think no more Money for Cheaters !!!

FUA

Goodbye 1c

[nearmiss]

+++

I feel cheated.
When i must read this Bullshit from Nearmiss.

I think no more Money for Cheaters !!!

FUA

Goodbye 1c

Looks like you'll be whining for quite awhile, since you don't get it.

Everything has to be someone else's fault, yet they aren't having a problem.

You don't see something wrong with that thinking? LOL

[nearmiss]

This is great, here was me thinking it was the developers fault that MP sounds don't work, the AI crashes into the ground, radio commands don't work, buildings pop up, the qmb is worse than il2 etc etc and it turns out it was my computer all along!

Personally I think people using the offensive term 'whiners' when talking about paying customers should get the same penalty as people using other offensive language here.

I remember IL2 we had sounds that did and didn't work. We had AI crashes into the ground as far back as I remember. One patch would fix another would break it again. Anomalies were on and off as well throughout the life of IL2.

I think whiners is an excellent word.

Maybe you could give us a better word, that won't offend paying customers. I went to the movie the other night, half the people were whining when they were talking among themselves on the way out. Others were talking about how they loved the movie. All paying customers just doing what comes natural... to them.

[senseispcc]

When I need to fly a heavy mission or a long one I use GBoost a little memory and procesor booster it work very well.
I have big system and only during the first 15 days of the game I had minor problems of performmance (fps).
The graphic bugs are been removed one after the other.
There still are some bugs but minor ones in my case.

Win7 x64
Asus p6x58d
I7 975 3.75Ghz
System & game HDD 256Gb 10.000rpm.
12 Gb (6*2Gb) ddr3 1333Mhz memory
Geforce gtx580 1.5Gb
Trackir 5
Logitech G940.


Have a nice game.

[JG52Uther]

I think whiners is an excellent word.

Maybe you could give us a better word, that won't offend paying customers. I went to the movie the other night, half the people were whining when they were talking among themselves on the way out. Others were talking about how they loved the movie. All paying customers just doing what comes natural... to them.

How about customers? Whiner is offensive when referring to somebody who has bought a product that does not work as advertised and has the temerity to come on to a company forum and complain about it.
Still, you don't seem to understand so I will leave it at that. Its not a good way to further the companies interests though, by alienating a large percentage of future product purchasers.

[nearmiss]

How about customers? Whiner is offensive when referring to somebody who has bought a product that does not work as advertised and has the temerity to come on to a company forum and complain about it.
Still, you don't seem to understand so I will leave it at that. Its not a good way to further the companies interests though, by alienating a large percentage of future product purchasers.

What I tried to say is... it doesn't matter. Paying customers and non-paying customer will whine. Some people are just going to whine.

[SYN_Jed]

Must remember the next time one of my customers comes in to make a legitimate complaint to just call em a whiner.....anyway....back to the real world...

[BigPickle]

Personally I think people using the offensive term 'whiners' when talking about paying customers should get the same penalty as people using other offensive language here.

Right on brother! Moderators no less. I was thinking this this morning but knew since I've been classed as a 'whiner' I'd just get flamed for saying that as a moderator nearmiss I'm disapointed in you for not trying to stay impartial, as is your job here.
What if i needed your help, my whiner tag would effect how you delt with the situation even though it might be something totally legitimate.

[Chivas]

The sim runs very nicely on my system aside from the bugs and missing features. The load times are very fast as I installed an extra drive {SSD} with only Windows 7 64bit and the sim loaded on it. If the sim is supported we should see most of the issues addressed if its not supported its over.

[robtek]

Some people dont get it. it seems.
Posting a complaint/bug/error -----> GOOD! ---> productive!

Posting the same again, even when posted by another -----> still good! ---> ok, to recall.

Posting the same errors again and again and again -----> WHINING! ---> despicable!! ---> nerve grating! ---> contraproductive! ---> flamewarigniting!

Am i wrong?
If yes, WHY?

[Doc_uk]

before talking about micro stutters, make sure you have set the amount of buildings to unlimited, that way, everything's cached from far away, not right when you are upon it.

and this is not only related with the buildings amount, but I guess with most of the visual settings.
Well sorry to say this but i have building set to unlimeted, but everything is not cashed from far away
infact the building render right in front of me

[carguy_]

Some people dont get it. it seems.
Posting the same errors again and again and again -----> WHINING! ---> despicable!! ---> nerve grating! ---> contraproductive! ---> flamewarigniting!

Am i wrong?
If yes, WHY?
If this crowd actually followed the rule, they wouldn`t have anything else to do. This forum or anything else.

[BigPickle]

looks like you'd be out of a hobby too then carguy

[Blackdog_kt]

This is great, here was me thinking it was the developers fault that MP sounds don't work, the AI crashes into the ground, radio commands don't work, buildings pop up, the qmb is worse than il2 etc etc and it turns out it was my computer all along!

Personally I think people using the offensive term 'whiners' when talking about paying customers should get the same penalty as people using other offensive language here.

The obvious as day difference is that you're mostly talking about features and he's mostly talking about stability, entirely different things.

You either missed it or try to make it look like he's referring to features in order to construct a strawman argument, but since i like giving people the benefit of doubt i'll just assume you missed the difference ;)



There's a ton of things i'd like to see changed or improved but to be honest the broken record approach is way past its usefulness: nobody is paying attention to it anymore because it's repetitive and boring, it doesn't result in anything getting fixed anytime faster and it just gets everyone bored, even the contributing community members who spend their time on improving the gameplay experience of others by posting guides, FAQs, workarounds and 3rd party content (skins, campaigns, etc).

All this talk about alienating paying customers and not a single word about a few very vocal customers alienating unpaid volunteers (other customers), discouraging them from trying to help through sheer volumes of repetitive boredom...i guess this aspect of it all goes over most people's heads because they think they deserve the attention no matter what. :-P

Personally speaking, i've decided i'll be spending my weekends going to the beach instead of trying to guide a flock of impatient, hold-my-hand-please members of the community through every bit of manageable trouble i've managed to find a solution for and it reflects in my posting frequency. Let them use the forum search function or, god forbid, experiment on their own a bit, i'm off swimming.

If you think this place is dead due to lack of frequent developer feedback, then think again. When the majority of contributing community members are tired of these antics and decide to do something more productive with their time or keep their findings to themselves and enjoy the game, instead of spending their time responding to repetitive posts for the umpteenth time, then is when this place will really be dead.

There won't be any people helping you with tweaking your PC and game settings, there won't be any people making missions, campaigns and skins for you to enjoy, there won't be any people working on scripts to be used on servers but then again it will be ok because there won't be any people hosting servers to begin with and through a twist of sweet irony, it will be the fault of those who complain the loudest in the least useful manner (there are useful complaints and there are useless one, i prefer the useful kind).

When that time comes, you guys will really depend on Luthier dropping you a bone once every couple of months because the rest of us will be too busy doing other things to argue with you here, including flying a sim that works fine for us instead of spending our time trying to make it work for you too ;)

Usually, what gets better results is:

1) Submit a proper bug report without snide remarks, just the logs/error messages/description/how to reproduce it.

2) Post reminders/questions/updates/workarounds on the relevant thread only.

3) Don't repeat the same thing all over the place in irrelevant threads, it annoys people and makes them prone to ignore you with great pleasure and go swimming instead of trying to help you out :-P

[nearmiss]

Must remember the next time one of my customers comes in to make a legitimate complaint to just call em a whiner.....anyway....back to the real world...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL1lfSzgcAw

You gotta admit whining does have a nice ring to it.

Back to the real world... face to face it would be rare to call someone a whiner. Might get your nose broke.. LOL

On forums people hide behind their anonymous id, which shouldn't be license to say things they would not say to you face to face. Alas, that is the way of it.

The funny part is... you can't complain about people calling you a whiner without whining.

[carguy_]

looks like you'd be out of a hobby too then carguy
No problem. It`s about the game, not about me. I bought this game too you know.

[JG52Uther]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL1lfSzgcAw



The funny part is... you can't complain about people calling you a whiner without whining.

True lol.

How about this:

Profanilty=BAN
Calling someone a whiner etc=BAN
Calling someone a fanboi etc=BAN

Both sides are just as abusive to each other, although why there are even 'sides' here is downright weird.

[flyingblind]

This is great, here was me thinking it was the developers fault that MP sounds don't work, the AI crashes into the ground, radio commands don't work, buildings pop up, the qmb is worse than il2 etc etc and it turns out it was my computer all along!

Personally I think people using the offensive term 'whiners' when talking about paying customers should get the same penalty as people using other offensive language here.


I think the post is about performance rather that bugs. You are talking about bugs that will need to be fixed by the developers working on the code. Performance is how well your system runs the game as it stands with reference to fps, stutters and perhaps some of the artifacts.

There may still be some optimization to do that will improve performance across the board but the fact is some people cannot get satisfactory performance when their system specs suggest they should. No one has provided an answer why that should be.

I am lucky to be happy enough with the performance given my specs. The game runs with everything maxed at ave 50fps over water, 30 to 40fps over land dropping to low, mid 20s when attacking bombers over London. Minimal stuttering.

My choice of componants for my upgrade were made on the following basis.

1. My budget was no more than £500.

2. I have always prefered AMD over Intel on a purely subjective basis and the Phenome 965 fitted into my budget.

3. The motherboard got good reviews and seemed well designed and I liked the fact it has a nVidia chipset.

4. I got an nVidia graphics card as the developers have always said nVidia were willing to have a dialogue whereas ATI were not. I also got an Asus card to match the Asus board. I perhaps wish I had got a card with more Vram.

5. I needed DDR3 ram and I only got 4Gb of ram to keep within budget but again I made the mistake of getting 2 x 2Gb whereas I should have got 1 x 4Gb so now I can only upgrade with 2 more 2 x 2Gb or 2 x 4Gb rather than being able to get another 1 x 4Gb.

6. All the componants are designed to be overclocked but I haven't done so yet due to rather weak cooling.

The whole lot including VAT etc came in at £480.

[kimosabi]

5. I needed DDR3 ram and I only got 4Gb of ram to keep within budget but again I made the mistake of getting 2 x 2Gb whereas I should have got 1 x 4Gb so now I can only upgrade with 2 more 2 x 2Gb or 2 x 4Gb rather than being able to get another 1 x 4Gb.


Unless you were getting 2x4gb sticks from the get go, you should be happy you got 2x2gb. 1x4gb single stick wouldn't do you much good. :) 8gb is plenty man.

Anyway, I'm glad to see NOTHING have changed on this forum. I may install again in a year or two. Hepp!

[Rattlehead]

It's worth a shot...although for some reason with the 11.5 drivers I get huge artifacts with buildings on unlimited. But there are some other things I'm going to try before spitting my dummy out. (Kidding.) :)

Well, egads.

Turns out the artifacts with buildings set to unlimited and stutter I was getting was not video related, or at least it doesn't seem to be the case.

I downclocked from 4.5ghz to 4.2ghz and voila! Artifacts gone and stutter is pretty much gone too.* It may sound strange, but my vcore (1.32v) might not have been quite enough juice at 4.5ghz.
I'm not 100% sure if it really is the case, but what else can it be, with everything else the same?
(Temps were okay at 4.5ghz, so heat was not the issue.)

*Except for the first 30 seconds or so over London.

[flyingblind]

The board will take just one ram module in first slot (single channel) and then a second module can be installed but then both the remaining slots must be populated. To upgrade I can only increase to 8 or 12Mb whereas if I had put the single 4Mb in I could upgrade to 8 and then to 12 or 16Mb, or so I believe. I was thinking if I wanted to install a ram drive although some are saying they don't work so well.

[ATAG_Doc]

There are some users of BOB COD that are having very good results, and there are the whiners that won't take the time to review the system stats of those who are getting good results.

Many of the videos I've seen indicate a very competent COD, and it is getting better with each patch.

If your system specs don't square up to the specs of people getting good performance you might want to make some inquiries.

I am very sure the people having good results will be glad to share how they achieved their competent installs of COD.

If your system specs don't meet up to what is working you should think about your hardware instead of whining about something that may never be workable.


But of course! You don't have to mention that do you? Everyone knows this I am sure.

It's a well documented fact that a few people are going to have to mow a few more lawns this summer. Wash a few more loads of laundry or whatever you have to do to earn some decent scratch to beef up your specs to get decent results.

This is obvious isn't it?

[ParaB]

On my system (core-i5 2500k @4Ghz, 8 Gig RAM, GTX470, Win 7 64 bit) CoD runs well. Not perfect, but OK. FSAA still seems to be limited to 2x and sometimes I do still get micro-stutters or slow-downs, but from a technical PVO I'm actually quite happy with CoD.

My problems with CoD stem from other issues.

[Igo kyu]

I haven't yet bought CoD, I probably will when the price is right for me (lower, or with fewer bugs).

I'm kind of glad about that after reading some of the reports here and elsewhere, I'd prefer it if the reports were all glowing and then I might have bought it by now, but if after that the product turned out to be as currently reported I'd have been incredibly annoyed, and probably recommending that nobody ever buy any Maddox products ever again (or something: I still fly 1946).

<comedy interlude>

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore "Integrity is a wonderful thing, and I'm willing to pay for it."

</comedy interlude> (you can't buy integrity, if you bought it, it doesn't contain complete integrity any more. I'm not even sure that's right on third thoughts, but I'm sure the joke is relevant)

Something went wrong with SoW/BoB-CoD/IL2, I don't know what it was (though perhaps I have some guesses), I want what was advertised here rather than what seems to have been delivered.

[flyingblind]

I think the post is about performance rather that bugs. You are talking about bugs that will need to be fixed by the developers working on the code. Performance is how well your system runs the game as it stands with reference to fps, stutters and perhaps some of the artifacts.

There may still be some optimization to do that will improve performance across the board but the fact is some people cannot get satisfactory performance when their system specs suggest they should. No one has provided an answer why that should be.

I am lucky to be happy enough with the performance given my specs. The game runs with everything maxed at ave 50fps over water, 30 to 40fps over land dropping to low, mid 20s when attacking bombers over London. Minimal stuttering.

My choice of componants for my upgrade were made on the following basis.

1. My budget was no more than £500.

2. I have always prefered AMD over Intel on a purely subjective basis and the Phenome 965 fitted into my budget.

3. The motherboard got good reviews and seemed well designed and I liked the fact it has a nVidia chipset.

4. I got an nVidia graphics card as the developers have always said nVidia were willing to have a dialogue whereas ATI were not. I also got an Asus card to match the Asus board. I perhaps wish I had got a card with more Vram.

5. I needed DDR3 ram and I only got 4Gb of ram to keep within budget but again I made the mistake of getting 2 x 2Gb whereas I should have got 1 x 4Gb so now I can only upgrade with 2 more 2 x 2Gb or 2 x 4Gb rather than being able to get another 1 x 4Gb.

6. All the componants are designed to be overclocked but I haven't done so yet due to rather weak cooling.

The whole lot including VAT etc came in at £480.



Whilst I think, I also do the following:

Install CloD on it's own drive with it's own Win 7 64 bit OS.

Do not install anything not needed by Clod on that drive. Inc anti virus.

Launch CloD using Game Booster.

I used to delete game and reinstall when updating but now just delete .ini files from Steam folder and documents and also the files in cache.

Do not fiddle with config files.

Defrag game files after update.

Have up to date drivers correctly installed. ie. remove all traces of old ones first.

Password protect the drive to keep kids out as they love poking around in dodgy sites and social networks and downloading stuff unsuitable for the health of a computer.

If all else fails it is no big deal to format drive and install everything fresh.

Not sure if any of that helps but it can't do any harm.

[Ataros]

^^ great tips. Must do for stable gaming.