Graphics problems

[The Cheese]

Hi all, I've been playing Il-2 for quite a while now, but within the last year I've had to install Il-2 46 off of my original disk onto two new Windows 7 64 bit computers, and for some reason, despite being powerful machines with all their drivers and everything, the game will, no matter what I do, refuse to allow "Perfect" landscape graphics (yes I'm using OpenGL) and it also will not allow me to change the screen resolution to 1280x1024 or 1920x1080, using the conf.ini file. But on my old installs of Il-2 on a couple older computers with Windows XP, I'm not having this problem. I'm sort of starting to think it might be a problem with my disk and maybe I should buy another copy of the game from Steam, or there's some issue with Windows 7.

Any idea what my problem might be?

[The Cheese]

Agh, more frustration. Just recently a desktop I use was upgraded from XP to Windows 7. Before the switch, it was running the game on full graphics with perfect landscape.

Now the computer is Windows 7, and nothing else has changed except for increased RAM. I reinstalled using my old disks, and sure enough I can't get perfect graphics anymore!

But when I put Il-2 onto a flash drive and played it at my school (don't worry I haven't distributed it or anything, no one else has it), using both XP and Windows 7 I was able to get perfect graphics on the school computers, so I don't really think it's trouble with my disks/install (although I'm not ruling that out).

This give any more insight as to my problems?

[Whacker]

Make sure you did NOT install it to the \Program Files (x86) or \Program Files directories. Those tend to be bad places for older games in newer versions of Windows.

[The Cheese]

Yeah, that seems like it might have something to do with it. Although actually on the two desktops my father somehow messed with it and it started working correctly, he just had to toggle stencil buffer a few times and then I messed with the config file, but still no luck with my laptop. I'll try re-installing to a new location and see how it goes

[IceFire]

What video cards are you working with on all of these systems? People tell me all the time that they have "really powerful systems" and then they are using an extremely basic video card (they've been fooled by the high number in the marketing) that may or may not be able to run games they way they want to.

Most laptops these have Intel GMA HD which are oriented around running Aero desktop in Windows 7 and hardware accelerated PowerPoint (for the nifty 3D transitions) and not really capable of handling games. Some do have fancier nVidia and AMD cards in them... is yours one?

[The Cheese]

One of the desktops is sort of old, but it's working correctly now, so it's not an issue.

The two desktops (now having no problems)
1. and older Intel chip, dual core at 2.8 GHz, 8 GB DDR3 RAM, and Nvidea GeForce 9500 with 1GB on board.

2. Intel i5-2500K quad-core 3.3 GHz, 8 GB DDR3 RAM, Nvidea GTX 550i with 2GB DDR5 on board

So both those computers had the problems originally, but then they started working later on.

My laptop has a crappy Intel HD GPU, but also it has an extra card that I paid extra for, and I've tried running Il-2 on either card.

Laptop: Intel Core i5-2540M CPU dual core @ 2.6 GHz, also hyperthreaded, 6 GB DDR3 RAM, then there's the Intel HD card with 512 MB on board, but for games I switch it over to a AMD Radeon HD 6770M with 2GB DDR5 on board.

I know my laptop's card is good because I play CLoD on it, as well as numerous other high-end graphics games, so it's just something unhappy about my configurations I think. I still have yet to reinstall Il-2 to a new folder, been a bit busy lately. I'll post again once I've tried that

[IceFire]

So it has a hybrid graphics option. Similar to my laptop from the sounds of it. I'd make sure that IL-2 is recognizing the correct video card (via the setup program) and that you've turned on things like the stencil buffer. Perfect mode should then be available to you.