Got everything installed and patched up.

Is there a way to run at my monitor's native resolution of 1680x1050?

Curious too why I can't set Landscape Lighting to Excellent or Landscape Detail to Perfect. Only going up to high on these options for me.

For native resolution open your conf.ini in the game-folder with the text-editor and use the following settings:
[window]
width=1680
height=1050
ColourBits=32
DepthBits=24
StencilBits=8
ChangeScreenRes=1
FullScreen=1
DrawIfNotFocused=1
EnableResize=1
EnableClose=1
SaveAspect=0
Use3Renders=0

and for (my) optimal settings with a ati 4870 use this settings:
[Render_OpenGL]
TexQual=3
TexMipFilter=3
TexCompress=0
TexFlags.UseDither=1
TexFlags.UseAlpha=0
TexFlags.UseIndex=0
TexFlags.PolygonStipple=0
TexFlags.UseClampedSprites=0
TexFlags.DrawLandByTriangles=0
TexFlags.UseVertexArrays=0
TexFlags.DisableAPIExtensions=0
TexFlags.ARBMultitextureExt=1
TexFlags.TexEnvCombineExt=1
TexFlags.SecondaryColorExt=1
TexFlags.VertexArrayExt=1
TexFlags.ClipHintExt=0
TexFlags.UsePaletteExt=0
TexFlags.TexAnisotropicExt=1
TexFlags.TexCompressARBExt=0

TexFlags.TexEnvCombine4NV=0
TexFlags.TexEnvCombineDot3=1
TexFlags.DepthClampNV=0
TexFlags.SeparateSpecular=1
TexFlags.TextureShaderNV=0

HardwareShaders=1

Shadows=2
Specular=2
SpecularLight=2
DiffuseLight=2
DynamicalLights=1
MeshDetail=2
VisibilityDistance=3

Sky=2
Forest=2
LandShading=3
LandDetails=2

LandGeom=3
TexLarge=1
TexLandQual=3
TexLandLarge=1

VideoSetupId=17
Water=2
Effects=1
ForceShaders1x=0

PolygonOffsetFactor=-0.15
PolygonOffsetUnits=-3.0

also in conf.ini.

Perfect settings work only in open-GL!!!

For additional info you might look up "sturmowiki" in google (in german)

Have fun

Fighter pilots make movies, bomber pilots make history

Rob, you are the MAN! :D

Would those optimal settings of your's work with an 8800 GTS 512?

Wanting to tighten the game's textures up some. Looking pretty choppy and blurry for me so far. Will try the reso fix first. :D

I'm not super technical, keep that in mind, but I'm wondering: How do you know that you're setting these properly in the config file for the hardware that you have?? I have an ATI 9600, for example. So how do I know I'm setting resolution and everything else optimally, understanding that if I have it set incorrectly, or expecting too much from my hardware, that I will either see the result, literally, and/or my fps will drop??

Right now, the game looks pretty darn good to me, and my fps are adequate, so I'm inclined to leave well enough alone, but still, you don't know what you don't know, if that makes any sense. :)

Thanks!

Coog

If one owns a nvidia card the following changes are necessary:

TexFlags.TexEnvCombine4NV=1
TexFlags.TexEnvCombineDot3=1
TexFlags.DepthClampNV=1
TexFlags.SeparateSpecular=1
TexFlags.TextureShaderNV=1

And as i have written, thars MY settings for MY system, maybe you have to change something to make it perfect for your system.

@Coog

One must use trial and error. Make a backup of your conf.ini and start changing and finding the best resolution.
If you understand german you might look for conf.ini in sturmowiki there is everything explained.

Now I just gotta get all of my key bindings set up lol that's a lot of stuff. :D

Going to mess around with those config.ini settings too. The resolution helped make things look somewhat better, but the textures still look muddled/bland.

My system set up:
2.4GHz Quad Core
4 GB RAM
8800 GTS 512
Vista 32bit

In case anyone has any suggestions on what might work. :)

Having a problem perhaps someone can help with.

My gun sight is only showing about half the sight. Haven't been able to figure out what's up.

For all aircraft, or just German? German sights are offset and can be centered. I believe it's Shift-F1 or something similar.

@windchaser did you install 4.09 patch ??? if so how did you do it ive downloaded that patch twice now and when i unzipp it i cant find any exe files to run ???

anyone know where im going wrong ???

Huh. Strange. I remember an auto-installer running when I downloaded it.