Did you uninstall all of your NVidia drivers before installing the 6970? Image quality should be identical on both cards.

Yes i did uninstall

S!

Why use HDMI when DVI is good enough? I have no problems with colors or anything like that with my 6970HD. I run on a BenQ 24in 1920x1200 (16:10).

Heya Doc,

That pixelated sky is def a bug in something you setup. I had it for a little while and unfortunately do not remember how I got rid of it again. (Only thing that comes to mind is your still running kegetys mipmap mod or something, Ill try later to see if I can replicate it)

I do feel you though, it seems ATI cards have much more graphical bugs then Nvidia ones right now. (My main gripe still being the three blue lines on the horizon I can´t seem to get rid of :()

im not running no mods, so im not sure what this is kegetys mipmap mod
And the sky is very annoying
The 3blue lines i only get if i run dx10, if i run dx9 i dont get them
Ive also gone back to Dvi
If you got anymore help on the sky, then plz add
regards
Doc

S!

For you fellow AMD users, check HERE for something nice :) Enjoy!

Doc,

I'm using a 6970 with the Cat 11/3 drivers and I don't have the pixelated sky. I'm not sure what causes it in your case, but here is the contents of my conf file from "C:\Users\NJM\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\conf.ini". You could try temporarily renaming your conf.ini file to something else and putting the text below into a new conf.ini. If it fixes the sky, then you can try and work out which graphics setting causes it.

I share your exasperation that 1C don't seem to have bothered testing the game on AMD Radeon cards. I bought my 6970 specifically for this game, but I'm not sure now that it was the best choice. The graphics error that winds me up the most is the lack of horizon haze and that blue line/lines on the horizon. That was missing on my Nvidia GTX285. Mind you, by the time they have fixed some of the other more serious problems (broken CEM etc) then they may well have got the graphics problems sorted out.

Cheers,

Nick




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Well, ive just switched to dx10 mode, and the pixelated sky is gone, so its dx9 issue for me, but will stick with dx10 now, looks are much better:grin:
Thanks for all the help guys
and yes blue line/lines on the horizon, are bad, so of putting
Kind regards
Doc

S!

You are welcome Doc :) Did you file the Driver Feedback Form to AMD? I did describing the issues like those stripes etc. The more feedback they get the better. Make sure to put in detail how to reproduce the bugs, will help. Sure it can be hard for the driver teams to do something unless they get info from Luthier & Co too. But at least they are aware of the issues.

have you got a link for the driver feedback?