I meant your system specs. I don't think anyone can comment without those. You could of course compare your friends system specs with your own. I don't mean to be rude but if they are all relatively low you could all have similar problems. Same goes for how they are each setup. I assume you've started with the lowest possible settigs and worked up from there?

The thing is, many people are playing CoD quite happily but as one other post here says, you need a fairly high spec machine before you get anything like the results you get in IL-2 '46. There are even some strange anomalies for virtually identical spec machines that may depend on all their Settings (in-game Video, in-game Audio, in-Windows Graphics Card control panel settings, background processes, Windows version, etc) even similar system spec PCs may be producing different results due to how they are set up in total, especially if they have 'borderline' CoD specs. Actually the one constant is the game itself for a set of identical settings.

EDIT: also knowing your settings will help.

My friend there will always be people that are not happy no matter what but life and Cliffs of Dover goes on.

Not really sure what the point of saying that is. Wouldn't you be aggravated if you just bought a game and everything was purple and it crashed every 2 min?

My game works just fine. I want to help out other people so they can enjoy the game as much as I do. The color issue was resolved and i'm sure the crashing will be fixed in the next patch. Nobody is trying to rage or rant, I just wanted to get my friends games working properly.:cool:

I've tried everything to up my frames (RAM disc, added ram to 12gb, latest drivers, reinstall, clear cache, defrag, etc, etc, etc) without success. I even hoped for the ghost patch from steam but no joy.

Only two things that has helped was overclocking the vid card and playing around with the video settings in game.

I cry myself to sleep every day that goes by without an optimization patch. ;-)

I'm one of the strange ones it seems, mines worked ok from day one. Sure, it was a bit demanding at first, but from the first patch it was fine, at least in terms of performance. Absolutely buggy, but the performance was ok, decent fps, no stutters that I can remember etc..

GTX 580, Core i7 of some kind, 8GB of something or other, Win7 64, mouse, keyboard, leather office chair, tiled floor etc etc.

Must be your chair!

Mine has worked fine from day 1 but I have a better than average system.. I think for this game a good graphics card and a better CPU is the way to go.. the double and triple G Card crowd seem to be having far less return for their investment than those with simpler high performance systems.

Todays average system is a good quadcore, a good VGA with 1GB of VRAM and 8GB DDR3 RAM, running Windows 7 x64.

You don't need the best CPU, the best brand of RAM or ultimate VGA to run CloD ok, but don't expect so much without the basic config above...

I agree that Combat flight sims have always required high end systems to get the best out of them. I did avoid buying two video cards and went with one very high end card with the possiblility of adding another if SLI performance made it worth while. So far it appears that hasn't been the case, although a few people I respect say SLI has given some extra performance.

I also recommend having a seperate SSD drive with only a copy of Windows7 64bit , COD, and its peripherials running on it. Your motherboard will give you the option to boot to two or more Windows copy's. I've never seen a decent combat flight sim yet that ran well with minimul spec machines.

My copy of the game has been running very well since I bought it shortly after the north american release.

Running the latest beta right now with hotfix and everything is just honkey dorey, exept for clouds as fps killers, but even with a lot of clouds I still get a very playable framerate, just not 50-60 average like on a clear day.