Glad to hear that.
SLI or dual GPU is not friendly with IL-2.
Oh, I think I forgot to tell you some more things about those hitches.
SLC SSD ;) and SetAffinity=2 in conf.ini

astrokittey
 

Glad you are on the mend. Although I have had SLI capable boards for the last 5 years, the concept never really made sence to me (either FPS/playability or $$) and most of my reading analysis led me to that conclusion.

Your Fatality actually has its own sound processor. Many add on sound cards do not. My current sys once used the onboard Realtek AL889 sound and the game ran fine for me. I eventually disables it and installed a Creative X-FI Extreme gamer. Game sound is not significantly but all other audio...tunes, DVD, surround, etc is way better with this add in card. A worthy expenditure for another $85 US.

1. Do you perform Disk Cleanup and multiple Defrags on a regular basis

2. Have you observed your hard drive light during the stutters?

3. Have you set a fixed swapfile to say 3500?

4. Have you ever defragged your swapfile itself?

Never tried out the new 26x series of cards yet.

Now that I have the graphics suttuers worked out (wheewh!) How about these radio chatter stutters?

Any fix for these?

Here is my sound setup:

[sound]
SoundUse=1
SoundEngine=1
Speakers=4
Placement=0
SoundFlags.reversestereo=0
RadioFlags.Enabled=1
RadioEngine=2
MusicVolume=5
ObjectVolume=14
MusState.takeoff=1
MusState.inflight=1
MusState.crash=1
MusFlags.play=1
MasterVolume=14
Attenuation=7
SoundMode=3
SamplingRate=2
NumChannels=2
SoundExt.occlusions=0
SoundFlags.hardware=1
SoundFlags.streams=1
SoundFlags.duplex=1
SoundExt.acoustics=0
SoundExt.volumefx=0
SoundFlags.voicemgr=0
SoundFlags.static=1
VoiceVolume=11
Channels=2
SoundExt.extrender=0
SoundFlags.bugscorrect=0
SoundSetupId=8
ActivationLevel=0.02
Preemphasis=0.85
RadioLatency=0.5
AGC=1
PTTMode=1
SoundFlags.UseRadioChatter=1
SoundFlags.AutoActivation=0
RadioFlags.PTTMode=0
RadioFlags.PlayClicks=0
ActLevel=0
MicLevel=0
SoundFlags.forceEAX1=0

Thanks!

Have you try using IL2 1946 Nvidia Tweak

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/newrepl...uote=1&p=65215

Yeah I'm using the March 2008 .dlls and I've played around with different Sound section settings but so far still gettuing some stutter at random times with wingman radio chatter.

Don't waste your time again cause it's irrelevant with sound setting.
Since game will read radio chatter etc etc from HDD, HDD access delay(or stutter) is inevitable.
As I posted before, buy SLC SSD.
It really diminishes those little delays and so quiet that you never know when game aceess data.
The price of 16GB or 32GB SLC SSD is quite acceptable nowadays.
Just don't buy MLC SSD, it's crap.

Interesting idea for gaming to get a SSD. Any brand or model recommendations?

deathtrack ?
 

Astro,
e8400 + 8800 GT OC 512. I was wondering what deathtrack will do with a 260 216 or 285 vid card.
Can you run it PERFECT + maxed out in nvidia settings:

1.vsync off three times and note the low fps.
2.vsync on, see if it dips below 60, 75 whatever your referesh is set to?

Thanks
( and I thank you in advance for my FLiBYE)

Sound stutter...
 

Astro,
No sound stutter here at all.
Try to locate some IL-2 audio and play the audio WITHOUT playing the game, see what your CPU utilization is with just the audio playing. Be sure before you test this that no background proggy's are running, your CPU should be 0. Set task manager to show one graph so that any/all cores doing processing will show as a single total % figure..

With WMP minimized for playback I get 0-1% CPU usage playing back a VO sound file. Mostly it stays at 0%.