Whats are the oldest drivers that run on the 5800 cards?

9.11 drivers on my 5850 card give me IL2 problems (like you all mentioned already). I tried dropping in 9.10 open gl dlls into the game folder, but that didnt work. Tried with 9.6 dlls, but that would hardly even run (like 1 fps). I dont think those older drivers work on 5800 cards.

Ati card owners are out of luck with IL2 I guess. It too bad, this card screams with every other game I've tun on it. I guess I'll wait for SOW, it should run ok on Ati...right?

This got me flying....

Run il2setup exe, disable vertex shaders, and vertex extensions.

Then in game, video options, set landscape to "excellent", not "perfect". Artifacting, and blocky textures appear with perfect landscape.

This is with 9.11 drivers.

Its not perfect image quality, but its running until they fix these drivers. I might try 9.10 drivers later today.

I have just read this, after Alpha recommended i use 7.11 ccc for my X1950 Pro, and now the FMB map loading works in 409m. Probably this issue with OGL in the later drivers, but then, 408m and 409 beta patch never had an issue for some bizarre reason.

I am runnng the same system as you, but that Link is Dead. Do you have another link?

March Dll's V409m

http://www.sukhoi.ru/forum/attachmen...5&d=1205425809

Same problems here with new system P55-G65 and Ati HD5770.
Cat drivers 9.8 supplied on CD and downloaded 9.10.
9.8 random crashes and 9.10 menu/font/colour problems as described before.

Only game i play on this system: IL2
Older system has (and had) NVidia Cards and never had problems with it.
Hope there will be a solution soon.
Ray

But the font problem didn't occur with 9.10, it started after them.

Try 10.2 or 10.3. Running 10.2 here on a 5870, on DirectX, works brilliantly.

I feel like I fell into the trap with ATi. It's really frustrating and completely random the crashes!

I run Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, Radeon 4890 Vapor-X, 8GB Corsair Ram in a Gigabyte EP35-DS4 Motherboard and a Quad 6600 G0 stepping O/C to 3Ghz.

I have Catalyst 10.2. I have disabled Vertex options in conf.ini. I dropped the ati dll file into the main IL2 folder. I also have the March 2008 (so long ago) .dll's in there.

FMB still crashes when it feels like it. When flying offline, I have no problems at-all. No graphics glitches, no problems.

As soon as I venture online (Dogfight Server at WC) I start wondering just how-long I will be around before I CTD.

I have noticed that it seems to be Snow or winter maps where I crash out most often, the usual syptom being the clouds start White and flicker to Black, eventually the ground (Snow) turns black or inverted colours and then I CTD.

I flew last-night for an hour over green fields, and not one probelm was encountered.

I bought the 4890 as it is a powerhouse when it comes to shifting graphics, and being the Vapor-X it runs quietly (which I prefer).

However, as IL2 is pretty much all I have on my PC for entertainment, I am seriously considering swapping back to Nvidia (275 or 285...if I can find one that doesn't sound like a hair dryer) as I cannot take much more of the frustration of never knowing if I will be wasting another gaming session with a CTD meaning another Disco to my record and another mission un-completed.

I know my mobo supports Crossfire, so Ati is 'native' to it, but it will run a single Nvidia if necessary.

So is there (unless this can be fixed) a quiet 275 or 285 card out there, and where is the complaints link to raise an issue with the driver at the ATI website?

Frustrated, MP

same feeling here MP... same GPU as well !

... BUT I now run the 9.10 ... and it WORKS !!!