@oldschool61 the resolution doesn't make any change in this case when you are running on a high end machine. Like I have stated before, the problem is not the hardware, it is the code in the game. Run it on the fastest processor on the market, with best video card and it would probably still stutter badly in close combat. No joke.

Yes, I agree that this is not necessarily a bad thing if true. It's a whole lot easier to optimise code than to ask for the entire community to upgrade their machines.

i see :) ok so i have been bouncing back and forth between IL2 1946, ROF, and IL2 COD all weekend and i have left all 3 games playing while i watch my processor utilization as well as my video card activity.

After doing this for two days now all i can conclude at this point is that my video cards and processor are both stable and running fairly cool with ROF and 1946 at 1920 x 1080 res full settings on both as well as my cards doing a lot of extra filtering. Both games run flawlessly.

IL2 COD at any resolution at any settings really even if i do get improvments in FPS, the shudder is still present and for some reason this game causes my Master Video card to peg at full activity and it runs consideribly hotter. Now these cards run hot any way i know but i have been watching mine for about 3 months now and im pretty sure that the crossfire is not being utilized because of how its acting. It is acting like the Master video card is doing all of the work and the slave is just sitting idle.

This leads me to believe that if the Filter and the SLI/Crossfire are linked together somehow then the filter is not deactivated and will not be (based on the latest report) until after the first round of patches.

I hope this clarifies what i have found so far. if not then im sorry have only slept about 3 hours in the past 48 :)

Could someone check the fragmentation rate of the hdd after install? It is known, that some games leave the disk behind as a battlefield after install.

(Just thinking about Armed Assault 2, which leaves an empty dedicated partition 30% fragmented after install)

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On behalf of 79vraf i would like to thank all 1c company members for all your work involved in that creation, even though it could brake a few marriages or caused some of You to loose weight or even opposite it was all worth it...

Hi chaps, just got my copy downloaded from Russians only 14$... now this game is worth every single penny u spent on it so I think I am going to get English ver now as well. I had a bit of headache for a 2 days because of it and peoples screaming on the forums, but now all the problems seems to be sorted out. Major issue was to sort out why the game crashes when tried to change screen actualy projector resolution - solution simple as usual and for long time I didn't even thought that it is 64bit unfriendly :( every single application u run while installing game needs to be run as an administrator and in win xp sp3 compatibility, that way u got everything right running win7 64bit ver, there is that little file that extracts cod steam launcher I forgot all about it and there u go 2 days of horror . There is a long dispute about epilepsy but that issue is sorted already by developers, it will be optional, and average fps is fine for a moment but it will be only better after game will get few optimisation patches. I run high video configuration with average 40-45 fps over sea and 35-40 (least was 25) over land, of course city of :) blondon is a fps killer, planes looks nice but cockpits are simply astonishing, nature of landscape and roads, cities is quite real so you can loose enemy very easy on the deck... Now that was about graphics, flight model is great, felling of the airplane is light and may seems to be too sensitive but from the other side u can fell every single wind blow hitting fuselage and wings, controlling all devices is not easy just like real airplane and it is all done manually I mean with the mouse u got the felling like u flying real thing, of course it's optional and it is possible to assign key to everything but I get used to Fsx already and I think it is one huge step forward for il2 developers and the way it's done is slightly different than Fsx, the only thing that surprised me is that aircrafts wings are still in place after 420m/ph dive and pulling maybe 12g. Whole ambience and lights are well created and beautifully exposed over ugly skins... Games engine seems to be working great even with few imperfections from graphic side. Complexity of flight difficulty settings, armament settings damage model, ai behaviour and many other features makes that engine a dream I only hope that developers will keep us awake with updates for next 6 years :) we have very wise community and they will give developers directions, I can see already how much influace of communinity is in that game. Overall felling after I sort few hours in the air is incredible, I feel I can grab real hurrican for a spin now...
Just to be clear I give u my spec: I7 930 clocked to 4Ghz, 3x2 GB RAM at 1333, geforce gtx 470, asus p6t deluxe v2 mobo, 1000W psu, track ir 4, saitek x52+rudder ped, acer 1260p projector

Thanks Bryan,
I hav`nt noticed any posts mentioning whether SLI/Xfire was working since the filter was removed from Russian versions. It would of been some good news to share if it is.
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