What kind of a rig can run IL-2 with full details and high fps?
 

I have a decent rig with Quad Core Q6600, Geforce GTX 295 and 4Gigs or RAM. Still when I max out the graphics and fly low over Berlin for example I get pretty low FPS.

Since I assume that the GFX card isn't the bottleneck I assume my CPU is not up to the task. But after checking a few cpu charts I see that my CPU is not more than about 20-30% slower than the best Core i7's so I wonder would that make much of a difference in IL2 FPS.

So any thoughts on what would need to be changed / tuned to get my FPS up or is there some IL2 limitation on taking use of all the cores or something?

Tnx!

There isn't a rig that can fly low over Berlin on maxed settings.
Turn your view distance down a step and it should be fine.

Thanks for the info, I'll tone the view distance down a bit.

If 8 years of HW development after the IL-2's release hasn't brought the kick the engine wants when maxed out I guess it won't happen any time soon. :o Some IL-2 engine limitation I assume(?)

Nope.. just current technology limitations.

Wrong.

It is an IL2 engine limitation. To be expected on 10 year old code.

think "polygons"... these blighters, rather too many of them, will bring any machine to its knees

My rig is a I7 965 on a Asus P6T Deluxe V2 mobo using a Nvidia 285GTX and I fly over Berlin with max settings all the time. Granted, my frames do drop but not to slideshow levels. I OC both the processor ( to 4.886Ghz ) and the video card. The video card I oveclock with EVGA Precision utility. I bump the core clock to 705Mhz, the shader clock to 1605 and the memory clock to 1267. At stock they are 648, 1476 and 1242. I also take my GPU fan speed up to at least 80 to keep it cool.