Proof that game runs OK on DUAL CORE!
 

Smooth & good FPS, (even on my lowly system - Surprised there, especially as I have a dual CPU & NOT a quad!!). Sure there are odd bugs mainly sound & radio issues....
One weird thing in the Allies campaign on ther 8th mission where you have to join the Spitfires @ Manston. I spot some 109's but when I engage my guns will not fire??

Overall much better than previous Beta patch though.

Model Detail - High
Buildings Detail - Very Low
Land Detail - Medium
Forests - Low
Visual Effects - Medium
Texture Quality - High
Damage Decal - Medium
Buildings Amount - Low
Land Shading - Low
Grass - Off
Shadows - Off :(
Roads - On

2 x AA, 1280 x 768, SSAO OFF.

It's a transfer mission. Your guns are empty! You're just meant to fly to your new airbase. ;)

Yep, dual cores do fine.

yup, dual cores handling it nicely :) u got a very similar system to mine, this is how im running it:

Model Detail - High
Buildings Detail - High
Land Detail - Low
Forests - Very High
Visual Effects - High
Texture Quality - Original
Damage Decal - High
Buildings Amount - Unlimited
Land Shading - Low
Grass - Off
Shadows - Off
Roads - On

AA Off, 1650 x 1080, SSAO OFF, Vsync On.

It did although run alot better with the last beta patch, i was also able to have shadows on. I still can now, but makes the new stutters alot more noticable.

i Love it :D

Model Detail - High
Buildings Detail - Low
Land Detail - Low
Forests - Low
Visual Effects - High
Texture Quality - High
Damage Decal - High
Buildings Amount - Low
Land Shading - Medium
Grass - Off
Shadows - Off
Roads - On

1600 x 900 1x AA runs well over land only time i get stutters are on headons and when i fire my guns first time in mission
You can see my rig is quite old barely above minimum but it can handle small scale fights up to 10 planes without a problem

Yes, it does work in dual Cores. My rig is:

Intel CoreDuo E6550 Conroe 2.33 GHz
Motherboard Gigabyte P35-DS3L LGA775
4 GB RAM DDR2 1066 MHZ
EVGA Nvidia GTX580 1.5 GB VRAM DDR5 Drivers 266.58, DirectX 11
Audigy 2 ZS
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bits SP1
Monitor HP 2510i 25"
Track IR 4
Joystick Saitek X52
Pedals CH

Definitively this Sim at the moment relies more in graphic power than in pure CPU power. I have moved from an old Nvidia EN8600GT (game unplayable) to a GTX 580 and with the same CPU/MoBo/RAM/peripherals now I get in "Thr Black Death" Track 35/74/0 (Average/Max/Min, MIN happens while loading textures for 2" at the beginning of the track) with these settings in game:

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/g...D25-4-2011.jpg

And here in Nvidia Control Panel:

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/g...a25-4-2011.jpg

What I have done is to follow all kind of advices and optimization tutorials in this forum and now I can get a decent gameplay, even flying online, although is not totally optimized yet. Optimization process must start by the BIOS, and run along memory, OS, graphics settings and the game itself.

I believe that, once in the future all the now blocked features of the Sim (real weather specially but and many other) have been released, CPU power will become more important, and the time to change MoBo/CPU/RAM will arrive.

I post this in order to help other people to improve, like other posters have helped to me these last weeks.

:oops:

And what a fun mission that was. Dodgin bullets and cutting grass with you prop. My heart just kept pumping when trying to just stay alive flying as fast as I possibly could.

Don't all games though, especially at higher resolutions? I will upgrade my GPU before CPU every day of the week.

I agree with your second point, but again it all depends how the program utilises the cores...

All setting on High, nothing turned off.. smooth gameplay, good fps (30-70).. dual core never gets above 70% load. :grin: