I think it really helped having access to it though as it gave community members the chance to edit settings which were causing issues with later Driver releases. The example that comes to mind was the Catalyst drivers which caused Blue flashes when guns fired and also texture breakup with Vertex Arrays and Shaders enabled.
Having a conf.ini file allowed these options to be tweaked and disabled, which when IL2 was originally released would not have been a consideration, but by having the options available to the gamers, future development of drivers and the Sim, would have a chance of making it possible for all to play with a quality their PC's could cope with?
I'm also thinking of Water=0 and Water=4 as another example. Maybe a PC could run all the settings max'd out, but Water could be an issue. Surely you wouldn't expect every single Graphic possibility to be in the menu as this would make it cumbersome?
Just having an optional conf.ini to 'play' with would surely be beneficial in the future?
Cheers, MP
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