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Originally Posted by Les
Without it I'd look down the runway and there'd be a solid block of softened grass textures up ahead, moving away from me as I approached it, or towards me as I moved away from it.
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Never saw any difference there - I just thought, that it was normal like that.
Will try to change it.
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But just as much as turning off the Anisotropic filtering helped boost framerates, in one case (in the Hurricane), turning off the mirrors gave me up to 20(!) more fps. I'm sure they, Anisotropic and mirrors, never used to have that much of an impact just using 8xQ Multisampling.
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Thats quite natural. Mirrors have been always a 'fps-drag queen' on my systems. Also AA makes heaviest framerates dropping at places with transparent objects, especially with many layers of transp. objects (like clouds, smoke etc.) You can have 50fps normal, but when a plane in front of you is starting, frames drop to 15fps! I always have to wait untill the dust is settled in front of me.
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I've got to say again though, it's an absolute pain in the arse trying to get these setting changes to stick sometimes. I couldn't even Alt+Tab out of the game and get back into it again, Il-2 would just flash up then crash back to desk-top again and refuse to respond to normal closing down.
I do seem to be able to exit and restart, and Alt+Tab in and out of it as normal now though, as long as I don't adjust anything inbetween. So I seem to be set up okay.
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IMHO settings shouldn't be changable with the game running anyway, at least it should not have an impact, as the settings get loaded with the application (esp. if you use profiles, but also global).
I'm glad I could help. Tweaking the 'Old Lady' ist still a science, even after 10 years. There was a time before Oleg implemented the 'new clouds', when I could play it on a GeForce 4 with 1024x768 and 16xAA enabled.
It looked smooth as hell.
