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Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt
Well, i really don't know why it gives so many problems on your rig, but i have a lower-spec PC than yours and everything runs fine on mostly medium settings at 1680x1050. I even lowered a couple of settings (forests and building detail to low) and this allowed me to set land shading to high and building detail to unlimited and i'm only running this:
win7 x64, i7 920 @ 2.7 Ghz, Ati 4890 1Gb and only 3GB of RAM.
It runs well and flies like a dream, seriously. I really don't know why so many people with beefier PCs seem to be having problems.
The most important thing that affects performance at high graphics settings seems to be the amount of VRAM. In other words, don't expect to run everything on high with original size textures on a 1Gb video card. I run medium textures and it's the one single setting that has the biggest effect on performance, allowing me to increase other settings to where it looks much better than IL2 and still flies in a fluid manner.
If i had a faster DX11 GPU with 1GB of VRAM i would still be running medium textures, but this would mean that i would be able to increase other settings to high.
What i care about is "does it look better than the previous one?", not "are the settings maxed out?". As long as it looks good i don't need to have everything on high.
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hmmm..... I have the box listed below (two DX11 1G cards btw
) and even on medium settings its playable but not very pleasurable. Over water it runs like I would want it to run with 50 planes all battling over London but only there.
I know i stated this before in another post but it really takes me out of the game when the only way to make it play silk smooth is to cut its (clears Throat)..... ball bearings off, graphically speaking of coarse
Any way I really hope that this is due to lack of crossfire optimization as this would at least mean that I was not looking at an accurate representation of how the game operates in general but just on my machine.
But then im left feeling like crap again because i just built this box and will not be building another one any time soon and at this point i may rather eat the cost of the game rather than drop another 700 bucks on a new card that may only give me a marginal performance boost at best.
it is starting to get on my nerves though that i can youtube about a thousand videos these days showing the smoothest running all graphics maxed version of CLOD and not be able to tell if its movie magic or if its actual game play. sigh
here's hoping for a smoother running future
Cheers