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

[whatnot]

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!

[Letum]

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.

[whatnot]

Originally Posted by Letum

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. Some IL-2 engine limitation I assume(?)

[K_Freddie]

Originally Posted by whatnot

Some IL-2 engine limitation I assume(?)

Nope.. just current technology limitations.

[13th Hsqn Protos]

Wrong.

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

[Wolf_Rider]

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

[Fearfactor]

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.