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IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Latest instalment in the acclaimed IL-2 Sturmovik series from award-winning developer Maddox Games.

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Old 04-18-2011, 08:35 PM
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OMG! Only had the sodding thing 18 months ago lol. Thanks for your advice. I would go down that road, it's just the know how that's against me. I wouldn't have a clue how to o/c anything & am not sure even how to find the spec of my motherboard lol. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/overc...beginners.html

That's a great place to start, imho. Clunk's is a nice noob friendly place with a hell of a lot of info.

Give us the name of the mobo/psu if you can, or a link to where you got the PC/parts from - we can start there
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Old 04-18-2011, 08:53 PM
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http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/overc...beginners.html

That's a great place to start, imho. Clunk's is a nice noob friendly place with a hell of a lot of info.

Give us the name of the mobo/psu if you can, or a link to where you got the PC/parts from - we can start there
Will for sure. Will find out from the guy that made it up for me. Many thanks to you for your help & time thus far.
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Old 04-18-2011, 08:58 PM
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I'm simply amazed by how all over the place people's experiences are. You have the same motherboard as me (plus a few bells and whistles) a better proc. (except for mine is OC'd).and a WAY better vid card, yet your having a worse experience. It's really unbelievable, but I guess that's just how computers are.

Assuming that you have the same Bios as I have, your board, while not being an overclocker's dream isn't to difficult to OC. I'll make another post with some basic instructions for you as soon as I stick my head in the bios to make sure I remember everything right.

I'm still confounded though, I can slide the canopy back and stick my head out in front of the exhaust and the frames don't waver with my GTX 470! Maybe it is the OC?
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Old 04-18-2011, 09:17 PM
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I'm simply amazed by how all over the place people's experiences are. You have the same motherboard as me (plus a few bells and whistles) a better proc. (except for mine is OC'd).and a WAY better vid card, yet your having a worse experience. It's really unbelievable, but I guess that's just how computers are.

Assuming that you have the same Bios as I have, your board, while not being an overclocker's dream isn't to difficult to OC. I'll make another post with some basic instructions for you as soon as I stick my head in the bios to make sure I remember everything right.

I'm still confounded though, I can slide the canopy back and stick my head out in front of the exhaust and the frames don't waver with my GTX 470! Maybe it is the OC?
Many thanks to both yourself & squidgyb for helping out. I am a military aviation nut, & sims being a large part of that hobby but the moment a pc lid comes off, I'm afraid my interest leaves the room but always happy & willing to be accept help & advice from decent & accomodating folk as yourselves
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Old 04-18-2011, 09:30 PM
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If it's graphic effects causing a slowdown, I doubt if it's anything to do with the CPU. I would also be very careful of trying to OC if you don't know what you are doing. That way lies smoking ruin for your PC.

Are you sure it's the exhaust and not the mirror?

With your PC you should definitely get pretty reasonable performance.
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Old 04-18-2011, 09:57 PM
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If it's graphic effects causing a slowdown, I doubt if it's anything to do with the CPU. I would also be very careful of trying to OC if you don't know what you are doing. That way lies smoking ruin for your PC.

Are you sure it's the exhaust and not the mirror?

With your PC you should definitely get pretty reasonable performance.
Always have mirror turned off. It's most definately the exhaust effect, taking the fps down to low teens. Turning the visual effects to low kills that particular graphic effect & fps climbs again but a very large part of the games graphic effects goes with it. The moment I turn CEM off, the fps counter is back in the 40's.
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Old 04-18-2011, 10:08 PM
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If it's graphic effects causing a slowdown, I doubt if it's anything to do with the CPU. I would also be very careful of trying to OC if you don't know what you are doing. That way lies smoking ruin for your PC.

Are you sure it's the exhaust and not the mirror?

With your PC you should definitely get pretty reasonable performance.
It's got a very good chance of being the CPU, in all honesty - the CPU "feeds" information to the GPU to display; if the CPU is lagging behind, the GPU has to wait for the CPU to give it what it needs to display the frame.

A quick and easy test would be to run a program(s) that displays a graph of CPU usage and GPU usage. In times of low fps as you describe, I'd expect to see the CPU working at 95-100%, and the GPU load dropping a little - though the GPU load may not drop at all, depending on what's going on and what screen resolution you're running at.

Overclocking is inherently dangerous, but that's why I directed Houndstone to an overclocking beginner's site - I won't be telling him to "press del on bootup and whack CPU voltage to 1.4 and yer done" - like anything fun in life - if approached in the wrong way it can indeed be dangerous/costly. Done in the correct, slow and safe way, there's very little risk involved.
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Old 04-18-2011, 10:29 PM
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Took another screenshot with the task manager performance tab running.
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Old 04-18-2011, 10:43 PM
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Hmm, That doesn't prove much, tbh. With a quad core, windows would be sharing some of the work by default anyways, but seeing that one core running >90% tells me that it could well be the issue.

It's up to you really, mate - if you're willing to risk-it-for-a-biscuit, overclocking almost certainly would help - the other options are to buy a faster CPU or upgrade to Win 7.

The rest of the rig is definitely up to the task imo.

If you do decide to OC - read that beginners guide. Then read it again. Probably best to do it a third time before you even get into the BIOS. A friend who knows what he's doing on hand to help would be good - but as long as you take it slowly and try to learn rather than blindly follow instructions, you should be fine

Feel free to PM me if you need any help, whichever way you go.
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