Cliffs of Dover Technical FAQ

[Aeromaster]

Hi, I love the il2 series but this is the first one that I am having a problem with. It seems that I can load the game fine and go to the selection screen. The problem I am having is that none of the video works. When I go to quick launch, I cannot see the map, and when I go to view my aircraft before flight I cannot see it at all either, they both appear as a black box. When I ignore that and just try to fly, I can’t see anything, all I see is my desktop, but I can still hear my plane and when I move controls I hear the plane react too, just can’t see it.

I thought this was my problem
"3. Q: I see a black screen when launching the game.
A: You are most likely running an Nvidia card with 266.xx drivers. There's a problem with that particular driver version.
It can be resolved by either rolling back to a previous driver version, such as 257.21, or upgrading to the just-released 270.51.
The issue can also be resolved by manually adjusting one of the driver parameters in the registry. This is for more advanced users. Please modify the registry at your own risk.

Start - Run
regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\GraphicsDrivers
Edit - New - DWord
Name = TdrDelay
Value Data = 12"

But after upgrading to 285.xx the problem still existed and I modified the registry and that still did not work, so maybe I have a new problem or I just don’t see it. If I could get help with this it would be great, I would really love to play the game.

If needed my specs are
Windows 7 64bit
Nvidia 230m driver 285.62
6gigs of DDR3 ram
if anything else is needed just let me know

[klem]

Originally Posted by Aeromaster

Hi, I love the il2 series but this is the first one that I am having a problem with. It seems that I can load the game fine and go to the selection screen. The problem I am having is that none of the video works. When I go to quick launch, I cannot see the map, and when I go to view my aircraft before flight I cannot see it at all either, they both appear as a black box. When I ignore that and just try to fly, I can’t see anything, all I see is my desktop, but I can still hear my plane and when I move controls I hear the plane react too, just can’t see it.

I thought this was my problem
"3. Q: I see a black screen when launching the game.
A: You are most likely running an Nvidia card with 266.xx drivers. There's a problem with that particular driver version.
It can be resolved by either rolling back to a previous driver version, such as 257.21, or upgrading to the just-released 270.51.
The issue can also be resolved by manually adjusting one of the driver parameters in the registry. This is for more advanced users. Please modify the registry at your own risk.

Start - Run
regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\GraphicsDrivers
Edit - New - DWord
Name = TdrDelay
Value Data = 12"

But after upgrading to 285.xx the problem still existed and I modified the registry and that still did not work, so maybe I have a new problem or I just don’t see it. If I could get help with this it would be great, I would really love to play the game.

If needed my specs are
Windows 7 64bit
Nvidia 230m driver 285.62
6gigs of DDR3 ram
if anything else is needed just let me know

Looks like you have a laptop?

I can't say for sure but on this performance hierchy:-
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ew,3107-7.html
the 230m doesn't appear but the lowest card supported by CoD is, I believe, the 8800 which appears on the list near the 260m so your GPU may be borderline.

Try the lowest settings in Options... Video to see if you get any improvement and then raise the settings from there.

Things to do in Video settings while testing: turn SSAO off, Forest Off, Grass off, Shadows off, Buildings Amount and Buildings Detail to lowest settings.

What is your Processor?

I wouldn't mess with the registry until all else fails.

[Aeromaster]

Originally Posted by klem

Looks like you have a laptop?

I can't say for sure but on this performance hierchy:-
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ew,3107-7.html
the 230m doesn't appear but the lowest card supported by CoD is, I believe, the 8800 which appears on the list near the 260m so your GPU may be borderline.

Try the lowest settings in Options... Video to see if you get any improvement and then raise the settings from there.

Things to do in Video settings while testing: turn SSAO off, Forest Off, Grass off, Shadows off, Buildings Amount and Buildings Detail to lowest settings.

What is your Processor?

I wouldn't mess with the registry until all else fails.

Yes its a laptop, but ive never had a problem running anything else, in fact i run Battlefield 3 on it, granted its on the lowest setting but it still runs.

The video settings are all to the lowest and all the other settings are set to off.

Processor is a Core i7 Q720 1.6 GHz

The changes i did to the registry are all undone.

[klem]

Sorry I can't really help much more other than to say try the latest drivers. Hopefully an ATI user will see this and comment.

Oh!, second thoughts, did you create a GPU profile for Launcher? If not are the default settings too high. Also you could try reducing the game resolution to reduce the GPU load. Your LCD screen will do the work of converting it to its normal resolution. It may not be great but it may help, at least as a test. You may also have a limit on the video RAM which is critical in this game. Under 1Gb and you will suffer. Can that be increased in any way?

I have a laptop with the i7 720QM @ 1.6Ghz but it has the ATI 5850 1Gb video card and runs CoD ok on 1900 res at Low to Medium settings with the usual suspects turned off: anti-epilepsy off (a must); grass off; shadows off; ssao off; buildings very low.

[Aeromaster]

Its ok, thanks for trying.
Whats the GPU profile? And where do i find it?
I will continue to try.

[klem]

You should have a Control Panel for your GPU (video card). In there you should find profiles for each application/game that ATI have created. It will set the optimum Anti Aliasing, Anisotropic Filtering, etc etc for each game. Usually you can add a new one if ATI haven't provided one (just click Add and find the programme you want to make a profile for, in our case, Launcher.exe in the folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover
Then you can set your own settings and Apply / Save.
It's a while since I saw an ATI Control Panel so have a look and try to make what I said fit.

If you don't have a profile it will simply use the default settings and again these should be visible in the Control Panel.

[Aeromaster]

Well I just tried that and it appears to have not worked. I will just assume that my graphics card just isnt enough to run it and wait for a patch or until i get to build my desktop, thanks for the help anyways.

[Phatzo]

Originally Posted by Aeromaster

Hi, I love the il2 series but this is the first one that I am having a problem with. It seems that I can load the game fine and go to the selection screen. The problem I am having is that none of the video works. When I go to quick launch, I cannot see the map, and when I go to view my aircraft before flight I cannot see it at all either, they both appear as a black box. When I ignore that and just try to fly, I can’t see anything, all I see is my desktop, but I can still hear my plane and when I move controls I hear the plane react too, just can’t see it.

I thought this was my problem
"3. Q: I see a black screen when launching the game.
A: You are most likely running an Nvidia card with 266.xx drivers. There's a problem with that particular driver version.
It can be resolved by either rolling back to a previous driver version, such as 257.21, or upgrading to the just-released 270.51.
The issue can also be resolved by manually adjusting one of the driver parameters in the registry. This is for more advanced users. Please modify the registry at your own risk.

Start - Run
regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\GraphicsDrivers
Edit - New - DWord
Name = TdrDelay
Value Data = 12"

But after upgrading to 285.xx the problem still existed and I modified the registry and that still did not work, so maybe I have a new problem or I just don’t see it. If I could get help with this it would be great, I would really love to play the game.

If needed my specs are
Windows 7 64bit
Nvidia 230m driver 285.62
6gigs of DDR3 ram
if anything else is needed just let me know

same problem, aces high, rise of flight and warbirds all work well on my computer but this has just been a frustrating waste of time, lucky I only spent twelve bucks on it.