Freezing Game with Vista

[=815=TooCooL]

I have migrated to Vista already 2 years ago and I still keep XP install at another HDD just by this problem(or bug)!
So I have to boot into ooooooold XP Pro interface just to play IL-2.
Who's to blame? I don't care & I can't know but just wish someone would solve this. Pleeease!!

[Skoshi Tiger]

I had it, followed the solutions that were linked to in my previous post and now I don't have the problem. Is there a fix? As far as I'm concerned yes!

[proton45]

Originally Posted by mazex

That's a role I love too There are so many companies out there that have decided that Vista is not the right choice for their DTS platform - and hope that Windows 7 will be the savior. You have to believe in something The problem for Microsoft is that the troublesome rollout of the Vista platform has been one of the factors that have revitalized the thin client alternative (hand in hand with the virtualization wave) - and as it is now Citrix, vmWare and Sun can rub their hands on the potential death of the thick client on large corporations... The big losers are naturally the hardware mongers but still, when running in an environment like that you will reduce the number of OS licenses needed. Thats part of the game...

Regarding the hope for Windows 7 vs Vista the big thing is that W7 is really NT6.1 - but for marketing reasons it will be called 7.0 to not get tainted by it's older brother (but it's not the father)... By this I mean that they are not starting from scratch as they did in a lot of areas for Vista. Windows seven is rather Vista SP2 (which is soon coming - I know). I'm also an old man beeing bashed by "kids" that I do not understand the potential of Vista, have not tweaked it right etc

Its kind of "funny" that the personal choice of sticking with a stable (proven?) operating platform (and waiting to see how things pan-out with Vista) is seen as "short sighted" thinking. I think its odd that a "forward thinker" would just accept micro$oft marketing at "their word", and would "jump-on-the-bandwagon" before doing research on the final product (in RW conditions). I guess that "thinking young" means that you believe the hype and you run before looking...experience has taught me that even though I have the green light I should still look both ways before entering traffic.

[yarbles]

i have vista as well and had that problem. being lazy, i just run the game in dx mode. though i can't run it in perfect mode, it still looks awesome in excellent mode. game has been rock solid under dx.

[nearmiss]

I removed the nVidia drivers I downloaded and rebooted and let Vista load it's own drivers. Drivers that came with one of the Microsoft updates.

Anyway, no mo problemo

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

There is a new beta driver out 182.47 that has opengl 3.1 included, perhaps that's worth a try for those still having trouble.

[X32Wright]

I have had this problem with my X64 Vista Home Premium edition. My problem was solved when I used RivaTuner 2.2 to increase the FAN of the video card to 100 at all times.

I found out that the GPU would overheat during the game and hence issue the error that you see. Once I changed the FAN to run at 100 at all times this problem disappeared.

[Rango]

Hi all,

it seems that I found a working solution. First I installed the oldest driver (GeForce 177.35) available for my ZOTAC GTX 260 AMP2. Then I used the ZOTAC tool Firestorm to set the NVIDIA standard clock and VRAM frequencies (ZOTAC had programmed an overclocked factory default setup). Now, with a driver not optimized to sqeeze the last frame out of the card if running modern shooter games and Nvidia reference clock settings IL2 1946 runs smooth with Vista and without any stutter or freeze.
Graphics settup in game is OpenGL rendering with ultimate settings and pushed the conf.ini parameters to the top (water=4, trees=3, visibility Range=3).
FPS enough and really an eye candy.

Okay, seems problem is solved so far. Otherwise I will post here again.

Rango

[KG26_Alpha]

Rango have you got the "rings" in the water like this ?

Note: I have enhanced the image to show the problem more clearly.

[Skoshi Tiger]

I have the rings. They are really ugly. Anyone have a fix for this?