Cliffs of Dover Technical FAQ

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by GOA_Potenz

Actually rise of flight has collision on trees and a huge map with a huge huge huge amount of trees, in rows and in masive forest concentrations, even dead trees that you can colide with in no mans land, same as before in rows or masive forest.

Also I noted a masive bllack rectangle, coming from the earth going into water.

Different scale but WOP has them too, the fact that it is missing is perplexing as it should be one of the easier things to program into a engine/game. The overriding feeling I am getting is that this was badly planned from a programmer pov in that not only is it currently no where near where they said it would be, alot of these problems are seriouse foundation issues which will make this game obsolete in 1-2 years unless they get better multicore threading and dx11 up asap (or atleast 10.1).

[GOA_Potenz]

Somebody can tell me how to get rid of this

it's over water or land

i'm running catalyst 11.3 on a HD 6970

[NECyclone]

I am getting that band too GOA. Rather annoying. Using driver 11.2 on a AMD 6950. Nothing I do gets rid of it.

[Flanker35M]

S!

I got it too on my 6970HD. Only way I got rid of it partially was overriding Anisotropic Filtering in CCC as there is no such option in game setup. Try with 8x or more. We really need an official guide of the conf.ini how and what can be tweaked...

[klem]

Luthier,

I'm having very few problems myself but on behalf of a friend can you add to the Q&As

"The Controls panel does not recognise my Joystick"

Assuming you know an answer of course.

[Glen73]

Originally Posted by luthier

Thank you for purchasing Cliffs of Dover! If you have previously purchased our sims, you should know that they are a constant work in progress. We as a team are proud of the fact that we continuously support, expand and improve on our releases. We hope, with your support, to continue this tradition and to help the series grow in the coming years.
Here are some common issues encountered by players with the initial release, and how to resolve them.

1. Q: I have low FPS.

Answer:
A. Please consider disabling the anti-epilepsy filter (Options – Video – Anti-Epilepsy Filter). WARNING: disabling this filter may induce previously undetected epileptic symptoms even in persons who have no history of prior seizures or epilepsy. Please read the complete warning on the game’s splash screen.
Disabling the filter will add up to 10 FPS to your game, depending on your hardware configuration.

2. Q: I have an above-recommended SLI video card set up and my FPS is very low.
A: At some point in the very hectic pre-release rush, we have broken SLI support and we have not yet been able to discover the reason for it. We are working very hard to re-enable it. In the meantime, disabling SLI will significantly boost your FPS.

i-7 950
12 gig of ram
2 X GTX 460 Sli
Windows 7 64bit
Steam Install

Started with around 14FPS on highest settings 1920X1080

Disabled Sli,
Updated to 270.XX drivers
Disabled Anti Epi filter
Set to lowest settings

16 FPS

Absolutely gutted that someone would release this as a playable product.

[FS~Lewis]

My Problems....

Knowing full well that my PC is well under par and that the best I would expect is a moderately detailed slideshow I wasn't expecting too much yesterday when I eventually got round to installing Steam and Cod at 2 am this morning...

So made a Steam account and the good news is that I can apparently play COD on anyones PC so long as I simply log into my Steam account on their PC....This is important to me as I want to experiment on other folks PCs to give me an idea of specs I can replicate cheaper for myself....

AVG Virus detection:The disc installed ok although AVG recognised one of the files as a virus...'rendobj.dll'....This was remedied by turning off the 'Resident Shield' in AVG...or you can add the file path below to....AVG > Overview > Resident Shield > Manage Exceptions > Add Path :

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2sturmovik cliffs of dover\rendobj.dll

Then I ran the game and got this:



So I updated the Nvidia drivers and still got the same problem on running the game.....and then saw that Luthier had reccommended to backdate the drivers to 257..so did that but still same problem...



Well, as the game seemed to be actually running I went with the flow....and accessed all the navigational menus...BUT on the pilot and aircraft pages I don't see any image....as below



So I decided to go for a quick mission to see if there was any other problems.....and the game went through its loading mission screenie and the bar indicated it was loading....then it stuck on that screen shot although I could hear the ingame audio....This happened every time I tried a mission....I tried different resolutions too...Still the same old...and with all the ingame graphics set to their lowest...

Anyways that was me done at 6am this morning.....I knew there would problems until I get a better PC and just thougth I'd share this with those of you that have lower end PCs like me...

On reading these forums I realise there are a few folks out there with the same problem...Had the game 2 days and haven't seen an aircraft in flight as yet.....

I have the specs of my pc here below but realise that I know that this PC won't run COD but it would be nice to just get something ingame or a pic of an aircraft and a pilot to play with......

Nvidia GeForce GT 220
AMD Athlon (tm) 7850 Dual-Core Processor 2.80 GHz
4.00 GB (3.12 GB usable) RAM
32_bit Operating System
ASUS M4A78 motherboard
Windows 7

[ARGH]

1] you need to do something about the trees. they must have collisions or everyone would be running with them off in multiplayer.

either maybe implement large invisible collision boxes around the dense 3D forests or allow the option for 2D / 3D collsion-based sprites / hit boxes for the forests like wings of prey does with lower-end machines.

2] allow the game to utilize more than 2 cores. the graphics engine should be on it's own core. the physics & collision on another one. the sound and the rest on a 3rd core.

have this new multi core support be auto-detected on machines with more than 2 cores and activating automatically. if 2 cores or less are detected just force thread scheduling as you have it now but add the new collisions on the 2nd core that does not get used as much.

3] give us back the propellar effect in cockpit view! there has got to be a way. i do not understand this epilepsy nonesense. a warning is good enough. can't imagine policing and babying the world like this. people have got to take responsibility. a lawsuit on such a matter would be considered frivalous. it's not like you are trying to force epileptic seasures on players!

if you really cant give us the props back then have "someone" leak a hack for end users to do it.

[klem]

Originally Posted by FS~Lewis

My Problems....

Knowing full well that my PC is well under par and that the best I would expect is a moderately detailed slideshow I wasn't expecting too much yesterday when I eventually got round to installing Steam and Cod at 2 am this morning...
.........

Did you set Video level to Low? That might help get you started and you can start to build up from there. The game installs with Video set to Medium which is quite demanding. Also Video Card RAM is looking like a big issue, needing at least 1Gb and preferably more. It may need less on Low settings, how much VRAM does your card have?

[MartialSparrow]

Hi Everyone.

I've got exactly the same problem like FS~Lewis have: Display driver responding tooltip after the game starts, black window in planes and pilots menu and also, after starts any mission, only sound works correctly - there is no vision. I tried different settings like resolutions or details but without result.


NVIDIA GeForce 9650m GT (267.76 Driver)
Core 2 Duo P8600 (2.40 GHz)
4 GB RAM
Windows 7 64bit