Well, I've just had the best 2 hours of offline flight simming I can remember...

[slm]

Has anyone managed to get CoD working in Windows XP? Or is Win7 what is really required?

[SEE]

+1 Naz.

Slm, I started with XP and Clod worked reasonably OK with my Nvidea GTS250 following the first few patches using medium to low video settings.

So XP can work but the general consensus for better performance was to upgrade to win7 64 which I did along with a GTX560ti. I'm now running with much higher settings on the same Duel core.

[slm]

I asked because I get this huge rendering problem when flying at low altitude over sea. I've reported it in bug threads twice, yet nothing seems to be happening. I don't see others complaining about it so....

It would be nice to see some official statement whether 1C thinks XP is a valid OS for this game.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by slm

Has anyone managed to get CoD working in Windows XP? Or is Win7 what is really required?

I've been wondering the same thing

[SEE]

XP is listed on the system specs and on the DVD case, to me that confirms it is supported.

I did not have any rendering problems even though my GTS250 only had 512Mb of memory, most that did were using ATI cards.

I read your post and what struck me was that there were no problems prior to some of the updates. You should be running with DX9 if using XP so might be worth checking that your cnfg file has not been changed to DX10.

[slm]

Can you tell which config file I should check? DX9/DX10

[SEE]

I can tell you where to look but cannot remember the exact text for DX9. But at least you can check that it does not read the same as the line highlighted below (which is for DX10).

Open the file named 'conf' using notepad, you will find it in:

MyDocuments- 1CSoftClub - IL-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover.



[BOB]
EpilepsyFilter=0

[window]
DepthBits =24
StencilBits=8
DrawIfNotFocused=0
SaveAspect=0
Render=D3D10_0

[slm]

Originally Posted by SEE

I can tell you where to look but cannot remember the exact text for DX9. But at least you can check that it does not read the same as the line highlighted below (which is for DX10).

Open the file named 'conf' using notepad, you will find it in:

MyDocuments- 1CSoftClub - IL-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover.

Render=D3D10_0

I checked this conf.ini and it's using DX9.
Render=D3D9

Interestingly many of these settings files are also in C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover
but there some values are missing. For example all values starting from Render are missing from conf.ini in this Program Files\... folder.

[window]
DepthBits =24
StencilBits=8
DrawIfNotFocused=0
SaveAspect=0
Render=D3D9
width=1600
height=900
ColourBits=32
FullScreen=1
ChangeScreenRes=1
Frequency=60
posLeft=0
posTop=0

[Blackdog_kt]

The config files were changed two patches ago, removing a lot of redundant settings that had been left there during the development process.

People that first installed the sim recently (that is, after the previous patch near the end of May) already have the config files that have the new structure. Those that installed before that probably have the old config files.

If you want to get the new config files you can try this:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=23971