Intel to AMD Processor

[Jumoschwanz]

I would hope that someone from TD will chime in on this. All I know is that in the past after certain patches sets of core DLLs were released separately.

The newest set I have is from 2008, one is called il2_core.dll and the other il2_corep4.dll. The readme file given with these states:

"Corrected Color of the forest and decreased contrast of its edge.
Corrected (more complex) line of the water on the coasts of the rivers and the coast itself.
Anisotropic filtering in IL2 setup sets less level of anisotropy.
An attempt was made to decrease reflection flickering of the water on setting =2
Almost completely rewritten render of the ground on shaders 2.0. ATI cards should see performance increase.
Changed regime of filtration on the edge of the forest to reduce flickering. Possible slight FPS loss near the forest."

If you want me to email them to you I can do that, but I can not believe that someone from TD would not be able to tell you if they would even do any good at this stage in the game.

Even though your processor has more cores and you are running a 64-bit operating system, IL2 is still an old piece of software that may not take advantage of newer technology. I find that the most important thing for a cpu to have when running IL2 is speed, as in it is a lot better to have a single core processor running at 3.0ghz than a multi-core running at 2Ghz.

If your new cpu runs at lower GHz than your old Intel, then despite having more cores I do not think it will run IL2 as well. AMD cpus used to complete more instructions per clock cycle than Intels back in the AThlon vs. P4 single-core days a 2Ghz Athlon would run as well as a 3Ghz Intel, I am not sure if this holds true in their current processors though. My last AMD Athlon ran at 2.2Ghz, and a lot of people that switched to the new multi-cores as soon as they came out were disappointed with them because their lower clock speeds would not let them run IL2 as well or any better than the fastest single cores.

So the same thing may be happening again. If the speed of your new six-core is less than your old cpu with less cores, or it is rated at less instructions per clock cycle especially when operating 32-bit software, then it may not run IL2 as well as older but higher Ghz hardware!!!!!