quick question about 1C and 1946

Loco-S · #1 04-21-2008, 02:36 AM

I would want to know what is the video card used on the development of 1946, the one used basically to set all the settings in game, and theoretically the one that is "perfect" for the game....Im looking for a Nvidia card, ( ATI cant play perfect....) and preferably the one used to set perfect settings.

Troll2k · #2 04-21-2008, 03:24 AM

I have been running the "perfect" landscape setting on my ATI cards for years.

Feuerfalke · #3 04-21-2008, 08:01 AM

Who told you that ATI can't run IL2 on perfect settings?

However, if you check this forum and the official on UBI, you'll see that you get some problems with nVidia (flickering textures, invisible planeparts, water-rendering problems, etc).

Nobody is perfect, neither are nVidia or ATI.

virre89 · #4 04-21-2008, 08:16 PM

Can't say i've noticed that.
Running 8800GTSV2 512mb from Nvidia.

Feuerfalke · #5 04-21-2008, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by virre89

Can't say i've noticed that.
Running 8800GTSV2 512mb from Nvidia.

I'd say lucky you - or you simply didn't care?

Check out this 30-pager about problems with nVidia and IL2:

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...843#2531042843

Loco-S · #6 04-21-2008, 11:33 PM

so, so far no one has answered which card was the one used by 1C, and I dont want to start an ATI/Nvidia fanboi battle, im just disappointed with ATI and I want to change to the standard used for IL2

Feuerfalke · #7 04-22-2008, 05:47 AM

If you think I am an ATI-Fanboy, I should tell you, that I use a 8800GTS, which works with an nVidia-Chip and I love it, because it is fast, but I hate it, because image quality is pretty low. I don't live in a world of black and white and there is no good and bad company or product. They all have certain pro's and con's.

And you think if somebody provided them a computer with an xy-card that makes it a standard-video-card for IL2?

My guess is and I also remember that from the early days, that IL2 was shown on different cards to assure customers that there is no compatibility problem. I'm sorry that doesn't help you either, as from your initial question and the last post I take it, you simply want to get a confirmation to buy nVidia.
Sorry I can't give that so easy, but if you say you got problems with your ATI, maybe you should rather post them and we can try to help you, instead of investing money in new hardware and finding out that nVidia is not the non-plus-ultra either?

Codex · #8 04-22-2008, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Loco-S

so, so far no one has answered which card was the one used by 1C...

If your asking which brand was used in the development of IL-2 1946 I think it would be safe to say both. The setup program has optimisations for both brands and also Direct X and OpenGL. Perfect settings can only be used with OpenGL.

I have used both nVidia and ATI for this sim over the last 5 years. My personal preference is ATI for the IQ and currently have the ATI HD3870.

Blackdog_kt · #9 04-23-2008, 02:48 PM

You can run the highest video settings on a lower resolution (eg 1024x76

with something as old as a nVidia 6600GT with 128MB of RAM, so i doubt any of the newer video cards will have any trouble running it at much higher resolutions.

So, it should be a matter of personal preference

IceFire · #10 04-24-2008, 12:25 AM

I have to say that the question really don't make sense in the current context. IL-2 was developed back in the GeForce 2/3/Radeon 7000 series days. If you want to know what the engine was developed on...then probably one of those long since passed cards. Everything added to the engine since then has been based on the initial work there...certainly the pixel shaded water/perfect mode that came with Forgotten Battles was tested on cards like the Radeon 9700Pro and the GeForce 4000 series. The improved pixel shaded water with displacement mapping was new to the 6000 series GeForce cards so it was probably tested on a GeForce 6800GT.

But ALL of these cards are old. IL-2 1946 had no engine developments to speak of so asking which card it was developed on really doesn't make sense in the present context. If they did their job way back when...then the answer is that they probably tested on a variety of cards and configurations to ensure that the engine and game overall was working properly.

Also its a total lie that ATI cards can't do Perfect mode. I had a very good Radeon 9700Pro that did Perfect mode fine from Forgotten Battles version 1.0.

Are you asking for suggestions for good cards to buy now that work with IL-2 1946? Because then I think we could give a series of good suggestions from both ATI and nVidia.