Can anyone help me to run Il2??

[Mart]

Some progress!!

i have:
1. Amended my conf.ini as above.
2. installed cat 7.11 driver(removed Omega drivers)
3. cleared some HDD space.
4. Disabled on board sound
5. Install Nvida 5.10 drivers.

Now the game will start, HOWEVER, the cursor is very slow, unresponsive and jerky. so much so its almost impossible to navigate around teh front screen. Also the beginning video does not play, i can see a few clouds of smoke move very slowy/jerky. sound is fine though.

Also when at desktop screen the refreshing seems to take longer. i can now see a line scroll down the screen. never happened before.

hopefully almost there now, what else can i do to tweak these?

[Mart]

damn it, also now i can not view any video files. I get sound but just a black screen. im using media player and VLC

[brando]

I suggest you start by disabling sound in the game, see if it runs better.
Reduce your monitor resolution to 1024x768x32. You will be able to raise the refresh rate, to 100Hz on most CRT monitors at this reso.

I'll be frank. This rig is not particularly suitable for IL2 46. Both the CPU and the graphics card are quite feeble and you will need to back the settings down considerably to get a smooth-running game. I would suggest reducing your Sound Hardware acceleration a notch or two, using the appropriate control in the dxdiag interface. Switch off audio enhancements in IL2 Setup. Ensure that in-game radio function is switched off.

Try to trim all eye-candy and then raise it up once the game is running aright.

Another dxdiag would be handy to make sure that the adjustments have gone right.

B

[julian265]

+1, sempron 2800 and a 9600 just aren't going to keep up with anything other than QMB missions.

My athlon xp 3000+ was bad enough, it couldn't cope with more than 10-20 planes in an online mission, let alone a detailed offline mission. I didn't matter what I did with the graphical settings, the processor was holding everything back.

Even now with an E8400 at 3.8GHz, and a 9800gtx+, the new maps and/or populated towns + explosions + zoom cause a loss of FPS.

[Mart]

I ended up restoring to a to a previous backup point at around 1am this morning. will try again later.

Im not running Il2 1946 i'm running fb+aep+pf not sure if that makes a difference but i did used to play this with my existing cpu and video card. Ok i couldn't play it on max settings but it did the job. i really only use my pc for internet and poker now. so i cant really justify upgrading my pc for one game. I use my xbox for games.

Thanks for the help again i will have one more bash tonight.

[KG26_Alpha]

Hi

Glad to see the settings worked ok.

Stay focused on one thing at a time making too many changes all in one go will make it harder to fix.

Try putting the old motherboard drivers back in if the Nvidia 5.10's are a problem (working on the assumption you said it was fine before) you shouldn't have need to change these drivers if your system was working fine.

I know your using IL2 AEP v404m so you should be ok with your system just lower the resolution then start from there, dont forget the table of resolutions and refresh rates I posted too.

[Mart]

I have a feeling its the video drivers causing the issue but when i updated to Catalyst i couldn't view any media files. sound was fine but no picture.

will have another go tonight. lost patience late last night so used system restore.

[Mart]

think im going to have to quit while im behind . the video drivers just bugger up the rest of the system. gutted.

[KG26_Alpha]

Ok

Have you restored the Nvidia Chipset drivers ?

System restore wont restore all the files you have made changes to.

If stuck install the original Motherboard drivers and start again where you were originally.

It could be the chipsets aren't talking to each other properly since installing the 5.10's

[hiro]

If there was any game that I would build a system for, it would be IL-2 or for BOB SOW.

All my other games are collecting dust. Warcraft series, starcraft, Lucas arts sims / jedi games, Half life 2 series, lord of the rings online . . . etc . . .

Its probably just me, but IL-2 is just gratifying. It's rekindled a love of planes / warbirds (I had as a kid). Its one of the few games I can play for a few hours and put down. It doesn't have the mindless addiction that World of Warcrack / Morrowind / Guildwars etc . . . had. It fires my imagination and with 5 senses in my mind, feel the throbbing of the engine, the smell of high octane, the glint of the sun across the canopy and sight.


Maybe it is the difficulty of it? Perhaps, but 8 years running strong . . .

I was planning to build a PC for starcraft 2, but instead IL-2 and BOB SOW has replaced it . . . I haven't even visited the starcraft 2 forums / site since the 2 months I have had IL-2.

I'm even looking at skins and editing pilots, only game that interested me enough as max payne series (they had a nice mod community).


this is just informational . . . since the OP has decided to not try it anymore, but for others who may have older pc's trying to get it working.

Try the drivers that came with your video card CD.


Also on older machines (below 3.0 ghz and 1 gig ram) , service pack 3 and update after that really make your pc crawl. So if you were using Il2 pre service pack 3, that can / may have something to do with it.

I brought out a old AMD 800 mhz with 256 m ram, and it had service pack 2. It ran relatively fast. Internet was fine, I could multitask using MS Office 2000, use outlook and word . . . and it ran games for its specs. Forums such as these and the zoo worked good.

After login it was 2 minutes (hour glass to mouse pointer) and everything loaded up.

Updated to service pack 3 and after, and it takes 8 minutes sitting at the desktop after login (hourglass). The games run really slow. Word takes a good 3 minutes to open. Outlook, fugattaboutit. The forums take 2 minutes or more to load.

WIped it and installed service pack 2, its back to its old speedy self.


I would not recommend rolling back service packs if this is your main PC and you go on the internet and do transactions such as amazon or online banking. All the PC speed in the world isn't going to help you if your info leaks, you get a trojan, a virus forces you to lose data etc . ..

But my 800 isn't going online (much) and I could careless, if catches something nasty, I got a program that if you power reset the PC it goes back to original settings.