IL-2 Random Crashes,ATI video card

[bolox]

Originally Posted by BigPickle

OK so Cat 9.5 nearly fucked my system guess its too old for my card.
How about if I switch to Direct X renderer in the menus will that fix the issues?
Also will i get anything like perfect mode?

i run a 4890 and 9.5's worked ok for me (win 7 64 bit)- best driver i found till 10.7.
if it messed up your comp i'd suspect a bad install of drivers- you did reboot into safe mode and run drivercleaner after removing previous drivers?- then install new drivers/ccc

direct X mode appearance wise isn't too dissimilar from excellent mode.. both get rid of fmb crashes and reduce ctd's

one 'trick' i find helps stave off ctd's (on my rig) is to start(and stop) recording an .ntrk. for me ctd's are preceeded by stutters appearing then getting worse ~1hr into mission.
maybe worth trying?

Yeah i did a full uninstall then ran a CCleaner to make sure everything was cleared out before I ran the catalyst prog.
I have Win7 32bit and was running 10.7 since its release.
I'm lucky if I get an 1hr out of IL2 before a crash.
So if I run DX mode, what settings should I put into the conf file to get the best output?

[gprr]

Originally Posted by BigPickle

Yeah i did a full uninstall then ran a CCleaner to make sure everything was cleared out before I ran the catalyst prog.
I have Win7 32bit and was running 10.7 since its release.
I'm lucky if I get an 1hr out of IL2 before a crash.
So if I run DX mode, what settings should I put into the conf file to get the best output?

If you overclock via CCC,try not to and see if things improve.
If you overclock your CPU,look into your bios setup.

gprr

[swiss]

Originally Posted by BigPickle

Yeah i did a full uninstall then ran a CCleaner to make sure everything was cleared out before I ran the catalyst prog.
I have Win7 32bit and was running 10.7 since its release.
I'm lucky if I get an 1hr out of IL2 before a crash.
So if I run DX mode, what settings should I put into the conf file to get the best output?

Win7 32bit?
How many gigs of RAM?

[PE_Tigar]

The 4 series Radeons seem to have a problem with Il2. I've had intermittent crashes with 4850, then it continued with 2x4850 in CF... different driver versions, better cooling, all sorts of shenanigans... nothing helped, from time to time it would just crash. I've bought a 5870 recently and (knock on wood) no problems since (had 10.5 working, switched to 10.7 recently). IMO it's either a problem with that particular silicon, or faulty cards (some small fault to which Il2 is sensitive) or somehow the OpenGL driver issues that just weren't ever resolved for the 4 series...

[Fafnir_6]

Hello,

I am using the XFX HD5870 with Catalyst 10.5 (Win7 64b)and I haven't experienced too many problems. Let me know if you have this card and wish to get a copy of the render section of my conf.ini. Catalyst 10.3 to 10.4 also worked well but you need a work around for the text corruption.

Cheers,

Fafnir_6

[gprr]

B.D result looks like this:
Frames Time (ms) Min-- Max-- Avg
8677-- 150000---- 33----64---57.847

Main conf.ini section:

(Sound settings are diffrent from WIN XP and impact performance)

[sound]
SoundUse=1
SoundEngine=1
Speakers=1
Placement=0
SoundFlags.reversestereo=0
RadioFlags.Enabled=1
RadioEngine=2
MusicVolume=0
ObjectVolume=9
MusState.takeoff=1
MusState.inflight=1
MusState.crash=1
MusFlags.play=0
MasterVolume=6
Attenuation=7
SoundMode=0
SamplingRate=1
NumChannels=0
SoundExt.occlusions=1
SoundFlags.hardware=0
SoundFlags.streams=1
SoundFlags.duplex=1
SoundExt.acoustics=0
SoundExt.volumefx=1
SoundFlags.voicemgr=0
SoundFlags.static=1
VoiceVolume=6
Channels=2
SoundExt.extrender=0
SoundFlags.bugscorrect=0
SoundSetupId=8
ActivationLevel=0.02
Preemphasis=0.85
RadioLatency=0.5
AGC=1
PTTMode=1
SoundFlags.UseRadioChatter=0
SoundFlags.AutoActivation=0
RadioFlags.PTTMode=0
RadioFlags.PlayClicks=0
ActLevel=0
MicLevel=0
SoundFlags.forceEAX1=0

[rts]
ProcessAffinityMask=254 >>>>>>> Do not use fist cores(have 4 cores + 4 threads)
mouseUse=2
joyUse=1
trackIRUse=1
DisableIME=0
locale=


[Render_OpenGL]
TexQual=3
TexMipFilter=3
TexCompress=2
TexFlags.UseDither=1
TexFlags.UseAlpha=0
TexFlags.UseIndex=0
TexFlags.PolygonStipple=0
TexFlags.UseClampedSprites=0
TexFlags.DrawLandByTriangles=0
TexFlags.UseVertexArrays=1
TexFlags.DisableAPIExtensions=0
TexFlags.ARBMultitextureExt=1
TexFlags.TexEnvCombineExt=1
TexFlags.SecondaryColorExt=1
TexFlags.VertexArrayExt=1
TexFlags.ClipHintExt=0
TexFlags.UsePaletteExt=0
TexFlags.TexAnisotropicExt=1
TexFlags.TexCompressARBExt=1

TexFlags.TexEnvCombine4NV=0
TexFlags.TexEnvCombineDot3=1
TexFlags.DepthClampNV=0
TexFlags.SeparateSpecular=1
TexFlags.TextureShaderNV=0

HardwareShaders=1

Shadows=2
Specular=2
SpecularLight=2
DiffuseLight=2
DynamicalLights=1
MeshDetail=2
VisibilityDistance=3

Sky=2
Forest=3
LandShading=3
LandDetails=2

LandGeom=3
TexLarge=1
TexLandQual=3
TexLandLarge=1

VideoSetupId=10
Water=2
Effects=1
ForceShaders1x=0

PolygonOffsetFactor=-0.0625
PolygonOffsetUnits=-1.0


Cheers
gprr

[udidwht]

Running an HD Radeon 4670 512mb here under Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit Build 7600 (fully updated) haven't had any crashes at all using CCC 10.7 drivers.

System specs:

Windows 7 Ult 32bit Build 7600
4GB RAM PC2-DDr2-5300
Gigabyte HD Radeon 4670 512mb DDR3 (CCC-10.7)
Maxtor 300GB SATA
Sound Blaster X-fi Xtreme Gamer
Asus P5LP-LE (Emery)BIOS 3.19
Thermaltake 430w PSU