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I'm gobsmacked at how well my minimum specs machine performs with CoD following the patches and the last beta. It was pretty awful on initial release.

I use the settings below and haven't had the problems some report with ATI cards.

1280 x 768 60hz
Model, Visual - high
Building, Land, Textures,Damage Decals,Landshading - Medium
Buildings amount - Low
Grass - on
Shadows, Roads - Off
AA - off
SSAO - Off
Clouds - Off

Room for improvements sure in terms of visuals, but playable!

Duel Core - 4GB - Win7/64 - GTS250

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Originally Posted by SEE (Post 274704)

Why not turn off grass and turn on roads and buildings higher

Good thinking, haven't tried buldings higher or roads. I switch 'grass' on only for all missions that are ground starts as it looks too bland with 'grass' off. I still get 30fps on the deck which is fine for me. Having grass on doesn't seem to make a fat lot of difference to fps when I am up and away but wondering if increasing 'buildings' and roads will? I will try it.....

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Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos (Post 273946)

Besides WinXP is using DX9 as far as I know... ;-)

@KG26_Alpha: I am sorry Alpha, this beats me; How will you be able to run CoD in DX10 mode on an Operating System that does not have DX10 ???? You rewrite computer history here...

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What are you talking about.

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Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha (Post 274803)

What are you talking about.

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there are installers that claim to install DX10 on win XP but to many hoops to jump through and also stability issues I think

"DirectX 10 ships with and is only available with Windows Vista and later; previous versions of Windows such as Windows XP are not able to officially run DirectX 10-exclusive applications. Rather, programs that are run on a Windows XP system with DirectX 10 simply resort to using the code from DirectX 9.0c, the latest version for Windows XP computers, although there are unofficial projects to port DirectX 10 to Windows XP."

According to Dxdiag I am running Direct X 10 but it seems it has no effect.

Btw Storebore is a Programmer, he's part of the Aviator Mod team and developes some of their most advanced code like their Air-to-air Rocket code in the 1956 Pack.

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Originally Posted by Verhängnis (Post 275058)

According to Dxdiag I am running Direct X 10 but it seems it has no effect.

Hold on a sec

The Op's video card is a Dx9 card 9800GT how does a Dx9 card run under Dx10 ? It dont (properly)

Install Dx9 on your XP system

How do you expect to get correct CoD results with non standard Dx versions then come to the forums moaning your ass off its unplayable ......................... anyway...........

I showed how to use DX9 in CoD conf files as its set to DX10 default a few posts back.

What's all the other posts for ?????

Here it is again.

For DX9 Graphics cards you need to make some changes to the conf.ini's

conf.ini
Render=D3D10_0 changed to Render=D3D9

Copy this line

D3D9

Enter here as below.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover

[BOB]
Render=D3D9

Also in

C:\Users\Steve\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover

[BOB]
EpilepsyFilter=0
Render=D3D9

[window]
DepthBits =24
StencilBits=8
DrawIfNotFocused=0
SaveAspect=0
Render=D3D9 < replace the DX10 line
width=1680
height=1050
ColourBits=32
FullScreen=1
ChangeScreenRes=1

Read more: http://ikg26.proboards.com/index.cgi...#ixzz1KeqqPu1L

If I'm not getting what's being asked here then my bad I suppose.

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Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos (Post 273946)

OK, we are coming forward....

#1. I am sorry, with 512MB VRAM you have to stay low. 1024x will be good, WINDOW MODE is a must for the time being (in order to check the performance) you may be able to go higher.
The trick is easy: run in Window mode, use the mouse cursor to extend the window the way it suits you. CoD will save automaticaly the resolution to its settings.
Your VRAM is your biggest challenge, you have a MINIMUM System (because of your GPU) so minimum is what will work for you (so setting things to HIGH is taking chances).
If you want to experiment, you need a tool like GPU-Z or GPU-Observer in order to monitor your VRAM: Is it reaching its MAX, you are in trouble (=stutter).

#2. If you use WinXP then forget about high resolutions, this game needs Win7-64bit
This is the best invesment you can do (besides investing a hell of a lot of money for a good GPU).
Besides WinXP is using DX9 as far as I know... ;-)
@KG26_Alpha: I am sorry Alpha, this beats me; How will you be able to run CoD in DX10 mode on an Operating System that does not have DX10 ???? You rewrite computer history here...

#3. I do not know what expert Storebor is but he is for sure no CoD expert ;-)
What CoD does with multi core CPUs I wrote you before so I waste no more but,
as a picture is worth more than 1000 words, here is your CoD with eight cores running (4+4virtual).
This is a screenshot 3840x Desktop resolution, move sliders to the right to see the game
http://www.stoimenos.com/temp/CoD/Co...4_CPUload2.jpg

Look at the amount of VRAM (Memory Used) in GPU-Z, imagine how fast your GPU reaches its limit...

I hope this helps,
Happy Flying!

You ARE Cod expert than? I see . . . (you don’t know sh... what you are talking about :P )

By the way, Luthier just called and asked again what your bank account number is. He will make the payment at the monday he said ;)

Avala are you the one who made the Avala's Benghali map ?

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Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha (Post 275190)

Hold on a sec

The Op's video card is a Dx9 card 9800GT how does a Dx9 card run under Dx10 ? It dont (properly)

9800GT is a dx10 card, if I recall correctly is a dumped 8800GT.

Go here and click Specifications :

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product...9800gt_us.html

Verhängnis, I strongly recommend you upgrade to Windows 7, all your problems will disappear and the game is other in DX10.

You should put that card under DX10.