Cliffs of Dover Technical FAQ

[klem]

Originally Posted by Aeromaster

Hi, I love the il2 series but this is the first one that I am having a problem with. It seems that I can load the game fine and go to the selection screen. The problem I am having is that none of the video works. When I go to quick launch, I cannot see the map, and when I go to view my aircraft before flight I cannot see it at all either, they both appear as a black box. When I ignore that and just try to fly, I can’t see anything, all I see is my desktop, but I can still hear my plane and when I move controls I hear the plane react too, just can’t see it.

I thought this was my problem
"3. Q: I see a black screen when launching the game.
A: You are most likely running an Nvidia card with 266.xx drivers. There's a problem with that particular driver version.
It can be resolved by either rolling back to a previous driver version, such as 257.21, or upgrading to the just-released 270.51.
The issue can also be resolved by manually adjusting one of the driver parameters in the registry. This is for more advanced users. Please modify the registry at your own risk.

Start - Run
regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\GraphicsDrivers
Edit - New - DWord
Name = TdrDelay
Value Data = 12"

But after upgrading to 285.xx the problem still existed and I modified the registry and that still did not work, so maybe I have a new problem or I just don’t see it. If I could get help with this it would be great, I would really love to play the game.

If needed my specs are
Windows 7 64bit
Nvidia 230m driver 285.62
6gigs of DDR3 ram
if anything else is needed just let me know

Looks like you have a laptop?

I can't say for sure but on this performance hierchy:-
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ew,3107-7.html
the 230m doesn't appear but the lowest card supported by CoD is, I believe, the 8800 which appears on the list near the 260m so your GPU may be borderline.

Try the lowest settings in Options... Video to see if you get any improvement and then raise the settings from there.

Things to do in Video settings while testing: turn SSAO off, Forest Off, Grass off, Shadows off, Buildings Amount and Buildings Detail to lowest settings.

What is your Processor?

I wouldn't mess with the registry until all else fails.