Much needed new dll's

[Qpassa]

Fermi eat too Watts,600W at fully charge,and this is not an option :I

[gprr]

Originally Posted by Qpassa

Fermi eat too Watts,600W at fully charge,and this is not an option :I

Belive its 300W max per 480 card...

Hi all and thanks for some heads up and down I think
Also waiting for ATI works on the driver but looks like their main focus is on artifects issue / not prformance problems(wish I'm wrong)
End of December 2009 I bought new I7 920 based rig, with 5850 card.Option given to me to replace the card within 6 months and use it's shop market value at that time for other chosen card.
So still have time to "correct" my buy
I do like my 5850 and its image quality and the original plan was to buy second one later when needed but these slowdowns when atacking busy airbase in vanila or moded game is real pain in my eye.
Runing I7 920 at 3.74gh improves things but the problem remains big,Hope ATI do their work and maybe I'll change to 5870 and one more later

Cheers
gprr

[Flanker35M]

S!

The driver issue affects performance as well as the artifacts, so waiting for the update eagerly. ATI has no problems running IL-2 now either if you count out the blocky texts etc. I can run it at 1920x1200 32-bit OGL at Perfect with 24fps min 296fps max and 97fps avg on Black Death track..so hardly poor performance there And I run on a "lesser" rig than your i7 920, an AMD 965 BE..

[gprr]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

S!

The driver issue affects performance as well as the artifacts, so waiting for the update eagerly. ATI has no problems running IL-2 now either if you count out the blocky texts etc. I can run it at 1920x1200 32-bit OGL at Perfect with 24fps min 296fps max and 97fps avg on Black Death track..so hardly poor performance there And I run on a "lesser" rig than your i7 920, an AMD 965 BE..

Hi Flanker

Just benched it again on 409m vanila and got: Min-31 Max-238 Avg-96.793
With Water=2,Effects=1,AA=12,AF=Aplication control,TripleBuffer=on,1920*1200.
Thats said ,this card price is 2 times NV 250gts but its Min fps is about equal and even less, also no slowdowns like my 5850
Folowed your posts here,ubi and AMD forums and do hope ATI drows something good out of their hat

gprr

[Qpassa]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

S!

The driver issue affects performance as well as the artifacts, so waiting for the update eagerly. ATI has no problems running IL-2 now either if you count out the blocky texts etc. I can run it at 1920x1200 32-bit OGL at Perfect with 24fps min 296fps max and 97fps avg on Black Death track..so hardly poor performance there And I run on a "lesser" rig than your i7 920, an AMD 965 BE..

So it works fine with 5870?

[Flanker35M]

S!

Yes, IL2 works with ATI. But for now before the driver update you have to use some "workarounds" to get rid of the "blue hue" and "blocky text" which are the most striking errors when using ATI.

Blue hue workaround is very easy to solve, just open conf.ini and set UseVertexArrays=0 or in IL-2 setup disable Use Vertex arrays and you are done. No more blue hue.

Blocky text has 2 workarounds. First one is to use either Catalyst 9.10 drivers OR drop the atioglxx.dll from the 9.10 package to IL-2 root. Then you have no blocky text. Second workaround is to launch game, play a track and wait for the blocky text to clear. After that it does not appear again.

So the most annoying bug is this blocky text as you can not join games in Multiplayer via HL or similar as the game loads graphics BEFORE the GUI and it is the graphics that cause the blocky text. So basically if not using the dll file in IL2 folder you have to start game, play a track and then join server via IP from IL2 Multiplayer.

Third and least desireable option to clear blocky text without using workaround files etc. is to set HardwareShaders=0 thus disabling Perfect mode in OpenGL and use Excellent instead. Or use DirectX mode that looks..pale and no-one uses it anyway

So ATI does work with IL-2 with some problems with it. Performance is good though. So the driver update will hopefully solve these annoying bugs.

[gprr]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

S!

Yes, IL2 works with ATI. But for now before the driver update you have to use some "workarounds" to get rid of the "blue hue" and "blocky text" which are the most striking errors when using ATI.

Blue hue workaround is very easy to solve, just open conf.ini and set UseVertexArrays=0 or in IL-2 setup disable Use Vertex arrays and you are done. No more blue hue.

Blocky text has 2 workarounds. First one is to use either Catalyst 9.10 drivers OR drop the atioglxx.dll from the 9.10 package to IL-2 root. Then you have no blocky text. Second workaround is to launch game, play a track and wait for the blocky text to clear. After that it does not appear again.

So the most annoying bug is this blocky text as you can not join games in Multiplayer via HL or similar as the game loads graphics BEFORE the GUI and it is the graphics that cause the blocky text. So basically if not using the dll file in IL2 folder you have to start game, play a track and then join server via IP from IL2 Multiplayer.

Third and least desireable option to clear blocky text without using workaround files etc. is to set HardwareShaders=0 thus disabling Perfect mode in OpenGL and use Excellent instead. Or use DirectX mode that looks..pale and no-one uses it anyway

So ATI does work with IL-2 with some problems with it. Performance is good though. So the driver update will hopefully solve these annoying bugs.

Hi Flanker

1.5850 is really good but relatively to NV cards it "suffers" in this game.
2.Searchin before and after buying I came to know all ATI tweaks and learn my conf.ini and CCC by heart

Cheers
gprr