Low FPS in cities on a high end PC

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Originally Posted by swiss

(I actually can confirm that, I got almost no fps gain when I switched from a X2 6000+@3.0 to a X4@3.6)

I do the same kind of upgrade, but I noticed clear gains in perfomance.

Not in pure average FPS, but in stress situations as MP with +50 people, flying over big cities, explosions and collisions.

If you use W7, realy best in MT than XP, you will see gains with more cores, even if IL-2 just uses one. Windows and all the other processes uses resources, and more cores improve performance. Just to fly IL-2 I can have Teamspeak, Freetrack, FOV changer, JoyToKey and more things running in backgroud, so, this kind of upgrade really improves performance!

IL-2 are "FPS friendly" almost all the flying, don't stress much modern VGAs, but isn't optimized for modern hardware, and in stress situations will run better with larger horsepower and more cores, even if IL-2 .exe are using just one.