What is Aero and where do I find it?

[Les]

Aero is a Windows 7 graphical feature that gives your 'windows' things like semi-transparent edges and other cosmetic possibilities. It can take up some computer resources so people have been turning it off when running 'Cliff of Dover'.

You can turn it off altogether in Windows options, or you can make CloDo switch it off only when running the game.

You make CloDo do it by right-clicking on your Cliffs of Dover 'Launcher' Application (.exe) file and selecting, in the 'Compatibility' section of the 'Properties' box, 'Disable desktop composition'.

Your Cliffs of Dover 'Launcher' Application (.exe) file is located wherever it was on your system you installed Steam, along the path Steam/steamapps/common/il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover.

[timholt]

Thanks for the quick replies gents.
I selected the basic window as per Snakes suggestion but that gave me extremely bad tearing, so I have reset it to what it was.
There did seem to be a slight improvement with smoother panning with TIR in the cockpit, but to me that is a better option than tearing.
For info I don't have any Beta patches installed.

Edit: Mad Tommy, they are the first thing I tried - I had 4 but there was no improvement in the game.

[Rattlehead]

Disabling aero chopped my framerates in half, so the results seem a bit inconsistent.