A friend told me to wait with purchasing CloD for a year...

[baronWastelan]

[LoBiSoMeM]

I do a lot of videos. Now I run this sim with textures "Original".

Well. Everybody can judge if the performance is porked. I don't think so...

My rig isn't so expensive: AMD X4, 8GB RAM DDR3 in a cheap ASUS MOBO, GTX 560TI with just 1GB...

If people like to wait one year, ok. I can do this in MP:



And I can fly like this over London, low level...



Good enough for me... Amazing sim, great sim engine and a lot of room for further evolution.

I saw people with a lot of "frustrations" that can't even taxiing in strong wind. People blame CloD for some not so big bugs and don't explore the sim properly.

nice vids Lob !

posted them at ED for there entertainment !

[Vengeanze]

Originally Posted by LoBiSoMeM

I do a lot of videos. Now I run this sim with textures "Original".

Well. Everybody can judge if the performance is porked. I don't think so...

Well, you got the pre beta patch from Steam that fixed your game.

Seriously, I'm glad for you but the tip to wait a year from launch is generally a good one for any game or OS for that matter.

I'm having a great time in CloD and the last patch raised the immersion quit a bit.
I gonna do some screenshots so you can see for yourselfs where I was quality wise pre patch and where I'm at now having to lower the res. It's ugly, I tell ya.

[Blackdog_kt]

Just a bit of clarification. I wasn't refering to lowering your monitor resolution, that will indeed result in a fuzzy picture.

What i was meaning to say is to launch the sim, go to options->video and click on the little button that displays the expanded options. Then, find the one that is labeled texture resolution (or size) and drop it a notch.

I'm not sure if this requires a restart of the sim but just to be on the safe side, once you lower your texture size

a) exit the sim and clear you cache in documents\1c softclub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\cache

b) run it again to rebuild your cache, this will take a bit of time

c) exit again

d) run it once again, it should now take a lot less time and you can go flying/testing


The original textures are pretty huge, as an example pilots are probably a few MB each and the Buckingham palace is 20MB or so, these are raw, uncompressed textures. Now take into account all the different field variations, the building textures and so on, it adds up to quite a lot and can easily swamp a GPU with less than 2GB of VRAM.

Hope it helps in any case

[Vengeanze]

Hehe. You've been hanging with numbnuts too long Blackdog.
I'm talking about in game res of course.
But thanks for the tip to clear cache even after res change. Don't have high hopes but gonna try it asap.

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by Vengeanze

Hehe. You've been hanging with numbnuts too long Blackdog.
I'm talking about in game res of course.
But thanks for the tip to clear cache even after res change. Don't have high hopes but gonna try it asap.

It seems you're talking about in-game screen resolution. I'm talking about in-game texture resolution, which has a direct effect on their size and how much VRAM in your GPU is chewed up while playing and is also a different setting

Just go to your video options, make sure you click on the checbox to show the advanced options and mouse over to the one named "texture size", that's the one you want. If i misunderstood and you already know/tried this then excuse me, hanging around here either makes people impatient or gives onr the habit of explaining the obvious, but after all the answers i've given to often repeated questions i don't risk it anymore, i give step by step descriptions

[Vengeanze]

Thanks Blackdog.

Like you I test and tweak alot and run benchmarks.
The settings I've got is the absolute minimum. If I lower even more then I loose too much feeling. Got the "Texture quality" at High and won't go lower as the terrain texture looks hideous then.
I've even tried the ramdrive without any perfomance improvement.
Hopefully the official patch will give me my 10% back plus a couple of more frames on top of that. That'll keep me on the right side of 30.

Btw, I tried that FXAA and it works great. No performance hit and not that dramatic smear effect that I get with that new AMD AA (can't remember the name).