ATAG Dedicated Server is up!

[Blakduk]

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

By the way gents, with the settings I posted in the previous pages, I can now fly three missions on the server (approx 10kils) for two hours before needing to voluntarily restart CoD because of the memory leak bug
(before, I had to restart after every flown mission)

=> I mean the settings except the resolution...


Except for the lack of grass which makes take off and landing very sad looking, I have not felt any decrease in graphics quality while dogfighting (I do not spend too much time looking at the ground details though so I am not an expert).
What is more important, I have no longer fps drops when dogfithting low above towns with many aiplanes around (before I had drops down to 18fps).
And just to show the fps and graphics quality with MeshShowLod=1:
(above the city, low, with many planes (behind me...)



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Grathos- what program is open on the left side of your screen?
It looks very interesting

[jimbop]

nvidia Inspector. Good for custom profiles with more options than the standard nvidia Control Panel.

[Blakduk]

Jimbop- i actually meant the other side of the screen. It looks like a configurable control interface.

[335th_GRAthos]

Jimbob, the left side! {you know, the one where the thumb is on the right }

It is Touchbuddy, awesome freeware tool http://www.touch-buddy.com/ sometimes their server is down, you may have to wait and re-try.
Originaly made to use on a second touchscreen you may connect to your PC, I chose the easy way (window besides my CoD).
I use it mainly in order to control the complex bomb setting modes when flying bombers although the BAIL OUT key has seen the most usage to date...



but you can do very complex setups:


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[jimbop]

Yeah, the other right… Wouldn’t you love me on your squad! One beer too many (or few) I think. Glad you replied though, looks like an interesting tool. Will look it up when I get back.

335th_GRAthos, I noticed one of your chats on ATAG yesterday and unless I misread (again) you mentioned modifying a config file edit that enabled you to see better at distance. Unfortunately I CTD’d at that stage. Was this the MeshShowLod edit or something else?

[335th_GRAthos]

Hi Jimbop, sorry no surprises here, it was the MeshShowLod edit.
Actually, it does not help me see far but stops the "vanishing moment" when the incoming dot disappears before turning into a real shape airplane.


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[Blakduk]

Thanks Grathos- i'll have to look it up and see if i can tailor it to my wishes. I'd love to be able to create sliders for fuel mixture, flaps etc- i cant afford a throttle quadrant.

[ATAG_Snapper]

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

Hi Jimbop, sorry no surprises here, it was the MeshShowLod edit.
Actually, it does not help me see far but stops the "vanishing moment" when the incoming dot disappears before turning into a real shape airplane.


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This is a tip from Little D that he shared with over at the ATAG forum: turn your in-game menu setting for Anti-Aliasing to "OFF". Many of us have it set to x2 (for what good it does ). Turning it off did this for me and a few others that tried it:

1) Can now spot enemy/friendly bomber formations from a reasonable medium-distance at high monitor resolution (mine: 1920 x 1200 native). Until now I'd been running lower monitor res just to be able to actually SEE anything before it was on top of you. The same applies for single aircraft contacts.

2) LOD doesn't temporarily "disappear" when closing on an aircraft. I did the MeshLodShow=1 in conf.ini which worked, but paid a price in terms of slower frame rates and stuttering. Leaving it at "0" and turning off anti aliasing in-game didn't affect the frame rates. I'm just happy to run at high res. low res cockpits are ugly, but high res tracers are uglier! LOL

Thanks again to Little D for this easy-to-try tip.

Reference link:
http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.co...tting-contacts