DX9 Support for Battle over Moscow

[satchenko]

Originally Posted by ACE-OF-ACES

Assuming the sequel will be like CoD, where CoD makes use of the DX11 API there really is no need to drop DX9.. Because the DX11 API supports DX9, 10 and 11 feature levels and all the sub variants of each. For example, if you want to make use of DX9 feature levels in CoD simply edit your conf.ini file and chage it from DX10 to DX9.. Also, something not many people realise is CoD does currently support DX11! Problem is it is beta and not recomended! At the time of CoD relase DX11 feature levels still had some 'issues' (read buggie) so 1C limited the feature levels to DX10. But if you want to try the DX11 feature levels you can edit your conf.ini file and try them out. That is the beauty/benifit of programing the game using the DX11 API, the ability to switch to other feature levels

DX11??? what line is used to try this ?

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by satchenko

DX11??? what line is used to try this ?

Again.. DX11 feature levels are NOT recommended! I tried them.. My fps seems a little better, but I lost all the grass rendering at the airfield. I ultimately switched back to DX10 in that overall it just seemed to look better.. But that is a personal call

Keep in mind most vid cards today support DX9 feature levels, some support DX10, and a few support DX11. So it should go without saying, to use DX11 you video card has to support DX11

If you want to try different feature levels (DX9, DX10, DX11) here are the settings you can use

D3D11_0 
D3D10_0 
D3D10_1
D3D9_1
D3D9_2
D3D9_3

The file you will have to manually edit is your 'conf.ini' file, and you want to edit the one in your 'USERS' directory (read USER not the dir where the game is installed), i.e.

C:\Users\<YOUR USER NAME HERE>\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover

Search for the section called '[window]' within that section you should see the following

[window]
Render=D3D10_0

There will be other stuff listed under that section, but you only want to edit the 'Render=' line. Note this also assumes your PC has a vid card that supports DX10.. I assume if your vid card only supports DX9 that line will read different (i.e. Render=D3D9_3)

So..

Say you want to 'try' DX 11.0 feature levels edit that line to read as follows

[window]
Render=D3D11_0

Say you want to 'try' DX 10.1 feature levels instead of the default DX 10.0edit that line to read as follows

[window]
Render=D3D10_1

Say you want to 'limit' your DX 10 or DX 11 video card to use DX 9.1 feature levels, than edit that line to read as follows

[window]
Render=D3D9_1

or DX 9.2

[window]
Render=D3D9_2

or DX 9.3

[window]
Render=D3D9_3

As always, I highly recommend you make a back up copy of the conf.ini file before you start editing it!

Enjoy and let us know if you get better or worse results!

PS one thing you will probally want to do is del all the files and folders in your 'cache' dir each time you change the feature levels