Friday October 12 - Release Candidate 2

[bw_wolverine]

Originally Posted by Winger

Have you ever flown a 109? Well, then you know whats a bad visibility. Its everyones choice thou. I knew it was possible to dump the canopy in a 109 and have no increased drag post patch and i still didnt use it since i dont like exploiting. And sorry but thats exactly what it is. No matter wich side it does.

Winger

The mirror argument as justification is a bit specious, but I've heard it straight from a Battle of Britain pilot that they used to open the canopy for better view, specifically heard from a Hurricane pilot.

I'm don't know if they'd dog fight like that (probably not) but they definitely opened it for better view.

I'm glad they've added drag to the action though. That definitely should be in there.

I'll probably continue to fly a Hurricane with the hood open as I'm heading out to battle so I can get a better look around and then close it when I get into a fight. I wouldn't consider that cheating. In fact, I consider it a pretty good representation of history if game behaviour is organically modelling the real life behaviour of the pilots involved.

[priller26]

Seems with the Me109 3 you can shoot down a Blenheim without exhausting all ammo, which is nice. Patch is fine EXCEPT the persistent prop flicker, still present.

[trademe900]

109 is still extremely competitive against spit; faster in climb, level speed etc but it has become a LOT more fun now.

I can't wait to start flying blue again now! Finally some opponents to fight. Hurricane does not turn good enough though, real shame.

[CaptainDoggles]

Originally Posted by bw_wolverine

The mirror argument as justification is a bit specious, but I've heard it straight from a Battle of Britain pilot that they used to open the canopy for better view, specifically heard from a Hurricane pilot.

I'm don't know if they'd dog fight like that (probably not) but they definitely opened it for better view.

I'm glad they've added drag to the action though. That definitely should be in there.

I'll probably continue to fly a Hurricane with the hood open as I'm heading out to battle so I can get a better look around and then close it when I get into a fight. I wouldn't consider that cheating. In fact, I consider it a pretty good representation of history if game behaviour is organically modelling the real life behaviour of the pilots involved.

Ask your BoB pilot if he could hear a fighter 700 yards behind/below him

It's not opening the canopy that's cheating, it's the abuse of the sound radar.

[r0bc]

Originally Posted by luthier

If you wish to bypass this process and manually enable SLI support, please go through the following steps:

1) Download a profiler utility, for example
http://nvworld.ru/utilities/sliprofiletool/

2) Export SLI profiles to a file

3) Manually edit the file by adding the following lines

Profile "Il2: Cliffs of Dover"
    ShowOn GeForce
    ProfileType Application
    Executable " il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover/Launcher.exe"
    Setting ID_0x00a06946 = 0x000240f5
    Setting ID_0x1033cec1 = 0x00000001
    Setting ID_0x1033cec2 = 0x00000002
    Setting ID_0x1033dcd2 = 0x00000004
    Setting ID_0x1033dcd3 = 0x00000004
    Setting ID_0x1095def8 = 0x00000004
EndProfile

4) Re-import the file

5) Fly!

IMPORTANT: Please note that
Executable " il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover/Launcher.exe"
must point to the actual location of the game’s executable. If you have installed the game to a different folder, please edit the line accordingly.

If anyone still can't get this to work
Change this line in step 3 from
Executable " il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover/Launcher.exe"
To
Executable "Launcher.exe"

SLI finally.....profile still needs so tweaking but it'll only get better from here on

[14./JG5_Roman]

Originally Posted by r0bc

If anyone still can't get this to work
Change this line in step 3 from
Executable " il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover/Launcher.exe"
To
Executable "Launcher.exe"

SLI finally.....profile still needs so tweaking but it'll only get better from here on

Are you actually getting better performance with this bypass or is it only enabling you to run the game with SLI enabled? Please post your video card and driver. I tried both the original profile and the one you recommended, but still one gpu has 0% load. I'm guessing this NVIDIA Profiles.txt file has to be in the il-2 game directory?

[BigC208]

R0bc's tip did the trick for me. I have both cards now running between 80 and 90% at the same time with Vsync off. With Vsync on I only get around 50% on both cards. Performance is not that much better then with one gtx680. Temps are 10-20 degrees c lower then single card so that's good. If you have two cards, use them but I would not run out and buy an extra gpu for this game alone. I'll do a bit more testing.

[r0bc]

Originally Posted by 14./JG5_Roman

Are you actually getting better performance with this bypass or is it only enabling you to run the game with SLI enabled? Please post your video card and driver. I tried both the original profile and the one you recommended, but still one gpu has 0% load. I'm guessing this NVIDIA Profiles.txt file has to be in the il-2 game directory?

I'm using 306.97 and I'm getting 80% plus GPU usage on both cards.
I changed the profile name to but that shouldn't make a difference.
This is exactly what I have now. Just don't forget to save your text doc before you import back.
Goodluck

Profile "IL-2 STURMOVIK: CLIFFS OF DOVER"
ShowOn GeForce
ProfileType Application
Executable "launcher.exe"
Setting ID_0x00a06946 = 0x000240f5
Setting ID_0x1033cec1 = 0x00000001
Setting ID_0x1033cec2 = 0x00000002
Setting ID_0x1033dcd2 = 0x00000004
Setting ID_0x1033dcd3 = 0x00000004
Setting ID_0x1095def8 = 0x00000004
EndProfile

[Robo.]

Originally Posted by CaptainDoggles

It's not opening the canopy that's cheating, it's the abuse of the sound radar.

Well not every pilot flying with canopy open can hear the engines behind him.

[ATAG_Bliss]

I think your angle of approach (as a 109 driver) has a bunch to do with it as well. I can usually sneak up from below and behind without them hearing me. I also wouldn't count every time a red player turns when you are behind them a case of sound radar either.

I know I'm constantly scanning while I fly, including my 6. And it probably drives my wingman crazy. In a spitty, it's really easy to see behind you. You don't really need to go off course to do it either.

So just consider not every case is going to be from sound. Either way, I don't consider anything that's part of the game cheating. I loved the mirror in old IL2. So I can only imagine how bad it sucks not having it working in the new one.