A potential fix for the Aircraft visibility problems?

[notafinger!]

I am skeptical that any of these conf.ini changes make a difference unless somebody can post proof. Make a mission in the FMB with planes at different distances and see what is visible with the conf.ini changes. I did this before when people were claiming VisibilityDistance=4 or 5 made a difference and I can tell you from testing the game does not recognize a value above 3.

Making changes to the conf.ini in the Steam folder doesn't make sense as that is a template for creating new conf.ini's in the 1C SoftClub folder. That is certainly not the conf.ini the program is using at start up.

These sound like placebos and the reason you think you are spotting contacts better is because there are twice as many people playing now as ever before.

[David198502]

yeah notafinger,....im also pretty confident, that adjusting the conf.ini in the steam directory doesnt have any effect at all, as its only the backup...adjusting the conf.ini in the 1c softclub folder and the MeshShowLod line does indeed have an effect though...

for me:
Meshshowlod=0 fluid performance, but contacts totally disappear in midrange
=1 half the framerate,stutters, but contacts stay visible
everything above 1 leads to disappearing parts of your own plane....the higher the value, the more parts of your plane disappear...

the highest value accepted by the game seems to be meshshowlod=6
as it will reset itself automatically as soon as you enter anything above 6

the annoying thing though is, that with all those values above 1 the other planes stay visible and dont disappear, while the performance is still fluid...but unfortunately its not of use, as you own plane isnt visible....

[IvanK]

Well I changed meshSowlod=8 in the Steam side of the house, went in and flew then checked after exit and it was still set =8. I have Steam cloud turned off though. So it wont always reset itself.

[notafinger!]

I can confirm what David said. Any changes to conf.ini in Steam folder has no effect. Meshshowlod=8 in 1C SoftClub conf.ini will revert to Meshshowlod=6 and results in no cockpit and 3d externals that look like they are from an early 90's DOS game.

Originally Posted by IvanK

Well I changed meshSowlod=8 in the Steam side of the house, went in and flew then checked after exit and it was still set =8. I have Steam cloud turned off though. So it wont always reset itself.

You can put whatever you want in the conf.ini stored in Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover. The game does not use that file. As a test you can delete it completely and the game will still launch and run just fine. The only conf.ini file that matters is stored in ~\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover. Change Meshshowlod= in that file and you will see what it actually does to your game.

[David198502]

and the disappearing problem is a specific spitfire problem they introduced with a patch...
at least for me, all the other planes stay visible...but the spit disappears completely..

i cant believe that this really annoying bug made it into the last update of clod......gosh im angry

[HR_Naglfar]

Originally Posted by David198502

and the disappearing problem is a specific spitfire problem they introduced with a patch...
at least for me, all the other planes stay visible...but the spit disappears completely..

i cant believe that this really annoying bug made it into the last update of clod......gosh im angry

To me it happens with all fighters with MeshShowLod=0, it's not just the Spitfire.

[David198502]

the disappearing also depends with with FOV you prefer to fly....i noticed yesterday, that the planes only seem to completely disappear with a FOV from ~80° or higher...
if i fly with the standard 70° FOV, the planes start to flicker in the critical range,and are hard to spot, but dont disappear completely...

[tintifaxl]

Originally Posted by David198502

and the disappearing problem is a specific spitfire problem they introduced with a patch...
at least for me, all the other planes stay visible...but the spit disappears completely..

i cant believe that this really annoying bug made it into the last update of clod......gosh im angry

I saw this behavior with an enemy Rotol Hurri, in an offline mission. Label and plane became invisible at 2.4 km distance, guestimated 400 m below me. Vanished for ~2 seconds then reappeared at 1.5 km. This was with MeshShowLod=1 in my conf.ini in the myuser folder.