Do it!

[bw_wolverine]

I recently did the reinstall as well (just after the campaign mission on Sunday) and when I jumped online to try it out I definitely heard sounds that I hadn't been hearing before.

Example: I had been always hearing the loud POP POP backfiring sounds from other planes warming up but I never seemed to hear them from my own plane. I wondered if I was just warming up my plane differently. Well, I can safely say that I simply wasn't hearing them before I reinstalled. Now I hear those sounds very clearly and it's definitely different to what I was hearing before.

So, +1 on the reinstall.

[Sokol1]

I confirm this. When the last (final) patch come out I made a new install, and never have problem online minus eventual timed out (due my bad connection).
Almost accidentally I set graphics in HIGH (my system is old) and game run better than medium/low previously set used.

Sokol1

[335th_GRAthos]

Very interesting Bliss, thanks for sharing!

I never had any problems with my sound so I can not comment on the usefulness of a clean installation for those with sound problems. Probably, the fact that I never experienced sound problems is a confirmation that some files on other peoples' computers had gone bad thus a re-install is a good solution.

Regarding your flying time online, I would say that you need to fly intercept against bombers. This is the moment where you see your RAM utilisation growing to unbearable levels.
I have also tested staying on the ground. While on the ground for one hour, absolutely no memory increase.
Therefore, you can well fly for hours as long as you meet certain conditions and the situation you described fits to that category (very little enemy contact and (presume) high alt flying).

~S~

[ATAG_Snapper]

Doing it now. I remember JTDawg discussing this on TS yesterday, but I was having some remapping difficulties at the time and couldn't give this the attention it deserved.

Can't hurt to do a fresh install, anyway.

[ATAG_MajorBorris]

Nice!

[pupo162]

JUST TRIED IT.

well it gave me a smal performance update ( add to lower the seetings fro mdefault tough), but the gmae is sitll unplayable. too much stutters, and low fps. maybe good for some offline sorties, but i wont go online with this.

cheers

[ReconNZ]

Originally Posted by pupo162

JUST TRIED IT.

well it gave me a smal performance update ( add to lower the seetings fro mdefault tough), but the gmae is sitll unplayable. too much stutters, and low fps. maybe good for some offline sorties, but i wont go online with this.

cheers

Mate your ram is killing u on this game. Spend $70 and get 8gb of ddr3 ram, along with windows vista or 7 so u can use it all and u will notice a huge difference. Cliffs is very ram dependent, because of this it hates win xp also.

[SEE]

I spoke to soon and had three LE crashes and a BSOD on the last one. Windows diagnostics reported 'video memory thrashing'.

So what was different tonight to all the previous sessions this week with no LE crashes? I think it was the particle rendering, tonight I watched a Spit with dust trailing behind it as it took off, shortly after Flak appeared - lots of it and LE crashed.

The other occured over water at low altitude, bullets hitting the water, eventually after several occurences of the splashes LE crashed. I repeated this in SP and LE crashed with me firing my guns into the water.

Maybe someone can test this and monitor the effect on memory use.

All week I avoided locations where flack is heavy, tonight I couldn't.

Im going to give it a go, Ive got nothing to lose, i will report back later.

[pupo162]

Originally Posted by ReconNZ

Mate your ram is killing u on this game. Spend $70 and get 8gb of ddr3 ram, along with windows vista or 7 so u can use it all and u will notice a huge difference. Cliffs is very ram dependent, because of this it hates win xp also.

i have win7.

my MB is ddr2, to upgrade my ram i need new MB, who needs new CPU. so i will end up spending 400 euros. Ill consider doing that if il2 starts showing signs of being good ( more servers, more people playing, videos of people playing no stutters, no building popping, trees colidable, proper DCG campaign etc) for now, my pc is enough to play BF2: PR and BF3, so cod is not worth 400 euro