Game Unplayable

[TonyD]

It really irks me when posters on various forums slag CoD because they cannot run it on high settings on dated hardware, ‘… like they can with IL2 1946’ Good grief, Verhängnis, that sim is a decade old and shouldn’t be used as a comparison at all. If you spend some time reading up on this forum you will find people with similar hardware to yours that have managed to get it to run acceptably, with the correct settings.

As stated by others above, trying to run the texture detail on ‘Original’ with your setup is never going to work, and SSAO is a big fps killer too. A bit of time spent tweaking can definitely yield results, although to expect miracles with your hardware, being as it only just meets the minimum spec as far as graphics cards go, is unrealistic. With a bit of research you will learn that a GeForce 9800 is architecturally little more than a re-named 8800, and is currently more than 3 generations old.

I am not disappointed with CoD at all, as with all the updates and optimised settings I can run it with decent graphic quality, even on my hardly-new system. I do agree that the minimum spec is somewhat optimistic currently, but this may improve with further updates. Upgrading your hardware is probably still your best choice, as then you will be able to enjoy it closer to what was intended.

Rant over.

[Verhängnis]

Well before you told me to, I did try the game on the lowest possible settings, everything either off or lowest, and well the sim ran smoothly, although not as smooth as those with higher end PC's, but the point is, it looked Horrible, my eyes were burning!

Just like the developers said, run it on lowest settings and it will look like some arcade game from the 90's, they were right.

And I'm not saying you should be dissapointed, I'm saying the Developers should be dissapointed, surely they know it is bad for business when half the community of customers can't even play the damn thing or even want to, anybody with my settings or lower cannot play!

I think you will find that most of us 1946 flyers would agree, what did they expect?
Not everyone has the latest Rig, Many people right now are going through financial problems and can't afford a new computer, and I thought that one of Olegs Promises was that his games could run on low end computers?
I think I remember him saying this about IL-2 1946.
And I mean seriously there is not even multi-core support???

Like you said, we the group with low-end PC's who can't run the game love to complain and rant, well it seems you (The group with high end PC's) love to tell us to lower the settings,buy new computers and get over it, if you couldn't run the game you would be saying the exact same things.

This sim is unfinished, half my Menu's dont even load, some of the controls for the game do nothing and some things do others, eg. Open Canopy...More like do that...but tell me my Pitot Tube is heating.

I do believe that they will address these issues in Patches, but how long will we have to wait?

[335th_GRAthos]

OK, now you are talking...

Now that your machine is working reasonably, change to:
*Model Detail High
*Special effects High

You should not be having degration in performance but graphics should look much better.

You did not mention two things:
Your Screen Resolution: No need to bother writting 1400x + I am flying this game at 1280x and I have GPUs a few generations higher than yours....

You Operating System: Win7 I presume because you mentioned DX10
Win7-64 bit is the right thing to have.


Your GPU is unfortunately very "minimum" for this game, 512Mb RAM is not enough for this game and because of this you have stutters (as son as the VRAM is filled up).
1,5Gb VRAM and higher is the right place to be.

And for the last point, actually the game supports many CPUs, Quad-Core is the right thing to have so, you are either not looking correctly or you have put the correct patches yet.
(ps. Do not use the ProcessAfinityMask if you have Win7, let Win7 take care of everything)


Happy Flying

~S~

[Bobb4]

Not sure if Tree is still banned but he hit the nail on the head with the game, the lack of ingame video's etc... It is not finished.
The game will never work properly on anything but a new gen system.
No matter how much optimisation the developers do.
And even if they do get it working even halfway il2 will look better to anyone with a low end machine.
No amount of ranting or complaining is going to change that fact.
If you want the bells and whistles you will have to fork out the cash.
Thats not a boast it is a life lesson. My dual core 2.4 with 8800gt was battling with RoF.
My new system runs RoF maxed out but cannot run CoD fully maxed out. Honestly looking at RoF on my new system and the explosions match CoD, the trees look better...
So what is my point, simple buy a new system or accept that you will never be truly happy with CoD.
And even with a new system you will still not be completely happy

[Verhängnis]

Ok I run the game fullscreen at Native Resolution of 1600 x 900, although I would be happy to run it a 1024 x 768 which I think is the highest 'windowed' setting.

I am also using Windows XP but I still have Direct X 10 running.

Quoted from resident Java and Computer Expert Storebor:

"The game currently can't utilize multi core systems well, hence a hexa-core system is of no use at all.
The perfect system has a high clock speed combined with large 2nd/3rd level cache.
Dual Core 3.3 GHz will do better than quad core 2.2 GHz."

Ok just tested with only effects and models on High, everything else, low or off.It was flyable with I more than 25 fps and not much lag at all, abit of stuttering still though, this was in a Bf-110 flight of four at altitude over Land and sea together.

Now testing in windowed 1024 x 768 with ground/landscape detail high.

[maclean525]

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Can't believe folks are saying to throw hardware at COD to solve the issues!!!! COD does not even come close to fully utilizing the hardware, THAT'S the problem. It not fully optimized code, it needs lots more work. Simple as that. Buying expensive hardware is not going to solve anything.

[Ploughman]

I have a similar system to the OP. A Q6600 quad core processor at 2.4mhz, 4gb of RAM, Visat32, and a 1gb 9800gt.

The game runs quite fine with 8xAA, SOAO off, models High, landscape Medium, Shadows and Roads on, Grass off, Textures High, Effects High, buildings Low, trees low, resolution is 1920x1080. Occassional stutters over land and built up areas but I could always trim the visuals some more but I just love the eye candy, dogfighting over the sea is very smooth even with large formations. It's true to say the game on initial release was a total mess, but they've got it very playable in a month and I can do more with it than I thought I'd be able to do already, and I look forward to enjoying the rest of the sim's evolution.

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

Originally Posted by Verhängnis

I am also using Windows XP but I still have Direct X 10 running.

Originally Posted by 159th_Jester

This bit caught my attention. How precisely are you managing this?

He's not, it's impossible. This is also half his problem, because DX9 runs way slower than DX10 in this game.

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by Verhängnis

I am also using Windows XP but I still have Direct X 10 running.
.

For DX9 Graphics cards you need to make some changes to the conf.ini's

conf.ini
Render=D3D10_0 changed to Render=D3D9


Copy this line

D3D9

Enter here as below.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover

[BOB]
Render=D3D9

Also in

C:\Users\Steve\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover

[BOB]
EpilepsyFilter=0
Render=D3D9

[window]
DepthBits =24
StencilBits=8
DrawIfNotFocused=0
SaveAspect=0
Render=D3D9 < replace the DX10 line
width=1680
height=1050
ColourBits=32
FullScreen=1
ChangeScreenRes=1

Read more: http://ikg26.proboards.com/index.cgi...#ixzz1KeqqPu1L

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by Urufu_Shinjiro

He's not, it's impossible. This is also half his problem, because DX9 runs way slower than DX10 in this game.

There are some people who claim they have hacks to install DX10 on XP.
Not something I would want to try though. Not that I know anything about hacks..