Waste of money

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by Tvrdi

ROF, Black Shark, Warthog and any other new and complex sim CAN RUN on much slower systems than mine on med to high settings...Is that a case with CLOD?

Well, i really don't know why it gives so many problems on your rig, but i have a lower-spec PC than yours and everything runs fine on mostly medium settings at 1680x1050. I even lowered a couple of settings (forests and building detail to low) and this allowed me to set land shading to high and building detail to unlimited and i'm only running this:

win7 x64, i7 920 @ 2.7 Ghz, Ati 4890 1Gb and only 3GB of RAM.

It runs well and flies like a dream, seriously. I really don't know why so many people with beefier PCs seem to be having problems.

The most important thing that affects performance at high graphics settings seems to be the amount of VRAM. In other words, don't expect to run everything on high with original size textures on a 1Gb video card. I run medium textures and it's the one single setting that has the biggest effect on performance, allowing me to increase other settings to where it looks much better than IL2 and still flies in a fluid manner.

If i had a faster DX11 GPU with 1GB of VRAM i would still be running medium textures, but this would mean that i would be able to increase other settings to high.

What i care about is "does it look better than the previous one?", not "are the settings maxed out?". As long as it looks good i don't need to have everything on high.