Il-2, AAA, Nvidia drivers and GF280

[:FI:Macca]

Guys, does any of you run Il-2 both with and without mods enabled with the unified installer with water settings higher than 0? When I have everything maxed and the water turned up, it doesn't matter if it is 1 or 4, I have slideshow over big water areas. When it is to 0 - it runs like a charm.

I'm using latest nvidia drivers and so on...

any ideas?

[:FI:Scott]

That card should flatten IL2 Macca. That said IL2 is very cpu dependant so whats your specs there?. It isn't optimised for multiple cpu's and in my experience at least 2 Gb of ram with a fast proccesor is the best solution.

Check to see if you have IL2 set up in your Nvidia control panel so it runs on one card. I think the default is sli ?, also check that threaded optimisation is off. Im using Nhancer now and I think its better than the standard Nvidia control panel so you might want to give that a go. I've found since I started using it I can get Sli running smoothly in split frame rendering mode, I never could get sli right using the Nvidia panel.

Im running water '3' on a dual GTX260 setup and over water its pegged at 60fps (max you can get with v-synch on with my 22" lcd) If I run on one card over water its the same. You should avoid water '2' as it was designed for Ati cards. Apart from slower frames in '4' I cant tell the difference between it and '3'. I use the latest drivers -190.38 and as far as Im concerned they are far better for IL2 than the 180 series.

If you want a copy of my config file or Nvidia setup give me a shout.

[:FI:Macca]

Thx mate;)

I'm running Intel Core2Quad Q6600 on winXP with SP3, latest nvidia drivers, 4 GB RAM (waiting for Win7 to use it fully...)

I would appreciate if you could send me your config and nvida settings. I'm gonna give it a go with water 3 after turning the threaded thingy off. Made sure that I have the single display on in nvidia panel. also gonna look into the Nhancer thingy you mentioned.


edit.

still 14 frames...

[:FI:Scott]

In Nvidia control panel I have everything nvidia recommended apart from :

Aniso filtering =4x
Antialising mode =Overide
Antialiasing setting =4x
Antialiasing Transparency =Multisampling
Multi display/mixed gpu =Single display performance mode
power management mode =Prefer maximum performance
SLI performance mode = custom (you should select 'single gpu')
Threaded otimisation = off
triple buffering =on
Vertical synch = force on

I'll pm you a copy of my config file. There is something wrong there Macca, the frames are way too low. my cpu is a Q9450 Quad @2.66 Ghz with 4 Gb of ram on Vista 32.

[:FI:Macca]

Tried it - same situation. With water=0 and all other bells and whistles on, even with totally maxed AF and AA I am having huuuuge numbers of frames. Turn water up a step,two or three or four - 15 frames.

It is very awkward as all other games run like charm. There must be maybe one parameter to change. Damn, too many options and things to fiddle with.

[:FI:Macca]

Ok, going back to 177.24 did the thing;)