homepage Forums Read Only Forums Read Only Forums IL-2: Cliffs Of Dover (Read Only) Massive improvement since patch

Pretty happy with the patch. No doubt in my mind now that COD will become all that was expected/hoped for.
Perfectly playable for me, sorry for those that are having trouble still

Did the London sight seeing mission and got min 20, average 29.9, max 60
This decending down to the Thames and followed it east flying east past Big Ben at an altitude that takes me through tower bridge. Continued on for about 5 bends in the river before climbing back up to 1000ft and stopping the bench mark.

Still got some more things/setting combos to try but looking good...

Turned the areo off
Mirror off
ProcessAffinityMask=15

Using these settings


Did the same flight but this time at 1900x1200 and upped building detail and forests to medium.

Min 17 average 29.01 max 48

Yeah, yeah... Strike "early" ... 320x240 back then for me like for everyone else. Still: Wasn't long before VGA and SVGA came along. If I'm not completely mistaken, I ran Wing Commander 2 in VGA already ... must've been .. err.. 1993/94?

What I'm trying to say is that it's pretty weird that guys with high-end-systems would have to dial back resolution at all. Or, quite frankly, that I would have to when I run other demanding games just fine at 1920x1080.





S.

patch no good for me. severe jerking over land, FOS still abyssmal considering the rig I have, and no chang ein gpu staying pegged at 99 percent usage and almost overheating.

People are running 1920x1200 on old NVidia 200-series or ATI 4800-series with high settings and wondering why its so laggy.


Jesus.

Still poop here, 20 fps max or minimum settings

I can get 100+fps at 800x600 ATI-6850

Yes. I wonder why it is so laggy? Every other demanding game/sim I throw at my system (sig) has no problem at 1080p with medium to high settings.

Exactly, some people speak of this sim as if it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and you therefore the need the greatest hardware to run it.

The truth is of course it is a buggy POS which hopefully the Devs will get to grips with.


Bryan.

No, people are running 1920x1200 on ATI 4870, Nvidia 280 or 285 series GPUs on mostly medium, finding the performance to be utter crap and having to ALSO reduce their resolution. Just to put it into perspective the 4870, 280 or 285 are not that slow even by todays standards. Yes you have to compromise on details and they will lack the latest features but to have to reduce detail to medium AND have to reduce resolution is due to a poorly optimised graphics engine. Or mayber the fact that the devs have been frantically trying to optimise said graphics engine has been lost on you?

I have a HD6970 2GB and until the latest patch I had to significantly compromise on details. Or maybe the graphics engine is future proofed

f*&king amazing!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the help

Oooops, my mistake



Rez: 1920 x 1200
FSAA: X8

Model Detail: High
Building Detail: Med
Land Detail: Med
Forest: Low
Visual Effects: High
Damage Decals: High
Buildings Amount: Low
Land Shading: Med
Grass: Off
Shadows: On
Roads: On


U and "everybody else" is right. If u cant run CoD on those settings with 3-4 year old hardware they completely failed.



I stand corrected.



And having problems and lag despite 2500K and GTX 580 (for ex.) can NEVER be due to sh*t behind the keyboard and/or faulty software other than the failed CoD.


True story.


Look, its not running perfect for me either, but enough is enough. They are working on it.

Yes, I got a big improvement from the patch over my improvement from upgrading the graphics card :-)

I am running a Win 7 64 bit PC with 6GB RAM and a GTX 295 (SLI) card with 2x896MB VRAM - and to be quite honest the video on CoD is pretty crappy no matter what the resolution. Why can't we adjust parameters through the nVidia Control panel such as AA etc? Don't we have to assign an nVidia definition for the LAUNCHER.EXE program before anything takes effect?

BTW RoF plays just fine.

Well for me the the skipping is being produced by the disk accessing my hd, the access light comes on completely in sych with the stutters within the game, I dont suppose it helps that everything is compressed.

Thanks for seeing it our way, was that so hard? It is rare to see someone admit when they are wrong, well done

Oh wait, sarcasm right?

We don't need to convince you that CoD has utter crap performance on pretty much all rigs, just the devs. Oh wait, we already did that and they are working on optimising the graphics engine. Wow, who knew that whinging could be so lucrative and get such good results.

Ah, it is so good to be proved right by the actions of the very developers that you and the other sychophants are so keen to defend.

Yup.. the game actually isn't unfinished crap, all its users are imbeciles. Thanks for clearing that up.




Shado:





Russian, pre-patched version. Look at his HDD go (left side, better watch in fullscreen and HD to really see it). Everything else looks more or less fine on his rig. A lot of people on here (myself included) have had similar results. Unfortunately, I don't have an HDD I/O monitoring tool, but I'm suspecting that this is what's causing all the stutters. When critical components like CPU or GPU aren't really getting a good workout and there's still stuttering going in, I guess excessive HDD-access remains as the only culprit. Which your "lightshow" also seems to suggest.

S.

Yeah, get yourself some education and then your game will run right.

See, we don't need no patches after all!!!


Bryan.

Ouch sascha simulation overload

Got to be honest the latest patch is a big improvement for me. I can even run the London Bomber quick mission. Granted that the Frames sometimes dip to 15 or 16 but in the grand scheme of things, it si a big improvement as I never used to be able to play that mission due to single figure FPS.

I run this on a Q6600 Quad @3.0Ghz, 6Gb Ram, MSI GTX460 Cylone 1Gb all running on Win7 Ultimate 64Bit.

AS I said I get some stutters and some low FPS but overall this patch is a lifesaver.

SD

Yes, we are. I can play RoF at 2560 x 1600, could do that before I upgraded my CPU from a Q6600 to a 2500k in fact. Oh, but hang on, it's because CoD is so much more complex and demanding than RoF? All those FM and DM calculations etc? Guess it's a good thing I have four cores running at 4.5ghz then, what with CoD being this new state of the art game with a state of the art engine. Sorry...what was that? CoD doesn't do multicore?!

This game has code so borked, an engine so screwed, it should have been chucked in the bin, six years of work or not. They've struggled to get it to THIS level of performance and you seriously think there's anything left to squeeze out of it? Oh yeah, they're going to bolt multicore on after the event. Good luck with that.

I'll give every patch they provide a fair shake, but I have zero expectation of success, and about as much hope. Said the same about ARMA2 and was barracked for that too over a year ago, but who's 'laughing' now.

I have genuine sympathy for Luthier, I truly do, because I know he put his heart and soul into this. But something, somewhere, went very badly wrong. And no amount of cheer-leading is going to change that or produce a miracle out of a hat.

Some more good(-ish) news to report:

I tried using Vista's ressources-monitor to check HDD-workload - kinda tricky, cause I can't get it to stay on top of the CoD-window with the game running .. if anyone knows a workaround for this, please let me know.


Anyway: I ALT-TABed out frequently to check HDD-activity and while launcher.exe was indeed frequently swapping pretty large amounts to and fro, I also noticed my AV-software (avast) popping up very frequently on the list. I checked my AV-settings and decided I might want to disable file-system-protection. As far as I understand it, this thing checks every read/write operation, so that looked to me as if this AV-watchdog made CoD's frequent acessing of the HDD even worse. I disabled the AV-module in question and tried a sightseeing trip over London again.

This time, performance was a lot more stable. I still wouldn't call it smooth, but it certainly was an improvement.

After that I tried a 6x Hurri/6x Spit vs. 6x109s, 6xHe 111, 6x Do215 and 6xJu88 mission over the channel. Apart from *very* occasional stutters, it ran pretty smoothly. Almost "smooth, full stop" kinda smooth but not quite.

Mind you: This should really only be a work-around. No other games I currently play require me to disable my AV-protection ...



S.