Well I build gaming PC's for a living and have been doing so for 10 years, my current rig runs at 4.7ghz with an i7 sandy bridge, 8 Gb of Ram and a GTX580 graphics card. The rig is water cooled and im running Windows 64 ultimate. No other game i run crashes, I run BF3 fully maxed out at 1920x1200 without a glitch. To suggest that the CTD in CLOD is a problem with users PC's is frankly absurd. Its a known problem with the graphics engine that luthier as already confirmed.

Anyway like you say lets get back on track, who as managed to get a Coop running successfully??

Phat, your PC is awsome and i completely respect your knowledge on the subject, but there are far more people suffering from the CTD than not. How have you got on with your SLI setup, many many months ago Luthier told us that the next Nvidia driver release will support SLI, there as been many releases since then but no CLOD config. Is yours running fully optimized?

I run in 4way SLI Split frame rendering mode. AFR creates too many stutters because the drivers arent optimised.
In SFR mode it runs smooth as silk and everything maxed with 8xAA and GPUs all at 100% utilisation. Not the fastest running game in SFR but at least its smooth and consistent. Minimum 40FPS and Avg 50FPS max 120FPS.

Are you certain that the AA is working phat, ive yet to see anyone show a screen shot with AA on?

You made a lot of valid points Phat, and I am glad that the issues at present don't keep you from enjoying the sim. I think I can sum up my situation sort of like this: COD with it's great cockpits and feeling of flight have ruined me for IL-2 1946, 46 just seems too cartoony now. COD with all of the issues for offline play has also ruined me for COD...so there you have it. Between a rock and a hard place. Thats why I end up here looking for good news instead of flying either of them.

Anyway, back on topic(sort of): Blackdog was making a comparison of Launch version of IL-2 vs Launch version of COD. Not the 10 years of work 1946 of present. If you look at the Combatsim review link Furbs posted, you will see him talk about a great co-op mission he flew with a friend. This is out of the box IL-2 he's talking about here, so I don't think the comparison he was making was valid.

AA definitely works but not on all surfaces. I can see the difference. Ill see if I can get a couple screen shots to illustrate.

I have the same feelings but feelings do not help solving issues. Staying cool and positive and taking constructive actions helps. Helping Banks and reporting in the bugreports threads helps. When new patch is out I will rise this issue again in the patch thread if I notice it early enough not to be lost in flame. Let's do it together.

Insuber ran a great thread with priority bugs list (I think COOP is not listed there btw). It is a pity it is not updated any more. http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...light=priority
Maybe you, Tree and Tvrdi can start and maintain a new one? This would be really helpful as it looks like the devs do not have time to read all threads.

Tis True Tree but as he says you won't see it on all surfaces but I can def see the difference wether I use the ingame option OR CCC

Please tell Banks what went wrong in his thread. If there is a problem with the lobby he can solve it quickly. http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...t=28559&page=8
However from my experience usually difficulty settings are set incorrectly or some files copied into a wrong directory. The lobby works for others if installation instructions are followed step by step. They are very easy.

LeadTurn is going to publish his set of coop-missions soon btw. Keep an eye on that thread.

Can I suggest you and others persevere with it especially online in the ATAG servers. They are a little less air quake than some. It's very rewarding if you can look past some of the imperfections that will be ironed out hopefully shortly and this co-op option is showing a lot of promise!

I have tried mate, truly I have, but my story goes like this,

Go through take off procedure, warm engine up. Start to taxi, get straffed, not all the time but fairly often. Restart take off procedure, finally take off, gain some altitude whilst orbiting. Spot a distant dot, gain on it and try to identify, oh its disappeared. See flak below, drop in on enemy aircraft, he hasn't seen me, line up my sights and WHAM, crash to desk top. Multiply many times....then give up.