i make a thread about this in the past
you will notice a difference

Biggest hitters in terms of FPS: resolution, SSAO, epilepsy filter and texture size.

If you're running the last one on "original" you're only setting yourself up for trouble :-P

Try lowering that one a notch or two before you do anything else, i found out that the gain is so big i could actually raise a couple of other settings.

As for the rest, you can compromise on one feature to up another, depending on what you consider important. For example, i have turned down land detail to low because it actually governs how far out from the player the landscape is drawn in high detail (ie, even if you set it to low the land close to you still renders at an acceptable quality). Doing this i've gained a few FPS that i then spent to raise land shading to high because i consider it more important for flying and depth perception (gives better "relief" feel to the terrain thanks to the shadows).

In short, i made my landscape look better by increasing the shadow detail level and i made my PC run it by reducing the distance to which it will render.

There's lots of little tricks like that which can get you good performance without compromising much on visual quality, you just have to experiment with it a bit.

Finally got to run ClOD. The graphics are amazing. This has IL2 1946 beat by miles.

Only problem I'm having is the single missions I'm trying are locking up on me. What's causing that, settings too high? Anti-epilepsy is off. I'll trun off the others Klem suggested to shut down and lower my graphics resolution down from 1900.

One last thing.... Trim for the ailerons, elevators and rudder are driving my nuts. Have them set for I notch at a time. What gives, is this one of the sim's bugs?

Well as one of those ignorant people I willingly bow to your experience.

How do you cope with it or do we have to be terrified that our pilot can't see what he's doing?

So we need sunglasses in CoD?

yes, sunglasses :cool: or just cover the sun with your hand and everything will be clear again as in the reality :grin:

don't pay attention at those that pretend to know everything and call other "ignorant"

Originally Posted by undpilot87
I just wanted you to know that as a commercial pilot that your new sun glare effect is the best I've ever seen in a game. The effect where it becomes hard to even read your instruments is truly spot on. I also have a lot of friends who are professional pilots and when they saw this effect they were very impressed as well. Keep it up and try your best to ignore some of the ignorant people on the forums. Great job guys.

Surely this effect is not realistic at dawn and dusk? At midday sure. But looking directly at the sun on the horizon is beautiful in real life not blinding.

Glare from sun, you can't imagine how it is in a lightning storm. VFR has it's problems that is sure. Sunglasses, tinted windows only work to subdue the light. Fly IFR and block the sun. It works too.

Autopilot can't see... so he will fly you past the glare problems flying in modern day aircraft.

As it happends, just yesterday I was on VFR flight approaching the airfield directly the evening sun shining on my eyes. There was no hope to see anything on forward view. I made some turns from side to side in order to see something on forward view. I had to resort to use VOR radial to guide the approach vector and keep enough altitude to be sure not to collide anything nasty below. Luckily near the landing pattern the visuals came back. This was in controlled airspace so I was on good hands anyways. :)

I don't pretend to know everything but being an experienced pilot I do know what is realistic in the cockpit. Sun visors are essential as sunglasses don't always help that much. There are many times where I've had on a pair of sunglasses and still needed the visor. When looking towards the sun it makes it very hard to see just about anything including the instruments.

I posted that because I find it annoying that people are saying that this effect is unrealistic when they have never set foot in a cockpit. If I went around talking like a knew a lot about engineering when I have no experience or education in engineering I would expect that people would refer to me as an idiot.

Some people in these forums really need to stop acting like know-it-alls and concern themselves with something within their intellectual capacity.

Oh and btw, putting your hand up to block the sun, making everything clear again, really does work like it does in the game. Go get some flight lessons and experience it for yourself. Until then please stop spreading disinformation.

And from now on ... beware of the Hun from the sun!