Got a quick question. I'd like to give you guys a quick spec on my ye olde PC and see if you can tell me if it's robust enough to run 1946 with some of the shiny mods available.

I've got a 3.2 Pentium 4, 256 Ati radeon X600, and 2 gigs of RAM.

Thanks.

Might be enough to run the game with maxed out settings, but the new maps included with the 4.09m patch and some of the more graphics intensive mods would probably cause framerate drops unless you turned down the settings.

Also, since Il2 runs best in Open GL , and Ati graphics cards do not support Open GL, the top tier of terrain graphics settings will be locked because these are not supported if the game is running on Direct X.

Hope that helps.

That machine should run the game fine if not at the highest settings. Also ATI cards do support open GL. I'm running an HD4850 and 1946 in open GL with the terrain set to "Perfect" looks great.

1 thing bop has done through this forum
introduce people to 1946 so its smiles for everyone anyway

quick question do nvidia geforce cards support opengl ?? i know it can run direct x 10 stuff but i dont know if it supports open gl
how would i go about finding out this info ???
many thanks
dazz

All modern graphics cards support openGL. Its a basic bit of support that all cards are now made with. However in recent times there hasn't been a game on the market that used the newer versions of OGL, which the cards support. And now with the release of DX11 it looks set to be a wasted effort in some camps. DX11 is actually a great api to code on, and its also a great api to game with for us peeps.

The things that makes it good is that if you have a DX9 or Dx10 card you can run DX11 natively. No need to upgrade your hardware to run it. The extra features it has for enhanced effects are not used if you dont have the hardware, so its a very flexible piece of kit (unlike dx10). And for the devs they dont need to make seperate code paths and exe files. DX11 runs DX9 and DX10 natively so if a games made for DX11 it works on any system with Dx9 or better.

So if you have Vista -download the dx11 update
Or better yet upgrade to Windows 7, as its a much better OS and comes with DX11.

Multiple Questions
 

Some questions here:

1. When I fly the Bf-109's, the position were he's sitting seems wrong... Like the aiming reticle is too far to the right. How can I fix this?
2. When flying the B-25, how do I get into the bombing mode. I no on the Pe bombers I press "C", but that doesn't work for the B-25...
3. How do you use the map :D fricken impossible to read the damn thing... haha.
4. In the conrtols, it says press F2 for external view, F4 for fly-by view, etc. These do not work. How come?

Anyone have a PC they wanna give me capable of running 1946?:P:D I hope not everyone ditches BoP.:neutral:

I'm not leaving, gaurenteed. :D 1946 is reallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy hard. lol, almost too hard for my liking, but I just think it will take some getting used to.

It is just getting used to. There is one thing I really prefer in BOP sim mode, and thats the 'no external views', only cockpit/virtual cockpit.
In 1946 there are some servers with cockpit only, but those are 100% hardcore servers, with no icons (teams are not blue/red so figuring out friend/foe is 10x harder than in BOP).

I like 1946 and play it just as much as bop. What keeps me getting back to BOP, is the fact that I dont like to fly in 3th person all the time, being able to look in every direction with you mouse. Kind of ruins the 'sim feeling' for me.

Also in BOP you see a lot of action. In 1946 you have 75min games, where you only get 3 kills, and the rest is flying to enemy target zone, and back home. (I like the landing and taking off, but sometimes you just want to shoot down a hell lot of planes :evil: BOP!)