it is even better in opengl than 9800GTX (8800GTS 512)

http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3338

but demands more power...

Ah, cool.

Thanks for the link.

I only read a report that mentioned the 4870 has a less noisy and more efficient, smaller cooler than the G280. Was it on Firingsquad? Dunno, if I have the time, I'll look it up.

I can only speak from my experience at the moment, running a Gigabyte 4870, Cat 8.7 beta. IL2, even in busy conditions, doesn't drive it hard enough to fully kick in the fan, a world of difference from the 1950 I was previously using. Nor has it reached temps mentioned in reviews, seems to idle at 48c max out around 65c, this particular card has a cooler similar to a Vf-900 that probably accounts for the discrepancy.

I have to admit that I could've nabbed a 280 but the expense seemed wasteful with Display Port deemed iminent.

Some help needed
 

Hello everybody!

I am new to both IL2, this forum and HD4850, and I would appreciate some help from you guys. I am running Il2 1946 with patch 4.08m/4.09mb1, March 2008 dlls (I think) on a C2D E6600 @ 3.2 , 2 gb RAM, HD 4850 with 4800 Hotfix drivers, 19" 1280x1024 LCD. What settings should I use in ATI CCC and IL2 setup/conf to get both optimal play and nice graphics, if possible? Now I am using OGL, Max Settings, default conf.ini and I get some random freezes especially on 4.09 Slovakia map.

hi Crazyivan, I have one thing very interested regarding the crossfire. Once I try to use 2 3850 to running il2 but I can no boost from CF. identical FPS to that on 1 card. besides when set to the CF I have no way to enable the vertical Synchronization to avoid the screen tearing.

R700XT, HD4870 X2, 2GB GDDR5 ~$499....maybe available by this August. That price isn't final. It should be a great card for SOW if it comes out at the end of this year.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...=8279&Itemid=1

Try turning the Aanisotropic Filtering to 8x and the Anti Aliasing 8x it increased my FPS to 1000 max avrg 70 on IL2

It keeps freezing and it displays a strange colour dissipation effect similar to motor oil on water. Probably the ATI drivers are not mature yet. With previous X1950 Pro card did not have these problems.

What water-setting do you have and what other settings in the ini-files? Are you sure you run the game with 32 bit color-depth? It would help us to determine what the problem is, if you post your settings listed under "[Render_OpenGL]" from your conf.ini-file.

If somebody has the same card you have, but no such problems, it's likely your settings rather than the drivers.

Besides that: Did you deinstall and reinstall drivers after switching your cards?

Make sure you uninstall the drivers and do a driver sweep

Get the tools from Guru3d.com
also might want to try the 8.7 beta drivers over there too.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/