Settings MAX @ 60fps Booya!
 

Just did an upgraade :)

Ati 6950 2GB

Plus another 4GB of Ram. Total 8GB. Left the CPU as is. With everything on and running at 1900x resolution i'm sitting on 60fps. As much as the monitor can go.

Beautiful!

a stock hd6950 or have you overclocked to a HD6970?

No stock standard. Even better ;)

I can believe you get 60fps above sea.

Running @60fps above land or even worse a city like London or Le Havre with your processor and everything fully maxed is a little less credible to me.

You will be surprised. Yes London is different but even then the bottleneck was my hard drive. Maybe an SSD would do the trick. Here are some pics. The Fps counter is sporadic and wont give a still reading. It was fluctuating +10fps.

http://img97.imageshack.us/i/2011042700007.jpg
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Machoo your sig says "ATI 9650 2GB" I think you mean "ATI 6950 2GB" ;)

I dont get near 60 fps with my hd 6950,also guys do yous still get the blue lines in the sky with your ati cards????

LOL.. i dont even get 60 over the sea :evil:

Thanks for the Screens,

Looks more similar to the way my system runs now. Low over London fps in the 20´s, high up 60 or more depending on where you look.

Makes me consider buying a SSD though because I fear in my system my old HDD is def a bottleneck, even though I think most of what the game needs is loaded into my RAM (disabling the page file helped in that respect, but I wouldnt recommend that for people with less then 6Gigs)

I´m running a 2500k@ 3.3 Ghz (stock speed until my p67 mobo comes back from repairs)
8 gigs Kingston@1333 mhz (will be 1600 when my mobo finally comes back :P)
Radeon HD 6970 slightly overclocked (905 core, 1415 mem clock)

Nother question, do you get those annoying triple blue lines on the horizon when flying low? If not I take it you run DX9?

Cheers.

Yeah i've seen those blue lines. I gues nothing other then a update on the game will fix that.

i don´t belive the 60fps in critical situations:
-clouds
-many planes
-over cities

over water I´ve 100fps+ too but.....

maybe my cpu is the bottleneck.

Look at the screens he posted and you get your answer.

Low over London his fps is in the low 20´s

It'll make a difference, no doubt - but it's no magic bullet.

I run CloD from a ram drive, which has a throughput of roughly 10x any SSD available right now. It still stutters over cities.

Can't back it up with link and stuff but generally gamers state that the harddrive has very little to do with ingame performance though I can imaging stuttering when reading in new textures from HDD to VRAM.
However I'd blame the stuttering in CloD on bad code.

However an SSD is sweet for many other reasons.

Aye - it's mainly for level loading times, but anything that can help with CloD's performance is welcome.

A decent small SSD for my most played games is one of the next upgrades for my PC - especially if I find a decent ramdrive software that can setup a drive at bootup early enough for windows to use as a temp directory...

I have no stuttering at all. Only when flying really close to a foe i am about to shoot at it can happen that i get one little stutter. After that everything smooth again.
I am running everything set to high SSAO, VSYNC and AA off. Resolution 1920x1200.
Framerate ist around 50-80 frames over land or over water. Over London it goes down to say 30 fps but remains still playable.
Also the framerate suffers pretty bad when flying behind a burning or badly smoking foe. I think that can use some improvement.
I am sure next few patches will sort things and make performance even better.

My System is a I7 920 @4 GHz, 6 GB RAM and 2x GTX480 in SLI (running single chip currently). System is on a Vertex 2 SSD but the game is on a normal HDD installed.

Winger

The main point of the post was just to point out that only a budget upgrade got everything turned on and running on average into the 40's for most situations. I don't think having the latest and greatest hardware is the answer . Performance will come naturally from patch updates.

well said, good news for those with the budget systems!

Hope you didn't get me wrong, I am really happy as well with the way the game is getting along. Otherwise I would not even take the effort to try and get it working in the first place ;)

Have played this since the very first IL-2 Sturmovik.

Latest beta patch for me is another great example of how Luthier and his team are working to improve on this to make it the WWII sim to go to for the coming years if not more.

Now if only those three blue lines would bugger off :P (couldn't resist, soz XD)

no no ..he a 9600 series card:shock: he just added some old 30 pin memory he had laying around and dipped the GPU in liquid nitrogen :shock: and BAM! 60 FPS :)

Very much so, imo.

I've shelved any upgrade plans (save for win 7 64 bit) until I'm confident that it's actually worthwhile.