Whaaaaaat?
 

Ok.. hoping someone can give me some pointers here...

Just upgraded from a painful HD6770 1gb to a GTX660 SC 2gb. I used driver sweeper and ensured that all the AMD/ATI drivers are gone before installing the driver that came on the disk with the graphics card and then updating to the latest driver from the website......

....and CloD actually runs worse!

I've tested all my other games and they now all run on Ultra settings.

Help please!

Delete your cache folder and conf.ini file inside the 1C SoftClub folder found in My Documents and allow the game to build new ones.

Does this mean you are going to be flying again Volks?

Good idea! lol Can't believe I forgot to do that. :D

For sure! :)

Going to be a bit busy at the moment as I'm doing voluntary work and have a job interview tomorrow (Everyone cross your fingers for me. lol)..... but, hopefully, the game should be a lot more stable for me now and make online play a little better. Went for the upgrade a bit early, as you can see, using the dreaded credit card! lol I'll use my xmas money to pay that off and then, I'm thinking, it is time to get the old flexible friend out again and change the mobo, cpu and get some serious ram in the old machine. :)

Good luck with the interview, that's the most important thing!


(Actually, I see the date, I hope it went well ;) )

Well, did you get the job?

What settings do you use for CloD? My major "tweak" to a better gameplay was to lower my expectations...

Well.. won't know if I've got it till at least a week's time.... cheers for the "good lucks" :D Interview seemed to go pretty well though. Fingers crossed :)

Lower my expectations? lol I figured I would have to do that but..... lower my settings? It is actually running worse on this graphics card than it did on the HD 6770 1gb! I'm certain it isn't the card or incorrectly installed drivers etc as I am now able to play all the Total War series on Ultra settings, with Darthmod (Essentially hundreds of men with 40 unit armies!), Crysis 2 on full (With the directx11 & Hi res textures)..etc...etc...all as smooth as a hot knife through butter..... and yet CloD happiness eludes me. lol I wasn't expecting miracles as I know the CPU and ram need an upgrade (Next on the list) but I wasn't expecting these kind of problems at all.

The really infuriating thing is that I can actually fly with everything on high, shadows etc.... until the dreaded Bomber formations turn up... what is it, specifically, about bombers that makes even the mere suggestion of their presence somewhere out there cause my PC to grind to a slide show? :D

Offline or online?

Offline mainly. Online..... well.... I've never managed to get close to a bomber formation! :D Mainly because, on the old card, every time I tried flying missions my game would turn into a slideshow, I'd lose the entire squadron and then go face first into a hill. :D

Been using "Bomber intercept over London" (With autopilot) as a benchmark as Black Death stutters way too much (Mainly when the radio kicks in) so never provides a real measure of performance for me.

Well, Flying over London is the worst thing you can do when it comes to performance... Just too much buildings...

How many fps do you get in free flight over the channel?

That's the funny thing.... with Vsync off I am achieving obscene fps... roughly 138 over the sea and around 67-70 over land give or take. This is with shadows and SSAO on as well (Still fiddling with the settings). As soon as any bombers turn up, mind, the game turns into a flick book. Clusters of fighters, all guns blazing, tend to lower my fps, over land, to between 27 and 35 with is just fine.

so it is really just the bomber? that is strange indeed...

Just a bit. lol The two real annoyances are the bomber and that damned radio chatter which usually means a freeze or two. I have read, somewhere on here, that the radio thing is definitely due to the CPU but this bomber situation is ridiculous really... that said, the game is definitely improving and looking a hell of a lot better since my original post! (Shadows! Finally!) I am assuming that is due to the shader cache filling up?

Yes, you really have to clear the cache, delete everything you have in there...

Also I would recommend to let steam check the game-files.

Well.. verified the files and the only thing missing was the ubi logo. I seem to have found the sweet spot, though! Everything on high except Building Amount on Unlimited and..... sniff.....sniff.... shadows off. (Thank the gods I am a 38 year old man because, otherwise, having to turn them off could have led to an Emo incident. :D) I think I will have to wait until I get the Mobo, CPU and RAM before I can treat myself with them.... something to aim for I suppose. Now it is time to get on the servers and see how it runs online.

Thanks for your help, Continu0!

Ok, must do this myself,I have conf,confs and confuser,which one is the conf.ini please.

Thanks

conf is the conf.ini

Thanks very much mate,really appreciate this:)

Your very welcome Meaker, this might help you as-well

If you go to the windows start menu then select "Computer" on the right hand pane, when the window showing your hard drives shows up, select the "Organize" menu on the upper left, choose "folder & search options", then select the "View" tab, your'll see a pane in the middle with a bunch of check-boxes, un-tick "Hide extensions for known file types" and click apply & then ok.

Your'll now be able to see extensions, eg: conf.ini, blah.exe, blah.dll, blah.txt, etc...

Smashing mate,fantastic,I did'nt realise all of this,it just get's better,I appreciate all of your help,this is all good stuff:)