Here some tweaks to improve framerate.

[Bertram W. Wooster]

For those who are experiencing crashes, try purging the cache in your documents folder. On Win7, this is in:

C:\Users\<USERNAME>\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\cache

Just delete all the files in that folder. They will be regenerated the next time you run CoD.

[Qpassa]

mods 1 vanilla 0

[fruitbat]

anyone else noticed that the g50 has disappeared after installing this?

no great loss, but.....

[Flanker35M]

S!

How disappeared? Just flew it and worked just fine

[fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

S!

How disappeared? Just flew it and worked just fine

from in the QMB?, cause it missing in mine and a squadmates.

[Flanker35M]

S!

Yes, single player in QMB. Flew over Dover

[fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

S!

Yes, single player in QMB. Flew over Dover

well thats very weird, as myself and another don't have it anymore

[nBiga]

I'm using Windows XP and no improvement

Of course, nice work !!!!!

[FS~Phat]

I got a big improvement in every situation over water, land and down low strafing London. Still the occasional hitch as textures are swapped in GPU Vram but 40-45FPS strafing London in cockpit view is a huge improvement. I have 64FPS external view at building level in London. Over water Im at 100FPS consistently.

I now also have all graphics options set to max including unlimited buildings with roads and grass on & shadows off with no AA. No SSAO and No Mipmaps @ 1920x1080.

Experimenting with different settings with the game paused in London at building level with an external view, shadows is the heaviest overall impact on FPS performance, Roads and Grass are next followed by number of buildings. AA is a big FPS hit for cockpit view but not so much external, seems the AA is pretty much limited to the cockpit details.

All the other settings only vary avg FPS by 2-3FPS each compared to 10FPS+ improvement by turning off various check box options. The trees and building details seem to effect the smoothness of play but not the overall FPS too much at least on my system.

With SSAO off and some coding optimisation for texture swaps, Mipmapping and texture sizes from 1C I think the issues can now be quickly resolved for the majority of users!

System Spec
i7 950 @ 4.6Ghz
6GB DDR3 @ 2000Mhz
4 x 5870 GPU @ 1000/1300 (2 x 5870 + 5970)
2 x 128GB Vertex2 SSD RAID 0

[Feathered_IV]

Huge improvement on a Q6600, 2gb DDR2, GTX260 low end job. Using a lower res than desktop but getting playable 35-45 over land with shadows on, low trees and medium shading. Previously I was getting 7fps. still stutters a fair bit down low, but the 8gb ddr3 that I've got on the way aught to look after that.

One thing though, I notice land textures are very blurry at altitude. Would disabling some part of the mod fix that?