Strange video settings problem

[brando]

Originally Posted by rakinroll

Still can not see the enemy planes if they are below me. Especially i see nothing when ground surface is green. I can see the planes only on zoom view while a bit close to them. But some friends can see easly while i don't. What is my problem guys? Pls help me gentlemen. Tx

Well, it's partly due to camouflage. A green plane moving across a green surface should be hard to see.

What screen resolution are you using?

[rakinroll]

Thats my settings;

[rakinroll]

With those settings, i can see the planes on zoom, but i can not see them on normal view. Picture of zoom view;

[rakinroll]

Picture of normal view;

[rakinroll]

And my conf.ini file;

[Feuerfalke]

I'm not really familiar with the ATI-settings, but maybe you could tune down your anti-aliasing? The picture may look more crispy, but that will also increase the chance that you will see dots, that get simply blured away with higher settings.

I use similar settings on my PC, just with the 8800GTS and I am not getting as good results as you do, as I just noticed....

Well, anyway: The higher the AA-value, the more samples are rendered and calculated to smooth out single points. If you see the plane as a dot, that means that 16 samples shade the black dot minimally down to the surrounding color. What is great for the general looks, can be really bad if you WANT to see those single dots.

On another note, you should try to disable the S3TC-Compression in your IL2-INI. I am pretty sure you graphics-card can handle uncompressed textures and it will increase the overall looks with little loss in FPS. (On the other hand, if you don't have "Texture Compression ABR Extension" enabled, I don't know it S3TC will work anyway)

[GF_Mastiff]

you may want to just have the il2 setup on with flat shadows that helps me spot the object better lighting flat and object lighting flat try that also the higher the AA and ANTI
the better the fps for Open gl you will get. Thats from my experience.