N680GTX has just made my il2cod "flyable"

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by MajorBoris

Hey highness, I noticed you had the model detail set to high, try original, its probably the last setting you want move down. You should notice the cockpits and planes are improved with little performance hit

With the "texture quality" being the most hitting (besides SSAO/Epilepsy/AA), right?

[ATAG_MajorBorris]

Originally Posted by carguy_

With the "texture quality" being the most hitting (besides SSAO/Epilepsy/AA), right?

oops, totaly right, thats what I meant this mourning

he had original allready!

P.S. That ssao kills my system too : (

[addman]

Originally Posted by zapatista

nice, good to see the major gfx card upgrade made such an improvement am just slightly concerned you are qualifying your statement with the "nearly smoothly" it was running and "nearly stutterless"

for a 500$ card with 2gb vram, i'd expect/hope it would run smooooooth and flawless in all circumstances (over city, with large plane formations and close formation flying, flying through hangars, and with dust/smoke)

we need that gfx patch !!

This would be reality if the game was optimized and working properly but it isn't so don't expect it to run smoothly in "all circumstances". If a code has enough flaws in it not even brute force will overcome some things, like smoke and particle effects in this case. If the patch delivers up to 100% performance increase in average and minimum FPS then the 680 will kick some serious b*tt, so will also many lower tier graphic cards.

[klem]

Originally Posted by highness

just my 2cents:

i have been using a 295GTX for the last 2-3 years, and today i have decided to upgrade and picked up an MSI N680GTX

so, with the current version of il2cod and the 295GTX i was having an average of 7-15fps and annoying stutters with the following settings (see the screen below), flying or doing anything in the sim was just impossible and with lower settings it was just looking ugly:



now, with the N680GTX and the same settings as above, i am having an average of 19-38 FPS! and i just couldn't believe how nearly smoothly it was running, the performance improvement was really really MAJOR here! it became nearly stutterless and, now definitely PLAYABLE/FLYABLE...

so far, i no longer need to wait for the new patch as i got my il2cod "fixed" somehow..

my other system specs are: i5 (oclocked to 4ghz), 8gb ram, win7 64bit

Congratulations on the new card but if I may say so you were your own worst enemy with those settings on the old card. Such high settings (with the current graphics software) for Forest plus Grass and SSAO 'on' were always going to drag that card down. Also if you were near buildings, Buildings Detail and Buildings amount set so high could have been a problem.

Even with your new card your only just getting playable fps. Try turning some of those down and watch it leap forward. Big hitters are SSAO and Grass (do we need waving oversized grass?), I'd play with those to start with. Get up to 40-60fps and its a new world.

btw Anti-Aliasing x16 does nothing at the moment. It seems only x2 is working at the moment. You could try turning it off and setting it in your graphics card manager instead.

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by klem

btw Anti-Aliasing x16 does nothing at the moment. It seems only x2 is working at the moment. You could try turning it off and setting it in your graphics card manager instead.

is it confirmed we have this partially working now ?

[GF_Mastiff]

Originally Posted by highness

just my 2cents:

i have been using a 295GTX for the last 2-3 years, and today i have decided to upgrade and picked up an MSI N680GTX

so, with the current version of il2cod and the 295GTX i was having an average of 7-15fps and annoying stutters with the following settings (see the screen below), flying or doing anything in the sim was just impossible and with lower settings it was just looking ugly:



now, with the N680GTX and the same settings as above, i am having an average of 19-38 FPS! and i just couldn't believe how nearly smoothly it was running, the performance improvement was really really MAJOR here! it became nearly stutterless and, now definitely PLAYABLE/FLYABLE...

so far, i no longer need to wait for the new patch as i got my il2cod "fixed" somehow..

my other system specs are: i5 (oclocked to 4ghz), 8gb ram, win7 64bit

why do you have psuedo full screen on? it should just be full screen. psuedo is buggy.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by highness

just my 2cents:

i have been using a 295GTX for the last 2-3 years, and today i have decided to upgrade and picked up an MSI N680GTX

so, with the current version of il2cod and the 295GTX i was having an average of 7-15fps and annoying stutters with the following settings (see the screen below), flying or doing anything in the sim was just impossible and with lower settings it was just looking ugly:, with the N680GTX and the same settings as above, i am having an average of 19-38 FPS! and i just couldn't believe how nearly smoothly it was running, the performance improvement was really really MAJOR here! it became nearly stutterless and, now definitely PLAYABLE/FLYABLE...

so far, i no longer need to wait for the new patch as i got my il2cod "fixed" somehow..

my other system specs are: i5 (oclocked to 4ghz), 8gb ram, win7 64bit

Great card from what I've been hearing, enjoy!...a couple of thoughts:
run the Windows Experience Index, next monitor you get is 120hzTrue

[Jaws2002]

Originally Posted by highness

just my 2cents:

i have been using a 295GTX for the last 2-3 years, and today i have decided to upgrade and picked up an MSI N680GTX

so, with the current version of il2cod and the 295GTX i was having an average of 7-15fps and annoying stutters with the following settings (see the screen below), flying or doing anything in the sim was just impossible and with lower settings it was just looking ugly:



now, with the N680GTX and the same settings as above, i am having an average of 19-38 FPS! and i just couldn't believe how nearly smoothly it was running, the performance improvement was really really MAJOR here! it became nearly stutterless and, now definitely PLAYABLE/FLYABLE...

so far, i no longer need to wait for the new patch as i got my il2cod "fixed" somehow..

my other system specs are: i5 (oclocked to 4ghz), 8gb ram, win7 64bit

Congrats on your new card. I'll have to chew you up a little for those settings on the old card tho.
This is one of the reasons so many people complain about poor performance. People with older, less powerful hardware use way too high graphics setings. Why would you use 16x antialiasing when the game can't render anything over 2x? All you get is the performance hit with no visual improvement. SSAO and "Original" texture size were also very bad for your old card.
I'm sure this new card will cut trough the game like hot knife in butter and what setings you use won't hurt performance.

Congrats and enjoy it.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by Jaws2002

Congrats on your new card. I'll have to chew you up a little for those settings on the old card tho.
This is one of the reasons so many people complain about poor performance. People with older, less powerful hardware use way too high graphics setings. Why would you use 16x antialiasing when the game can't render anything over 2x? All you get is the performance hit with no visual improvement. SSAO and "Original" texture size were also very bad for your old card.
I'm sure this new card will cut trough the game like hot knife in butter and what setings you use won't hurt performance.

Congrats and enjoy it.

Very true!...I'm pushing my settings too, but still very playable with fps40s over land

[addman]

Ok I'll do the same, here are my settings and I get 34 FPS on average on the black death track, v-sync enabled in nvidia control panel:



My specs:
Intel Core i3 2120 3,3Ghz
4GB DDR3 RAM Kingston
64GB Samsung 470 SSD
EVGA GeForce GTX 550ti 1GB DDR5 (factory overclocked)

P.S I use the MSAA injector magizmo for my AA