Micro-Stutters

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Go to ..\steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\ and right click on the Launcher.exe file and select properties. Go to Compatibility tab and check Disable visual themes, Disable desktop composition and Run this program as administrator.

By disabling the visual themes or desktop composition (I don't remember right now which of them), you might not be able to access the Save custom user settings window (as it 's a Windows window, so it would need those). You just uncheck that one when you need to save those, then check it back again, as you won't save those settings so often.

To disable Windows Indexing Service, you need to right click on My Computer, select Manage, then go to Service and Applications -> Services tree and look for the Windows Search service. Select it, right click on it and select properties and there put Startup type on Manual or Disabled and press the Stop button.

Paging file and virtual memory are exactly the same thing.

And it's not about the performance, you won't have higher FPS, it's about making sure you have everything in memory and while Il2CoD might thing he cached everything in memory, actually W7 might store some of those into the virtual memory, ie on HDD, and bringing those back into mem might cause the micro-stutters.

A SSD might help, but everyone advises to NOT use SSD for continuous (small) file writing (ie not for the paging file), as it will result in a fast degradation of SSD's performance and life span.