CO-OPs again...

[FS~Phat]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Well I build gaming PC's for a living and have been doing so for 10 years, my current rig runs at 4.7ghz with an i7 sandy bridge, 8 Gb of Ram and a GTX580 graphics card. The rig is water cooled and im running Windows 64 ultimate. No other game i run crashes, I run BF3 fully maxed out at 1920x1200 without a glitch. To suggest that the CTD in CLOD is a problem with users PC's is frankly absurd. Its a known problem with the graphics engine that luthier as already confirmed.

Anyway like you say lets get back on track, who as managed to get a Coop running successfully??

Phat, your PC is awsome and i completely respect your knowledge on the subject, but there are far more people suffering from the CTD than not. How have you got on with your SLI setup, many many months ago Luthier told us that the next Nvidia driver release will support SLI, there as been many releases since then but no CLOD config. Is yours running fully optimized?

I run in 4way SLI Split frame rendering mode. AFR creates too many stutters because the drivers arent optimised.
In SFR mode it runs smooth as silk and everything maxed with 8xAA and GPUs all at 100% utilisation. Not the fastest running game in SFR but at least its smooth and consistent. Minimum 40FPS and Avg 50FPS max 120FPS.

Originally Posted by FS~Phat

I run in 4way SLI Split frame rendering mode. AFR creates too many stutters because the drivers arent optimised.
In SFR mode it runs smooth as silk and everything maxed with 8xAA and GPUs all at 100% utilisation. Not the fastest running game in SFR but at least its smooth and consistent. Minimum 40FPS and Avg 50FPS max 120FPS.

Are you certain that the AA is working phat, ive yet to see anyone show a screen shot with AA on?

[FS~Phat]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Are you certain that the AA is working phat, ive yet to see anyone show a screen shot with AA on?

AA definitely works but not on all surfaces. I can see the difference. Ill see if I can get a couple screen shots to illustrate.

[Force10]

You made a lot of valid points Phat, and I am glad that the issues at present don't keep you from enjoying the sim. I think I can sum up my situation sort of like this: COD with it's great cockpits and feeling of flight have ruined me for IL-2 1946, 46 just seems too cartoony now. COD with all of the issues for offline play has also ruined me for COD...so there you have it. Between a rock and a hard place. Thats why I end up here looking for good news instead of flying either of them.

Anyway, back on topic(sort of): Blackdog was making a comparison of Launch version of IL-2 vs Launch version of COD. Not the 10 years of work 1946 of present. If you look at the Combatsim review link Furbs posted, you will see him talk about a great co-op mission he flew with a friend. This is out of the box IL-2 he's talking about here, so I don't think the comparison he was making was valid.

[FS~Phat]

Originally Posted by Force10

You made a lot of valid points Phat, and I am glad that the issues at present don't keep you from enjoying the sim. I think I can sum up my situation sort of like this: COD with it's great cockpits and feeling of flight have ruined me for IL-2 1946, 46 just seems too cartoony now. COD with all of the issues for offline play has also ruined me for COD...so there you have it. Between a rock and a hard place. Thats why I end up here looking for good news instead of flying either of them.

Anyway, back on topic(sort of): Blackdog was making a comparison of Launch version of IL-2 vs Launch version of COD. Not the 10 years of work 1946 of present. If you look at the Combatsim review link Furbs posted, you will see him talk about a great co-op mission he flew with a friend. This is out of the box IL-2 he's talking about here, so I don't think the comparison he was making was valid.

Can I suggest you and others persevere with it especially online in the ATAG servers. They are a little less air quake than some. It's very rewarding if you can look past some of the imperfections that will be ironed out hopefully shortly and this co-op option is showing a lot of promise!

Originally Posted by FS~Phat

Can I suggest you and others persevere with it especially online in the ATAG servers. They are a little less air quake than some. It's very rewarding if you can look past some of the imperfections that will be ironed out hopefully shortly and this co-op option is showing a lot of promise!

I have tried mate, truly I have, but my story goes like this,

Go through take off procedure, warm engine up. Start to taxi, get straffed, not all the time but fairly often. Restart take off procedure, finally take off, gain some altitude whilst orbiting. Spot a distant dot, gain on it and try to identify, oh its disappeared. See flak below, drop in on enemy aircraft, he hasn't seen me, line up my sights and WHAM, crash to desk top. Multiply many times....then give up.

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

I have tried mate, truly I have, but my story goes like this,

Go through take off procedure, warm engine up. Start to taxi, get straffed, not all the time but fairly often. Restart take off procedure, finally take off, gain some altitude whilst orbiting. Spot a distant dot, gain on it and try to identify, oh its disappeared. See flak below, drop in on enemy aircraft, he hasn't seen me, line up my sights and WHAM, crash to desk top. Multiply many times....then give up.

Well drop your graphic settings the game crashes a lot less for me since I have turned off shadows and the ghost dot problem is not a problem for me any more.

[FS~Phat]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

I have tried mate, truly I have, but my story goes like this,

Go through take off procedure, warm engine up. Start to taxi, get straffed, not all the time but fairly often. Restart take off procedure, finally take off, gain some altitude whilst orbiting. Spot a distant dot, gain on it and try to identify, oh its disappeared. See flak below, drop in on enemy aircraft, he hasn't seen me, line up my sights and WHAM, crash to desk top. Multiply many times....then give up.

I used to see the phantom dot enemies but to be honest since playing on ATAG haven't seen it once. As for straffing, it's part of the game and I know it can be frustrating, you just have to move bases. As for crashing, how are your GPU temps? My GTX 580s used to overheat with default max fan speeds. Before I got my water cooling blocks on I Flashed the bios to enable 100% fan which stopped a lot of crashing. Now on water they run at 52c and with the latest drivers I don't get any launcher CTD.

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by FS~Phat

I used to see the phantom dot enemies but to be honest since playing on ATAG haven't seen it once. As for straffing, it's part of the game and I know it can be frustrating, you just have to move bases. As for crashing, how are your GPU temps? My GTX 580s used to overheat with default max fan speeds. Before I got my water cooling blocks on I Flashed the bios to enable 100% fan which stopped a lot of crashing. Now on water they run at 52c and with the latest drivers I don't get any launcher CTD.

What are your settings?

[FS~Phat]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

What are your settings?

Everything on maximum with 8xAA, 1920x1080. And sometimes I play 6040x1080 with 2xAA. As mentioned earlier 4way SLI SFR mode.