Please help

[Flanker35M]

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Try these settings in Catalyst Control Center, work on my 6970HD.

Antialiasing: Application Controlled, Morphological OFF, Standard mode
Anistropic Filtering: Application Controlled
Tessellation: Whatever you prefer, game does not use it. I have on AMD Optimized
Catalyst AI: Performance, Surface Optimization OFF
VSync: On, unless application specifies
AA Mode: Performance
Triple Buffer: OFF, but does not matter as an OpenGL setting

In game make sure to have Epilepsy Filter and SSAO set to OFF. Use Full Screen mode and check VSync. I also put grass OFF as it has a FPS hit. Effects on Medium look good with less FPS hit that High. Forest on Medium/Low. Texture size on High, Original has a performance hit.Building detail I have on medium and their density on Unlimited.

[tintifaxl]

Follow Ataros' suggestions. No way can you play it in native resolution of 2560x1440 with higher settings than ultra low.

[Ace Cheese]

Thanks for the advice, I made some changes with ccc.
Does anyone know if i can upgrade my imac graphics card to something decent? I don't have the money for a gaming pc
Flanker, will the upgrade to the AMD 6970M 2GB instead of 1GB and/or an increase to 2x4GB RAM be worthwhile?

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

In game make sure to have Epilepsy Filter and SSAO set to OFF.

^ this first
+ note that shadows and land shading have more influence than detail.

Extra VRAM may help a little but not with this res imho anyway. Maybe 2x HD7970 can handle this resolution it when x-fire is fixed.

Check out a link #8 in my sig and Performance section of this forums (sticky first).

[Flanker35M]

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Having memory does not hurt with 64-bit system. I have 8Gb and it has been enough so far. Ataros, the 7970HD kicked 6990 and 580/590 in the groin at high resolutions as a SINGLE card in recent gaming test on Guru3D using Anno 2070(DirectX 11 title) so I think Luthier's team need to pull their code together in IL-2 if we want to see any improvement in FPS using SLI/CrossFire.

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

Ataros, the 7970HD kicked 6990 and 580/590 in the groin at high resolutions as a SINGLE card in recent gaming test on Guru3D using Anno 2070(DirectX 11 title) so I think Luthier's team need to pull their code together in IL-2 if we want to see any improvement in FPS using SLI/CrossFire.

From my experience with ArmA2 visibility distance can bring any hardware to its knees. Most of the servers limit it to 3-4 km only to provide decent FPS while game allows 10 km max. And this is a 2 year-old game.

What is the visibility distance in CloD? When visibility radius is increased amount of required CPU and GPU calculations grows exponentially. This is a big issue.

[Flanker35M]

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Yeah, very true. But again online you simply can not use full settings if want any decent performance from the server. LEt's hope the new GFX engine will be more streamlined and bugs fixed = more performance

[Jaws2002]

I'd say don't waste any money on hardware until the next patch comes out. They said they are redoing the 3d engine from scratch. I'd wait for that and only after that look at hardware.

[Ace Cheese]

cheers Ataros
I read the performance thread and made some tweaks with the settings and gamebooster.
The HD 7970 is very pricy. I might just settle for the 6990, although I'm not sure if any of these are compatible with my iMac.
I won't be buying anything until the Battle of Moscow is released.

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by Ace Cheese

I might just settle for the 6990

It is a dual-chip card. I would never waste money on any of them for many reasons.