4.12 development update discussion and feedback

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by nic727

I run DirectX for the moment and I tried OpenGL. I have OpenGL 2.1 and it's doesn't work very well. I think they have to fixe somethings in 4.13m, because that's what I have even If I change the conf.ini

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I don't really understand my strange line in the cloud.

I have an integrated Graphic card and I run the game at 40-50 fps without problem and just want to have 3D water with water=3, but nothing work. I just think that could be easier to put the option in the game instead of conf.ini and don't block the option that you card might not support.

nic, the problem isn't the game in this instance. It's your graphics card. Integrated graphics... probably a Intel HD 3000? 4000? They are great for hardware acceleration of HD movie streams (depending on the generation) and they work well enough to handle Windows Vista/7/8's needs but in-games they do not have the necessary features. Intel HD's have always had extremely poor OpenGL support and mediocre Direct3D support.

nVidia still maintains the best OpenGL support and AMD is also pretty good. Any dedicated graphics card is a must for something like IL-2 if you want to turn on the features. Perfect mode won't work for you simply because your card does not have the graphical capabilities - it's more than frames per second. The architecture and specific graphical capabilities are important too.

Here's an analogy... you're doing a rally race on rough terrain (IL-2). The Intel HD has two wheel drive (2WD). Dedicated cards have all wheel drive (AWD) with terrain rated tires.

If you can, do yourself a favour and find a decent dedicated graphics card. A low to mid end model will run IL-2 just fine without the graphics artifacts and utilizing most or all of the features in perfect mode.