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[santobr]

I do have one question, if you will permit.  What is this "black death track" I keep reading about?  Is it something that comes with the game?  Do I have it someplace and just don't realize it?

Thank you for any help, again.

Is one of the tracks in the "Play Track" menu.
Our friends use it to compare FPS and glitches.

You are welcome.

santobr.

[Flanker35M]

S!

 As Santobr said, it is a track with varying scenes, a good one for benchmarking as it does strain even modern systems. Another good track there is Kamikaze02, really puts some stuff to the screen, that AAA fire is a FPS killer and so is water. I forgot my conf.ini, but here it is..Works on 5870HD, not sure if on other cards.


[Render_OpenGL]
TexQual=3
TexMipFilter=3
TexCompress=0
TexFlags.UseDither=1
TexFlags.UseAlpha=0
TexFlags.UseIndex=0
TexFlags.PolygonStipple=0
TexFlags.UseClampedSprites=0
TexFlags.DrawLandByTriangles=0
TexFlags.UseVertexArrays=0
TexFlags.DisableAPIExtensions=0
TexFlags.ARBMultitextureExt=1
TexFlags.TexEnvCombineExt=1
TexFlags.SecondaryColorExt=1
TexFlags.VertexArrayExt=0
TexFlags.ClipHintExt=1
TexFlags.UsePaletteExt=0
TexFlags.TexAnisotropicExt=1
TexFlags.TexCompressARBExt=0

TexFlags.TexEnvCombine4NV=0
TexFlags.TexEnvCombineDot3=1
TexFlags.DepthClampNV=0
TexFlags.SeparateSpecular=1
TexFlags.TextureShaderNV=0

HardwareShaders=1

Shadows=2
Specular=2
SpecularLight=2
DiffuseLight=2
DynamicalLights=1
MeshDetail=2
VisibilityDistance=3

Sky=2
Forest=3
LandShading=3
LandDetails=2

LandGeom=2
TexLarge=1
TexLandQual=3
TexLandLarge=1

VideoSetupId=17
Water=0
Effects=1
ForceShaders1x=0

PolygonOffsetFactor=-0.0625
PolygonOffsetUnits=-3.0

[ol' Navy]

Is one of the tracks in the "Play Track" menu.
Our friends use it to compare FPS and glitches.

You are welcome.

santobr.

OK, I looked, and lo and behold I do have that track (black death), and lots of others.  Would they look funny when there was a problem, or how do you folks use them?  Sorry to be asking, but this is really new to me.  As I said earlier, I didn't know, until about fifteen minutes ago, what the "Play tracks" was, and I have been playing the game since it first came out as just IL2 and I pre ordered it then, so it has been quite awhile.  Usually, when it's something I don't know about I leave it alone for fear I'll screw up my game.

[santobr]

You can hold all switches down ("Loop", "Manual time compression", etc), choose a track and watch a beautiful film (I love the Kamikaze2 track).
If you want to compare any results, hold only "In flight messages" switch up and when the track starts to play...
Hit "Shift+Tab" then write exactly, because is case sensitive: fps START SHOW
Hit "Enter"
Hit "Shift+Tab" again.
Now pay attention to your FPS Max and Min and if there are any glitches when you watch the movie.

santobr

[Der Wüstenfuchs]

Judging by 10.3 preview drivers, we won't see blocky textures fixed soon. But hey maybe in 10.4 

[ol' Navy]

You can hold all switches down ("Loop", "Manual time compression", etc), choose a track and watch a beautiful film (I love the Kamikaze2 track).
If you want to compare any results, hold only "In flight messages" switch up and when the track starts to play...
Hit "Shift+Tab" then write exactly, because is case sensitive: fps START SHOW
Hit "Enter"
Hit "Shift+Tab" again.
Now pay attention to your FPS Max and Min and if there are any glitches when you watch the movie.

santobr

I've written down what you said here, and I'm gonna give it a try.  I have often wondered where people got all the neat screen shots they use, I guess now I know.  I don't know how to do screen shots, but it's pretty neat.  And hey, since you seem to not minding answering my stupid questions, could you answer me one more (or give me your opinion)?  Mention was made above that some of these track things can "strain even modern systems".  Well, I'm gonna give you what my hardware is, and can you tell me whether mine is what could be called "modern".  The parts, pretty much, were bought for me by my kids, and I've put them together (as best I can).  You should see me try to plug all those little connectors into the motherboard (with old eyes and shaky hands), but that's another story.  Here goes - Athlon Phenom II X3 720BE, Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P motherboard, 4GB DDR2-800 A-Data memory, ASUS EAH5770 video card, 520W Corsair PSU, etc, Windows 7 32bit, Catalyst 10.2 drivers.

[Flanker35M]

S!

 Bobcholmes, your hardware is enough to run IL-2 just fine What I emant by "straining even modern systems" is that some tracks have intensive scenes with fire, smoke and all that going around which does bring down the FPS. And that screeniething Bravo tol about, very nice. Keeps the size of pics down, those TGA's did eat space.

[ol' Navy]

I've never been real sure when folks talk about their hardware, just what is considered acceptable to run the game.  Thanks for the info.  My game does seem to run OK, only problem I have now is when I run some of the campaigns (Fighting Cocks is one), after I have been playing for awhile my game just stops and I am back at my desktop.  No warning, no funny graphics nothing.  I check the temps of my card and it's never past about 41 degrees, so I don't think it is a heat issue (?), guess it's like me, and gets tired.

[santobr]

Any news?

santobr.

[AH_Viper]

bobcolmes I think that the return to desktop problem lies in your IL2setup.  I had the same problem with the same no issues with heat and what not.  Going into setup you will fine the Video tab, Check texture compress ARB Extentions, in the Extention block. Under the Settings in that windows I'm sure you have custom.  The next block you will probably have antistropic under texture mipmap filter, then under that you will see Texture compression put ST3C in that box. Say Ok then go into your games config.ini and make sure to change your video screen resolution back to where it was and save etc.  That should keep you from being kicked back to desk top. Every time you make a change in the IL2setup, it changes to the default resolution.

[ol' Navy]

bobcolmes I think that the return to desktop problem lies in your IL2setup.  I had the same problem with the same no issues with heat and what not.  Going into setup you will fine the Video tab, Check texture compress ARB Extentions, in the Extention block. Under the Settings in that windows I'm sure you have custom.  The next block you will probably have antistropic under texture mipmap filter, then under that you will see Texture compression put ST3C in that box. Say Ok then go into your games config.ini and make sure to change your video screen resolution back to where it was and save etc.  That should keep you from being kicked back to desk top. Every time you make a change in the IL2setup, it changes to the default resolution.

Thank you much for the help.  I'll try it.  And, by the way, have most of the folks here noticed that with the U.P. 2.0n, there aren't any of the graphics issues that plagued us before?  Amazing.  When I did the fresh install thing and then installed the Ultra Pack, I forgot all about adding that atioglxx.dll that was provided here, but I didn't even need it.  The load screen problems as well as the black block text issues were gone also.  I'm sure that you guys, a whole lot smarter than I, realized it some time ago.  Us old guys are just slow.  Anyhow, thanks.

[ol' Navy]

Oops!  Messed up.  I put my response inside the quote thing.  I'm pretty new at the quote box.  Just trying to figure it out.  Sorry.