@Alexi_Alx_Anova


I have tempered a lot with my Conf.ini file. I have read posts at AAA from guys saying they had magical setups which were ATI-custom made. Others said you could maximize this or that and have plain awesomeness in your IL2. Honestly, none of them made too much of a difference. All I got most of the time was lower fps. I ended up sticking with the stock configuration and just set water to 1. I get decent fps most of time.

Just to illustrate, this is my openGL configuration. Some people say the lines ending with "NV" are nVidia-specific and should be disabled. I did that and noticed no difference whatsoever. I also tried increasing Forest and Land Geometry as some people said it would greatly increase IL2 appearance and consume very few fps. That did nicht to me either.



@F19_lacrits

If you want updated Ctalyst drivers, F19_lacrits, stick with 9.12BETA. They are pretty good and they don't give this texture corruption output you'll get with 9.11.

Best wishes!!!

Here's what i did: i expanded atiogl.dll and atioglxx.dll from the 9.3 catalyst set into the il2 directory. now il2 is glitchless, runs forever (later catalysts had a memory leak in their opengl part) and looks perfect. if only someone would manage to mod in object self-shadowing... :P

Perhaps a stupid question but how did you expand those dll files without installation.
I can find them in the package but I cannot expand them

regards

There's an instruction in the 3rd or 4th post of this thread.. by Brennus

And i have read the thread .

Have a new 4650 Saphire AGP to extend the life of my old system, IL2 4.09m ran ok with x800xt 6.8 drivers. Now unplayable in open gl.Same in call of duty error message is open gl driver will not load. 9.8 is the only one which would install on the computor. Silent hunter 3 plays fine because it is direct X. Cannot use the older 6.8 drivers with 4600 series card.
Any ideas?

Your outta luck when it comes to usin' old drivers w/ a new GPU.

That is what is so pathetic that they sell a 4000 agp series gpu with no support for open gl. The driver cd that came with the card would not install and was basically worthless. Very frustrating since I have flown IL2 from the day it was released with an Ati card and it has worked well ...till now. Maybe it is RMA time.

That's exactly the reason I'm so reluctant to upgrade my machine very often (well, there's also the $$$ factor.). If you haven't noticed, my specs aren't exactly cutting edge, but I've yet to find a game that doesn't run well, or even great, just as long as I make educated decisions when it comes to hardware upgrades. I spend alot of time considering which hardware upgrades to make, and even then I spend even more time researching the hardware I plan to buy.

Yes, I'm anal, sue me...

S!

I did post my conf.ini on the thread at AMD/ATI, works fine with 9.10 and 5870-card. The "blue hue" you get from firing guns/explosions is less than before and no garbled textures or text. Take a look there Hope it helps. Other games this card eats for snack..:D