New mag out today. Includes a tweak guide to COD and they claim they have it running smoothly at highly detail. Not read it yet but worth checking out.

Definately going to have a look at this

I bet that some guys around here, or the banana forum, know more about tweaking settings than the reviewer in the mag does.

For those who can't access the mag this is a very brief summary of what they found.

This is no substitute for buying the magazine though as it's excellent.

Basically they tried various settings and posted the max/average/min frame rates:

(This is with Corei7 920 over-clocked @4GHz, Radeon HD6870, 12GB RAM at 1920x1280 rez.)

ATI users take note.....There is some stuff about the Radeon clock speeds which I won't go into here as you need to read them for yourself to fix a bug with them-the frames below are with the bug fixed using ATI tray tools to lock the clocks.

1. Stock frames with settings 'High' with forest to 'low', texture qual to 'original', grass disabled, AA, AE, SSAO and Vsync all to 'off' - frames 13/54/117

2. Stock frames with everything maxed out 'very high' but grass 'off' - frames 7/46/107

3. As 2 above with AA turned off in game but turned on in graphics card control panel 8x - frames 10/51/117

4. As 3 above with Vsync off in game but on in graphics card control panel - frames 13/52/119

5. As 4 above with texture in game changed from 'high' to 'original' - frames 15/52/117

6. As 5 above but with AF enabled in the graphics card control panel set to 8x instead of application controlled. - frames 19/58/145

7. As 6 above but with the cards AF set to 4x. - frames 21/63/144

So as you can see the minimum frames have gone from the stock 7 to 21 and average 46 to 63.

Of course your own pc set up may vary these results. And grass is off so it's not going to look as good when sat on the ground but as grass and forest seem to be the biggest frame rate killer you may think this is worthwhile.

Hope this helps. It will be interesting to see what you get with these changes.

Sorry got my frames rates the wrong way round! Now corrected.

I agree 100% with this PC pilot guide. I have an AMD HD5870 1GB and the only setting that makes a difference in the frame rates is Shadows (besides the AE and SASSO). I am running everything at max settings with shadows OFF and Forest Low (MP sound bug) and the game runs as smooth as butter.

The only problem I have is adding the games that are in Steam to my list of games in the graphics card control centre. I can add Steam itself but that doesn't seem to affect the games in Steam. Any ideas which file I point it at?

What do you guys have your monitor settings at in game? Full or Psuedo? What do these mean?

Also does AA and AF in CCC look any better than the ingame version? I thought AA didn't work well in CCC.

I believe the file you need is the \root\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\Launcher.exe file.

But so far I haven't got to have any impact.

WB.

Yeah I did it with the Launcher but AA doesn't seem to kick in. Maybe it's because I have it at x4. Will try x8.