You should be running special shadows. Common are only for the more recent nvidia cards, and I recall reading that even they can run special shadows now.

Interesting. I have my antialiasing on 4 and light sources on 20 also shadows on special high. Main difference is to have antialiasing on 4 not 8. Evething else on maximum except medium for grass and reflections and far for forest visibility. This is on a AMD 5770 with the new drivers.

If I could run at higher FX levels I don't think I'd choose antialiasing 8 over post processing. Can you even tell the difference from 4?

To each his own mind you, but at least try turning on the raindrops. Once you have them turned on I find I simply cannot fly without them. Very nice effect.

Made this post in the tech support section but it's kinda old so I copied it here...

Actually, I've had ROF CTD numerous times since I upgraded to the 11.10 drivers, something it literally hadn't done in ages.

The message I get every time is "ROF has stopped working" ( I think-hell it just happened half hr ago!!!) and the second part of the message is to click on-line to find a solution.

Everything runs smoothly, graphics look beautiful and bang-I'm at the desktop. Always happens near the end of a mission and of course after I've shot down a few planes...

Think I'll re-install the 11.9's as I didn't get any benefit from the newest set. Things have been running smoothly for the last couple of sets to include no Crossfire issues. Because of my system (i7 @ 3.5gig, 12 gig Tri-channel and a 5970) I'm not expecting any performance increases, maybe just some better visuals. Everythings cranked to max except AA and it's set to Adaptive multi-sample AA, Morphological Filtering and 4X AA. Looks beautiful, smooth as glass-gotta quit screwin' with it!!!

Hmmm, just had a thought---I wonder if it could be an issue in the ATI Catalyst Application Profiles.... Maybe I'll roll back to the last version before dumping the drivers.

Been testing for a while after removing the newest application profiles and I haven't had a CTD-----yet! I'll keep testing.

As a heads up, I've spent very little time tweaking this title to my new card. And I'm not really familer with the tuning ins and outs of RoF, so don't take my settings as gospil for 6950 owners.

I thought I read somewhere that AA and Post process effects don't play nice together in this title, so that's why I disabled all of them.


PS: we REALLY need a sticky in this forum dedicated to settings tuning.