Hi, just got the sim and was wondering how to activate the counter...seems fraps is blocked. Also, any suggestions on settings for my system would be greatly appreciated specs as follows:

i7 2600k @ 4.3 ghz
Nvidia GTX 580 1.5 gb w/latest drivers
8g ram
27in monitor @ 1920 x 1080
X52
CH rudder pedals

You would activate the console in game, look in the controls page/game...for the key to press for the console (you may need to assign a key)...then press that assigned key and type "fps START SHOW"/then press "enter"....just as you see it without the quote marks.

thanks....got it. WOW!!! What a difference from IL2 46. Gonna need alot of practice

You've got an excellent PC and it should run CoD very well. Just a couple of tips: leave "Epilepsy Filter" and "SSAO" unchecked in the video options; the first causes strange colour artifacts and the second slows your framerates for no appreciable benefit.

Some prefer to leave "Vsynch" unchecked as well and instead enable it in the Nvidia Control Panel; either will help if you see distortion (tearing) of the canopy frame when you pan quickly.

I've played with the various settings in the Nvidia Control Panel to get the best combination of performance (fps, no-stuttering smoothness) and image quality. With your PC you should be able to dial in a healthy dose of both.

Good luck!

I see you've gone up in the graphics world Snapper, colour me jealous! I take it You're able to run with everything maxed out now?( and simultaneously run Crysis on a second monitor)

It's a great card, no doubt about it, but it's still subject to frame rate hits in low dogfights over terrain -- just experienced it a few minutes ago chasing a ground-hugging 110 online. Like everyone else I'm anxiously awaiting the patch!

Another thing to do that I don't see mentioned often, and It helped me out a lot is to disable the UBI start up logo. It decreased my stutters significantly.

Go to: C: drive/Program Apps (x86)/Steam/Steam Apps/Common/IL2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover/parts/core/GUI

Relabel the "LOGO" to something else and that will disable it.

Very interesting, I wonder how the logo is causing/doing that...but I will try this.

thanks for all the info and tips gents. Gonna try the logo thing too

I really don't know. It could even be because I have a rather pithy PC and any improvement is large to me. Someone suggested it to save application start up time in the 1C forum. Someone replied that they noticed an improvement. Well I'm there baby! I can use all the improvement I can get. I tried it and was impressed. After a while I forgot about it and rechecked the integrity of the Steam folder (due to fuel cocks not working) and that reactivated the Logo. Noticing a drop in performance again I went through my graphics details and then remembered the logo. I reassigned a new name to it and the game felt as good as the first time I deactivated the logo.

Would be interesting to see what others experience regrding it. I still get stutters, but no where near what I do with it activated. I can battle it out with a group of planes no problem - no freezes or pauses.

The theory with the ubi video is two-fold; in that the codec used to play it back locks the display to a 'windowed mode' even after the game proper has started. Display drivers try to control heat/voltage for your video card and will 'underclock' it to use less power when it thinks you'll just putsying around in windows

On ATI (which I think is where people see improvements on this) you can use a utility to check this like GPU-Z, i.e. http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2120/TechPowerUp_GPU-Z_v0.6.0.html

The second tab shows the GPU core clock speed, which (dependant on card) show different speeds. The theory is that deleting the ubi video then stops it from playing, allowing your game to run at full clock speed.

Here's mine now - in a game it should run at 900 MHz or so, so here it is in Windows at 450MHz:



The second theory is that anything Ubisoft touches is cursed, which is why when you see the logo your game will run worse.

Option 2 is it, I think...

My money is on option 2 to Fearless

Ive a Nvidia card but saying 2

Nvidia as well, and no help/difference for me...was worth the try though

To open the console and pause game I use the shift+tab keys then write to show counter;
fps START SHOW
and the enter key shift+tab keys to close sonsole and continue game.
To open the console and pause game I use the shift+tab keys then write to hide the fps counter;
fps STOP SHOW
and the enter key shift+tab keys to close sonsole and continue game.

Respect minuscule and majuscules!

Remember the days when it used to be something like "Alt-F" <sigh>

Limiting FPS really helps me and my buddies and stops stutters and fps drops for some reason, i thought it was madness but it works.

try http://dxtory.com/ and finf the fps tab... i limit to 30-35 and it keeps my laptop cool. yes i play clod on high on a laptop lol.