#3872832 - 12/07/13 05:01 AM
Combat Flightsim 2 Hardware Acceleration
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Gents,
For some reason I cannot activate hardware acceleration in CFS2 anymore... Happened once I went ATI vid cards back in 2010. Can someone PM me the contents of their CFS2.CFG and display.cfg files?
Thanks!
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#3873365 - 12/08/13 04:08 PM
Re: Combat Flightsim 2 Hardware Acceleration
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#3873521 - 12/08/13 10:17 PM
Re: Combat Flightsim 2 Hardware Acceleration
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Cheers! Under [DISPLAY] I had Disable=1, took that away and added your AntiAlias=1 HWTnL=1 Entries and now I get hardware accelerated graphics!
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#3877519 - 12/15/13 05:40 PM
Re: Combat Flightsim 2 Hardware Acceleration
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Thanks for the quick response, 33lima.
I think you're right about CFS2 keeping its cfg files in the main folder, and I do have the Player Defined box checked. My background screens look a little different than yours (because I'm running a stock version and it looks like you have some addons) but the dialogue box options are the same except that the Enable Hardware Accelerator Box in mine is greyed out (as well as the list of features below it) and it only allows me to select from 16 bit resolutions.
Mine version of the game worked fine until I upgraded from a 680 to the 780 Ti, after which the program evidently started failing to identify the video card as a 3D accelerator.
I've tried changing the relevant commands under the cfs2.cfg [Display] section--changing Disable=1 to Disable=0 and then deleting it altogether--and so forth, but no joy. I thought for a while I might be able to tweak the display.cfg file by adding in an entry for the 780 ti, listing the driver number, and then putting in the relevant commands from the cfs2.cfg file, but that doesn't seem to work either, perhaps because the 780 ti has so many drivers that I'm not sure which one to use.
It may also be that the problem isn't with the new card at all, but with the newest version of the Nvidia driver, which I upgraded to when I added in the new card.
In any event, thanks for the help. I'll keep tweaking and experimenting, and if I figure it out I'll pass on the information to the forum generally. CFS2 is still a really fun game, even after all these years.
And if anyone else has solved the problem, please post the solution here.
DKM
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#3878107 - 12/16/13 06:15 PM
Re: Combat Flightsim 2 Hardware Acceleration
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DKM,
Ah, there is a bug with CFS2 and recognizing the capabilities of our newer cards. I found out that once I set my Display Settings options in-game, then edited as I stated above in the CFS2.cfg file the proper entires, the display menu in CFS2 would still not report properly - BUT the game actually did run in hardware accelerated mode! So once you set the Display Settings options you can and make the CFS2.cfg changes just ignore what the Display Settings CFS2 menu tells you and go play the game. Just do NOT make any more changes under Display Settings otherwise what can be set there will override your CFS2.cfg entries.
You will also need to edit the resolution entry in the CFS2.cfg file to make it 32-bit instead of the 16-bit that gets set. I run at 1920x1200x32
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#3878268 - 12/16/13 09:00 PM
Re: Combat Flightsim 2 Hardware Acceleration
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No problem! Very stupid issue it is... I knew I could probably override the software mode, but I didn't know what entries I needed to remove or add in the CFS2.cfg file, hence this post!
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#3947470 - 05/01/14 04:34 AM
Re: Combat Flightsim 2 Hardware Acceleration
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#3947471 - 05/01/14 04:37 AM
Re: Combat Flightsim 2 Hardware Acceleration
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Its one of my favorite Sims. You can configurate it to your liking with the help of the CFS2 community.
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#3947962 - 05/02/14 06:08 AM
Re: Combat Flightsim 2 Hardware Acceleration
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Yep still fire it up every now and again. Runs great on my Win7 PHE system with an NVidia GTX 650 2Gb card.
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#4258969 - 05/11/16 05:03 PM
Re: Combat Flightsim 2 Hardware Acceleration
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Some help please. I want to install CFS2 again. Attempted to install and run it yesterday with no luck. My system specs in signature. Have read others are running it. Appreciate the help.
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#4258987 - 05/11/16 06:24 PM
Re: Combat Flightsim 2 Hardware Acceleration
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Howdy, what is it doing for you? Have you installed the MS released patches for it?
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#4259001 - 05/11/16 07:02 PM
Re: Combat Flightsim 2 Hardware Acceleration
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Hmmmm good question. Let me look on my hard drive when I get home.
In the meat time, try lowering your resolution on your Desktop and then launch the game.
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