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Glorious Flyers

I've been looking at the Squadrons screenshots in absolute awe! Not only at the artistic composition, but also at the clarity and definition.

If it's not too bold; what's the spec of the graphics card etc. on the system that they were taken from?

Many thanks.

TheMaskedBadger wrote:Glorious Flyers

I've been looking at the Squadrons screenshots in absolute awe! Not only at the artistic composition, but also at the clarity and definition.

If it's not too bold; what's the spec of the graphics card etc. on the system that they were taken from?

Many thanks.

Hi, TMB!

Thanks a lot for the flowers, mate. I really much appreciate your compliment ...

But I´ve to disappoint you a bit. In my rig works an Athlon 2600+ at 1,9 GHz and 1 GB RAM. My ATI 9800 Pro grahpic card is a bit outdated as well but is able to cope to replay IL-2´s .ntrk recordings in a resolution of 1280x960 with perfect ingame graphic settings.

A bit of Photoshop magic (sharpen pictures and coloured filters) does the rest of the job ...

As you can see there´s no big PC power needed to create these screen shots, TMB!

S!

Hi Genosse

No, not at all - the quality of the images enhances the over all feel web site, so they are a major plus. (Either that or I'm just shallow, but I am a chap and we go for the 'visual' don't we? )

Well that's splendid news any way! I must say that I'm going to have to look at my conf.ini file, drivers and IL2 settings again. I need more 'crystal-clear-gorgeousness' from my set up before I'm satisfied.

Thanks again!

Tally Ho!

Well that will teach me to fiddle around. Last night I downloaded the latest nVidia drivers to 'enhance' my gaming experience and now it's about a thousand times worse. Damn those 'more stable but worse quality' seductive updates!!! Damn them!!

Thank goodness for restore points.

Fume!!

... as many hundred thousands of Windows user as well. You´re not alone in the dark, TMB!

Never ever change a running system!

Thanks for those words of assurance.

I just can't believe that a driver which would released with the card (if I bought it now) is worse. I must investigate further before I opt to restore!

Well, I managed to optimise the latest nVidia driver and certainly got the performance I was after, but no matter how hard I tried and what I changed in the conf file, my sparkley water and skin definition just wouldn't come back!

So without further ado, I deinstalled that driver and now everything is back to it's usual gorgeousness. Strangley however, external views now seem to be giving me an increased frame rate and an all-round smoother feel.... Windows - you've gotta love it!!

Pip-pip!

I did bounce around a number of drivers at the beginning of Sept. Ended up settling on the 84.21 driver set. Everything else seemed to cause problems with either water or texture holes in aeroplanes.

G