il2 sturrmovik

[marcello]

I would like to ask you if you had some experiences with playing IL2 sturmovik on a G4x0 and G550 cards. I am playing it on PIII 672(112FSB) and G550 and it is not very fast (excellent quality 1024x768). I am thinking of new proc. Do you thing that celeron 1200/1600 or PIV 1800 would be enough?
Thanks

[Ribbit]

I've got it on an AMD 1900+ (1.6GHz) w/G400 MAX. As I recall (haven't been able to play it much), I can turn all the options on at 800x600x32 and it mostly runs fine, but fog/smoke effects slow it down a lot.

[marcello]

what are you using D3D or OPENGL?

[Ribbit]

D3D. OpenGL gives me weird-looking artifacts (like the ground is covered in patchy frost).

Or maybe it's the other way round, I don't remember now... but I do remember there's no great performance difference between them.

[marcello]

turn off advanced multitexturing in Matrox tweak util.