Another Up Grade (suggestions)

[Pooka]

Hi Guys,

[DD_Brando]

Looking good Pooka I can't comment much about Intel 'cos I'm a dedicated AMD 'fanboi'

[Perfesser]

I have a core duo 2.66 CPU and I was thinking it's time for a little more speed.

Dunno if the quad core will make much difference in IL2. Maybe price out a faster chip?

[Jabo]

Dunno if the quad core will make much difference in IL2

None I'm afraid m8, IL2 was written to run on single core machines, and it doesn't know how to take advantage of a multicore system. Your h/w though, that's a different matter. Multicore systems with 64-bit OS's can be very quick indeed, which will have a direct impact on startup & shutdown speeds, amongst other things. Just as an example, my rig running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit is 20% faster (via PassMark) than the same rig running Windows XP Pro 32-bit. That's quite a lot in my view and I've had no serious driver issues with my joystick, TIR etc etc etc.

Jabo

[Perfesser]

Then for older games like IL2 you want a chip with faster speed, not so much more cores at slower speed.

Maybe price out the 3.0 or 3.16 Mhz chip then

[Trout]

Perf, while Snacko is correct that IL2 can only utilize one core, there is something you can do to at least get " a little extra" out have having a multi core comp.

[MadTrooper]

hum.. did not know you could assign a core to run IL2 specifically. I have an Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67 Ghz. I'll monitor this post to see if someone could tell me how to do this.

Thanks.

[gec]

hum.. did not know you could assign a core to run IL2 specifically. I have an Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67 Ghz. I'll monitor this post to see if someone could tell me how to do this.

Thanks.

find this in your conf.ini

[rts]
;ProcessAffinityMask=1

and edit to

[rts]
ProcessAffinityMask=2

value 2 will cause your game to run on the second core. value 1 on the first one.

but there is still a lot of discussions about ProcessAffinity.

http://allaircraftarcade.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23104

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2673111/1.html

[Jabo]

There is another way to do this by setting the 'Affinity' of the process (in Task Manager) to run in one core. I have mine set up like this to run the IL2FB.exe on core 1 and TS on core 2

[Pooka]

I went with the components mentioned above and all should be here within a week.

[Perfesser]

I went 64 bit a few months ago and had no problems with drivers or anything.

Somewhere they talk about how much memory IL2 uses. 64 bit can boost that to 4Gb with the Ultra 2.0.

That alone is worth it.