Hey all.
so tonight I tried some single-player missions... and technical issues caused them to FAIL epically. I'm hoping everyone can offer some advice.
Ok, first off, let me give you the stats of my laptop -
PROCESSOR: AMD - E-350 1.60ghz processor (little thing)
RAM: 3gb DDR5 - 2.6 free
Graphics Card: ATI-AMD Radeon HD 6310 1GB graphics cache
OS: Windows7 Home Premium
all user account BS is turned off, and I am an administrator 
as a whole, it seems only my processor is lacking really... ish. I mean this is an old game.
okay... I know very little about computers, I've only been studying up on them for about 6 months now (ever since the IL-2SNAFU with my Girl's laptop
)
however, I "get" how they can work for people who "get" them. For example, you give me a MOPAR small block, at idle, I can get pretty damn close to it's cam specs just listening to her. I understand that for some, computers are much the same way.
here's what I've got, and what I've done:
343 GB free of 450 GB standard hard drive (none of that pretty SSD
)
most of that, is pretty much IL-2 and IL-2 related. My skins, templates, etc. For example, my "Wildcat" template for GIMP is 18,000kb. And I have those for
all our planes. Let alone HD reference pics that take up a pretty penny themselves, about 15GB worth (no joke).
but for the most part, it's a nice, relatively un-added laptop that cost me all of $400 back in 2011
so, needless to say, I'm not complaining... if my desktop I'm building does this, I'm gonna be pissed lol.
so here's what's going on:
I have 5 versions of IL-2 on my computer, and here are their names/directories -
C:\IL-2BACKUP - this is a 4.09m version of the game, untouched
C:\IL-2MODDED - this is a slightly modded version of the 4.09m game, just basic planes add-ons. About 15 all told. USN/USMC centric with some P-40s thrown in for good measure
C:\IL-2UPDATED - this is my 4.12.2m version of the game, untouched
C:\HSFXAG51 - this is my main game - it's the full updated version of the game we use online (I think).
C:\HSFX_7_0_1Backup - this is a full updated version of the game we use online (I think). Basically, I accidentally made two of them when I was originally doing this. So now this is a backup.
My "Backup," "Modded," and "Updated" came from a IL-2:1946 4.08m DVD. The other two came from here.
now, my problem: something "hinky" is going on with the single mission and net missions in my AG51 version of the game.
great example - Straight From the Farm has a mission in its campaign, where the Dauntless takes off from the "Carrier" to climb to altitude, attack a ship off the coast, and return home. Zeus_Cat added some TBF Avengers to the runway to "move up" the Dauntless, all with no fuel, just "place holders" if you will.
problem - somehow I end up piloting the TBF Avenger in the
very back of the "flight line" lol. Yep. Tried this both in single mission "practice" and in the campaign. No bueno.
another great example - Razor's Carrier Ops - the carrier doesn't exist. His videos show a Hellcat or Avenger taking off and doing touch and goes on
nothing. They just hover above the ocean. When I try to fly the missions, yep - my plane ends up in the water.
one last example - "White Sun Blue Sky" - second mission in the campaign - I'm flying the flying boat, instead of the 'Hawk.
now, so far, I've been okay with online play. I was in that biplane during that Korea mission, and tonight went fine too. Also frame rate seems great, even though I have everything on as high as it goes. Carrier launches, landings, etc, no "rubber banding" or "lag." It's just these "single missions" and "campaigns" that seem
hinky. WSBS also lagged like crazy, but I figured that was normal considering how many objects he put in the maps. I turned down the graphics, and it smoothed out just fine.
is there something I'm missing?
Here's what I've done -
AG51's ATI "optimizer" within the config.ini file - did that at Animal's thought and behest, and yep. It runs way nicer now.
nothing else, no updates to the drivers or anything. Recently Windows 7 decided to "update" and ever since my laptop has been a bit slow at start, but other than that it's fine. Basically any time I "open" something, I get a lag I didn't used to get.
here's what I
do knowbasically, with all the little SNAFU going on in the HSFX version, I loaded up SFTF and WSBS into my 4.12.2m unmodded version and they run like
butter, no glitches or weird "pilot placement." Also, because of the
lack of extras, it loads up to the main screen in about 25 seconds flat. HSFXAG51 takes about 90 seconds or so. I'd be fine with 4.12.2m unmodded to be honest, for my single-player experience, except the flight model is different a bit, the sounds are crap,
and most importantly -
the SBD-3 Dauntless... I can't view through the dive bombing scope!
Yeah, there goes Zeus_Cat's other awesome SBD missions then lol.
whereas in the HSFX version? Yep. I can see through the sight just fine lol cept it doesn't seem to put me in the proper planes.
so... yeah. I'm completely lost, and I needs help.
so did not plan on this being a dissertation... sorry about that guys. I just want to be clear as to what's going on.
