Intermittent invisible plane issue

[stupor-mundi]

Hi all,

I've only got IL-2 a few weeks ago, and have noticed a strange thing in the last 3 days or so.

Planes disappearing and reappearing that I was in a dogfight with. At first I put it down to losing track of planes due to viewing angles, but earlier tonight it happened to me on Berloga where I could track the plane fluently with F2 outside camera view, and last night it happened on 1CGS at high altitude with contrails, where the contrails made it quite clear I hadn't just lost track of the opponent.

The opponent disappeared and reappeared repeatedly, in sections of 5 to 10 seconds or so.

There is an "invisible plane" thread from 2016, but the instructions in that thread don't seem to apply to the current software, since the key mentioned there in startup.cfg (to change) doesn't exist in mine.

I should make it clear that this is different from what I've seen in some threads as "warping" or "stutter" where the whole scene freezes up for a fraction of a second and then resumes.

While this happened, my own planes motion continued fluently, and the fps counter remained at 59/60 frames.

This may or may not be the same thing as mentioned in thread
https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/34052-ever-heard-of-ghosting/
in that thread it seems to be associated with a server being near crashing, and then, indeed crashing.

When this happened to me however, the servers seemed fine and continued on afterwards.

Each occasion this happened was fairly short short duration from my perspective, less than a minute or so, since I got shot down, having no idea where the enemy went ...

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Windows 10, HP spectre x360 late 2017, Intel 8th gen quad core, external gpu aorus gaming box 1070

[KoN_]

Yes our squad reported disappearing planes tonight . 

[stupor-mundi]

After not experiencing this for some weeks, just now it was back. In WoL, over Kerch, about 5k. I was fairly stand-off ish as I encountered some planes and couldn't id some of them. Since the distances were relatively big, and I earlier read some bits about 'visual contact distance' or 'plane draw distance' being rather short for high altitude fighting, I began to wonder if that could be the explanation for some of the appearing/disappearing planes. But I couldn't find anything about how far exactly that distance is. Anybody know?