Making spotting easier

[brauner12]

Hallo, i have a 20" screen with 1680 1050 resolution which serves very well since many years. However, short of squinting eyes, and staring closely at pixels (which is a very tiring and painful process) there doesnt seem to an effective way to spot aircrafts farther than 2km. Much of the problem seems to come from aircrafts blending so well with forest and sky textures. I find headtracking stiffens the neck so i us a hatswtich instead, meaning zooming fully in at any possible angle is not really managable. Any hacks to make spotting easier and more intuitive a keen to RL experience without the giant intrusive markers is welcome.

[Herne]

2 minutes ago, brauner12 said:

Hallo, i have a 20" screen with 1680 1050 resolution which serves very well since many years. However, short of squinting eyes, and staring closely at pixels (which is a very tiring and painful process) there doesnt seem to an effective way to spot aircrafts farther than 2km. Much of the problem seems to come from aircrafts blending so well with forest and sky textures. I find headtracking stiffens the neck so i us a hatswtich instead, meaning zooming fully in at any possible angle is not really managable. Any hacks to make spotting easier and more intuitive a keen to RL experience without the giant intrusive markers is welcome.

 

Try the "sharpen" setting in the video options. The environment might not look quite as nice, but it definitely helps with both spotting and ID of targets for me in VR 

[brauner12]

does the setting for low/balanced/high also have an effect?

[Herne]

1 minute ago, brauner12 said:

does the setting for low/balanced/high also have an effect?

 

so far as I am aware, the only thing that would be useful for would be to turn it down if you have low frame rates. Otherwise you want it to be as high as it can be with playable frame rates. Really depends on your hardware.

[1PL-Husar-1Esk]

Ground to low - more blurred then easy to spot , don't use to much AA . Sharpen yes but not the horizon.  BTW my neck is happy now  because I'm moving it, other games were pain to play for very long time (quakeworld)

[CountZero]

Here check this video and it will explain you how to make it better to spot contacts:

 

[THERION]

On 12/13/2018 at 4:46 PM, brauner12 said:

Hallo, i have a 20" screen with 1680 1050 resolution which serves very well since many years. However, short of squinting eyes, and staring closely at pixels (which is a very tiring and painful process) there doesnt seem to an effective way to spot aircrafts farther than 2km. Much of the problem seems to come from aircrafts blending so well with forest and sky textures. I find headtracking stiffens the neck so i us a hatswtich instead, meaning zooming fully in at any possible angle is not really managable. Any hacks to make spotting easier and more intuitive a keen to RL experience without the giant intrusive markers is welcome.

 

 

Hi,

 

here are my settings - since I changed those options marked in red, I spot way much better and this improved my spotting abilities. Although, it doesn't mean

automatically that I got a better dogfighter, but now at least I know and see who's shooting me into pieces.... and from where.

 

* If you're a bit familiar with editing config file in the Notepad you can also adjust the gamma correction below 0.8. I have set it to 0.7.

 

P.S.: And everything still looks good btw.

Edited January 3, 2019 by -IRRE-Therion

[SharpeXB]

On 1/3/2019 at 7:47 AM, 77.CountZero said:

Here check this video and it will explain you how to make it better to spot contacts:

 

 

I’ve never seen this sort of thing happen. Obviously this person has gone into the settings and screwed it all up. Does he have AA switched off? That’s why contacts are disappearing like that. Visibility is very good in this sim by default. He’s blaming RoF which is quite superb as well. 

On 12/13/2018 at 9:46 AM, brauner12 said:

i have a 20" screen with 1680 1050 resolution which serves very well since many years. 

I hate to point out the obvious but you should really try to get a larger screen with 1080x1920. Much of your trouble is your display. Also screens at this level may not be displaying the full 16.7 million colors. 

Edited January 29, 2019 by SharpeXB

[LLv34_Temuri]

3 hours ago, SharpeXB said:

 

I’ve never seen this sort of thing happen. Obviously this person has gone into the settings and screwed it all up. Does he have AA switched off? That’s why contacts are disappearing like that. Visibility is very good in this sim by default. He’s blaming RoF which is quite superb as well. 

I hate to point out the obvious but you should really try to get a larger screen with 1080x1920. Much of your trouble is your display. Also screens at this level may not be displaying the full 16.7 million colors. 

So you need to have AA on to not have the planes disappear when they have clouds behind them? That's some baaad engine design.

[SharpeXB]

4 hours ago, LLv34_Temuri said:

So you need to have AA on to not have the planes disappear when they have clouds behind them? That's some baaad engine design.

There is an issue with the clouds that AA won’t function for planes in front of them. Generally you should have AA on though to prevent pieces of aircraft turning into jaggies and vanishing, which is what’s happening there in that video. Also the game just looks terrible. Lower resolution makes having AA set to a high level more important. 

[JG27*Kornezov]

As the community as a whole is getting older and older, making the visibility harder and harder is not going to end well.

[SharpeXB]

18 minutes ago, JG27_Kornezov said:

As the community as a whole is getting older and older, making the visibility harder and harder is not going to end well.

As we get older we just get bigger screens ?

[LLv34_Temuri]

14 hours ago, SharpeXB said:

As we get older we just get bigger screens ?

Hey, I'm already using a 42" TV! ?

 

17 hours ago, SharpeXB said:

There is an issue with the clouds that AA won’t function for planes in front of them. Generally you should have AA on though to prevent pieces of aircraft turning into jaggies and vanishing, which is what’s happening there in that video. Also the game just looks terrible. Lower resolution makes having AA set to a high level more important. 

Using AA makes spotting harder in general, e.g. when spotting a plane against ground. I'd be happy to turn on AA, if the contrast (or whatever it is) between a plane and ground was done more like it's done in War Thunder. And better icons... but I know we already disagree on that

[HHMC.Spanky*]

Anyone have any ideas how to keep the game from crashing on startup with ReShade 4.1.1 installed?  I'm selecting DirectX 10+ when installing.

[1PL-Husar-1Esk]

7 minutes ago, Barley said:

Anyone have any ideas how to keep the game from crashing on startup with ReShade 4.1.1 installed?  I'm selecting DirectX 10+ when installing.

Hmm works well with me

[HHMC.Spanky*]

This worked for me so I figured I'd share it incase anyone else has similar trouble.

 

What it fixed?

IL-2 crashes on startup with ReShade 4.1.1 installed with DirectX 10+.

 

Copied from NuTg's Post on Reddit :(Click here for the original post)

The bold text are changes/additions to the original

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So I had this problem for weeks that my game crashed on launch and or I can't activate "Reshade" effects. So I was looking for a solution. And today, thanks to u/Yui-Kitamura, I found out how to fix it for myself and I think it will help for hopefully everyone who has this problem.

I'll give you few solutions/scenarios:

1. Whenever you install "Reshade" everything works perfectly on any in game display mode (windowed, full-screen windowed, full-screen) you don't need to make any changes.

2. Whenever you install "Reshade" and IL-2 crashes on full-screen, just change your in game display mode to windowed or full-screen windowed.

3. When ever you install "Reshade" and IL-2 crashes on full-screen AND you don't have powerful enough PC to run it on windowed mode. In this case go to the folder where your IL-2.exe is located: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\bin\game" Look for file called "dxgi.dll" and rename it to "d3d11.dll" then launch the game.

4. If you did 3 solution and whenever you try to open "Reshade" in game (Shift + F2) and you can't enable effects, you can only see red box and that's it. Then again go to the folder where your IL-2.exe is located: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\bin\game" And leave "d3d11.dll" renamed, but also rename file called "dxgi.ini" to "d3d11.ini" and then launch the game.

 

The first time through (after the above fixes to #4) I was able to get all the way to clicking "Start Mission" and then it crashed again.  I realized I had turned off Antialiasing.  Once I turned it back "on" everything worked great.

[Jorge_S]

There's a need to a setting that is between the full realism "you can't see sh#&" and you have full awareness of target including what the pilot had for breakfast.

 

Something like a small gray dot that's only on your field of view and is not giving any info.

 

EDIT: Reducing resolution really helps. I think it completely fixed my issues, I can now see around 3 km

Edited April 8, 2019 by Jorge_S

[=GW=seaflanker819]

On 2/13/2019 at 9:52 AM, HHMC.Spanky* said:

This worked for me so I figured I'd share it incase anyone else has similar trouble.

 

What it fixed?

IL-2 crashes on startup with ReShade 4.1.1 installed with DirectX 10+.

 

Copied from NuTg's Post on Reddit :(Click here for the original post)

The bold text are changes/additions to the original

 

The first time through (after the above fixes to #4) I was able to get all the way to clicking "Start Mission" and then it crashed again.  I realized I had turned off Antialiasing.  Once I turned it back "on" everything worked great.

but I turn off AA reshade still wont  work...

 

[HHMC.Spanky*]

Seaflanker,

Make sure you follow all 4 steps and turn AA back "on". 

 

"The first time through (after the above fixes to #4) I was able to get all the way to clicking "Start Mission" and then it crashed again.  I realized I had turned off Antialiasing.  Once I turned it back "on" everything worked great."