What Graphics Settings do you use for TC and why?

[ShampooX]

Here's what I'm running and I kind of like it, but wonder if there might be better ideas among the crew.  I'm not a terribly tech savvy guy I have a decent gaming computer but nothing super high powered.  So my "why" is "I really don't know."  I've searched a bit on the forums but it's mainly to do with flying set ups.

 

Base config: ULTRA

Screen res: 2560x1440

Shadows : High

Mirrors: Simple

Distant Landscape X3

Canopy: Off

Horizon Draw: 70KM

Landscape Filter: Sharp

Terrain Roughness: Medium

Grass Quality: Ultra

Clouds Quality: Medium

Antialiasing Type: FXAA

Target FPS: 60

Dynamic Resolution: 0.9

Antialiasing: 4

Gamma Correction: 1

 

Right Side Checkmarks: Fullscreen, SSAO, HDR, 

 

What can be done better?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 11, 2021 by ShampooActual

[NoelGallagher]

2 hours ago, ShampooActual said:

Here's what I'm running and I kind of like it, but wonder if there might be better ideas among the crew.  I'm not a terribly tech savvy guy I have a decent gaming computer but nothing super high powered.  So my "why" is "I really don't know."  I've searched a bit on the forums but it's mainly to do with flying set ups.

 

Base config: ULTRA

Screen res: 2560x1440

Shadows : High

Mirrors: Simple

Distant Landscape X3

Canopy: Off

Horizon Draw: 70KM

Landscape Filter: Sharp

Terrain Roughness: Medium

Grass Quality: Ultra

Clouds Quality: Medium

Antialiasing Type: FXAA

Target FPS: 60

Dynamic Resolution: 0.9

Antialiasing: 4

Gamma Correction: 1

 

Right Side Checkmarks: Fullscreen, SSAO, HDR, 

 

What can be done better?

 

 

shadow:there's no performance difference especially if you are on the ground

so turn it in to ultra 

it maeks the shadow looks a tiny bit better

but why not since hit doens't cost any performance 

 

Anti alising:if you have enough fps to spare 

then use MSAA with 4 

it definitely improve the image quality quite a lot

 

there was noticeable differenc for me when i turned off the target fps option or set it to 80

setting it to 60 and 80 makes the difference of how smooth game feels

some people who have 144hz mornitor might feel the diffference between 80 to 144 also

even tho i have 60hz mornitor i could feel the difference idk why 

and that dynamic resolution thing doesn't help me to gain any fps at all in both tanking and flying situation

 

gamma correction: i set it to 0.9 it makes you spot the target better 

 

on right side check boxes

 

check the "sharpen" and "4k skin option" and turn both on

especially the "sharpen" it sharpen the image thus make the image look more crispier(without any performance cost)

also it helps to identify the long distant target better

[SCG_judgedeath3]

I just play with default settings and graphics to max on everything. 

[Frinik22]

Usually for most games I play , for example Arma3, they recommend turning down draw distance as it consumes a lot of resources both graphic and cpu and lowers your fps. Why do you need a horizon draw of 70 klicks and and distant lanscapes X 3? This makes sense if you are playing the aircraft sim version of IL2 but as a tank commandant do you need to see that far ? You would probably benefit by turning down horizon draw to 20 kilometres and distant landscape to X 1 or X 2. This game was basically designed around aircraft simulation and I think it suffers from it when they created Tank Crew out of it.

Edited November 11, 2021 by Frinik22

[Na-zdorovie]

max on everything, don't think there's a need to bother ticking 4k textures as they are all in game now, only a few planes not in i think

[[KG]Destaex]

What I do find is that sometimes my tanks look great and other times they look very flat. I am not sure whether it is dependent on the map or the lighting in a given area. I have had a sneaking suspicion that the game sometimes draws the tanks like they are ground objects for aircraft looking from 2km up in the air.

The tanks can look very dated and flat or they can look amazing, like perfectly painted models. Regardless you must be careful when testing your graphics that you are consistent with regard to where, when, time of day etc.

Edited November 12, 2021 by [KG]Destaex

[JV44HeinzBar]

S!,

I don't really pay much attention to the graphics settings in TC. I'm fortunate enough to run TC maxxed out (see my signature for rig specs). The only thing would be to turn down grass to zero. However, I don't do that as I feel like I'm cheating when there is no grass on the fields. It may help you spot enemy tanks, AT guns, etc., but it still feels like a cheat to me.

 

HB

[[KG]Destaex]

9 minutes ago, JV44HeinzBar said:

S!,

I don't really pay much attention to the graphics settings in TC. I'm fortunate enough to run TC maxxed out (see my signature for rig specs). The only thing would be to turn down grass to zero. However, I don't do that as I feel like I'm cheating when there is no grass on the fields. It may help you spot enemy tanks, AT guns, etc., but it still feels like a cheat to me.

 

HB

There must be honour among Tankers. I do NOT turn the grass off. This is not war thunder or world of tanks. We should be a cut above as simmers. Kills are not simulation.

[NoelGallagher]

7 hours ago, [KG]Destaex said:

What I do find is that sometimes my tanks look great and other times they look very flat. I am not sure whether it is dependent on the map or the lighting in a given area. I have had a sneaking suspicion that the game sometimes draws the tanks like they are ground objects for aircraft looking from 2km up in the air.

The tanks can look very dated and flat or they can look amazing, like perfectly painted models. Regardless you must be careful when testing your graphics that you are consistent with regard to where, when, time of day etc.

every map in the game has it's own unique lighting 

if you look carefully it's all different even if you set the time and weather same

for ex:lapino sumemr has different lighting than prokhorovka summer and so on

and usually the object looks a bit flat in shadow

il-2 has a bit of outdated lighting engine for the time 

DCS did incredible job when it comes down to lighting 

so whenever i play il-2 it looks great and beautiful

but if i play il-2 after playing DCS it looks ugly 

it's a tricky thing hahahahaha?

Edited November 12, 2021 by NoelGallagher

[[KG]Destaex]

Hard to beat DCS. I get a much more realistic feeling of floating in the actual air when I play it. Just as good as MS flight sims latest for me.

[SCG_judgedeath3]

Would argue to turn off grass and render distance is cheating, seeing tanks or anti tank guns thats well hidden else is just bad. Hence a reason I prefer playing on private server where all players taking part has same settings and rules to follow.

[[KG]Destaex]

Can the server force the setting?

[SCG_judgedeath3]

To a degree but I play with people I know and is seeking same hardcore immersion as myself and in photos afterwards from each player control if needed.

[MajorMagee]

Here's what I'm using from the startup.cfg file.

 

[KEY = graphics]
    3dhud = 0
    adapter = 0
    bloom_enable = 1
    canopy_ref = 0
    desktop_center = 1
    detail_rt_res = 4096
    draw_distance = 1.00000
    far_blocks = 0
    fps_counter = 1
    fps_limit = 0
    full_height = 1440
    full_width = 3440
    fullscreen = 1
    gamma = 1.00000
    grass_distance = 300.00000
    hdr_enable = 1
    land_anisotropy = 2
    land_detail = 0
    land_tex_lods = 3
    max_cache_res = 1
    max_clouds_quality = 2
    mgpu_compatible = 0
    mirrors = 0
    msaa = 1
    multisampling = 1
    or_ca = 0.00000
    or_dummy = 0
    or_enable = 0
    post_sharpen = 0
    preset = 2
    prop_blur_max_rpm_for_vr = 155
    rescale_target = 1.00000
    shadows_quality = 4
    ssao_enable = 1
    vsync = 0
    win_height = 1440
    win_width = 3440
[END]

 

This has draw_distance at 1 (150 km) because I've tried lesser values without gaining any FPS, and it seems to prevent seeing the odd bit of something floating in the air at the horizon when I crest a hill with a long vista in front of me.

Distant buildings are turned off.

I don't care to see grass magically sprouting up in front of me as I drive forward so I push the rendering distance out as far as possible. Using grass_distance >300 causes graphics problems like objects floating above the surface, and flickering bushes so that's as far as we can go with it. Turning the grass off makes the whole sim experience feel like I'm back in the 90s again.

Mirrors are off, because well, I'm in a tank!

I keep the MSAA setting low to maintain a decent FPS without stutters.

I don't use sharpening because it makes the annoying texture shimmering look even worse.

 

[Voidhunger]

roughness to low, everything else to max

[No_Face]

[Hummel99]

Außer Schatten alles Ultra.

[ShampooX]

On 11/12/2021 at 1:31 AM, SCG_judgedeath3 said:

Would argue to turn off grass and render distance is cheating, seeing tanks or anti tank guns thats well hidden else is just bad. Hence a reason I prefer playing on private server where all players taking part has same settings and rules to follow.

We seem to be having some of that "low graphic setting" virus going around Finnish at the moment.  I might explore starting my own server if those settings can be pre-set.

 

Thanks Judge.

Edited November 15, 2021 by ShampooActual

[Voidhunger]

but remembering my old GPU GTX980 with grass on ultra, well it was warm in winter

[Frinik22]

I play with an Acer Predator GX 792 gaming laptop with a GTX 1080 M ( which offers 95% of the graphic capacity of a desktop 1080), 32Gb of ddr4 3200 RAM and an intel i7 7700HQ 2.8ghz cpu which can be overclocked to 3.1 ghz. I can play pretty much all current and recent AAA games maxed out including BF4, V and BF1, AC Odyssey, Arma 3, Far Cry 5, Hell Let Loose, Forza Horizon 4, Hunter Call of the Wild and Hitman 2.  I can play TC at ultra no sweat.

[TheIL-2Thunder]

I have an i7-6700 CPU, AMD Radeon RX480 8GB VRAM GPU and 16GB RAM. For me the game runs bad and also it have a very annoying screen flickering... Any recommendation?

Edited November 29, 2021 by TheIL-2Thunder

[JV44HeinzBar]

1 hour ago, TheIL-2Thunder said:

I have an i7-6700 CPU, AMD Radeon RX480 8GB VRAM GPU and 16GB DDR5 RAM. For me the game runs bad and also it have a very annoying screen flickering... Any recommendation?

S!,

What settings are you using in the sim? Not trying to be ugly, but if you're trying to run ultra, you're probably punching above your weight class with that rig. Without knowing your settings, set everything to minimum, and then try increase settings 1 at a time. Be sure to use the FPS counter in the game (backspace key, I think).

 

HB

[moustache]

Personally, I used Dynamic Super Resolution (native resolution X3), and the result is better than if I put the anti-alliasing factor to the max ... it's great against flickering