Video and Sound Settings

[LukeFF]

Please post any issues about video and sound settings here. Please note this topic is strictly for bug reports. Any off-topic banter will be removed at our discretion. Thank you!

[IRRE_Axurit]

It's not exactly a bug, but the flickering effect is really unpleasant; it's very hard on the eyes and feels unnatural.

 

 

[gorzasty]

I don't know why my Il2 Korea has inactive upscaling option in the settings menu. It is greyed out. Any other game works ok with dlss on my computer. I play OpenXR with quest 3. What can I do to set this option to dlss?  

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Edited Thursday at 05:51 PM by gorzasty
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[ChickenWings]

Upon launching the game, all graphics settings are reset to default/benchmark settings.

[Blooddawn1942]

I had this too. Starting the launcher in admin mode seems to have solved that issue for me. 

[enyak]

Found out something by enabling the registry tweak to display the DLSS model. It defaults to transformer v2 model (DLSS 4) - model preset M. While this model provides a lot of quality upscaling from low resolutions, it is also VERY heavy on anything but the latest RTX 5x class cards. This explains why DLSS provides a lot of image quality but less than expected performance improvements.

Fortunately it should be relatively easy to use something like nvidia profile inspector revamped to switch to profile K/J or something older (CNN) even.

I just tried it out going from profile M -> K.

5120x2160 DLSS Quality (default) Model M: 57fps

5120x2160 DLSS Quality (default) Model K: 65fps

It would be nice for there to be an ingame option to be able to switch DLSS models: CNN, Transformer 1, Transformer 2.

[robzerg]

I think the upscaling might just be for flat 2d monitors... I guess this is replaced by the 'VR Resolution Factor' but it doesn't say whether any upscaling tech is used for this (such as DLSS or FSR).

[ema33ig]

After installing the latest Nvidia driver, I was able to enable DLSS in the game.

[MoleUK]

Definitely needs an option to toggle between versions. Or just a config file to point the game towards which version you want.

Running the L and M presets on a 3000 tier GPU is really best avoided.

[Senor_Jefe]

5 hours ago, enyak said:

Found out something by enabling the registry tweak to display the DLSS model. It defaults to transformer v2 model (DLSS 4) - model preset M. While this model provides a lot of quality upscaling from low resolutions, it is also VERY heavy on anything but the latest RTX 5x class cards. This explains why DLSS provides a lot of image quality but less than expected performance improvements.

Fortunately it should be relatively easy to use something like nvidia profile inspector revamped to switch to profile K/J or something older (CNN) even.

I just tried it out going from profile M -> K.

5120x2160 DLSS Quality (default) Model M: 57fps

5120x2160 DLSS Quality (default) Model K: 65fps

It would be nice for there to be an ingame option to be able to switch DLSS models: CNN, Transformer 1, Transformer 2.

Can you provide instructions on how to most easily make this switch?  I'm having a heck of a time using DLSS Swapper to try to get it done (just isn't working for me), and of course IL2 has never been supported in the Nvidia app to do it there.

[Donik]

Why aren't you guys just using the NVIDIA app? It seems to be supported just fine if you manually add the EXE.

Edited Friday at 04:31 PM by Donik

[Senor_Jefe]

7 minutes ago, Donik said:

Why aren't you guys just using the NVIDIA app? It seems to be supported just fine if you manually add the EXE.

Have you confirmed in-game that it's actually using your preset?

[Donik]

I couldn't get the NVIDIA overlay to acknowledge what model was being used. Confirmed via DLSS Swapper on screen indicator it was using M. =/

Was able to force L with DLSS Swapper at least.

[derrick263]

I'm not sure if this is common knowledge, but my installation on a DELL G16 gaming laptop defaulted to using the low-power Intel graphics chip when I started the game. The mouse was choppy and the game unplayable. I checked Task Manager and saw that the RTX4070 wasn't being used, so I went into Settings > Gaming > Game Mode > Graphics. There I added the IL2 game EXE file name (check task manager to be sure which EXE is running with the game) and then set it to always use your gaming video card. This is probably only an issue on gaming laptops with dual video cards. Now it's time to learn to fly this thing.

[MoleUK]

On 6/26/2026 at 6:47 PM, Donik said:

I couldn't get the NVIDIA overlay to acknowledge what model was being used. Confirmed via DLSS Swapper on screen indicator it was using M. =/

Was able to force L with DLSS Swapper at least.

I was able to use DLSS tweaks to switch to preset J. But the games anti-cheat flags DLSStweaks so you can't use it while flying on any MP server that has anticheat enabled.

Will try using DLSS swapper instead.