performance wise

performance wise...and not only for slower machines (I have i7 3.6 Ghz and GTX 660Ti 2GB). So when I did that all the pauses (during explosion effect) or sometimes during flybys are gone...and game is smooth as butter. SSAO is a resource hog in ROF too, but there it can be disabled within the game GUI (video/graphics settings). For those who dont know, currently, in BOS, inside the game, it can be set only to low. But you can turn SSAO off via startup file (config file). To do that go to data folder which is located inside the game folder:

\1C Game Studios\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data\

There scroll down till you reach startup.cfg file....open the file with notepad (right click on the startup file; open with notepad)...Then inside that file, scroll down till you reach ssao_res and ssao_samples entries. Set both to 0. So you will have:

ssao_res = 0

ssao_samples = 0

Then, save the startup file. You must do this after every update. And if you go (afterwards) to the graphic settings within the game the SSAO entries will reset to old values. So youll have SSAO ON again. Hopefuly turning off SSAO would be possible within the game gui in final version of BOS.

performance wise