I see,
yeah the CPU and Graphic cards are the bottlenecks when it comes to the smoke particles.
I used to have a 3ghz, 1 gb ram and Geforce 5700LE 256mb
ran IL2 well, thought I didn't had much trouble with smoke stacks from ships but when a big bomb or lots of bomb dropped and I was closeby looking at it...it didn't handle that well either due the smoke it generated.
so if you join us we'll keep in mind not to drop those big bombs that cause a mushroom cloud of smoke...it'll probally cause your system to blow up
HunterICX