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I am going to butcher another Logitech and remove the IR filter I think.
Just to see if I can get the thing to work  |
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Which webcam are you using Mdds and what resolution have you got it set at?
I have another Logitech coming that I am going to modify and see if it will work any better. |
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I have modified my webcam (removed the IR filter) and it seems to work a bit better though my frame rates in online play are still very bad and too low to be playable.
I couldn't find any slide film to make a filter from so I used photo negative, I am not sure if that is ok though? For some strange reason I can now only get 30fps from the webcam if I reduce the resolution to 240x180. I think I will have to wait until I can upgrade before FreeTrack will work online because my pc is just too slow to handle FreeTrack and IL2 at the same time.  |
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The photo negative works great as visible light filter, you'll just need to use two layers of it. And if you want even better filter, find a floppy disk and rip its case apart - the magnetic disk itself makes a great filter (maybe even a bit too good
 ) With that and a modified cam, freetrack should work smoothly even in a brightly lit room I'm using a labtec webcam pro - 320x240, 30FPS and 3% CPU usage max (when freetrack is minimized). It worked with IR LEDs and visible light filter even before modifications, but i had to cut the leds flat and put quite a high current trough them - so the battery didn't last very long. For the low framerate, did you disable the auto exposure setting in your webacm setup and reduce exposure to 1/33 second or even less? |
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It sounds like WillEyedOney has a case of Logitechosis.
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Sadly I think that you are correct. I have chatted with a friend on another forum and he said that his pc was the same, with low fps, until he upgraded to a new dual core cpu. Unless I can find another very cheap webcam to use I will just have to wait until I upgrade too. The low frame rate is in the game, not with Freetrack. IL2 runs like a pig when I go online using FreeTrack. FreeTrack itself is always running at about 30fps with no jitter. |
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A cpu efficient webcam is a lot cheaper than a new computer.
 Use a webcam resolution of 160x120 to minimize cpu usage. |
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