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Welcome to Stalingrad, comrade. You've stepped into an very mature and difficult game. Luckily the community is very helpful, but not so much on the reddit forums. The game is DX9, which in layman's terms means that it's very CPU dependent game. You have an AMD CPU which the game is not optimized for; hence your fps issues. You can still try to adjust some settings to get better FPS though:
 
My recommendation:
Go to Options->
Camera->
uncheck cinematic view (will get rid of motion blur)
 
Go to Options->
Graphics->
Attempt to keep your resolution at 1080p (Don't go higher, as you won't be able to see targets at distance as well because they're smaller on your screen)
Uncheck SSO
Uncheck HDR
Distant Landscape Detail x1 (Experiment here as it'll allow you to see ground targets farther way, but also gives a hit to FPS at lower altitudes.)
Vync OFF (Unless you have screen tearing)
FPS Limiter NONE (Unless you have screen tearing)
 
This should help you with your FPS issues, ^^hopefully.
 
 
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If you'd like to fly together with others, join the official teamspeak for BoS. That info is here: http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/4802-official-teamspeak-server-bos-mp-now/
 
I also recommend you read Chuck's aircraft guide to help you get familiar with the planes:
https://drive.google.com/a/poteetisd.org/file/d/0B-uSpZROuEd3WV9zRFRwMDJVWGc/view
 
You can also watch Requiem's Air Combat Tutorials here:
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAirCombatTutorialLibrary?gvnc=1
 
And since you're just starting out (I'm assuming you've never flown before because you just purchased this game, so take the below advice with as much salt as necessary), I recommend the more user friendly German planes... Having said that, the Russians need many more pilots, and I feel it's more rewarding to shoot down a German plane in the less friendly Russian planes. I personally fly the Lagg3, and IL2 the most. Either choice, German or Russian, be prepared to be shot down a lot before you make a "kill". The game is rewarding when you make it home alive after a successful sortie, not how great your KDR is.
 
As you increase in skill, you should join the flight nights. They are missions created by the community. They're much harder to fly because you have to stick with your wingmen, there's no map icons (or icons period), and you're given a task by your commander to complete for the week. You also only have one virtual life (for the week), and a limited number of planes. The cool thing about the Flight Nights is your success or failure determines how the next week's mission will go. Additionally, there are no AI planes, even though you're flying coop with your mates. The enemy planes are other players of various skill levels just like you and me. If I were to compare the Flight Nights with something, it would be similar to poker night with you and your buds, but virtually... and with planes.
Here's Friday Night Bomber Flights:
http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/23544-friday-night-bomber-flight-topic-temporal/
And Saturday Night Bomber Flights:
http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/20918-saturday-night-bombers-flight /
 
 
Good luck out there comrade!
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If you're interested in the history of the Eastern Front here are some reading suggestions -
Various Planes of the Eastern Front:
http://kplanes.tumblr.com/post/141672701850/k-planes-episode-96-barbarossa?is_related_post=1
 
The Yak's History:
http://kplanes.tumblr.com/post/108267224620/k-planes-episode-15-yakkity-yak?is_related_post=1
 
Various counts of the Eastern Front in English:
http://iremember.ru/en/
 
Kolyadin Victor Ivanovich:
http://iremember.ru/en/memoirs/airmen/kolyadin-victor-ivanovich/
 
Red Star Against Swastika (a great book!)
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Star-Against-Swastika-Eastern/dp/1853676497
Seems like it's too long, so I'll split it up in two here:
General accounts:
When Titans Clashed
Russia at War
Thunder in the East
Absolute War
Hitler's War in the East
The Road to Stalingrad
The Road to Berlin
A Writer at War
THE ROLE OF THE SOVIET UNION IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A Re-examination
Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought: The Red Army's Military Effectiveness in World War II
If you're interested in memoirs I'd suggest:
Blood on the Shores
Over the Abyss
Sniper on the Eastern Front
GUNS AGAINST THE REICH: Memoirs of an Artillery Officer on the Eastern Front
PANZER DESTROYER: Memoirs of a Red Army Tank Commander
Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front, 1942-1945
Red Road From Stalingrad: Recollections Of A Soviet Infantryman
Red Star Against the Swastika: The Story of a Soviet Pilot over the Eastern Front
Penalty Strike: The Memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander, 1943-45
BUT NOT FOR THE FUEHRER
Through Hell for Hitler
A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War : Russia, 1941-1944
Barbarossa:
War Without Garlands: Barbarossa 1941/42
BARBAROSSA DERAILED: THE BATTLE FOR SMOLENSK 10 JULY-10 SEPTEMBER 1941 VOLUME 1: The German Advance, The Encirclement Battle, and the First and Second Soviet Counteroffensives, 10 July-24 August 1941
Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
Kiev 1941
Operation Typhoon: Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941
THE VIAZ'MA CATASTROPHE, 1941: The Red Army's Disastrous Stand against Operation Typhoon
THE DEFENSE OF MOSCOW 1941: The Northern Flank
What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa
War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941
Germany and the Second World War: Volume IV: The Attack on the Soviet Union