[2021] No explosions, smoke, etc.

Hi!

Sadly your GPU is way below minimum spec for GPU for War Thunder.

Video Card:

DirectX 10.1 level video card:

Intel HD Graphics 5100



AMD Radeon 77XX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660.

The minimum supported resolution for the game is 720p.

Sadly HD5770 is also below minimum specs.

I guess game modes uses different things to render smoke. I am not familiar with picture renders, so it's my wild guess.