Beta Patch – and we mean BETA!

[Flanker35M]

S!

You can make a back-up of the game in Steam. OR you can first extract the patch in a folder, check which files/folders it has and copy originals to a safe place :)

[plokkum]

I run a

QX6800
8GB RAM.
XFX 8800GTX

Never had any trouble running any game on maxed out settings, but Il-2 COD runs at an awful 2 to 5 frames per second. Even though I'm above the recommended specs. The beta patch didn't fix anything for me.

It's so unplayable I'm going to put my CH-joystick setup back in the closet until everything is fixed. I'm thankful for 1C releasing COD, though. Let's just iron out those bugs (of which I didn't know until I bought the game).

[dragon9]

Firstly only getting a slight inprovement in fps up high but at ground level there is still stuttering in graphics. My settings are 1680x1050 at medium settings.The game is playable but needs further improvement.

My main concern atm is Multiplayer I had it working fine until the patch. We do not have a Menu anymore to change planes and spawn new aircraft.Once i get in on the mission i can only look from the outside. I can not spawn in any aircraft.

my specs
windows 7 64bit home premium
intel dual core 6850
4 gb ram
gigabyte nvidia 560 TI 1gb ram
xfx 680 lt motherboard

thanks and goodluck with the next patch

[Ali Fish]

a possible point to note : whilst iam applying this patch for testing iam noticing that within steam, IL2 is "always" reverting back to the keep me updated setting, every time i set it & launch the game & exit i have to reset it again. on many occasions i have noticed the small steam box "steam has finished updating IL2. im sure this is causing some anomolies when testing.

[minus10]

a possible point to note : whilst iam applying this patch for testing iam noticing that within steam, IL2 is "always" reverting back to the keep me updated setting, every time i set it & launch the game & exit i have to reset it again. on many occasions i have noticed the small steam box "steam has finished updating IL2. im sure this is causing some anomolies when testing.

I noticed the same. At least the Cloud setting stays as you set it, i.e. off. The idea of having two rigs running CoD and sharing a config is amusing.

[Hatch]

Wouldn't it be of more use to accompany your findings with a log file like this?

http://forums.techarena.in/windows-software/1111018.htm

Might make it easier to compile statistics.

[ZaltysZ]

My main concern atm is Multiplayer I had it working fine until the patch. We do not have a Menu anymore to change planes and spawn new aircraft.Once i get in on the mission i can only look from the outside. I can not spawn in any aircraft.

Click small icons on map. Create/select planes commands are accessible through them.

[adonys]

Before installing the patch, a question: Can it be uninstalled if things get worse? How do I uninstall it?

Use JSGME (http://www.users.on.net/~jscones/software/products-jsgme.html). There are a few utils all gamers should know about and use. This is one of the most important of them.

[BigPickle]

right click on your game in steam-select properties-select update and click on verify game cache. It will revert it back to original game.

When offical patch comes out its signed so you wont be able to revert this way.

[meltac]

the new beta-patch very slightly improved my performance ingame.
Nevertheless i get very good fps rates in all situations:

config:

AMD Phenom II X4 955 3,2GHz
4GB RAM
Asus HD6950 2GB RAM

Game config:

anti-aliasing: 8x
model-detail: full
effects: full
damage-model: full
trees: very low
buildings: few
shadows: off

any other details level on "mid"

resolution: 1440x900

FPS over Water with 12 planes: between 90 and 120

FPS over ground with towns: 50 - 80

well, this is very acceptable for me and i think that it depends to 90% on the graphics card that it is running so well. So as the already mentioned in the manual, that u need the latest hardware by 2011, u mainly need to upgrade ur graphics card to get acceptable playable fps . thats the main spot u should consider.
The game itself is great and evertime i shoot a spit/hurri my breast fills with pride (flying under 95% realistic conditions).

i only can go down on my knees before the 1c team for doing such a great game and i'm sure that it will be better and better with every new patch!

[jt_medina]

Hi

I installed the patch as directed and when I tried to fly a quick mission the game launcher failed and shut the game down.

I was looking forward to trying this out to see if there was an increase in FPS over land but no joy.

1- Remove the con.ini a new one will be created.
2-Go to the graphical configuration, set your graphics settings and leave the game.
3-Go back in again. It worked for me.

[bigchump]

i-7 970, 2xGTX560 270.51, 12gb cheap ram, W7/64U 1680x1050 all settings high except grass=off, building amount=small and forest=low.

Getting a black screen on startup every time. That didn't happen before patch.
Stutters when flying low over ground have gotten worse.

[Wandalen]

Improved game with a 10% fps. More stable and playable.
Still some Loader.exe crash in multiplayer.

[Rigge1988]

No difference for me, still stuttering over land and low fps in general, all medium settings except buildings set to low and trees to very low.

Average fps is about 15.

Specs: i7-920 @ 2.80ghz, 6gb ram, s-ata2 HDD, ATi Radeon HD5770 1gb GDDR5, W7 64x Ultimate.

[satan]

i found this map error -sunken rectangle of terrain.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thetinsoldiers/5602021779/lightbox/

[jf1981]

Hi

No significant improvement of FPS.

Rather looks like the graphic card is not really used cause my spec is quite high,
NVidia GTX 260
AMD Phenom 4 core
4 Gb Ram

[Osprey]

I'm confused. I've updated via Steam and my game version is now 1.00.13954
This appears to be later than the advertised patch. Is this correct or should I be downloading and running the patch??

[Sauf]

I'm confused. I've updated via Steam and my game version is now 1.00.13954
This appears to be later than the advertised patch. Is this correct or should I be downloading and running the patch??

1.00.13954 is the correct one mate, it was auto updated via steam overwriting the beta patch which was a manual install to test for bugs.

[klem]

i-7 970, 2xGTX560 270.51, 12gb cheap ram, W7/64U 1680x1050 all settings high except grass=off, building amount=small and forest=low.

Getting a black screen on startup every time. That didn't happen before patch.
Stutters when flying low over ground have gotten worse.

I heard that if you click on the opening 'cross-hair' screen it will prevent the black screen.

[Osprey]

1.00.13954 is the correct one mate, it was auto updated via steam overwriting the beta patch which was a manual install to test for bugs.

Thanks mate

[matsher]

Hi guys,

The new patch had some interesting results.

Overall -
1. far less stuttering but still there every +-12 - 20sec - Plays a bit Smoother
2. Bullet splashes on water/ground no longer effect fps (before patch splashes would make fps 0-1) so good improvement there.
2. Smoke still crushes FPS to 3-4 fps for a few seconds
3. COD is now crashing/freezing forcing restart... Sometimes it crashes the whole PC - Very bad... It can't run even for an hour - mostly less till crash/freeze
4. Noticable difference between cockpit on and cockpit off +/- 4-5 fps in wonderview.
5. I loaded up Calais dog fight and Dover dogfight Quick missions, both couldn't do more than 1 fps - on 1280x960 (Med - low settings settings- no grass, Very low trees, low building, med land shading, Model high, effects med etc

Its a step in the right direction - but still a ways to go yet. Thanks for the effort.


BEFORE PATCH
Trying to fly over channel 2v2 or 1v2 spit v 109
1680x1080 (native res) - Grass off - trees off- roads off- all ground details lowest. Model High, damage med effects: high
average:8fps or so cockpit off: 9-10fps
Major stutters and slow downs.
Coudn't fly over land at all - average: 3-5fps in 1st training mission.

AFTER NEWEST PATCH 1.03954
Far less stutter - almost playable over water average 10-11 fps
with cockpit off - about 14-18fps
Now can go over land but still not good 8-11 fps

Lowered my res to 1280x960 and can actually fight over water. YAY!
Still big stuttered but not so frequent. I also increased my setting a little bit.
Over land between 6-19 fps up and down a lot (Freeflight)
Tried calais and Dover dogfight missions - 1 fps for both in cockpit :(

PC:
Win XP SP3 - DX9
Mobo: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe
CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 955BE - 3.2
GPU: Nvid 260 GTX - 896mb
Ram: 3gb DDR2 667 (In Game only uses 1.6gb RAM - Also running the pc as well - it that important???)
HD: 200gb - 7200rpm (Its quite full - maybe 15gb free space)

[bob_baer]

It seems the little map is not working. Will you put a plane manual on line or it's not in your plan?
Thanks

[wedmonds]

Since the patch I have keys stopping working.
I get purple sea at times when I never had this before the patch
I get hangs on the graphics but continue to hear the sounds as if the game is still playing.
On occasion the game freezes and I lose keyboard and mouse functions and power!. Reboot required. (does not sound like it would be the game but it has not happend on anything else but this game so I have added it)

* graphics were pretty darn good before patch and the FPS were fine so dont have anything to compare against to show if there is improvement.

[Bang0o]

after the patch game does not start anymore

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Intel C2Q 9550
4 GB DDR2 Ram
ATI HD4890 (latest drivers installed)
Resolution: 2048x1152

[Raggz]

after the patch game does not start anymore

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Intel C2Q 9550
4 GB DDR2 Ram
ATI HD4890 (latest drivers installed)
Resolution: 2048x1152

Well, that might be that this thread is dead old and if you downloaded THIS beta patch, then you got an old one. Wake up :P

[wolf74]

With new beta patch, I have a degrade in fps, about 5-10 fps without cloud (in free flight quick mission) and a major fps hit (10-15) with more clouds, in particoular in quick mission "british attack - bridge" and "british attack - column". Stutter is the same, still present but playable.
My PC:
Intel Q6600@3,2 Ghz
MB Asus P5K
GeForce GTX275 968MB
RAM DDR2 4GB
Audio Card: Xonar DX
Resolution 1920*1080

Game config:
terrain: high
forest: low
damage decal: high
model: high
building detail: very low
building number: low
texture: high
AA: 2x
full screen
terrain shadow: medium
shadow: no
street: yes
grass: yes
Ciao.

[Cataplasma]

...still no SLI support, why?


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asus INTEL Core i7 930
patriot DDR3 1600MHz 6GB(3x2Gb) Viper II 8-8-8
asus ENGTX470 1280MB GDDR5 Dual SLI
seagate Barracuda 1.5TB SATA2 32MB
microsoft Windows 7 Home Prem 64bit
acer GD245HQ 24" HD 1920x1080 3D 120Hz 2ms 80000:1
nvidia 3D vision bundle

[mazex]

Take this thread out behind a shed and shoot it. It's really confusing as it's about a patch that is months old...

[Cataplasma]

Take this thread out behind a shed and shoot it. It's really confusing as it's about a patch that is months old...


this is the right thread...
Old beta, new beta...it doesn't matter!
we all mean "beta"!

[Cataplasma]

you just have to say "beta" and be happy!

[Vengeanze]

I was insanely happy for about 23 seconds.

Friggin newbees.

[Bobb4]

Can an admin PLEASE remove this thread..................;)