Hi,
in fact this happened, i did not hear a boom. Well, if it is a direct hit, I think lights go out instantly.... not being able to hear this "boom". :)

Yes, its hard to hear the boom when your ears are blown out of the cockpit :)

THIS is fascinating. That is exactly the sort of code that comes out of just flailing your fingers on the keyboard like so:

asdflkjasdfkljasdlfkjasdlkfj

Obviously no one actually typed that in during the game. It has to be somewhere in the code.

Placeholder data? Deliberate sabotage!?

Let the conspircy theorism begin!

No, lets not. If its a bug, the devs will hopefully squash it.

Hi Baron
Got the beta patch 17582 working now, thanks to your advice. Deleting the conf.ini in the SoftClub folder as you suggested, did the trick.
Starting the game after extracting the patch till thusfar ended in CTD, although I observed the instructions given on this Forum meticulous. Verifying the integrety of the game cache via Steam; deleting the cache folder in 1C softclub etc. I did it all but evidently this was not sufficient in my case. Now thanks to your addition the patch struck home and I got the red square after starting up the game.
I thank you very much, Baron. You made my day.

Salut!
Lookaloft

I said the error was like that, just random digits and letters. That isn't a copy paste. ;)

Lol, okay.

I'm so used to everyone being super specific about their bug reports now :P

Conspiricists! Stand down!

NP, glad it worked :)

Another finding

Flying 109 get easy in spin and is very hard to recover from spin.
Overdone I would say.

Worse than pre-patch for me
 

Well, I get excruciatingly slow framerates when other aircraft are near.
It's worse than it ever was in that respect. Even after deletion and complete Steam restore + patch + hotfix + cache delete + AMD driver update.

56RAF_phoenix

Q9550 @ stock 2.83 Ghz
5 GB RAM
AMD 6970 2GB (well, a 6950 flashed into a 6970)
SSD