Yeah, I was in that fight, too. Covering I13 at 10 angels in a Spit I when we spotted 4 or 5 110's approaching from the east at about 5 angels. As I closed on them from the north my fps abruptly dropped from 95 down to 1. This slideshow occurred for all POV and persisted continuously while in the proximity of the 110's. Couldn't get a shot off, but clearly at least one 110 was not as badly affected since the radar towers at I12 were destroyed. I also received fire from a 110 while I remained stuck in this 1 fps slideshow and baled out of my aircraft. A very unfortunate glitch in the game.

While using the FMB, if you change time of day (say 1:00PM to 3:00AM), the game will freeze solid once you zoom in far enough to see the change - when the terrain colors change to reflect the amount of lack of sun light. Did this 5 times in a row, and results in a complete freeze every time.

The mission has run way lights in it, if that makes a difference.

Edit: To test. Zoom all the way in on the top down view while in the FMB. Go to mission parameters and change time of day. Instant freeze every time for me.

Sad
 

Instead of fixing issues the devs choose to take away from the game. I guess that's the Russian way? Take the easy way out and don't focus on optimizing the existing engine. Lets just take content away instead and mask the issues. As the devs say dont let that retail Alpha release hit you in the ass on your way out as they roll around in all our money. :/

Really.......
 

Was not my intention for this post to become an example for disgruntled "Sim pilots"... but that's inevitable...

More to point out something we need back in the Sim...

I am sure they did this to help frames... hope it is a temporary removal...

It's more of a funny ha ha with truth to it. This proves there engine is far from being optimized. No matter what patch they implement there is the horrid large amount of frames per second drop. Check this out!

BLACK DEATH 4.7GHz, 16GB RAM, GTX 680 4GB
NVIDIA System Information report created on: 08/11/2012 15:36:51
System name: STATIC-PC

[Display]
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit (Service Pack 1)
DirectX version: 11.0
GPU processor: GeForce GTX 680
Driver version: 305.53
DirectX support: 11.1
CUDA Cores: 1536
Core clock: 1006 MHz
Memory data rate: 6008 MHz
Memory interface: 256-bit
Total available graphics memory: 12005 MB
Dedicated video memory: 4096 MB GDDR5
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 7909 MB
Video BIOS version: 80.04.09.00.E4
IRQ: 32
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen3

----2x SSAO------------------------
Medium:
Avg- 100
Max- 223
*Min- 29 - choppy as hell and should not be at 29 fps
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High:
Avg- 69
Max- 177
*Min- 24
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Very High:
Avg- 61
Max-149
*Min-10 it should be choppy at these fps
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I really don't think I can build a much better computer than I already have. The game engine is jacked and whom ever coded the engine needs to revisit the Dev school again. What happend to the damn optimizers and testers? A public Alpha would of saved this game, I mean one that was released before the retail copies hit the market.

RIP IL2 COD Best of luck on the Russian Front with the same game engine.

I think most who folks around the forum are extremely dissapointed with the " Shell" game the devs have used under the guise of optimization. The fact is if you have to omit features or turn them off to get better frame rates and smoother game play , this cannot be defined as improvement. If fact go back to the last " official " path and compare the cockpits. This most recent " beta"patch further washes out the coloring and reduced the 3D look of the entire cockpit. The spinning prop is cartoonish, in certian lighting you barely see thru it. In addition ,I should not be able to distinguish my wingmans " spinning" prop thru my canopy from 100 yard distance, any distance for that matter. When dust, fire, and/or smoke are present the frame rates drop further than the previously released beta. Using the original release as the bench mark, the net improvement is non existant, 18 months from the release.

aside from the occasional cockpit view forced from front zoom view to close up revi sight
view and head slam movement to close up, I'm liking this version keep going.

A+

Totally Agree.
What's next?
Turn everything to Black and White for a
"better" frame rate?

Maybe, they should have gone this route?
With the old game engine....and where we are now?
We could have been, a year ago.

i have a similar problem when i close in the 110 online. offline it work great.
no matter if its 1 or 10 110 online, when i close in and the detailed model load the frame drops to a slideshow. the stranfe thing is that it onbly happen with that aircraft.