It can't be justified in my unqualified view, unless money is no issue of course. It might curtail the odd stutter from loading sounds or textures in game and the game itself loads nice and quickly of course.

If money is an issue there may be better upgrades in the future, as always.

Happy shopping :)

He may as well just partition his HDD and it will do the same thing. ;)

So far, so good here.

The game is looking great again here, although not quite as good as it could I know, I miss the high clouds etc but these seem minor issues that will hopefully be addressed in a full patch.

I suspect the shimmering tree shadows might be affected by setting negative LOD bias to clamp in the Nvidia control panel. I'm not sure whether the game uses antistropic filtering and this could be placebo until I test properly. Someone clever might be able to say whether this is at all likely?

Performance wise, off-line it appears subjectively to run smoother than the previous Beta. I get a slight stuttering with 2 way sli at 60fps, it's not there at 30fps, will test and find sweet-spot. Vram usage stays below 1312 of 1535 per card but GPU usage seems higher with both going over 90%, it was <70%.

I need to test 4-way.

I wonder, without cause for optimism, that the net-code problems have or will be addressed. There have been high numbers on ATAG and I'm keen to see whether any improvements or new problems emerge.

It's all a but fingers crossed but hopeful!

Septic.

No it wont. SSD have no need to spin up and no mechanical reading arm. They can have far lower seek times and faster read times than traditional HDDs.

Not that I have one, money is too tight at the moment but a popular PC gaming site (Pock Paper Shotgun) listed it as the number 1 upgrade for better PC use over GPU, CPU etc.

:-D by no means is my pc high end atached in a zip are some pics mass improvement congrats to 1C/Madox and team

mod's please excuse this but only way to describe my impression


this is the best patch to date its F**kin awsum :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

This patch is really great! so smooth,so good!
Enjoying:)

Just for the hell of it, I reset the game to all-round 'Very High' settings with AA and SSAO off, with CSAA overlaid by Nvidia, then I went to fly on ATAG.

FPS warming up on the ground was around 25-35, as soon as I got to 6000ft this went up to 45-50 looking at the ground and soon went to the 60fps v-sync limit.

Looking down later on from 20,000ft there was NO DARK RECTANGLE surrounded by HORRIBLE LIGHT GREEN BORDERS!!!! and frames were steady at 55-60. I also flew around and through a thick cloud formation near France with no huge dip in frames. :)

The only problem arose when dense Ack-ack surrounded a 109 low down, and when I ran into a formation of 20 Ju88s at speed. Understandable. As you can see from the sig, my pc isn't hot poop by any stretch these days.

But for now, I'm going to leave it on very high, but take the effects down to the recommended 'medium'.

''Job's a good 'un'' as they say (Now we just need the high clouds back).

Working pretty good for me . When in a crowded air battle there are a few jitters but over all much improved. BoM - I'm buying it , I really like that crappy little I-16

Please..no swearing in the forums ;):cool:

I noticed a marked improvement in FPS, even when close to other aircraft and shooting. Haven't tried over London yet, but will shortly. BTW I am running on a min spec system, and with effects on med and pretty much everything but model quality and textures on low, it's very playable.

AMD X2 7550 Dual Core @ 2.5Ghz
3GB DDR2 RAM
nVidia 9800GT w/512MB RAM

Thats right, it's playable on this system. Won't win any beauty pagents, but you can fly and fight.....and die :D