Patch Beta 2 - v15866 - October 5, 2011
 

Hi everyone,

The beta continues!

We are generally happy with the updated colors and lighting. The sound is also more mature than in the previous beta.

We are however concerned about stability and performance on various hardware. If you still experience reduced FPS, we want to know your system specs, including graphic driver version and in-game graphic settings.

If you ever experience a crash, we want to see your crash dump! There is a
Cppcrash
Folder under your main game install
([Program Files]\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover)
Which contains a .dmp file for each game crash.
We’re very interested in those. Please forward them to
ishevchenko (at) 1cpublishing.eu
along with your system specs and the description of what you were doing at the time of the crash.
NOTE: we will be looking at all your crash dumps, but I may not necessarily be able to answer general questions or suggestions (while I do read them all)

Here’s the patch readme:

The download links are here:

Download links - RUSSIAN
The file is 678 MB (710 951 991 bytes)
torrent: http://www.1cfiles.com/IL2_CliffsofD...ru.rar.torrent
direct link (wupload): http://www.wupload.com/file/30786878...D_15866_ru.rar


Download links - ENGLISH
The file is 678 MB (710 944 061 bytes)
torrent: http://www.1cfiles.com/IL2_CliffsofD...66.rar.torrent
direct link (fileserve): http://www.fileserve.com/file/JEf6zME/IL2COD_15866.rar
direct link (wupload): http://www.wupload.com/file/307868784/IL2COD_15866.rar

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please clear your game cache prior to installing the patch.
([Documents]\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\cache)
Otherwise the patch may run with various graphical glitches.



Update – October 6, 2011
Please download and install a small update to the beta that fixes the most commonly encountered issue that has to do with explosions and particle effects hanging up the game.
http://www.1cfiles.com/IL2_CliffsofD...core_patch.rar

Extract the contents to your
[Program Files]\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\
Folder. (It already contains the folder structure and should automatically put the file into the \parts\core\ subfolder – or if you’re using some weird extraction method, please put the file there manually)

We are currently looking at other issues. Reviewing some conf.inis sent to us, we see that a lot of people reporting decreased frame rate are playing with the anti-epilepsy filter enabled. Please disable it in the game options or manually edit the line in conf.ini, setting AntiEpilepsy to 0.
Also if you encounter an issue where all buildings in the game disappear, please check your conf.ini for a corrupted
StereoMode
Key value (which by the way can enable 3D stereo on compatible hardware, if you’re willing to test this even further)
It can be either 0 (OFF)o r 1 (ON). If it’s anything else – and we’re trying to figure out why it went haywire on one tester’s machine – then manually set it to 0.

Thanks Luthier

Thanks :)

cheers

Torrents are round the wrong way. thx btw

Woo, downloading that sucker now. :D

Thanks :grin:

Lol.your right

TAKE NOTE PEEPS

AWESOME look we get auto prop pitch now :D

Luthier, I'll add that email address and your instructions regarding the crash logs to my crash log sticky if that's ok. :)

Are the Links ok?, seems the russian version is the english and vice versa.

Thank you Sir. :grin:

Whiskey

Thank you !

Thanks luthier for your hard work, lets test this patch.

INTERNATIONAL version DL too somewhere?

cheers

THX luthier. But : ...NOT FIND CLIENT... English Version.:confused:

Or are the Servers down




Towarisch

Same here....I think the mad rush has killed the server

Towarisch, I'm getting 'could not locate client' English version too. :confused:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

So close and yet so far......:evil:

"could not find client"......

yup! Same here.

thank you, Ilya!

MUHAHAHA I have downloaded twice as much as anyone else so far :P

I do believe that they are still uploading the patch to megauploads.

He did state he will post when it is complete and we can access the file.

Cheers

Whiskey

We are trying the torrent, mate.

Fixed the torrent links, sorry. Added a direct link for EN.

Thank you Whiski. So we .......rrrrr....rrrrr.wait alittle bit more :(:grin:

Neither torrent is working..

Thanks will test it!

Aiiieeee!!! I've got a 20mb download speed and not a sausage!!! :grin:

Meh, I'm gonna make a brew and I'll come back later lol. :grin:

Awesome, but don't you think we have a SLIGHT OVERAGE of BF -109 variants?

:evil::evil::evil: Throw us a friggen new Spitfire or Hurricane er something here, lol :evil::evil::evil:

Can we FINALLY get the promised Su 26 or AT LEAST a plain answer saying we changed our mind about it without telling you the day you purchased the game?! And that this is/ or is not going to appear in the game?

Direct link working and will have it dl'ed in 15 mins.

Thanks mate...can't wait to test this out.

CHEERS!

Whiskey

Torrents seem to be working fine now :)

Downloading from fileserve @ 130kB/s, one hour to go...

225 k/sec here on direct link, 590 mins to go :D thanks luthier

344-425 KB/sec on direct link, 25 mins to go... (torrent much slower)

Thank you.

Just finally got the game. Can't wait to see it run with this installed. Downloading @ 750Kb/s from the torrent.

arggh might be a bug in the e4 rads :(

^ from Jamz

Love the new main menu music. :)

SLI Xfire?

With a 678.01 MB download i hope something has been done about that..

bump..............:confused:

Torrent still not working for english verion:(

Thank you.;-)

The sounds are even better now. Haven't even taken off the runway and I can hear the difference in quality. Not popping as much as it used to and there are even more sound samples now (such as hearing the brakes squeal when you brake while moving). :)

well torrent is working for me...
@110kb will take a looong time

awesome. Any word on the super secret thing you were working on?

FSAA fixed??

Next patch I believe.

Just FYI, some people on the Russian forums ran into weird graphical glitches that were fixed by clearing the game cache. I edited this into the main post.

We're all going home for the day, will pick this up tomorrow morning.

If you run into glitches or issues AFTER clearing your cache, please don't forget to post your graphics driver version!

Would that include the old blue stripe horizon bug? I noticed its still there but I'll clear the cache and see if it fixes it.

Edit: Nope, blue stripe horizon bug is still there. HD6970 using official Catalyst 11.9 drivers.

Thanks again and good night!:-P

Yes, we need a Mk.IXe Spitfire. That would fit nicely into the 1940 plane set.

Oh my god! A Miracle!!!! A miracle!!!!
 

What did you do Oleg? Did you find your magic wand and just say: "Give this game ultimate performance, no matter what!!!"
I can run the game on FULL now. I mean FULL!!! 8x anti-aliasing too! And the game runs like a charm! Maybe 40 fps...very steady. very very little stuttering...just when you enter the game, then it stopps....but if you climb high and very low small stuttering occours when u comes close to the landskape, but it dissappears very fast.

My rig:

xfx radeon hd 6950 2gb gddr5

i7 960 3,6 ghz

6 gb kinston RAM (1600 mhz)

Windows 7 professional 64-bits

Thank Luthier. I'm new to COD, can some explain how/where to install this patch please. I presume it gets extracted into my F:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover folfer and not my C:\Users\Owner\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover folder.

I made a dl mirror for the English version http://www.norwegian-server.com/e107...topic.php?1200

:cool:

~S~
Wandalen

Just copy all the folders and files in the zip here:

\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover

And press yes when asked to over-write

Happy hunting!

See here: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...877#post331877

Bear in mind that this is a beta patch - when it is finalised, Steam should update automatically.

THANK YOU. I could not get the Torrent version to work. You made my day. Thank you Sir.:grin:

thx, very fast server

Personally i wouldn't bother guys, its totally killed my game. :(

where does the 'music' folder go?

the colours in the cockpit of the 109's are horrible

Yeah noticed that too, unnecessary tweak IMO.

I dunno, yet another patch that has simply made the game worse, if thats possible.. I don't think I'll ever see this running as advertised.

Luthier, how is it possible you can release a patch that kills everyones game whenever there is an explosion?? How the feck can you not know that yourself, do you guys test anything before you release it??

please for god's shake
why did you change the colours in the 109's:evil:

Easy Tree ;)

I'm pretty sure this is a build/packaging problem. There is probably some small explosion sound file or graphic effect that all the devs and testers have on their rigs that is missing in the beta patch we got... I guess they will find that fast. I get dump files at least and will send them to Ilya.

Game Wont produce crash logs, so i cant send them.
Contrast is kinda crazy. Sound still breaks up loads. Various distance sounds are right next to my head.
Launched the game twice, crashed twice.
Lost around 15fps just stationary.
I cant get the 109E4 oil radiator to open.

Mate for a start oleg dont run the show anymore, second AA doesnot work for sure.
But hey, glad you can fly the game in high now :D

Have to say, not impressed at all....

Performance has suffered alot since the last beta.

Cant say that the "new" colours or graphics are any improvement.

Now the game crashes when with the old beta it ran smooth and without any problems or stutters, massive fps hit with this patch....

Still no AI radio controls!!

I am running

i5 750 @3.3ghz, 8 gb 1600 ram, GTX570 @800mhz, Win7/64 bit (that used to be enough for a decent flight in ClOD)

Hmmm the first beta patch I won't bother with it seems. Starting to lose interest fast now.

That ReadME looks a lot like the one from the previous patch. Am I missing something?

Jeez......have just come in and have been reading all the comments re the latest Beta patch,and I'm thinking do I really want/need to instal this patch,it sounds a bloody nightmare.:(

It is not the 109, it is a general change in cockpit rendering, something like very very very high contrast that looks terrible in every plane. What a mess they have done here. I´m starting to be a bit scared: I think they have lost the north in colors completely. Hope this is not what they say looks good. I´m returning to previous patch until this is fixed. That cockpits kills all the immersion and beauty. I can´t even judge the outside colors with that incredible over contrasted cockpits in my retina.

@Greezy: It's the same patch, it's still the same Beta patch, just the next development version of it.

For me at least, the crash only occurs if you crash into the ground, not explode in mid-air. Since it seems to be consistently reproducible for everyone, I suspect it's a problem they can track down and fix within hours rather than days.

Also I haven't tried a 109, since I barely know how to fly one, but I think whatever they have done to the cockpit graphics looks amazing in the spits and hurricanes.

Aye, I will have to revert to the previous beta until the official patch is released and hope that they can fix this abortion of an "improvement".

Ahhhhhhh, progress......

Ouch
 

Oleg is not the boss anymore? What happend? :o/

Downloading now from the Nice Nor guy that posted a link....Im scared to install it! CRAP!!! Still no AI commands? The colors were fine the way they were. That can be tweaked by modders. Fix the COre please!! Colors are not IMPORTANT if I cant play and Communicate with my Wingmen....P-38...

Guys, I cannot get the game to launch. I had this problem with the first patch and gave up. I installed the new patch and still only get the yellow crosshairs then nothing. What am I missing?

correct
the colors in the previous beta was good
i could see every detail in the pits
haaah
never mind
bf3

Don't bother mate. Really.

Pointless continuing with this beta update, it has completely killed the sim and I have just had another 4 crashes in a row (in very innocuous circumstances.....IE the Luftwaffe 'Free Hunt' quick mission, I dived on the RAF planes and it just froze for no reason.) It's not even solely to do with explosions, this is a total abortion.

Ah well. Back to previous version for me. Good luck with sorting this out lads, but we can't help you or give feedback if we can't even play the blinking sim.

Specs: Core i7940
P6T Deluxe MB
GTX 580
6gb Corsair 'Dominator' DDR3 Ram 1600mhz
1200w Everest PSU
W7 64bit

Cheers. :)

The cockpit colors were amazing in the original game. The landscape colors would be amazing in the last beta with a bit less fog for close distances (note bit less means sutile changes). This new beta is horrible in both sides.

Also I have noticed that big smoke columns are transparent so you can see the landscape behind them and flames are blinking (not the natural blinking of the flame) like a z buffer fail or something like this. Sprites like smoke or clouds still are a complete frame killer ( I mean drop to 0 fps ).
You can test the smoke bug blowing up the fuel containers in the town near the airfield in the cross country mission.

There are still black glitches in red wounded vision ( try with damaged cockpit ).

In the positive side, new sounds are good.

C'mon guys why we complaining.....we have 3D :-P

BETA patch. BETA. It means UNFINISHED. My goodness. Don't you realise that when you download a beta patch you are supposed to be doing so to HELP the devs improve it. So you are supposed to provide specific feedback about crashes and bugs, specs and crashlogs, to HELP improve the patch. Congrats to those who realise this and post useful info for the devs.

- what you or the game were doing when the problem happened (loading a mission, flying mission X in aircraft Y.)
- what the result was (game freeze, crash to desktop, stuttering, fps drop)
- informed speculation about the cause
- your sys specs, drivers, operating system

Those of you who are moaning and complaining that this BETA patch has problems should not download beta patches! Wait for the final patch, (and complain about that!)

Hi,
I have worse performance than in previous beta patch and more awfull than the last official patch.
I tried a quick mission Airfield attack Manston today and the game always freezed after approx. 2 minutes and I had to restart PC.

Intel Q9550 3.6Ghz
4GB RAM 1066
GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P
AMD 6970 11.9 drivers
Win 7 64

In game graphic settigs :
1680x1050
Fullscreen: ON
Model : HIGH
BUILDING: MEDIUM
LAND: HIGH
FOREST: MEDIUM
VISUAL: HIGH
TEXTURE: ORIGINAL
AAA: OFF
EPILEPSY: OFF
SSAO: OFF
VSYNC: ON
DECALS: HIGH
BUILDINGS AMOUNT: MEDIUM
SHADING: MEDIUM
GRASS: ON
SHADOWS: ON
ROADS: ON

Sprites like dust are still seen trough cockpit.

Thx for patch but plese put in some new planes.Now this game have no sense.
Here is too little planes.Game is extremly bored

It seems like fannying around with the XP version has just caused more (uneccessary) problems for this sim.

Installed it. Colors are very nice. Framerate is good! I cleared my Cache before install. The E4 is a dream to fly. Cant change radiators though. It never overheated. London was pretty jerkey for me but then my puter is pretty old. Cross country is very smooth. No combat yet.

So far:
-I like new colors/lightning, maybe bit too much contrast in cockpits but otherwise very nice and sharp
-new sounds are great, landing gears, stall & g noise, wind noise when cockpit/sidewindow is open etc.
-maybe a bit more micro stutterin at low level but not much
-no crashes so far but only less than hour playing
-E4 automatic prop pitch works, radiator/oil cooler doesen't. And sidewindow opens right direction now. ;)

Post your system spec's in your sig...do you meet the minimum requirement :grin:

Post you system specs and start a new thread here asking for help. http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/forumdisplay.php?f=191

Also search for similar threads. Many people have solved the same issue before.

It seems like reducing visual effects to "low" helps to avoid crashes. But maybe just wishful thinking...

Anyone else tried it?

Thanks to all the guinea pigs...looks like I'll wait for the official release since and skip this beta bc my game is running great as is right now. Must be a nightmare being a developer for this beast...I appreciate all the work. Im enjoying the game...cheers

Confirm. Effects to 'low' stops the freezes, but then you have no smoke, no explosions and no gun flashes (externally).:(

Yes... If we can't see explosions, the game don't crashes when someting explodes... LOL!

But I liked the fact that now some more work is done regards sound. These crashes are really "BIG" bugs, and easy to solve.

Exactly, if they just hot-fix the explosion issue, this patch would be a really great patch, a lot of improvement on my system!