New Beta CTD hotfix available
 

Some of you might have missed it, but Luthier has just added a hotfix file link in his post on yesterdays new beta patch thread, plus some addditional info and comments. I haven't tried it...

Edit: Here's the additional info and link he added:



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 very much for posting this, I would have missed it otherwise, looking forward to testing the new Beta properly now :)

Confirmed no lock-up on explosions after applying the hot-fix. Big grin here :)

hotfix works a treat :)

Tnx and bump

no crashes with explosions now:-)

Thank you! Sticky please?

BTW Repka servers stays on recent Beta 2. Please try the new Steppe map with limited Spit2s and 109E4s for balance. Really need about 20 players tonight to test out how a limiting script works. http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=26790

Ok ,but where is this fix?Link?

On the first page of the beta patch 2 sticky.

Nice one would have missed this otherwise :)

HOTFIX LINK NOT WORKING NEED A LITTLE HELP PLZ :p TY

I presume you mean the download does not work?

It is at http://www.1cfiles.com/IL2_CliffsofD...core_patch.rar

~S~

This should be stickied. Or at least, Luthier should post a separate sticky about the fix. Wouldn't have known without this post.

Humm? I downloaded and installed it and I am still getting the freeze with explosions.

Hope this is the right thread, can the Beta 2 patch be installed over the Beta 1 or is a clean reinstall of game required? Thanks TC

Just copy it over the top

Agreed. Luthiers post about the Beta patch had about 12000 views before he edited it with the hotfix info.
Mods - please could you make this sticky until an official thread comes out that references the hotfix in its title? Then we can bin this one...

Also while Luthier says to set "AntiEpilipsy=0" the entry is actually (at least on mine) "EpilepsyFilter=0" under "[BOB]". I didn't find a "StereoMode" entry. I'm paranoid that I have old versions of the config files, but am unsure how to get new ones - for example I could just delete them but how would steam cloud storage affect this? Would it give me the old ones back? Or does it keep them up to date and just modify entries with the old values. I think the only sure way would be to turn cloud sync off, delete the files and check game cache - but I would have to redo all my settings.

heres my conf.ini,

as to make sure you have the new ones, i just copied out my conf.ini from both locations, ie the one in the steamapps folder and the one found in the softclub folder found in my documents, and then verified game files through steam, which put new ones in.

had to redo my gfx and sound settings but that was it.

The hotfix resolved my issues with explosions. Very happy :grin:

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