I’ve been a bit busy this weekend, so didn’t get the patch until a short while ago. After some brief testing, I have noticed the following:
• Game now runs in ‘true’ full-screen, anti-aliasing works correctly (along with the associated performance hit).
• MFAA forced in driver really hits the FPS – approximately 30% hit compared to using in-game AA. This is not as it’s designed, so there is obviously some incompatibility somewhere.
• Using the ‘Esc’ key often results in the desktop being displayed, although it’s not active (pseudo-desktop?
). Using ‘Alt-Tab’ can correct this, or repeatedly using ‘Esc’. This is not consistent – sometimes it works correctly, sometimes not.
• No noticeable difference to frame-rate, pretty much as before. No stutters using my previous settings (Medium, with Model, Effects and Textures on High, Trees and Buildings on Low, Shadows On, 1080p).
• GPU load now full, previously it varied around 70%. (
Edit: nope, no change actually, although it does seem higher on average than previous)
• The texture edge lines are again visible over the sea, but not as pronounced as before the previous patch. Haven’t had the time yet to see if forcing AF removes them.
As an aside, I have never experienced the problem of my driver not detecting the game and turning the clocks up (Catalyst ver. 11.3). I would have thought that the full-screen mode would have corrected this for those that have had the problem -?
Thanks, luthier et al, for the additional missions and the fixes in this patch. I am anticipating getting back to it once some family commitments are out of the way. Cheers!
(Edit: a further nice improvement noticed is the apparent reduction in the AI's aerobatic skills - no more impossible endless barrel rolls.)