[Phazon]

Terrible stuttering using fullscreen mode on my system. Smooth FPS when looking at just sky but as soon as the ground is in view the stutters occur.

Didn't bother trying pseudo fullscreen because that just causes its own seperate issues that the true fullscreen mode is supposed to fix (windows aero, vsync, driver settings). My flightsim friends and I are getting frustrated now to be honest at the lack of progress. I'm not expecting SLI and Crossfire performance overnight (especially since other competiting sims don't currently support it either but they will soon), but I would like to see single-card rigs working much better than they are.

Apart from the poor performance the second biggest annoyance is the unending list of graphical artifacts in the game on both Nvidia and ATI cards. Many have not been addressed yet and new ones are actually being introduced with subsequent patches.

I'm sorry for venting and for not giving much feedback but it sinks in more and more each day how disappointing this game has been from launch. I still have hope it can be salvaged and turned around but its hard to stay faithful when the last 2 beta-patches have not improved the game dramatically enough to be considered an actual retail title.

Edit: Checked my HD4870 for underclocking. It was running at full speeds and the GPU load was 99% out at sea. However the FPS was only 45fps on average which is quite low since it was just me on my own in a Spitfire MkII in freeflight.