I have had a lot more crashes to desktop since this beta patch, I have cleaned all my cache and installed new conf's as per instructions.

Multiplayer is far worse for sound dropping, before patch my sound would drop after 2 or 3 refly's, now it drops within 1 to 2 minutes. I have given up flying online now.

Still get awful flicking/shimmering when shadows are enabled.

still getting micro stutters, the game never feels its running smoothly even when the FPS is high and constant. Good luck fixing that lot.