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Originally Posted by Dano
Saw what was hopefully an unintended cheat tonight, bunch of 109s and Spits over Hawkinge, one of the 109s kept throwing out huge amounts of steam whenever somebody seemed to get on their tail, assuming their engine was on the boil but it certainly looked controlled from my vantage, this was causing my FPS to drop to single digits and lower making it very hard to stay with them, eventually resulted in my colliding with them 
Other than that it was nice to have such decent fps over land 
I did have my first launcher crash though |
Hi Dano,
Actually it's a graphical glitch and can --and does -- happen with fighters of both sides. The pilot of the aircraft in question is unaware of it happening. When we first witnessed this glitch we were accusing the hapless pilot of using his "fire extinguisher" to deliberately cause lag and/or warping to throw off our aim. Turns out -- not so. Seems like this glitch hasn't been fixed with the beta patch.
Also, I've been in a number of dogfights with this new patch where my frame rate suddenly drops from the mid-nineties (over the Channel) down to 1 fps -- a real slideshow. Happened last night online attacking 5 human-flown Ju88's, then again today mixing it up with 109's over Hawkinge. I reported the attacking-Ju88's frame rate drop to Ilya by email (along with my .dmp file and log.txt from an earlier CTD).
Lots left to fix, it seems.