Saturday, May 12, 2012. Patch Alpha – Report 2 + mini-fix

[Jaws2002]

Originally Posted by SEE

I thought that regards Freetrack and stopped it - made no difference but 'Check for Widows Update fired up' and my game died - disabled it along with any other program with 'Check for updates' options, also disabled Steams pop up messages, Windows Desktop set to minimum resources, etc. No AV on my OS either - took it off and use my old XP partition for web browsing,

Don't expect people to turn off the rest of the computer when they play a game. I WILL NOT turn off or uninstall my AV for any game if I have enough computer power to run them both. Gaming is a small part of what a computer does and shouldn't dictate how the computer is used, or what aps run on it.

[SturmKreator]

the game crash for me every time and I didnt see any folder called cppdump

[GraveyardJimmy]

Originally Posted by SturmKreator

the game crash for me every time and I didnt see any folder called cppdump

Did you enable logging in the config?

[SturmKreator]

Originally Posted by GraveyardJimmy

Did you enable logging in the config?

yep, the crash folfer is in the game core? or in my documents? i found this cppcrash but not this cppdump

[SEE]

There isn't Cppdump folder, I only have the cppcrash folder and the dmp files are wriiten into it. As far as I understood thats it.

[FS~Phat]

Just flew a quick campaign sortie in Helmut Wick vs. J. C. Dundas and the new mini-patch works a treat! Got my beautiful cockpits back! I put the game into autopilot and had a really good look around from externals and back and forth to cockpit and flyby and its all looking really great with no crash. (this is with about 15-20 aircraft engaged in combat!)

System Ram sat at 6GB usage and GPU Ram at almost 2GB at 6048x1080.
At this res I still have to turn a couple things down to keep above 30FPS.
SSAO off - Grass off - landscape shading, trees and buildings on medium but it still looks gorgeous!

I especially noticed for the first time how smooth everything pans when looking from the F2 external camera, even in surround res @ 6048x1080!!! Feeling more like the ol' IL2 of yore! The clouds are still a problem but otherwise this is just amazing progress guys!

[CaptainDoggles]

Originally Posted by Jaws2002

Don't expect people to turn off the rest of the computer when they play a game. I WILL NOT turn off or uninstall my AV for any game if I have enough computer power to run them both. Gaming is a small part of what a computer does and shouldn't dictate how the computer is used, or what aps run on it.

Antivirus suites do practically nothing, just FYI. Any decent rootkit can install itself in master boot record and then force a BSOD, at which point your AV is now useless.

I haven't had any antivirus running in 4 years, and never had a problem yet. I just don't download random EXE's, and I don't run stupid microsoft programs like Outlook which are the security equivalent of swiss cheese.

Antivirus programs are just like the US's TSA: just there to make you feel better, but don't get anything accomplished.