Q&A, July 25, 2012

[Tigertooo]

B6, can you express my thanks to Luthier. This is what i call a real update, in answering some question, by the Boss himself.
Dunno if it has to do with the e-mail i'v sent to him three days ago, as kindly suggested by Toni74, but even so, much appreciated

[senseispcc]

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Thanks, even if there is no better news than this.

[pstyle]

Many, many thanks!

This is proper, comprehensive feedback for us!
This kind of communication makes me happy.

[ATAG_Septic]

Thank you Blacksix,

Only a quick read but there seems some good news in there

Septic.

[JG52Krupi]

Thanks for the update.

When the next patch has been officially released could we have a new roadmap and some details on the announcement of the sequel?

[il_corleone]

Awesome B6 looks like all of the answer or most of them are now solved, I'm excited because it seems that all is going in the good way now, good luck in your work, we count on you,good luck and thank you to all the team

[NSU]

Thx. for the infos

[Icebear]

Thank you Black Six !!

[lothar29]

Thanks 1C Team.

[6BL Bird-Dog]

Thanks for the response both to you and to Luthier.
I quote here from a previous post purely to give relevant information on the Xfire issues:

"From experiance I got various results with different card combo`s single and X-Fire.
1x AMD Saphire Toxic 5870 Oc, poor frame rates and micro studders,had to use medium settings .
2x AMD Saphire Toxic 5870 Oc,best ever performance when the early patch release enabled X-Fire,Max settings, good high frame rates and only the microstudders lower altitudes.Ruined when a small patch was bought out within hours because of graphics anomolys with Nvidia systems.
1xXFX HD 7970 Black Edition,Improvement on single 5870, but running at Very High in game settings made little difference compared to 2x AMD Saphire Toxic 5870 Oc,frame rates improved slightly.
2xXFX HD 7970 Black Edition,with both last Alpa and Beta patches more or less the same as a single XFX HD 7970 Black Edition performance slightly improved at highest settings.
I tested the same cards and setups on the rig in my sig and did compare performance with RoF and iL2 1946 ,the latter of which does not have X-Fire support.
In Rise of Flight as I Improved my Gpu hardware I was able to increases my quality settings with also an increase in FPS .The 2x AMD Saphire Toxic 5870 Oc performance was slghtly slower than a single XFX HD 7970 Black Edition.
2xXFX HD 7970 Black Edition runs fluidly with all settings at max with the exception of AntAliasing which Inever run above 2x as it murders the fps in ROF.
iL2 1946 ran maxed out on all combinations ,seamlessly on 2xXFX HD 7970 Black Edition, with the Average 60 FPS limited to 60mhz(my native screen res),but max frames are almost always over 1000fps.
The Clod dev team hit the sweet spot once for me on X-fire but have never unfortunately got close since ,well at least for AMD GPU`s.
In Cliffs of Dover`s present state apart from increasing in game video quality settings performance wise X-Fire is not functioning in anyway near to the Early X-Fire patch release which on my system was awesome compared to any patches before or after,the textures looked much better then too if a little bit too bright."

From present performance results Xfire on AMD Gpu`s is well below what was once obtained .
Could you please ask Luthier if the present poor Xfire performance relative to drivers issues with AMD and if so can he work with AMD to optimise the drivers as he is with Nvidia.The boys from the 777 team may be able to provide a known contact access for AMD driver support as they have worked with the Catalyst Crew in order to get a profile optomised for Rise of Flight.
Thanks in Advance for any efforts made.