Beta Patch – and we mean BETA!

[IbanezLaney]

Thanks for the patch and trying to get everything sorted out.

Good improvement when low over towns when no other planes around- should be fine once the load is spread over all 4 cores. At the moment I just get one CPU maxed out all the time and the other 3 doing nothing at all no matter what affinity settings are in conf.ini.

Having shadows on almost halves the fps. Cockpit is also killing fps a lot.
Disabling the click-able cockpit make no difference at all.

Changing certain display options still crashes to desktop.

No noticeable difference when over water.

When the engine is on fire/smoking fps drops to 10. The smoke effects seem to be overly hard on the computer.

Settings:
1280x1024 fullscreen
Model Detail - High
Visual Effects - Medium
Damage Decals - Medium
Everything else low or off
Average FPS would be 50 on smaller quick missions over water. Lows approx 10 when close up smoke onscreen. Highs of 65-70 if I look at sky and no planes in view. (fps listed are with cockpit off).

i7-870 @ 3.2ghz
9800GT 1GB (upgrading to ????? soon - will post if it make massive difference)
4GB RAM 1333
XP