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IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Latest instalment in the acclaimed IL-2 Sturmovik series from award-winning developer Maddox Games.

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Old 09-23-2011, 10:57 PM
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Based upon the various forums, the majority, myself included beleive the sim in it's present state is a Beta release. I am not certain what your point was?
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Old 09-23-2011, 11:45 PM
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Based upon the various forums, the majority, myself included beleive the sim in it's present state is a Beta release. I am not certain what your point was?


Agreed..holding off on upgrading my video card until I see what the new releases/patches etc holds..I love the game...its just (still) seems to be early in development.
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Old 09-24-2011, 02:12 AM
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Well, if they really mean that what we got two weeks ago was a beta, then we can not expect the release version to contain more features than the beta (albeit with bugs fixed that where found in the beta) ? Otherwise it was an alpha we got

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Exactly. If something extra comes along it will probably be some small features or bug corrections that weren't initially mentioned for this patch, but not something radical.

The way it usually goes is:
  1. dev update after an official patch saying what they are working on for the next patch
  2. one or more extra dev updates depending on how long it takes to get a beta ready
  3. beta release and testing
  4. beta bug reporting
  5. correcting beta bugs
  6. official patch release
  7. rinse and repeat

No reason guessing what the patch is going to include, it's mainly what the beta included or was supposed to include (in case of features that needed more work).

Sorry to be a killjoy for some, but let's maintain reasonable expectations to avoid disappointment later on

P.S. SDKs and the like are scheduled for after the main phase of graphics/sound/performance changes are finished, maybe the FM/DM corrections as well, at least that's what Luthier said some time ago.
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Old 09-24-2011, 03:11 AM
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Ugh, your video card isn't running the game at max settings?


Textures at original..forests low..no grass...and some other items at low...it still look nice..however..when I shoot down a bomber and fly through its smoke trail...the fps goes to 12 or so..not good...my system should run this game smoothly....however...as we know..its still being "optimized"..if the patches dont help..I'll sell my card (three months new) and get a gtx 580 with 3 gigs of vram....Zotec makes one..around 540. I dont know whats new on the horizon for Nvidea.
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scratchy motion and wot happened to the colour??... it looks worse than before, almost as though a cheap mask (tawny coloured veil) has been introduced over the whole thing.
Cockpit shadows seem to appear to be sharper though
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scratchy motion and wot happened to the colour??... it looks worse than before, almost as though a cheap mask (tawny coloured veil) has been introduced over the whole thing.
Cockpit shadows seem to appear to be sharper though
Blimey mate,can't believe you think the latest patch has made the colour worse!it's superb,I live in the UK and I can assure you the colours are much more authentic now than the 'Telly Tubby' colours that addorned it before.

But hey,all to their own opinion eh?
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yes JRB, each to their own opinion... its gone from "Telly Tubby" to "Telly Tubby" with a tawny veil (sepia) over the whole thing (the darkened trees are better though, as well, the new water/ shoreline treatment and with the brownier water, instead of the bright blue)
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Old 09-25-2011, 03:21 PM
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yes JRB, each to their own opinion... its gone from "Telly Tubby" to "Telly Tubby" with a tawny veil (sepia) over the whole thing (the darkened trees are better though, as well, the new water/ shoreline treatment and with the brownier water, instead of the bright blue)
Actually, my colours are much worse too, water used to look like water, now it looks like a blue sheet, and all my fields look like they are on lowest and are just brown and greenish smudges.

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Textures at original..forests low..no grass...and some other items at low...it still look nice..however..when I shoot down a bomber and fly through its smoke trail...the fps goes to 12 or so..not good...my system should run this game smoothly....however...as we know..its still being "optimized"..if the patches dont help..I'll sell my card (three months new) and get a gtx 580 with 3 gigs of vram....Zotec makes one..around 540. I dont know whats new on the horizon for Nvidea.
Tbh that seems very low for a 570. i think you must have a bottleneck somewhere else. I run a 570 that is overclocked (not overvolted) and it runs the game sweet on mostly max settings. In all fairness i have to say that i think the game is progressing well, granted it should not have been released as it was or still is but its heading in the right direction.
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Textures at original..forests low..no grass...and some other items at low...it still look nice..however..when I shoot down a bomber and fly through its smoke trail...the fps goes to 12 or so..not good...my system should run this game smoothly....however...as we know..its still being "optimized"..if the patches dont help..I'll sell my card (three months new) and get a gtx 580 with 3 gigs of vram....Zotec makes one..around 540. I dont know whats new on the horizon for Nvidea.
Keep your card, drop your textures from original to high and you might even be able to bump something else up. I'm running aa Ati 4890 with 1GB of vRAM (that's 1-2 generations back, equivalent to the GTX 28x series nVidia cards) and i don't have to turn off grass, trees, roads or vsync.

Dropping the texture setting is the first thing to do in case you have problems, it gives the biggest performance boost and there's not much difference between original and high, especially if you consider that with the performance gained you can probably enable a couple of other things that make it look better and still be running higher FPS than before.
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