New set of DLLs, from February 27th, 2008

[crazyivan1970]

Anyone with ATI getting 1-3 seconds freezes with new DLL? And very unstable FPS?

ATI 3870 X2, Catalist 8.2

[Stew278]

Originally Posted by crazyivan1970

Anyone with ATI getting 1-3 seconds freezes with new DLL? And very unstable FPS?

ATI 3870 X2, Catalist 8.2

Haven't noticed that so far. Only played for an hour or two with the new DLL's though.

These seemed to be a slight improvement for me; with the 2/15/8 DLL's I got 37FPS avg on The Black Death, with the 2/27/8 ones I got 40 with the same settings (avg result of 5 runs each). Using Sapphire X1950XT, 7.11 cats, 1280x1024, water=2.

I have noticed some things seem blurrier (compare the briefing map icons or aircraft markings for example), but the AntiAliasing seems much better. I was getting jaggies with the 2/15 dll's even with my vidcard's AA maxed out, but these new ones make things quite smooth. This is with all graphics settings remaining the same, only replacing the dll files.

[A.Fokker]

I have issues on the simple desert map with the coast line and some ground textures during bad weather. I have a Pentium IV system with a 7800GT, drivers 169.28 (water=4). I didn't have these issues with the previous DLLs. Have track if you need to locate the exact spot but should be obvious.

Images (will be up in a sec, bear with me):

[crazyivan1970]

@Stew - I checked on my other PC, which has X1800XT and cats 7.9 it runs fine... problems with IL2 started with 7.12s and up...

@Fokker - submit all the info that described in the initial post to pf@1c.ru, thanks

[dflion]

Reply to Feuerfalke - I have been sending in ntrks to CrazyIvan and IC since these problems came up. IC have my system specs and updated config files. Clearly the ntrks have shown problems with the earlier Dll's - flashing cloudy skys and take-off dust, strange ground mists under trees, lines appearing on the surface terrain, red flashes occuring in the normal terrain, white/blue flashes on aircraft skins. All these problems have clearly showed up on the earlier ntrks.
The new set of Dll's have solved just about all these problems on my system specs. (which are fairly similar to many others).
Hope you can now understand why ntrks can help the IC team solve the problems.
DFLion

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by dflion

Reply to Feuerfalke - I have been sending in ntrks to CrazyIvan and IC since these problems came up. IC have my system specs and updated config files. Clearly the ntrks have shown problems with the earlier Dll's - flashing cloudy skys and take-off dust, strange ground mists under trees, lines appearing on the surface terrain, red flashes occuring in the normal terrain, white/blue flashes on aircraft skins. All these problems have clearly showed up on the earlier ntrks.
The new set of Dll's have solved just about all these problems on my system specs. (which are fairly similar to many others).
Hope you can now understand why ntrks can help the IC team solve the problems.
DFLion

Hmmm, how can it be "the NTRKS have shown problems"? I'm just curious. If you send the same NTRK to me, I'll probably see no problems at all. You'd need the very same gfx-card, drivers, OS and maybe even more to get the exact same visual problems you have, just based on where you where flying.

Don't get me wrong, those NTRKS can show a LOT of problems, but graphics are rendered on each machine, so if you wanted to show graphics problem, wouldn't it make much more sense to send a short movie or screenshots instead of an ntrk-file and your systems specs while expecting 1C to build a system like yours and play your ntrk on that machine?

[LeLv8_Otto]

Originally Posted by A.Fokker

I have issues on the simple desert map with the coast line and some ground textures during bad weather. I have a Pentium IV system with a 7800GT, drivers 169.28 (water=4). I didn't have these issues with the previous DLLs. Have track if you need to locate the exact spot but should be obvious.

Images (will be up in a sec, bear with me):

I confirm this - spotted it also on desert map with bad weather. Coast lines can be seen from very long distance. Below an example:

Intel Core2 6600, Win XP SP2, Directx 9c, GeForce 8800GTS, Forceware 169.21

Conf.ini: http://lelv8.org/temp/conf.ini

[Ventura]

Originally Posted by A.Fokker

I have issues on the simple desert map with the coast line and some ground textures during bad weather. I have a Pentium IV system with a 7800GT, drivers 169.28 (water=4). I didn't have these issues with the previous DLLs. Have track if you need to locate the exact spot but should be obvious.

Images (will be up in a sec, bear with me):

got something similar to this in a Spit5 (CW) online Co-Op except it was that the oil stain on the left front windscreen that had one diagonal delineation.

also (though I haven't tried to recreate) got really bad stuttering FPS when I changed the landGeom to 3 in a quick mission flying low on the Pacific Island Map 6AM, Hazy. Happened as I panned to the sides from the front view. Switched it back, no probs. -Ventura

[Spinnetti]

Originally Posted by crazyivan1970

Anyone with ATI getting 1-3 seconds freezes with new DLL? And very unstable FPS?

ATI 3870 X2, Catalist 8.2

Yes - not sure about "very unstable", but definitely lower. I wasn't going to say anything because I didn't measure before and after, but my FPS is visibly degraded, with random stutters.... Last dlls were better overall for my 256 meg ATI x1600

[crazyivan1970]

Originally Posted by Spinnetti

Yes - not sure about "very unstable", but definitely lower. I wasn't going to say anything because I didn't measure before and after, but my FPS is visibly degraded, with random stutters.... Last dlls were better overall for my 256 meg ATI x1600

I should be more specific... in places where FPS use to be rock solid... they go up and down for no reason... down to 30 up to 60...down again... Just weird.