OLD BETA patch 14413 - May 4, 2011(!!!) - do not install!

[FS~Phat]

Just want to say MP is completely stuffed... apart from 2d screen issues in MP that others have mentioned, I'm only getting 24FPS compared to 60FPS+ in SP and MP stutters just like several patches back. Crossfire is still working cards at 50-60% in MP so it must be some other code issue to do with MP.
Im hanging up the boots on COD for a while now and going back to ROF and 1946, just too frustrating and not enjoyable at all.

[skarden]

A definite increase in fps for me,it's also a very smooth everywhere I've flown so far,over London its also a nice very smooth nice flight,I do notice that the buildings seem to only get their "skin" when I'm quiet close to em otherwise they seem to have a sort of olive green blank look about them,it only seems to effect London,not a show stopper that's for sure but worth mentioning I figure.
I'm not sure about FSAA which was previously not working past x2 though,sometimes the edges seem to look quiet smooth and sometimes they don't,The last time I tried it I was running it in enhance the in game settings (x8 ) mode through the Nvidia CP and that seems to work ,fingers crossed it holds.

I should mention I did roll back to the last proper version and clean out my cache before I installed the beta patch so maybe that's a factor in the increase in performance for me.

For me the game is now very playable and enjoyable,thanks for all the hard work and long hours you've been putting in,most of us really do appreciate it

[Blakduk]

Just gave it a quick run through.
The single player is brilliant, very smooth with slight increase in average FPS (settings on Medium). Managing to average 40fps, minimum 10fps, max 60 (synch seems to be working now, set in Nvidia control panel). In the Black Death track i still get major slow-downs when the voices start- i think that may be due to a slow hard-drive i have.

The multiplayer is very bad- lots of stuttering, FPS very erratic.
I'm running the latest Nvidia drivers (8.17.12.7061).

I like that the FFB is working for me now- it seems to have improved my aim. I also like the new 2d maps.
Thanks guys.

[Rince]

Thanks to the team for the patch! Gave it a try before and had an good impression over London! Was fluid with only a few stutters but more than playable!
Couldn`t proof every issue on the patch right now! Had one sound problem that showed up in continiously dropping of the motor sound volume until nothing than begin to rise again to normal!

[pupaxx]

Please,
some of you reported some gain in SP and others reports nothing changed in MP ( ie..MP is completely stuffed.. and so on).
I do not tried betas cause i don't fancy on turn my machine in a test bed...
my question is: who tested the patch in MP I suppose was playing in such server as Syndacate or similar...(the question) Does these server accept hosts with different games version? May be this generate the problems some of u reports (players with different game version in the same gameroom) ?
Cheers

[unknwn]

Originally Posted by pupaxx

Please,
some of you reported some gain in SP and others reports nothing changed in MP ( ie..MP is completely stuffed.. and so on).
I do not tried betas cause i don't fancy on turn my machine in a test bed...
my question is: who tested the patch in MP I suppose was playing in such server as Syndacate or similar...(the question) Does these server accept hosts with different games version? May be this generate the problems some of u reports (players with different game version in the same gameroom) ?
Cheers

We have already tested server+client with the same versions, result is the same - stutters.

[mcdaniels]

Hi!
I think, It is depending on some hardware specs if you ve troubles or not. Going to try the latest patch in approximatly half an our.

My Machine
Amd Phenom II X3 @2.8
Gforce GTS250 1GB
4 GB of Ram DDR3
Win 7 Pro 64 Bit

You can take a Backup of the files/folders before you test a beta patch. So you can go back anytime.

[Orpheus]

Thanks for the patch guys.

I'm seeing a 5-10ish fps increase, and much smoother gameplay with very little/no stuttering at medium settings. True fullscreen seems to work fine too, though I have seen some more land/sea glitches (the land bars, grey lines on the hud target arrows, that kind of thing). Closing & restarting the game seems to solve this, at least temporarily.


As for Crossfire though... it works, but it's a huge performance drop over a single card for me. I get a good stable 30fps with no shadows and mostly medium settings on a single 5770, with crossfire it jumps wildly from 5-25fps every second or two, never settling down. Crossfire also still stutters heavily, but not as bad as it did before.

Definite step in the right direction, but Crossfire and indeed ATI cards in general need a lot more work. Not tried multiplayer so nothing to report there.

[Psycho_Ch!cken]

Crossfire doesn't work in pseudo fullscreen mode and the GPU underclock issue that was fixed for me in the last patch is now broken again.

If I run Crossfire in fullscreen mode, my secondary GPU speeds up just fine, but the primary stubbornly remains at 500MHz and I get severe stuttering still, presumably as a result of the mismatch in GPU speeds. With Crossfire disabled a single card runs things adequately but at lower fps than it should (underclocked GPU is the culprit there).

Can anyone enlighten me as to what "true fullscreen" constitutes? I see no apparent difference over the previous beta - menus still run in a borderless window regardless and it only switches to proper fullscreen (allegedly) when you jump into the cockpit. Except that where it used to speed up the GPU in the previous beta, it no longer does so regardless of setting.

I'm running 2x Radeon 6950 2GB on Cat 11.3.

[Phazon]

Terrible stuttering using fullscreen mode on my system. Smooth FPS when looking at just sky but as soon as the ground is in view the stutters occur.

Didn't bother trying pseudo fullscreen because that just causes its own seperate issues that the true fullscreen mode is supposed to fix (windows aero, vsync, driver settings). My flightsim friends and I are getting frustrated now to be honest at the lack of progress. I'm not expecting SLI and Crossfire performance overnight (especially since other competiting sims don't currently support it either but they will soon), but I would like to see single-card rigs working much better than they are.

Apart from the poor performance the second biggest annoyance is the unending list of graphical artifacts in the game on both Nvidia and ATI cards. Many have not been addressed yet and new ones are actually being introduced with subsequent patches.

I'm sorry for venting and for not giving much feedback but it sinks in more and more each day how disappointing this game has been from launch. I still have hope it can be salvaged and turned around but its hard to stay faithful when the last 2 beta-patches have not improved the game dramatically enough to be considered an actual retail title.

Edit: Checked my HD4870 for underclocking. It was running at full speeds and the GPU load was 99% out at sea. However the FPS was only 45fps on average which is quite low since it was just me on my own in a Spitfire MkII in freeflight.