I’ve only had time to test using the Black Death track, and recorded the following:

Ver.17582: 42/99/7 (avg/max/min)
Ver.18301: 40/95/5 (avg/max/min)

Settings: 1920 x 1080, all quality ‘High’, AA, A-EF, SSAO and VSYNC ‘Off’, Grass, Shadows and Roads ‘On’, using SMAA and cpu @ 4.20GHz.

Subjectively, the first run displays less hesitation when caching textures and differs little from subsequent runs – seems to me that this function has been tweaked? The only graphic glitch I saw were the burning aircraft through the BF109’s fuselage when it flies part the runway, which is as it was previously.

The biggest news for Cayman users is that there are no longer blue lines displayed on the horizon at low altitude :grin:


Update: despite the BD track results, in-game performance seems to have improved. I flew the quick missions over Dover, Le Havre and London and found frame rates to be generally higher. Flying between the chimney stacks in Le Havre the frame rate is now limited by VSYNC (I only disable this when running the benchmark), and at 500 feet over London I previously had 29-34fps, now I get 36-42fps with no visible graphic difference. The new tree LOD is a bit distracting, but the missing blue lines error is the biggest improvement for me.

All you Bf110 lovers, perform a nosedive and see.. :)

Thanks for the additional download site
 

Thanks Black Six for the Easternskies.eu download site. I tried many times yesterday to download from the original sites with no luck. Succeeded on the first try Saturday morning from the site you added today,

Cheers

No.401_DNR

Now that I've had a chance to apply the latest patch, I'm hoping that the on-line Spit/Hurri start-up problems can be resolved quickly.

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Thanks to Black Dog not me :)
 

I had quoted Black dog for his good advice, sorry Black dog it's not that clear.

TS Overlay stops Launcher for me, every time
 

I don't know whether this is useful information or old news but just-in-case;

TS Overlay stops Launcher for me, every time.

I use TSNotifier, which seems fine but sometimes get confused between it and TSoverlay.

I didn't use TSoverlay or realise it was enabled following an update but it was and it crashes Launcher.exe.

Septic

This is very good news

Gutted. I deleted the cache installed the patch, ran the game to build the cache and my performance with settings switched down to low are down from approximately 25fps to a really rubbish ,3 fps over the sea with only two aircraft on the screen.

I think therefore I will uninstall Clod and go back to the offial steam version and wait while you dedicated chaps fix it.

Cheers, MP

No worries, it's not like i'm getting paid any royalty fees for advice :-P

All i care about is getting people up in the air, the more we all advertise these "tips and tricks" the more people will know about it. I suppose we both care more about getting more people to fly than being strict on crediting, so by all means "steal" whatever you think is useful if it's going to help someone. Cheers ;)

Try deleting the conf.ini in My documents/1C SoftClub/IL2 Sturmovik cliffs of Dover, try starting the game.

Make a backup of the Conf.ini before you do it.

Hope it helps.