You are the epic patchers :) You guys metaphorically are ABDR crews! Aircraft Battle Damage Repair :P Sticking the mg13 holes with bubblegum and using plywood and staplers to fix the Oerlikon holes :p

No seriously, thanks for the long hours! Will feed this patch into my install and watch what happens to my game from a distance :p Then test the heck out of it towards monday :)

Thanks!

Thank you , Ilya!!!

Force Feedback will be most welcomed!!

Thank you for your hard work!

Luthier, thanks for your hard and great work. You and your team have a nice weekend and HAPPY EASTER!!!

my very elite consulting, piping and rating bureau made of me and my cat is saying.. thiz game iz about to take off

Excellent news!

Luthier, is 64 bit .exe on your priority list?

Must ... resist ... the urge ... to .... keep ... pressing F5 ! :)

Today I forced my video card to run in 3d (not underclocked) mode instead of switching erratically from 2d/3d. It removed the stutters almost completely and made the game run much, much faster. Probably it won't be needed anymore after you introduce real full screen, but anyway I thought it may help some people before the new patch is released.

I hope you're not killing yourself, working around the clock..

This is awesome news though, but stay healthy! :D

Who can borrow me his F5 key?:-P

Edited it in, check the first post

Thank you very much.
Your support is exemplary and a real singular joy in todays software world.

ty

Thanks Ilya, downloading now, excellent job!!!!!

+1

Happy Easter

Download ing !, Thanks Luthier !!! :grin:

Brilliant!

Excellent.

Thank you and Happy Easter to you all. :D

Go home!

...and thanks!

Great thanks:cool:

XD
 

Eng:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SKKA0B31
Rus:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CD049M4M

Torrent:
Eng:
http://www.1cfiles.com/IL2_CliffsofD...14.zip.torrent
Rus:
http://www.1cfiles.com/IL2_CliffsofD...ru.zip.torrent[/QUOTE]

OH YEAH :D

Shall have a go later :D - so excited!

cheers!

More Thaks team and Luthier!!! Downloading!!! THKS!!!!!!

Thanks, great work guys!

Force feedback- does that mean that my Microsoft FFB 2 will work...Please post me an answer so I won't have to buy a new joystick right away for CloD....We don't get it until May here in the U.S. but I'd like to be prepared...

The FFB2 already worked, only with centering force though.

well how do i get this patch to work?i downloaded it.its a folder.i extracted the files in the steam il2 main folder.and the game wont start anymore!!!!!??

Welcome aboard mate, here too:-P

Shoot down in flames

I love you

nooo my heart just sank really? try varifing game cache and then deleting the files you put in, the put the download back in. if it still dont work then re-download and pray

Oh gawrsh. Did you guys get the torrent or the megaupload version?

This is extracted to
(Program Files)\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover

right?

Downloaded, extracted... works :D

But the misses is here so i cant play about with it now :(

downloaded patch - applied it as with all previous patches (which I had no problems with) - when I launch I get crosshairs, then nothing - Launcher process starts in task manager then stops. Thankfully with steam you just verify game files and it puts back the original ones, but would like to get the patch working if possible - any ideas? ( I already tried re downloading , un zipping and re-applying - no good) - looks like I may have to go to the pub early tonight after all... oh the inhumanity of it all ;-)

yeah same here. Verified, re-installed patch and just get the yellow crosshair

Megaupload btw

I got megaupload version - will try the torrent instead

Here megaupload

Torrent didnt work properly when i tried that so i went with megaupload Luthier maybe its the torrent file?
***EDIT Sorry IGNORE *********

Megaload (ENG) version working here.
Fullscreen and VSYNC work - card clocks properly now.
I can run it on high including SSAO now with only the occasional micro stutter and texture LOD switching (5850 default clocks / 6 gigs o RAM / Phenom Quad at 3 Ghz).
Thanks a bunch.

Likewise. Here is the message from the Log.txt file


[15:38:12] System.NotSupportedException: An attempt was made to load an assembly from a network location which would have caused the assembly to be sandboxed in previous versions of the .NET Framework. This release of the .NET Framework does not enable CAS policy by default, so this load may be dangerous. If this load is not intended to sandbox the assembly, please enable the loadFromRemoteSources switch. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=155569 for more information.
[15:38:12] at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.nLoadFile(String path, Evidence evidence)
[15:38:12] at System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFile(String path)
[15:38:12] at TFBKgsyill65evel7wl.LCbkCByvhDi1rMZJSZG.C1clhsa3Ko ThYVUIEeEp(Object )
[15:38:12] at TFBKgsyill65evel7wl.LCbkCByvhDi1rMZJSZG.ek0fT0HVLd 9()
[15:38:12] =================================================
[15:38:12] Application p

Torrent, no promblems, but i think Vsync is not working, FF is great, more testing...

same here megaupload , yellow crosshair then nothing.

torrents check file integrity

Well since this is working for some people and not the others, perhaps the problem is the OS?

We might have done something wrong using a .zip archive this time, when we used .rar before. Some people were having trouble opening .rar, perhaps the same is going on when unzipping out of a zip? Are you guys just using Windows Explorer? Select the two folders inside the zip and copy-paste? Make sure to replace all files?

Sorry about the troubles.

No problem for me, lets have another try and thank you for your assistance.

Yeah running Win 7 64 bit here. First thing I tried was copy the parts and paintschemes and paste them/overwrite all into the IL-2 ClOD Directory. Then launch. Nothing happens (yellow crosshair). Now I verified game integrity with steam, it re-downloaded the last patch version and I repeated the first steps. Copy paste, but now I only copied the parts subfolders core and bob and I've overwritten those. Still no start though.. Checked megaupload and re-downloaded the ~53 mb file and still no joy..


EDIT:::

GUYS TRY THIS:

Extract the .zip archive with winrar, then copy paste. worked for me!!!

Update - having tried the mega upload files and failed - I downloaded the torrent - torrent was a bit slower - but it now launches - looks like I'll be late for the pub tonight :cool:

S!

Use 7Zip, free and never had problems :)

Ok, gentlemen. Not really a problem. It is a security issue.
Once you get the zip file BEFORE extracting it, right click on it, go properties and click UNBLOCK.
Then extract and proceed as normal. :)

Antialiasing doesn't seem to work yet :(

When actual mission screen loads it only opens in on the left top side of my screen!! Tried changing resolution to no avail!!:(

When I use a smaller resolution than native I get a smaller window during missions, the GUI is fullscreen though.

Thank you Luthier and team for all of the hard work!!!

Downloaded torrent, opend with 7.zip (i only have 7.zip) and installed. Now its working.

Bug report: When the game changes resolution and goes from menu to actual gameplay, the window is very small and located in the bottom left corner of my screen, also many planes and pieces appear transparent.

AMD Phenom 2 x4
4Gig G.Skill Ram
HD5770

to all the guys who have problems launching remember you dont need any windows compatability mode or need to turn off aero now in theory as its full screen

Used Torrent, works ok , played one of new quick missions with quite a few planes in it (German attack -bridge).

Played for about 20 minutes fine, pressed Esc key to leave mission and it went staright to desktop, everything dead, task manager worked though so had to shut COD down through that.

Even though I'm on 'full screen' it stills flashes through the desktop screen between loading up a mission so looks like it froze when leaving the mission and on its way back to the menu screen.

Patch has reduced my fps by ~10.

OOOH yes FFB.

Thank you.


And the rest of course :)

Cheers KDN worked for me game now loads :)

Better FPS for me! Stutters over land still present.
In Black Death track 5-6 avg fps more.

Good work team! you are in the right direction!

Please fix radio comms!!! :grin:

Thanks Luthier,

i could see a little increase of the performance.

The AA seams to work much better and the landscape seams to be sharper. Furthermore the flickering of the trees is almost gone.

Over cities the frames drop to 15. But my CPU is still @ only 20% at all cores. Is it possible to assign the cores a higher priority?

If it is possible to get better framerates over cities, this will be the best simulation ever and if you can solve this issues until launch in the U.S. the game will be complete success.

On top of that at the coastline i can see block shadows on the steep coast.

Over water i still have tearing, while vsync is on!

Yeah I'm getting this as well, half a screen of game window and the rest desktop, while the GUI/Briefings etc are fullscreen.

Seeing an overall performance drop with this patch, I was running medium textures at 1900x1200 with a steady, if not brilliant framerate of 15-20 and no stutter after the last steam patch. With this beta patch, the stutter is back in a big way, even on low texture setting, definitely to do with the groundloading - buildings, trees etc. 24ish fps (slight increase) at 5000 feet, 13-15 still at 2000 feet, but the stutter is terrible again. Guessing this might be to do with the fact that it's now running at proper fullscreen resolution, so putting more strain on the gpu?

The texture quality setting seems to have less effect than it did before too. New briefings/etc all look great though. Thanks for all your hard work chaps!

Core i5 @ 3.6g overclocked.
ATI 5770 x 2 crossfired (only single card used tho).
Win 7 64.
4 Gig DDR3 @ 1300mhz.

Same Here.............. Gone back to previous version until that is fixed. Guess Luither is now in bed so no joy until next week!:(

When I select anything less than my native monitor resolution it runs in a window in spite of full screen checkbox being ticked. I assume 109 mixture/backfiring was not in patch as behaviour is still the same (quick launch mission - France - start at 200m imediateley get bumping/missfire with CEM & temp effects unless I go 100% throttle - as a workaround I'm flying with 100% throttle and using prop pitch to lower RPM's - workable for me as prop pitch is on a slider, but still a real pain- maybe the next patch.....)

Wait, this isn't true fullscreen?
I can still tab and have windows on top of the game while it's running.

I didn't think that was possible unless running in window mode.
My frame rates are also worse, and the game crashed for me..

Now i can play the game with my old 4870/512mb card!!!

S!

Got the same errors in Black Death when opening console. Posted them in separate thread in Technical Threads. There was a FPS boost for sure but stuttering came back more visibly when quickly testing Free Flight over Dover. Also got strange green grid anomaly on land over Calais. Extended to water. Will try clearing cache and see if it helps. Otherwise installed fine, like the new QMB interface. Would be nice to be able to change squadron too and not only skin and numbers.

Back to testing.

i'm sure that Vsync is not working.

+1

over water i still have tearing, with vsync on.

Downloaded and installed the beta patch without problem. Correct version number is showing in title screen, app now appears to be running in true fullscreen mode and additional features such as quick mission pre-mission briefing screens are present, so I'm confident that the patch is installed and running correctly.

However, I am experiencing a couple of problem with terrain assets when I first load a mission - e.g. the free flight in a Hurricane over Dover quick mission. First, I can see all of the terrain textures loading during the first 10-20 seconds of the mission. Initially, my plane is flying over blank terrain which I can see slowly loading. From an immersion/playability standpoint, this visible texture loading really takes me out of the game. Second, even after all of the terrain textures appear to have completed loading, the vast majority of buildings are not displayed even after I have been flying around for several minutes. I can see the ground textures where the buildings should be displayed but no 3D building objects are present. Even if I fly away from the initial area for several minutes no 3D buildings show up in the new areas either. If I exit the mission and then refly, the terrain assets load very quickly and the buildings show up.

I suspect that the worker thread responsible for loading terrain assets is under so much load when a mission is first launched that it fails to load the building assets. On subsequent reflies, many of the assets are already cached and the loader is then able to load the building assets correctly too.

This issue occurs consistently and is repeatable and occurs across various in-game video settings e.g. buildings unlimited/high, building detail medium/high, terrain detail medium/high

E6500 @3.85GHz
4GB DDR2
ATI HD 4850 w/ 1GB vRAM
Win7 Premium Home 64bit

way more stutters than before beta!!!london is again unflyable for me.
with kekedys mod(or however is name is) i had 20fps average and no stutters.last official patch i had 16-18fps average and some stutters over london,but it was flyable(not smooth though).no i have a slideshow.its like sightseeing and doing every four secongs a picture of the beautiful city london.

systemspecs:
-Mainboard S1156 INTEL DH55TC,Micro-ATX,bulk
-Prozessor INTEL Core i5-650,3,2GHz,LGA1156,Dual-Core,Boxed
-2x 2GB DDR3 RAM,1333MHz,CL9,KINGSTON ValueRAM
-PCI-E 2.1 SAPPHIRE Radeon HD5570,Lite Retail,Low Profile
-Windows 7Home Premium 64Bit

Exiting from mission to check options then hitting fly again results in tiny window open in top left corner and being unable to carry on playing :confused:

How to...
 

Hi experts,
stupid question but just in case: how do I install the new patch? Just unzip it to...where? To Program Files(x86)/Steam -folder...? That's the place where the game installed itself from DVD.

Brilliant for me - thanks.


i5 2500k @ 4ghz, gtx 460 x2, win7/64.

Works and run fine here on my old 4850 card, increase in fps also! Still cant figure out the loadout menu though lol.

It is nice that you can now choose your loadout for the campaign but it doesn't work. I tried loading tracers ammo for the Spit but there are none present when I fire(Incendiary Tracer rounds)

Tried one new quick - great! Fighting over France, playlable. 30 FPS.

Update, its seems that its not a complete reduction in FPS its a brief reduction in FPS when I get close to land or other aircraft.

The first patch got rid of this problem for me!!!

EDIT:

Reduction in FPS was caused by AA working :oops:

Hurricane (Roto) requires multiple down gear commands to lower the gear.
The first request gives gear in neutral state and the second down gives gear down state. Is this right? What would gear neutral state be?

Other craft may also have that, but haven't notice it yet...haven't flown that many different aircraft. But the others I have flown just have a gear up/down state.

The Hurricane gear acts more like flaps.

check what your AA setting is on, as pre patch AA did not work and now it does...so if you left it on 8 or something, its now working so you will see a drop in performance

All good here, minor reduction in fps but runs a lot smoother, heres hoping mp is more stable, no servers up atm to test :(

excellent performance love the new single player missions

HD 5750 is still stuck at 400mhz. Anyone else who had this problem before patch still having it?

Also, every time I hit escape it takes me to desktop first, then to the menu. Same thing going back, hit escape on menu screen, desktop, then back to game.

Do you cleaned up your Game Cache ..\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\cache ?

big fsp drop due to a big stutters every now and again, had very little stutter pre beta.
I get the Escape key sending me back to desktop making me thing maybe the full screen thing isnt quite there yet.

Dont clean game cache it will wipe the patch off because its not signed yet, unless thats what you want to do.

Just look right down in the hurricane cockpit...it has an H shaped switch for both flaps and gear. If you operate gear you can not operate flaps. So if you lowered flaps, the handle must go to the neutral and then you can operate gear

Want to start the new update on our servers with "launcher.exe -server"

It doesnt work. The Dos-Windows closed immediately.

Anyone an idea?


Greez Fox

Noticed three general improvements:

Higher FPS at higher graphics setting and normal GPU load.

No more twitching super-rolling AI. (Yes AI still does some violent manouvers, but now not the crazy-rolls)

Force Feedback is excellent, but: when you run out of ammo, the stick still shakes when pressing cannon/mg buttons. should be a quick fix ;)

With the latest patch can someone else see if they can select one of the preloaded tracks. I click on select but nothing happens. Cheers

How do you turn on FFB? I don't seem to have any on my G940.

VSync is working fine for me! I know because I have maxed 60fps when flying alone over the channel. HD6850 here with W7/32

No it won't, the cache has nothing to do with steams version checking, nor is it located under the games directories, it contains temporary files created every time a mission is run . Since the initial release if the launcher crashes on startup after updating, deleting the files found in the cache has allowed to the launcher to run in many cases.

Navigate to "\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover", and open "conf.ini" in notepad or similar,then search for [rts_joystick] there should be a single entry in this block FF=x ensure it is set to 1, save and close.

One note, FFB takes a little while to affect the stick after launching into a mission there is some delay before it kicks in.

Can't get it to launch with the new patch. A few seconds of the Target Icon and then it fails.

/Steam/steamapps/common/il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover

Just put it in the last map


rgr

ok if you say it works for you.

S!

Ok, cleared Cache and re-launched game. Graphical issues solved. Stutter was still there no matter what so began testing. Finally disabled Grass = game smooth as ever. The FPS is much more solid at higher detail levels and resolutions. Still at Free Flight over France the industrial complexes noticeably kill FPS.

The "3 stripes of horizon" are visible up to around 1200m (~4000ft) and after that they begin to blend to the fog disappearing from sight. Not a game killer for me, but sure worth a look.

Shadows flicker on trees mostly, clouds are fine. Tracks can not be used as testing for graphical things as there ALL shadows flicker, also the ones from clouds. But noticed increase in average FPS in Black Death, which is more important than maximum. Also minimum was bit better. We could use a Loop option for tracks like in old IL-2 as they seem to run better after a few times.

The console error messages are not present in QMB at least so must be track related issues. Can it be that if track is made on other machine/version it MIGHT cause these messages in current version?

A few more patches and we will see how CrossFire will work. Eagerly waiting for that as I have another 6970HD pending already ;) Make sure to file driver feedback to AMD if any issues, but would good to hear from Luthier & Team of their experiences/issues with AMD so we can report things that actually are from drivers, not the game code.

Back to testing.

This might be related the new full screen mode. If you turned off 'Aero' desktop composition for Launcher.exe then try putting it back on and you'll see the standard windows File Select dialog.

Thanks for the patch :)

Some things seems broken though , like in the quick mission builder I select a different plane apart from the Hurricane but the Hurricane still keeps being used. FPS seem to have been lost also.

S!

I have Aero off and no problems with the tracks, can select them fine.