After a complete reinstall my game is running better than ever and I can even run it at higher settings. I'm used to the cockpit now I think, but the landscape colours do look a bit off to me.

In Steam right click on your Cliffs menu (left side in library) and select 'properties'
Click the Local Files tab and then 'Verify Integrity of Game Cache'

This will roll the game back to the last 'Official' patch

Thank You, Sir.

I hve to say that after a syst restart the game ran well without a single CTD in 5 hours.

Regarding the colors I don't like them either. I know that everybody has his own opinion but now I feel like flying in a Marvel comics book.

I did a clean install and let Steam restore to the latest official patch, then copied the patch 2 and the hotfix. No crashes after a couple of online flights (approx 1 h overall). All maxed out/on, except for the anti-epilepsy (the reinstall restored the epilepsy on, dunno why). Smooth flight as before the patch, and better overall lighting/colors. I agree that the 109 cockpit looks too contrasted.

I like the colors and sound, I like the fact that the interior and outside doesn't look like Im in a perpetual haze..just my opinion..to each his/her own....in the end...we will get what we get, and hopefully different individuals will be able to do various environment mods like SH5, if this is possible with this game...dont see why not, but Im not a programmer.

I do not like the cockpit of the beta patch Bf109
is terrible, but I loved before

I do like the landscape color now. Seems less cartoonish, something that's plagued IL2 from it's very beginnings.

Game locks during graphically intense moments and i have to hit Alt/Tab/delete to crash the game, so far this only happens on the on-line maps...I played a good long mission on teh BoB map, no worries, but the on line maps seem pretty pokey. This is new, previously it might halt for a while and then carry on but now it locks, otherwise it looks pretty good, other thing is despite mapping my keyboard to oil and engine cooling on the 109e4 it didn't work.

I've a quad6600, 4gb RAM and a Gt9800 GPU.

Insuber..are you really running a 550 psu with your cared and cpu? any problems? I have an 850, and thinking of buying your card..thought I might even need more power..thanks