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Originally Posted by Mysticpuma (Post 451051)

Having installed the patch after clearing the Cache I am pleased to say so-far I have not had a single Launcher Crash (I only play offline at the moment).

I tried the recommended setting of 'Medium' but although it may run smoother I found the aircraft looked flat and boring and seeing as this is where I will be spending most of my time I tried a few tweaks to the Graphics.

After much fiddling I think I have at-least found my 'sweet spot' which gives me playable frame-rates (only dropping when there is a big explosion) and I have to say it really is nice to start to be able to see the game running consistently.

I will be honest though I really, really hate the building 'pop-up' a legacy from the old IL2 (which I though was improved in a previous patch?), so I have dropped the buildings down to low.

All-in-all though I feel these are certainly big steps in the right direction and I hope to see more improvements (not only because I will be getting a 670 next-week!) as future patches are made.

Worth the wait IMHO. I have seen one graphic bug so-far (texture seem/join on top of nose of Spitfire is see-through), but nothing that makes me think the game is not moving in the right direction.

Anyway I am attaching my settings and I am really pleased with thing so-far.

Cheers, MP

Windows 7 Ultimate SP1
Processor: Intel i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (stock speed)
Memory: 6GB (3x2GB) Corsair XMS3 DDR3 PC3-1600Mhz
Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E
Graphics: MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr (stock speed)
Nvidia Driver 301.42
CPU Cooling: Thermaltake Frio Cooler
Power: thermaltake toughpower 800w 80Plus Silver
Case: Antec 900
Track IR 4 with Track IR 5 software
Thrustmaster Cougar fully modded with Gimbal and Hall Sensors
Simpeds

I can't speak to online play (like you I only play offline). What I noticed first after installing this patch was enabling the cockpit mirror no longer affected my FPS. Prior to this patch my FPS would drop as much as 15 with it enabled. Clearly a positive change.

I also run the game with vsync enabled to reduce tearing at 1900x1200 and with my system specs I thankfully enjoy an avg 40 fps frame rate at low level or on the ground at high settings.

Another plus is Nvidia's current driver version for my GTX 570 SC permits enabling FXAA which really cleans up the jaggies.

Bottom line, as others have stated, the better your hardware the better the game will look and run.

I followed the steps posted elsewhere here for applying the patch, verifying the files, deleting the cache, ect. I then put the files into the sim that's been patched and re-patched several times. Every launch would would end up in a lock up or the game would quit responding. Redid the patch several times with the same result. Finally I deleted the game and re-downloaded. Went thru all the steps again. Result, over three hours of play without a glitch. Absolutely unheard of for me. I know it isn't supposed to make any difference as far as the patching goes, but it worked for me. If you're still having issues it is worth a try.

As far as the patched sim goes, IMHO, it actually seems much improved in many respects. Much smoother, much more stable. Definitely a step in the right direction. I sure hope this points towards an end product we all have longed for.

Thanks for making major progress with the bomb sight. Also the crash bug that always happened first time you went into controls and tried to load a config. Gone. So far very good!

So i did a new WIn 7 install! Installed everything (Win 7 and game) on my new Samsung 830 256 GB SSD and everything seems to work fine!. I got 45 fps standing on the ground with everything on very high! and 35 to 55 fps over land! Over Water its much more! I dont know what happend but the game plays totally different now? BTW the SSD seemed to help with the stuttering when you fly over many trees packed together! Its only noticable when i really look at it for a longer time! Have to test how the game behaves with human players or bomber near me.

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Originally Posted by ATAG_Dutch (Post 451406)

Understandable. As you can see from the sig, my pc isn't hot poop by any stretch these days.

Dangit, that's pretty much the kind of PC I dream of upgrading to. Especially the i7.

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Originally Posted by Attila (Post 451354)

No performance boost with SSD ! But it's damn fast to start the PC and Win7 is faster too! That's the only (good) reason to buy a SSD!

Plus if you fly FSX with a lot of scenery and aircraft addons, you'll find that load times are siginficantly improved (about 4x faster in my case) but as with CoD no performance boost

Been comparing release version V current patch, seem very similar.

(1) FPs about the same, no improvement.
(2) graphics, patch LOD slightly not as good - some flickering in looking at terrain. clouds sometimes suddenly appear.
(3) Patch guns firing / tracers better.

no CTD yet.

Still testing

FPS issues have really almost disappeared for me now with most things on high/on. (E8400, GTX 460 1GB, 4GB ram). Had a great time flying online earlier despite finding it difficult to track enemies in a fight (no headtracking, padlock not allowed). No CTDs, averaged 40fps which is great for my machine, low of 7 and max of 70 (vsync on).

I am not sure to what extent the fix is due to the beta or the issue I was having with my GPU where it would run in 2D mode, not powered up to 3D mode that I managed to fix.

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Originally Posted by GraveyardJimmy (Post 451686)

Jimmy I have an almost identical system to you and overall this patch has seen a very decent improvement. It's now much, much smoother. Well done Luthier and team.

If you don't have a headtracker of any sort then I'd leave v-sync off for another boost in fps.

Hmm, not seeing any real improvement at all apart from the "turn your settings down for greater performance" effect. I get a solid 27fps with most things set to high. It remains at 27 even when I drop things down to medium/low. The only real boost is derived from switching shadows off. Then I get about 35-40.