Il-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs Of Dover Retail Patch v 1.01.14550

[dflion]

Originally Posted by klem

I don't think Steam has anything to do with FPS.

Sounds like your PC couldn't connect to Steam Cloud to check and upload any personal settings changes made on another PC. Of course you may not have made any, or even used another PC, and it may be just a standard worded Steam message to let you know it can't connect. I assume you checked your internet connection is ok?

You can disable the Cloud setting if you are happy not to use another PC to play or happy that any changes elsewhere won't get fed back to your main PC. Many of us have done that (it's a synchronisation thing, nothing to do with Steam updates).

Open Steam and go to Library.
Right click on CoD and select Properties.
Select the Updates Tab.
Under 'Steam Cloud' untick 'Enable Steam Cloud synchronisation for IL-2 Cliffs of Dover'
Close

You'll see on that Tab that there is a separate selection for Automatic Updates so you haven't affected that. Leave that on 'Always keep this game up to date' unless you have a reason not to.

It doesn't answer why you got that message so if your internet connection was ok it must be something else and that's where I have to drop out.

Thanks for your detailed reply klem. I beg to differ that if you don't sync with 'Steam' it won't effect your FPS. As soon as I went online and opened 'Steam' I got the following message.

"Steam - Cloud sync conflict"
'!' Your local Il-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover files conflict with the ones stored in Steam Cloud.

Cloud files
Last modified Thursday, May 19, 2011 'Download to this machine' (button)

Local files
Last modified today 'Upload to Steam Cloud' (button)

'Cancel - don't copy anything new' (button)

Note: You'll have to choose one of the other two options above in order to play the game.

I pressed 'Upload to Steam Cloud' (button) to fulfill the threat, then immediately went into the game (staying online) and flew the missions I had been working on today. All missions ran at 70-90FPS without a problem???
I don't like the 'standard worded Steam messages'. I think the 'Steam' middlemen that we are working with are an unecessary burden on trying to get this flight sim working properly.

DFLion