Beta Patch – and we mean BETA!

[Derinahon]

I tested before and after in four different quick missions. My lowest FPS has increased over land, but the stuttering is worse, especially when taking my first looks left and right. After half a minute things do settle down, but overall I have more stutter now, even over the channel.

Before and after FPS:

Free Flight Channel

Min 48 Max 73 Av 52
Min 44 Max 96 Av 58


Free Flight England

10, 70, 48
27, 53, 36


London Sight Seeing

5, 52, 33
13, 78, 26


Dogfight Even

39, 59, 52
19, 58, 46

I'm running slightly optimistic settings: high detail and everything on, except Buildings, building detail and forest which are on medium. AA is 2x. This was previously OK and I like the eye candy so don't mind slightly less FPS. Now though, I think the stutter will be a problem.

i7 930 2.93
HD6970 2GB
128GB Corsair C300 SSD
Windows 7 64

Forgot to say, now I get a black screen on loading. Need to Ctrl+Alt+Del > Task manager to get it going.

[242Sqn_Chap]

No issues here.
(although had to take a bit of time to get all of the beta files into the correct place with a steam install.)

'First impression' here is that its probably slightly smoother. (but I got playable performance anyhow with the original.)

edit:-
'Flickering' is gone with the houses.
Also the Black artifact from what looked to be a 'textbox' before.

i5 2600k 4GB Ram ATI 6850 'Toxic' Win7 64bit (not overclocked in any way.) Medium or High setting 4xAA, Shadows on.

[pancake]

Also an improvement here, nothing groundbreaking but can fly almost smoothly with few planes over sea, and on much reduced settings I can jerkily fly over land now. Putting shadows on wiped this out however, even over sea. Still its a start....

Oh, my modest specs: athlon II x3 440 3GHz, 4G Ram, Geforce 240, Win7 64.

[etzi]

I have to say, that the performance is a little bit better.

A few more fps and the stuttering is a bit better, but still disapointing, if you compare it with my system.

There are not so many flickering textures as before.

Thank you very much Luthier!

[NLS61]

Strangely enough I exeperienced a serious down grade of the game.
Where I was havinge some but no severe micro stutters and good frame rates at meduim settings, I now have the same microstutters and BIG freezes where the game stalles for multiple second on row and that frequent.
Was the game before playable it now is unbearable.
My system.
ASUS P8P67 EVO 2500k 4Ghz msi gtx560ti 4gb ram 13333 kingston and a wee big Mugen2 cooler.
OS win7 32bit
Niels

[etzi]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

perhaps you can politely acknowledge my claims were not as false as you claimed?

Sure some improvements, but not "massive" as you said. But it goes ahead.

Another problem i have is the visible black framework on the ground at the horizon. Hope you can see it on the picture.

[Derinahon]

Originally Posted by etzi

Sure some some improvements, but not "massive" as you said. But it goes ahead.

Another problem i have is the visible black framework on the ground at the horizon. Hope you can see it on the picture.

I had this with my 6970. If you force AF on in CCC it goes away. I use 8x, seems to do the trick.

[15JG52_Brauer]

I'm getting a small fps increase over London at 1680x1050 I recorded a track of the London intercept mission and played it back as a benchmark, as we used to do with the black death track.

[luthier]

Hi everyone. Thank you so much for helping us test this patch!

Some additional points:

1. The no-full-screen issue is actually a WIP feature. Until today, CoD only supported a pseudo full screen mode, i.e. a stretched window with no borders. Post-patch we'll have three modes: window, pseudo full screen, and true full screen. We just don't have a GUI switch for it yet, and it can't set it right.
This will be addressed in the live version of the patch.

2. As the patch mainly addressed graphics, the performance gain should have been most noticeable on older machines. The faster your videocard, the less increase in FPS. Eventually your CPU becomes the limiting factor.

3. We do have some additional optimizations that didn't make the beta, like I said. Trees are now a bit faster, and we've optimized block loading, the periodic load-unload of large terrain swatches as you move across the map.

4. If you cannot launch the game, I don't have a fix at this time. We're trying to figure out why this may be happening. Probably a version mismatch somewhere, or it may be connected to the #1 above.
If you wish, you can downgrade to the earlier version by simply right-clicking the game in steam, selecting Properties, and then going to Local Files - Verify Integrity of Local Cache.

And the most important note. If you notice REDUCED performance, crashes, or any kind of other crippling issues, it is extremely important you post your system specs including your version of Windows. That's the only way we can troubleshoot your problem and make sure it disappears by tomorrow!

Thanks again everyone, please keep at it!

[Dano]

Originally Posted by luthier

And the most important note. If you notice REDUCED performance, crashes, or any kind of other crippling issues, it is extremely important you post your system specs including your version of Windows. That's the only way we can troubleshoot your problem and make sure it disappears by tomorrow!

Thanks again everyone, please keep at it!

Core2Duo E6600, 4GB Ram, 8800GTS (640MB, 266.58 Drivers), Windows 7 x64, not sure about reduced performance as I can get around 20fps in the pit but the stutter is far worse.

I also am having the following issues:

Tree setting to 'very low' loads as 'none' and has to be reset (there is no performance difference between off or very low).
Commands do not work reliably, ie; Print Screen, Gear, Mixture, etc etc. (Anthropomphic is set to off).