Beta Patch – and we mean BETA!

[Bungmiester]

Stuttering has been reduced for me over land and in london, but still getting them the freezing but not as bad. lot better with trees off, but not over london makes no difference wth trees on or off,
all settings on medium except
landshading , building textures and forests all set to low' no grass
screen res 1070 x 768
sys spec
P5N-D asus motherboard with onboard sound
E8400 3 ghz processor
windows vista 64 bit
8 gig corsair ram
GTX 460 graphics card
all dirivers up to date

[Immermann]

Since this is running in a windowed mode (which usually slows things down, cause it must keep the desktop in memory too, right?), I wonder if those of you who report speed ups have Windows Aero turned off?

[gabuzomeu]

Hi,
FPS improved vs previous version, +5 FPS in 1680x1050 (from 13 to 18 above land , from 20 to 25+ over water)
A complete lookaround , loading landscape, improve frames and stutter.
Very limited impact in FPS when changing quality settings

Two remaining problems not answered by dev team in posts
No noticeable impact of the antiepilepsy switch
GPU clock still stuck at 500MHz (should be 870!); This HAS to be part of the problem.

Well, overall an improvment, game is almost playable with normal settings ! (well, avoid London still)

Thanks for patch and dev team efforts



P5BE Plus Asus
Q9650, 3.0 GHz
Win 7 - 64
4 GB RAM
ATI 4890, 1 GB VRAM

[mcdaniels]

Hello folks!
Thx 4 the patch, but it only makes my game crashing when starting a single mission, campaign or trying to start a free flight.

Everytime the loading progress bar reaches approximatly 20% i got an Error that launcher.exe has to be finished (is not reacting) thats it.

When i start a british campaign, i can read the english (british introduction text AND after a click on FLY i also can read ther german introduction text of the campaing. So anything is wrong here too.

Ive got the EU - GERMAN Version of COD. Does it matter in any case? The Game is German , the Patch English? Perhaps the Game crashes because of that?

Greetings
Daniel

[lucky79]

Hi,

I've noticed big improvement post-patch, getting avg 30fps over London and 50 over water with custom settings (1680x1050 mostly medium, buildings low, trees off, shadows off, grass on, roads on), game still looks awesome quite smooth gameplay stuttering completely disappeared when I disabled Aero desktop in Windows 7 (!!) but there are micro freezes little bit which I assume is my GFX bottleneck however the game is playable for me

Anyone noticed the MP server browser is now working?

Btw. I think this game needs latest GFX like GTX580 or eq ATI singlecore (until they figure out SLI / Crossfire support ) with lots of mem so not sure why people complain about performance. It was playable for me before beta patch and my rig is 2 years old (already?)...so an upgrade is worth to do - will need it for BF3 anyway

A friend has similar results with his intel quadcore @ 2,5GHz (not sure about the type) and ASUS MB with same GFX like me, W7 64bit

the rig:
Win 7 64-bit
Q9650 @ 3,6GHz
4GB DDR3 @ 1066
ASUS Striker II Extreme
GTX280 OC 1GB x2 (no SLI for CoD)
OS and CoD on 60GB SSD


Thanks and keep up the great work

[mazex]

It really would be interesting to have an option "Buildings off" as I really feel like many others that it is the buildings and not the trees that is the problem? Just to try it out?

[reflected]

Slight improvement:

Everything maxed out except for trees = very low, buildings=low, b.detail=very low. 1900x1080 here. specs in my sig.

Pre patch I got massive stutters and 25-30 fps low down. Now I get 30-35, and even more higher up or above the water. And it's a bit smoother too. The trees don't seem to cause that much stutters anymore though it's hard to tell.
However, I get plenty of microfreezes/ stutters when buildings come in sight.
I'm 100% sure: it's the buildings.

[335th_GRAthos]

- English version with English Beta does not start on my rig
- Russian version with Russian Beta is working
(yes, I have two - No, you do not get my extra activation codes)

I post these pictures because I can directly compare pre- and after-beta patch.
More pictures with higher settings to follow soon.

Flying window 1280x1024 using settings (no trees) as below
(screenshot from English version - same in Russian as they use the same conf.ini)

Game is definitively smoother no stutters at all
Same fps
Less VRAM used
1128MB before (look at the GPU-Z far right) vs 988Mb now (140MB RAM savings) NOT BAD
Interestingly enough, GPU usage is still 60%
My CPU load is much less 19% vs 30% before



THIS IS PHOTO UNPATCHED (ver. 13820) 3840x resolution, move sliders to the right to see the game


THIS IS PHOTO PATCHED (ver. beta 13915) 3840x resolution, move sliders to the right to see the game



I hope this helps.
I will continue testing with higher settings...


Now increasing the settings to HIGH (I hope my Russian is correct)...looks Greek to me...


THIS IS PHOTO PATCHED (ver. beta 13915) 3840x resolution, move sliders to the right to see the game


Only 33fps (photo shows 30 but it is 33)
THE GPU LOAD OF 53% IS WRONG, MY GPU WAS CONSTANTLY AT 73% WHILE FLYING!
Now the CPU load has also increased, 27%
No real stutters but it was noticable that the movement was NOT very fluid.

I must admit tht so much detail is a straight o v e r k i l l I will definitively not be using so much in my gam (I fly dogfghts not sightseeing...)
On the other side, with SLI this could be nice...

On the other side, inside the cockpit the situation looks BETTER !
Cockpit view is less wide than External view, this seems to make life easier.
28-30 fps and NO STUTTERS, VERY FLUID game, despite being low above the houses.
THIS IS PHOTO PATCHED (ver. beta 13915) 3840x resolution, move sliders to the right to see the game



FINALLY the first shot with the GPU working at 77% percent
THIS IS PHOTO PATCHED (ver. beta 13915) 3840x resolution, move sliders to the right to see the game



Flying over London with the same settings is not possible, too low fps.
But I noticed for the first time that the GPU clock speed changes !
Inside the cockpit, the GPU works at full speed (look at the GPU-Z information, Core, Memory and Shader clock)
THIS IS PHOTO PATCHED (ver. beta 13915) 3840x resolution, move sliders to the right to see the game


External view, the GPU works at low speeds !!!! (look at the GPU-Z information Core, Memory and Shader clock)
THIS IS PHOTO PATCHED (ver. beta 13915) 3840x resolution, move sliders to the right to see the game



~S~

[mcdaniels]

so will i have to use the RUS Patch for German Version to work? What do you advice me to do? As i mentioned above i ve got the German Version... The ENG Patch only screws up my game, so I cannot start any sort of fligt... Keeps Crashing..

My PC
Phenom X3 720 @ 2.8 Ghz
Nvidia GFORCE GTS 250 1GB
4 GB RAM
60 GB SSD Drive
Win 7 Pro

[Fenice_1965]

it seems better for me with the patch, but still not enjoyable on my rig.
neither over the sea (with 6 against 6 planes).
Athlon quad core 3,1 ; 250 gts 512 ; 4 gb ram ; raid array.