Il-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover: Patch 1.0.13954

[Insuber]

Patch installed smoothly; game runs OK. Fps seemed to increase from 19 average on sea to 22 average (mission "Bomber intercept", 6 bombers and 3 hurricanes). Still a lot of freezes down to 1 fps on my low-end machine, when approaching other planes or buildings. Freezes and low fps on land.
ClOD is not playable on my machine, atm. But the few that I can see is beatiful ... tried the G50, it is gorgeous ... easy handling, maneuverable, stable fire platform ... beautiful cockpit ... I am considering an HW upgrade just to play this sim. Tried to disable aero desktop thing, no effect whatsoever apart from a warning of incompatibility when launching ClOD.

Settings:
1280*800
AA 2x
shadows off
grass off
roads off
models high
buildings very low
terrain low
forest very low
effects high
damages high
terrain shadows low

BUG-1: the sound of the Fiat G.50 guns continue for a couple of seconds after releasing the trigger.
BUG-2: the AI tend to crash into the sea/land by their own, when dogfighting at low alt. All of my AI G.50 mates died this way ... and a couple of enemy planes as well.
BUG-3: under negative g the Merlin never shuts down, it just sputters and turns low revs. No way to turn it off by neg G.


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Windows 7 32 bit
ASUS P5K-E
3,00 GHz E8400 Intel Core2 Duo
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB
2 GB DDR
INTEL SSD 80 GB
Maxtor HDD SATA 7200 rpm 250 GB
SAMSUNG HDD SATA 7200 rpm 1000 GB
SAMSUNG HDD SATA 7200 rpm 500 GB
SAMSUNG HDD SATA 7200 rpm 500 GB
Iiyama PLE2607WS