Im glad to report that:

[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

Last official update/hotfix fixed stuttering/pausing. No more CPU dropouts affecting GPU performance.

Full screen works great on my system. I was surprised by true widescreen. After benchmarking the Black Death track hundreds of times - I never released that I was not seeing true widescreen - until I saw it while benchmarking this version.

S!

Gunny

[HamishUK]

Agreed game is very smooth now....Still a long way to go but it's a massive improvement over release!

[Wolf_Rider]

Devs may need to redo the Blackdeath track... I get a message in console that a shader file can't be found

[HFC_Dolphin]

With latest patch I had my firct CtD, but I hope it's just a random incident.

In general I agree, that things seem to get better.
Hopefully beta period will end in a couple of months and we'll start playing latest by Autumn!

[Seeker]

It's a mixed blessing.

There were six guys on my squad night last night, and all could get on the SYN server (and off again!) with no problems, and while we saw either some amazing warps (or blatant print screening, does that still work?), by and large the flying was the smoothest so far.

But we all had sound problems, every one of us having to restart the game a couple of times through out the evening.

Now, most of my Squad are far from being Black Viper when it comes to Windows tweaking, it has to be said, but when such a wide range of HW, OS and config are hit by the same phenomenon then I think it's fair to say Clod is the culprit, and not some esoteric sound card driver issue.

the guys who are getting proper fullscreen, can you test for me I'd appreciate it very much:

1.Set windows sound scheme to on
2.Go into COD, and map a function say like flaps etc to your keyboard, if you hear the ding or noise from windows sounds then its not working properly still.

OR

Take a video of the start up slash untill the main menu. I used fraps and it recorded the black and white stripe screen after the reticle splash screen. This also shows it isnt in proper fullscreen.

OR Video the game menus it just wont work for me

Below is what i get if i try the video the games start sequence. Fullscreen is not fixed. i think you will see this if you just try any of those things above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3ip0EJtIuE

[David198502]

for me unfortunately the stutters increased much since the last official patch.
with the beta patch i could fly over london almost smooth and only minor stutters.now the screen freezes for 5-10seconds(and not only once).its unplayable again.luthiers suggestion,to set buildings detail to high or lower doesnt help either.
i have squares of green and brown all over the map.fps dropped from average 50 to 40 over land.if i want to quit a mission and hit escape,i will see windows desktop(i have to push it about 30times until i see the clod interface again).and all that after a fresh install of the game and with the latest drivers and steam cloud on as suggested by luthier.im pissed

[131st_Impact]

S!!
Well i dont know if this helps because im new to windows 7.
but none of my games go to the screensaver when i leave the computer for a few mins
but il2 cod do. i could be wrong but doesnt the screensaver get disabled by fullscreen applications?