Reviewing Luthier's roadmap

[Gollum]

Originally Posted by jimbop

Remember Luthier's roadmap?
1. Performance increase. Over terrain, the two things that slow things down the most are trees and buildings. We are currently in final stages of testing optimized buildings that almost double the FPS over London on a test machine.
Tree optimization is a little farther away. You will probably see changes in how trees are rendered, they’ll take longer to appear over terrain, but once again, performance increase should be significant.
If everything tests correctly over the weekend, both of these should be released by early to mid next week.

- Achieved. Always room for improvement but do you remember performance before the Kegetys mod and subsequent official patch?

My game runs worse than it did when it first came out before the first patch.

[Tiger27]

Originally Posted by Gollum

My game runs worse than it did when it first came out before the first patch.

Have you tried a full re-install from steam, most people have seen a large improvement since the early patches, I know CoD has lots of issues but I would suggest in this case the problem may be at your end, worth a try, if you have enough spare bandwidth to download the files again.

Surely having to do a reinstall everytime a patch comes out is ludicrous? We shouldnt be wiping anything. Is it a steam fault as files are not being replaced properly or is it the game not redirecting updates correctly to the right places?

[Blackdog_kt]

What actually happened is that they got rid of a bunch of legacy settings in the .ini files that were leftovers from the pre-release testing times.

This happened 2-3 patches ago but steam doesn't include the documents folders in its patching routine, so it's perfectly possible to be running a current patch with outdated configuration files.

The way it seems to work is that the .ini files in the main game folder (steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover) are used as an initial "blank" and when you run the sim they are copied over to the documents\1c softclub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover folder. From that point on, whatever change you make in your controls, on-screen overlay windows and so on are stored in those .ini files within the documents folders.

The way to correct it is delete both sets of files and have steam do a file integrity check. This will pull the up to date .ini files and place them in the main game folder, then when you run the sim it will copy them to the documents sub-folder. From that point on you have updated files.

You will need to reapply your realism settings, controls and graphics options. To save you some time, it's possible to go to the controls options screen and save your keymaps to a separate file before you go about deleting and validating files. Then, after you get the new .ini files you can load that custom file back in the sim, its structure is compatible with the new .ini files, to save you the time of having to redo all your controls.

[furbs]

*timesink on* yep, because you should have to do all that with every patch on every sim.

[Gollum]

Originally Posted by Tiger27

Have you tried a full re-install from steam, most people have seen a large improvement since the early patches, I know CoD has lots of issues but I would suggest in this case the problem may be at your end, worth a try, if you have enough spare bandwidth to download the files again.

Yes, I just did this a after latest patch... Still no AA, still FPS drop since 2 patches ago, Still studders since 2 patches ago. Also, noticed deteriorating performance if I play a mission and then play another one afterward.

Performance was poor last time I tried MP too. Game worked great before 2 patches ago. I have a high end computer. I'm just worried because the 4 items mentioned above are not found anywhere on the devs "to do" list. They did mention "comparatively minor" performance items to be fixed in 2 months time but these don't seem minor to me.

I don't mind waiting for them to be fixed if they take a while but it seems as if they aren't working on them.

-Gollum

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by furbs

*timesink on* yep, because you should have to do all that with every patch on every sim.

Maybe i didn't make myself clear enough, so let's clarify. This is NOT required for every patch. It's only required ONCE if you installed the sim before mid-May or thereabouts and not at all if you installed at a later date, since you have the latest version through Steam. Hope it helps, cheers

[furbs]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Maybe i didn't make myself clear enough, so let's clarify. This is NOT required for every patch. It's only required ONCE if you installed the sim before mid-May or thereabouts and not at all if you installed at a later date, since you have the latest version through Steam. Hope it helps, cheers

My most humble and sincere apologies. *bows out gracefully and retires*