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IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Latest instalment in the acclaimed IL-2 Sturmovik series from award-winning developer Maddox Games.

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Old 08-31-2011, 12:22 AM
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Sweet!!!

Also it seems to me:

a) the shadows doesn't flicker anymore
b) the water and wave animation has been updated.

Anyway, waiting for that beta.

Cheers!
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Old 08-31-2011, 02:50 AM
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Sweet!!!

Also it seems to me:

a) the shadows doesn't flicker anymore
b) the water and wave animation has been updated.

Anyway, waiting for that beta.

Cheers!
When inside the plane the shadows seem to still be flickering. Outside the plane they never did flicker...me thinks
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Old 08-31-2011, 03:29 AM
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have to wait there until release, to see exactly what is going on there though...

flickery cockpit shadow edges seems to be a DX/ AA thing, as the shadow edges creepy crawl in other sims too.
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Old 08-31-2011, 04:07 AM
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Did you all miss the changes that the 22mb download just delivered ???

Ok so I have been up for about 36 hours playing IL@COD and working on a new Dynamic AI Air & Ground units campaign setup that is smaller and faster for servers online.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=25707

BUUUT!!!

As soon as I saw the download happening. I deleted my Cache files, Deleted my config files and then went into my properties on Steam and checked th cloud ini file thing and did a data file validation. All was good no changes there.


Loaded IL2, set options to FULL Graphics and 8xaa and sson on (whatever) and ran 30 seconds of single mission over english coast. Both in cockpit and outside.

yes flickering and crap. But the speed of looking around the cockpit and the visual inside cockpit was smoother and WAY FASTER.

So I think the 22mb download was a little fix to DX and AA maybe..

Anyway a noticible improvement in smoothness from what was already good on my rig.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=25707
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Old 08-31-2011, 05:23 AM
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You're smoothness might just be a result of clearing all the cache. I haven't noticed anything different after the 27mb update.
No, he's 100% right!

I clean cache every new patch. Do the same now. HUGE performance increase.

Again...

HUGE performance increase, really amazing! I launch the quick mission over London, all highest, even SSAO, but without native FSAA (still don't working right) and Land Detail on "medium" No stutters bigger than tiny ones in knows streaming spots, no more crazy highres textures stopping fluid gameplay! Really great! Maybe here I noticed more gains in performance than Wolf because my rig is much more modest.

And after I launch my "test mission" over Dover! I was much more happy! The anoying stutters when you start engaging big bombers formations are almost gone! I'm uploading a video now, really big gains in performance, and I can't say it's "placebo" or just cache cleaning... Something BIG change in this "shadow" tiny patch!

And I'm VERY HAPPY!
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Old 08-31-2011, 05:51 AM
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Sorry, but I have to ask since I just don't know.

The patch will be a beta. Will this be downloaded automatically via steam or will it have to be installed manually via a download link?

Never used a beta patch before. Thanks for any answers in advance.

And of course the sounds in the vid are awesome. All in all I really like what I am seeing there.
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Old 08-31-2011, 05:53 AM
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I cleared the cache etc. and got a performance boost. Not huge, but noticable.
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Old 08-31-2011, 06:14 AM
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so far I'm impressed with the distance sounds. But why was there no explosions still?
It's just that the video cuts before the low-altitude bomb fuse delay expired. It takes 14 seconds from bomb impact (which we see in the video) to detonation when using the low altitude fuse. (using the high altitude one the bombs don't explode at all, not enough "falling time" to arm themselves).



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Sorry, but I have to ask since I just don't know.

The patch will be a beta. Will this be downloaded automatically via steam or will it have to be installed manually via a download link?

Never used a beta patch before. Thanks for any answers in advance.

And of course the sounds in the vid are awesome. All in all I really like what I am seeing there.
Official patches are downloaded via Steam. Beta patches are distributed by links given out in a thread similar to this (posted by Luthier and stickied by the mods) and they are usually compressed archives using the .rar format.

What you do is download it on your PC and then extract it into the main game folder (steam\steamapps\common\il2-sturmovik cliffs of dover). It will ask you to overwrite already existing instances of some files, allow it. If for any reason you want to roll back to the previous official (non-beta) patch, simply running a file verification through steam will detect the altered files and replace them with the last known "approved" configuration as per the latest official patch.
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Old 08-31-2011, 05:32 PM
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looking forward to this ..hope i can download out here , lol....
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