Patch Beta 2 - v15866 - October 5, 2011

[Mr Greezy]

That ReadME looks a lot like the one from the previous patch. Am I missing something?

[Ailantd]

It is not the 109, it is a general change in cockpit rendering, something like very very very high contrast that looks terrible in every plane. What a mess they have done here. I´m starting to be a bit scared: I think they have lost the north in colors completely. Hope this is not what they say looks good. I´m returning to previous patch until this is fixed. That cockpits kills all the immersion and beauty. I can´t even judge the outside colors with that incredible over contrasted cockpits in my retina.

[Skilgannon506]

Aye, I will have to revert to the previous beta until the official patch is released and hope that they can fix this abortion of an "improvement".

Ahhhhhhh, progress......

[Skiiwa]

Downloading now from the Nice Nor guy that posted a link....Im scared to install it! CRAP!!! Still no AI commands? The colors were fine the way they were. That can be tweaked by modders. Fix the COre please!! Colors are not IMPORTANT if I cant play and Communicate with my Wingmen....P-38...

[skouras]

Originally Posted by Ailantd

It is not the 109, it is a general change in cockpit rendering, something like very very very high contrast that looks terrible in every plane. What a mess they have done here. I´m starting to be a bit scared: I think they have lost the north in colors completely. Hope this is not what they say looks good. I´m returning to previous patch until this is fixed. That cockpits kills all the immersion and beauty. I can´t even judge the outside colors with that incredible over contrasted cockpits in my retina.

correct
the colors in the previous beta was good
i could see every detail in the pits
haaah
never mind
bf3

[RCAF_FB_Orville]

Pointless continuing with this beta update, it has completely killed the sim and I have just had another 4 crashes in a row (in very innocuous circumstances.....IE the Luftwaffe 'Free Hunt' quick mission, I dived on the RAF planes and it just froze for no reason.) It's not even solely to do with explosions, this is a total abortion.

Ah well. Back to previous version for me. Good luck with sorting this out lads, but we can't help you or give feedback if we can't even play the blinking sim.

Specs: Core i7940
P6T Deluxe MB
GTX 580
6gb Corsair 'Dominator' DDR3 Ram 1600mhz
1200w Everest PSU
W7 64bit

Cheers.

[Ailantd]

Originally Posted by skouras

correct
the colors in the previous beta was good
i could see every detail in the pits
haaah
never mind
bf3

The cockpit colors were amazing in the original game. The landscape colors would be amazing in the last beta with a bit less fog for close distances (note bit less means sutile changes). This new beta is horrible in both sides.

Also I have noticed that big smoke columns are transparent so you can see the landscape behind them and flames are blinking (not the natural blinking of the flame) like a z buffer fail or something like this. Sprites like smoke or clouds still are a complete frame killer ( I mean drop to 0 fps ).
You can test the smoke bug blowing up the fuel containers in the town near the airfield in the cross country mission.

There are still black glitches in red wounded vision ( try with damaged cockpit ).

In the positive side, new sounds are good.

[Gerbil Maximus]

C'mon guys why we complaining.....we have 3D

[planespotter]

BETA patch. BETA. It means UNFINISHED. My goodness. Don't you realise that when you download a beta patch you are supposed to be doing so to HELP the devs improve it. So you are supposed to provide specific feedback about crashes and bugs, specs and crashlogs, to HELP improve the patch. Congrats to those who realise this and post useful info for the devs.

- what you or the game were doing when the problem happened (loading a mission, flying mission X in aircraft Y.)
- what the result was (game freeze, crash to desktop, stuttering, fps drop)
- informed speculation about the cause
- your sys specs, drivers, operating system

Those of you who are moaning and complaining that this BETA patch has problems should not download beta patches! Wait for the final patch, (and complain about that!)

[Voidhunger]

Hi,
I have worse performance than in previous beta patch and more awfull than the last official patch.
I tried a quick mission Airfield attack Manston today and the game always freezed after approx. 2 minutes and I had to restart PC.

Intel Q9550 3.6Ghz
4GB RAM 1066
GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P
AMD 6970 11.9 drivers
Win 7 64

In game graphic settigs :
1680x1050
Fullscreen: ON
Model : HIGH
BUILDING: MEDIUM
LAND: HIGH
FOREST: MEDIUM
VISUAL: HIGH
TEXTURE: ORIGINAL
AAA: OFF
EPILEPSY: OFF
SSAO: OFF
VSYNC: ON
DECALS: HIGH
BUILDINGS AMOUNT: MEDIUM
SHADING: MEDIUM
GRASS: ON
SHADOWS: ON
ROADS: ON