BETA PATCH v1.06.17582 - May 05, 2012

[furbs]

Originally Posted by jibo

there is way too much happy campers in here, furbs must be boiling, be kind tone it down a lil bit

Nope, i just wish i was one of them. The sim now has gone from being sort of playable online with a crash after 45 mins, at least i could get a sortie in, to being unplayable with a CTD every 10mins.
I know this is a BETA patch but its taken 6 months to get here, what chance of them fixing the multitude of new bugs with in the next 6 months?

They said they tested and fixed what should be the number 1 priority for the so called "rewrite" fix the CTD, everything else is secondary to that.
The patch has given me a slight boost in FPS, though i put that down to them taking out the clouds and making the textures low res.

The major patches so far have...

1st -Screwed the sound (remember having to select no trees to have sound!)
2nd -Fixed sound but introduced the CTD
3rd - Not fixed the CTD and introduced new bugs and taken out clouds and high res textures.

As for adding new features like weather, COOP's, tree collision model, fixed AI commands and the host of other things we need to be added to have a real "BOB" sim, not a snowball chance in hell...none.

Personally i dont think they can fix CLOD and have had a very small number of people working on it for a while but its not the major graphics rewrite they have been telling us, its more of a tweak and stall tactic to get us closer the release of BOM.

6 months to get here? and they say 2 days to fix this and that? they haven't fixed the CTD in 6 months work, yer right.

I dont envy Blacksix's job over the next few weeks but im pretty sure Luthier will be hard to find, apart from a another "im really sorry but making sim is hard, we will fix it, crush everything and blah blah blah"


CLOD is now effectively done, its toast.

[addman]

They must have meant the final patch when they said everything will look the same but with better performance, right? Because I'm looking at a somewhat increased performance but at the cost of seriously downgraded visual fidelity. Pop-up clouds? WTH! Will wait until the final version of the patch before passing judgment though.

Bad times.

[Sven]

Originally Posted by furbs

CLOD is now effectively done, its toast.

You can't imagine how happy I am with the patch, no CTDs, higher FPS, more sounds, working AI commands.
This patch has been a a godsend for me and the other guys in our flying group.

If you really would like to fly the sim, I would suggest you to ask guys on ATAG's TS3 channel who do have the game good an running to help you with the install. Some guys I know thought they had the patch installed good but ultimately didn't, and after they did it right they were flying happy without CTDs and same or higher FPS.

Also, try different settings, be sure to turn off trees and grass, as they would cause stutters and bad performance according to the devs.

[addman]

Originally Posted by Sven

Also, try different settings, be sure to turn off trees and grass, as they would cause stutters and bad performance according to the devs.

Thanks for the suggestion but I think I'll wait to turn CloD in to Flight Simulator 95 until the devs have fixed those "small" niggles "in a few days".

[IvanK]

Spent over 2 hours On line in ATAG (Thanks ATAG) server today with the new patch. No CTD's. RAM usage was rock steady at 65% +- 1%. This with 30 or so players on. Ghosts still present and the Sand bar of Dover still there when looking from afar. All in all things are better for me. Still a fair way to go imo but a big improvement.

[furbs]

Originally Posted by IvanK

Spent over 2 hours On line in ATAG (Thanks ATAG) server today with the new patch. No CTD's. RAM usage was rock steady at 65% +- 1%. This with 30 or so players on. Ghosts still present and the Sand bar of Dover still there when looking from afar. All in all things are better for me. Still a fair way to go imo but a big improvement.

Did you turn off tree's and grass? im going to try this...il report back.

What an unmitagated piece of crap this patch is. The sim was far better BEFORE the stupid patch. There are so many bugs it needs pesticide. I want my money back..................................

So the clouds have been disabled apart from 'popping up' right before your eys, and now we have to disable grass and trees in order to see the fps increase? This is a joke isn't it? Really this has to be a joke on the dev's part. In order to gain the 50% fps increase turn down all the detail in the game. lol classic Just to stress the point here, if I turned off the grass and trees pre patch and clouds i would also expect to get a significant performance increase!!

6 months for this!!


My specs;

i72600K overclocked to 4.7Ghx
GTX680 2gb
16GB Ram DDR3 1800
Asus sabertooth Mobo.

this is how it works for me now.

when this forum simply starts to operate like any other forum where poeple are happy with their game, only then will i endulge in testing an actuall patch. so please keep up the banter and honesty about the continuing adventures of il2:cliffs of Dover.