Saturday, May 12, 2012. Patch Alpha – Report 2 + mini-fix

[Flanker35M]

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As my TM Warthog is still on it's way I can test by running tracks etc. So decided to run the Black Death on 1920x1080 with everything maxed out except Building Detail at Medium, Epilepsy Filter Off.

First test with SSAO Off, VSync Off, AA Off. Otherwise as above.

Minimum: 6FPS (the bomb explosion scene with Hurricanes)
Maximum: 197FPS
Average: 80FPS

Second test with SSAO, VSync On and AA at 1x.

Minimum: 6FPS
Maximum 68FPS
Average: 57FPS

So in conclusion must say the patching is definitely going the right way Rig in signature and using Catalyst 12.4 WHQL + CAP 1.

[David198502]

no launcher crashes for me since the fix neither offline nor online.but i have to say, that i havent flown in formation with my squad mates since.but up until now, it looks good so far.
the textures are back, and thats very good.

what i have noticed though, like other already mentioned, is that sometimes i have huge freezes(screen completely stuck) for a few seconds, and then the game continues....i would suspect, that in these situations, the game normally used to crash.
i consider it still as a problem, cause when flying online, it can get pretty lethal to have this kind of freeze during a dogfight, but its still better than the crashes of course.
so after months of waiting, you guys deserve a thank you again....thank you.

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by David198502

what i have noticed though, like other already mentioned, is that sometimes i have huge freezes(screen completely stuck) for a few seconds, and then the game continues....i would suspect, that in these situations, the game normally used to crash.

If this happens online, turn OFF skin downloading in network settings. It causes long freezes.

If offline it can be a texture loading if you have texture setting on Maximum. Reduce it to high then or medium if you have 1GB vram.

Also make sure to add both Steam/Il-2 and Documents/IL-2 folders to 2 exclusion lists of your AV: 1)real time files monitoring and 2)network monitoring. Add Launcher.exe to exclusions too. Avast AV created stutters for me till I did this last year.

Originally Posted by Jaws2002

I WILL NOT turn off or uninstall my AV for any game if I have enough computer power to run them both. Gaming is a small part of what a computer does and shouldn't dictate how the computer is used, or what aps run on it.

But you have to manage exclusion lists as described above. This is why exclusion lists are present in AVs. Real-time monitoring produces stutters.

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Ataros

If this happens online, turn OFF skin downloading in network settings. It causes long freezes.

Which line is that? It's something I have wanted to do a long time as I have connected that to online stuttering... Like in this post from October last year where I reposted a mail to Ilya after the last official patch http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...5&postcount=78

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by mazex

Which line is that? It's something I have wanted to do a long time as I have connected that to online stuttering... Like in this post from October last year where I reposted a mail to Ilya after the last official patch http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...5&postcount=78

It is in the game menu. Network settings screen.

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Ataros

It is in the game menu. Network settings screen.

Ahh - after unchecking that option I suddenly got this line in my conf.ini under [NET]:

SkinDownload=0

Rather annoying that only gets into the conf.ini after changing it so you don't see it if its on the default setting (=1)...

Thanks!

[U505]

Originally Posted by David198502

no launcher crashes for me since the fix neither offline nor online.but i have to say, that i havent flown in formation with my squad mates since.but up until now, it looks good so far.
the textures are back, and thats very good.

what i have noticed though, like other already mentioned, is that sometimes i have huge freezes(screen completely stuck) for a few seconds, and then the game continues....i would suspect, that in these situations, the game normally used to crash.
i consider it still as a problem, cause when flying online, it can get pretty lethal to have this kind of freeze during a dogfight, but its still better than the crashes of course.
so after months of waiting, you guys deserve a thank you again....thank you.

I notice the same problem as you but i don't think the crashes are now replaced by stutters or huge freezes. Before the patch i had very little crash and yesterday night on atag a huge amout of freeze. Perhaps due to the number of player?

[HurricaneDriver]

Definitely smoother, but I'm not getting bullet damage except on the control surfaces. Anyone else getting this?

[Flanker35M]

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Propably reported, but when playing track Hurricane vs. HE111 sounds is bugged. When Hurricane fires the guns engine sound cuts and comes back after firing again.

[David198502]

ok had a launcher crash right now on Rebka4...
i think everybody on the server crashed in the exact moment, as i restartet the game, the server was suddenly empty, except my name was still visible in the playerlist.

but the really annoying thing now is, that i cannot connect to it anymore.
the game will crash everytime i try to connect to this server.when i then restart the game and try again to connect, i get a serverfailauthentification message, because the server still thinks im connected.
this will stay, until i connect to another server(which is no problem btw).i can connect to any other server, but rebka4, i either get a game crash or this authentification message.
i tried it now about 20times.then i restarted steam, with no joy, and even a reboot of the pc doesnt work....i take my thank you back until this is solved...