Il-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover: Patch 1.0.13954

[flyingblind]

I am starting to find this all getting a little irritating. Nothing seems consistant at the moment. I am not even sure if the patch has downloaded and installed. I can see no version number on any of my screens. Something downloaded and my axis controls were suddenly changed around so I can only assume it has.
The frame rate dropped drastically and the more I reduced the video settings the worse it got until eventually flying the quick mission over Dover with just the Hurrican and everything set on minimum I was down to 10fps. So I just wacked everything up to maximum and the fps immediately jumped to 40! Until I got close to the ground when the fps evaporated again.
The things that gave me better fps on the deck were turning off grass, setting buidings amount to high and buildings detail to very low. Even with forest on very high I am getting 30fps down low but the biggest factor was turning AA down to 2x. And the landscape looks pretty good.
When I checked the performance I found the CPU Usage was only about 14% until I changed the affinity mask to 15 when the usage doubled to 30%.
I still don't think things are as good when multiple aircraft are around with even more stuttering than pre patch. I think it's just a case of experiementing and waiting for more patches.
One thing that did make me smile is that if you look at the heads of some of the bolts, the ones on the seat back of the Hurrican are good, you will see they have a word I can't quite make out and Maddox Games embossed on them.

Asus M4N98TD EVO NF 980a SLI AM3 Motherboard
Phenome II 965 Quad Core
Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti
4gb DDR3