OLD BETA patch 14413 - May 4, 2011(!!!) - do not install!

[Tiger27]

Originally Posted by TUSA/TX-Gunslinger

NEWBETA - 1.00.14413 - Wed May 4th - New Fullscreen ProcessAffinityMask = 15 (no changes from last test)
Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
18:17 9121, 212377, 0, 107, 42.947
18:26 9214, 212713, 17, 104, 43.317
18:34 9156, 212499, 0, 104, 43.087
18:38 9194, 213073, 15, 103, 43.150
18:46 9048, 213145, 16, 101, 42.450

ProcessAffinityMask = OFF - Fullscreen = On
19:08 9431, 212955, 17, 107, 44.286
19:23 9286, 212732, 17, 104, 43.651
19:29 9258, 213519, 17, 101, 43.359
19:35 9246, 212701, 18, 103, 43.469
19:42 9162, 212647, 18, 101, 43.085

From these benchmarks I just did - I'd suggest checking the status of the 'ProcessAffinity Mask=' setting in your conf.ini file located in the /1C SoftClub path.

If your having stutter/pausing issues with multi-core CPU - then disable it by putting a ';' symbol in front of the ProcessAffinityMask parameter and save the file.

See if that helps, if you so inclined. These are the best FPS I've gotten ever.

Best in terms of Max FPS - Min FPS and absence of pausing or severe stuttering. I had to ProcessAffinityMask must be disabled on my system to really see the improvement.

Anyway, I thought I'd post this info as it made a lot of difference and thought it might be of help to someone - I'll restest to affirm.

S!

Gunny

Gunny, thanks for the tip, you have done some great work with the testing, keep it up and thankyou for the effort, it is much more helpfull than those that just say its broke.

[ElAurens]

My frame rates are up, I was averaging 30 low over London flying the Tiger Moth, but more importantly it was very smooth.

I then flew south to the newly added RAF Westhampnett. Flying at 2500 ft. running 1900 rpm and indicating 85 mph I was getting 55 to 60 fps looking around the country side from in cockpit, and when I would look down at the instruments (with TIR 4), the frames dipped to 47. Total flight time including sightseeing in London was just over 56 minutes.

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.42ghz
Win7 64bit
EVGA Nvidia 570 Superclocked
6 gigs DDR2.

[FS~Phat]

Great work guys! Best performance and smoothness so far!!

Black Death Track AVG 67 FPS MAX 168 FPS MIN 15 FPS.
ATI Crossfire working all 4 GPU cores 50 to 60% smoothly.
Settings all High with 8xAA SSAO on, grass,roads,shadows on full screen mode w/ vsync off.

I notice the spit vs 110 track stutters and drops FPS a lot with the clouds though.

i7 950 @ 4.6Ghz
6GB Ram @ 2000Mhz
4 x 5870 @ 1000/1300
1920x1080 Res
Win 7 ult 64bit

Might be time for an eyefinity test now we have crossfire working!
In 6080x1080 eyefinity res...
Settings high, buildings-forest-effects medium, ssao off, AA off shadows off.
Black Death Track AVG 47 FPS MAX 136 FPS MIN 1 FPS.
Not quite as smooth as single display but it would be playable!

[timholt]

Just did a quick test and I have a definite improvement down low over London and much smoother panning with TIR (as good as RoF now).
Although, I was not having too many problems prior to the patch except when low over cities and in cloud.
This is the first patch I have used and prior to this my main bug bear was crashes back to desktop that required a reboot to get out of, hopefully this patch has cured that problem also.

Edit after lunch: after 40 mins or so of flying (or attempting to fly see below) I got the crash back to desktop again and had to reboot.

I am flying exactly as before with full CEM (ie same settings and adjustments of prop pitch, mixture and radiatior depending upon situation) but now I am lucky to get 4 or 5 mins before the dreaded oil over the windscreen no matter how I try to adjust engine controls. In deparation I turned off engine temp effects and when back for a take off start and thats when the crash occured.

[ElAurens]

Almost forgot, screenshots no longer work.

[smink1701]

This thing is still a buggy mess. Frame rates are pretty good if you are flying solo but in a QM sound is on/off, stutters, freezes and now guns have about 1 sec delay when firing. We need a patch for the patch.

[timholt]

Originally Posted by timholt

Just did a quick test and I have a definite improvement down low over London and much smoother panning with TIR (as good as RoF now).
Although, I was not having too many problems prior to the patch except when low over cities and in cloud.
This is the first patch I have used and prior to this my main bug bear was crashes back to desktop that required a reboot to get out of, hopefully this patch has cured that problem also.

Edit after lunch: after 40 mins or so of flying (or attempting to fly see below) I got the crash back to desktop again and had to reboot.

I am flying exactly as before with full CEM (ie same settings and adjustments of prop pitch, mixture and radiatior depending upon situation) but now I am lucky to get 4 or 5 mins before the dreaded oil over the windscreen no matter how I try to adjust engine controls. In deparation I turned off engine temp effects and when back for a take off start and thats when the crash occured.

Further to the above:

I am back to being able to manage the engine without damaging it - I think the constant damaged engine problem started after I selected one of the new missions that came with this patch. I forgot to mention before, but air starts when the CEM was playing up did not give me enough time to adjust engine controls before oil started appearing on the canopy.

More frequent black screens and computer lockups now that can only be fixed by rebooting.

Does the "verify integtity of game cache" in Steam get me back to no patch?

[Blackrat]

Originally Posted by timholt

Does the "verify integtity of game cache" in Steam get me back to no patch?

Yes, it will put the game in its official latest steam release state.