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[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

Originally Posted by Shado

Well after my previous moan it appears to be the weathering layer thats been fixed affecting the skin shine, which will need some work as far as skinning is concerned, where it really does shine (pun intended) is the bare metal effect is stunning, load up a Hurricane in QMB, whack the weathering right up and take an external look at just behind the spinner, how long before we get a bare metal skin to work with

This is what stunned me too. When running TBD track I saw this many times on the Hurricanes. SP also, weathered Italian aircraft look good in this regard also.

1. Real aluminum!
2. "Markings" checkbox working in SP and MP

More testing for me tommorow.

S!

Gunny

[mungee]

A BIG improvement!

What is VERY IMPORTANT is to delete the contents of the cache folder (documents\1c softclub\cache) before running the new patch - after doing that, the graphic glitches dispappeared, the frame rate INCREASED A LOT and the stuttering REDUCED A LOT.

However I'm still getting BAD STUTTERING WHEN LOOKING STRAIGHT AHEAD IN 'COCKPIT VIEW'!
Looking out to the wings, the stuttering disappears - it's therefore looks like its being affected by the pixels etc relating to the instrument panel and/or rear view mirror! Obviously stuttering in this view is the most bothersome because one can't aim etc.

When looking sideways (to the wings), I get a consistent and smooth 30+fps, whereas when looking straight ahead I get 30+fps dropping to 7fps after every 2 or so seconds (creating the stutter) - hope that helps!?

Other than that, it's a big improvement - thanks, and keep up the good work.

I respectfully suggest that resources get prioritised to the STUTTERING ISSUE - with bad stuttering, the game essentially remains unplayable for me and others who have systems a year or two old.

[Tiger27]

Originally Posted by mungee

A BIG improvement!

What is VERY IMPORTANT is to delete the contents of the cache folder (documents\1c softclub\cache) before running the new patch - after doing that, the graphic glitches dispappeared, the frame rate INCREASED A LOT and the stuttering REDUCED A LOT.

However I'm still getting BAD STUTTERING WHEN LOOKING STRAIGHT AHEAD IN 'COCKPIT VIEW'!
Looking out to the wings, the stuttering disappears - it's therefore looks like its being affected by the pixels etc relating to the instrument panel and/or rear view mirror! Obviously stuttering in this view is the most bothersome because one can't aim etc.


When looking sideways (to the wings), I get a consistent and smooth 30+fps, whereas when looking straight ahead I get 30+fps dropping to 7fps after every 2 or so seconds (creating the stutter) - hope that helps!?

Other than that, it's a big improvement - thanks, and keep up the good work.

I respectfully suggest that resources get prioritised to the STUTTERING ISSUE - with bad stuttering, the game essentially remains unplayable for me and others who have systems a year or two old.

Possibly some of your settings are to high, I have very little stutter and certainly none out the front, but I always turn the mirror off as it is buggy anyway and reduces fps.

[addman]

Nice that the weathering slider now functions for single plane flights. The Stuka is still shaking though, please look into this luthier.

[Freycinet]

Originally Posted by addman

Nice that the weathering slider now functions for single plane flights. The Stuka is still shaking though, please look into this luthier.

I realised that the Stuka shaking is because of flying it incorrectly. It happens when the engine isn't treated correctly. RPM's, temps, etc...

[LcSummers]

Originally Posted by Freycinet

I realised that the Stuka shaking is because of flying it incorrectly. It happens when the engine isn't treated correctly. RPM's, temps, etc...

There is a little shaking or just vibration but i think its meant to be so. I mean this aircraft is not streamlined and those "retractable landing gears" are well suited for gliding

Addman take this advise from VO101_Tom as i had the same problems. Now its nice to fly.

Quote:

I dont know, what you doing, but my mistake was in first flights, that i didnt open enough the water radiator. You see one gauge on the top-right part of the cocpit panel, it shows, how much open the radiator.
Other important things, the engine limitations. Read on the manual page 96. The "cruise settings" is 1100 engine rpm, 1.1 ata manifold pressure. Keep this limitations and temperatures, dont push the throttle without thinking.
The supercharger pull out about 2500m. If you dont touch them, the engine will be weaker in high altitude, but do not shaking.
I hope it helps


Cheers

[Freycinet]

Hi LCSummers, I saw that you went and checked out my thread and saw Tom's explanations. He's worth his weight in gold for his knowledge! - now we can fly the Stuka the way it was meant. Also, I am amazed at the depth of the engine modelling... Mindblowing, really.

[JG53Frankyboy]

Originally Posted by LcSummers

Ju87...............

The supercharger pull out about 2500m. If you dont touch them, the engine will be weaker in high altitude, but do not shaking.
.............................

Cheers

and this needs also a fix, because the Ju87 had two settings:
-automatic setting , with shifting between low blower and highblower was made automaticaly
- low blower only , to force the useage of lowblower even at heigher altitudes


BTW, are the engine temperatures are still set to zero if you change crewposition in a plane ONLINE (!). That makes the Blenheim almost useless in onlineflying

[addman]

Originally Posted by Freycinet

I realised that the Stuka shaking is because of flying it incorrectly. It happens when the engine isn't treated correctly. RPM's, temps, etc...

Have you ever flown it with CEM online? It flies silky smooth online but offline it doesn't matter if my temps are perfect or where my ATA is at. I just tried offline radiators fully open, not even exceeding 1.0 ATA at take off, still shaking. Try it online yourself and notice the difference. Believe me I have read the manual, I have read the forums, I'm a seasoned IL-2 pilot so I have not missed anything.

Also, FPS are ok after the patch but rubber banding is HORRIBLE, especially down low over land. It's like the plane is doing never ending long jumps, LOL! I'll just put this back into the mothball where it belongs for now.

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by Phazon

I've already reported it to ATI and so have several other users. Its not hard to tell who's to blame, considering the amount of graphical artefacts that exist in Cliffs of Dover for all brands and series of cards its pretty obvious who is bloody well at fault here. The other major sims play nice with the ATI cards so Cliffs of Dover is doing itself no favours at all.

The longer the blue stripes bug goes unfixed the longer I wouldn't even remotely consider spending any more money on a future IL-2 title.

Strange, because it works fine on other Ati cards like my two year old 4890 or the 5xxx series. I used to get anywhere between 30-60FPS over any kind of terrain with the previous patch and this one probably made it better since it runs fine without me having to disable the Ubi logo splash screen (i'll try it out and see if i gain anything more).

This blue stripes business is most probably an issue between the drivers and the 6xxx series architecture, otherwise we would all get the blue stripes. However, it's only the 6xxx series that gets it, every other Ati card that meets the system requirements doesn't have this problem.