4.09 Beta Out!!!

[FAE_Cazador]

May someone copy and paste the English Readmefile here? Downloading Servers are totally overloaded now

Thanks

[falcon]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Here is another gift for you, guys. Beta version of 4.09 is out now, download it and post your opinions in this thread.

English beta
Russian beta
Skins
English Readme file
Russian Readme file



Patch 4.09mBeta

Patch includes:

* New maps:
Bessarabia
Iasi (online)
Odessa (online)
MTO
Slovakia
Slovakia (online)

* New default skins for planes

409b1m.zip contains maps only.
If you want to install replacement skins then download
409b1m_skins.zip and install over the map pack.
fb_3do20.sfs from the map pack have to be overwritten.


***** CHANGES in GRAPHICS ***********************

* Increased buffer size for stationary objects (buildings etc.)
to prevent freezes under some circumstances.

* Colors of water corrected for Water=2,3,4 modes.
Now when looking down it is no more black/dark blue.

* Optimized Shaders for Nvidia 8X00 series video cards.

* Added a new mode for increased visibility distance.
Visibility increased from 36 km to 72km
under "Clear" and "Good" weather conditions.

Note: This mode is not optimized for performance
(freezes and low fps are possible on low-end systems)
This mode is recommended for fast CPUs & powerful video
cards such as Nvidia 8800 series, ATI X1800 series or better.
With 512 MB of video RAM.

This new feature is available only in "Perfect" game graphics mode.

Also, there is a possibility to have problems with clouds and their
shadows at far distances, due to some engine limitations.

Modify your conf.ini string in the [Render_OpenGL] section
to use this mode:

LandGeom=3 (new mode is ON)
LandGeom=2 (back to normal mode).

[F19_Klunk]

hehe this means there is still a patch to be released... the 4.09 NOT beta

[1.JaVA_Platypus]

Just posted in the UBI forums:

Mirror courtesy of MaXMhZ from Mission4Today hosted at Filefront. Thank you very much MaXMhz! Heart

http://hosted.filefront.com/MaXMhZ/

[Alloy007p]

Originally Posted by 1.JaVA_Platypus

Just posted in the UBI forums:

Mirror courtesy of MaXMhZ from Mission4Today hosted at Filefront. Thank you very much MaXMhz! Heart

http://hosted.filefront.com/MaXMhZ/

Thanks man now my downloads only gona take 8 minites, it was 2h before

[Avimimus]

At least your not on dial-up. I used to pull down Oleg's patches using a 14.4k connection. In some cases it would take several repeated attempts each of which was about eight hours long.

[Tinman86]

I noticed that, at dusk, a shadow from a building on a hillside, reflected off the peak of the hill and went strait up into the sky. You could fly through it. At some angles it would disappear, then re-appear. I also noticed that same shadow running the opposite direction it should be from the sun.