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IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Latest instalment in the acclaimed IL-2 Sturmovik series from award-winning developer Maddox Games.

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Old 03-02-2012, 11:18 AM
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The way I read it the current plans for the Beta patch are focused on and limited to field-testing the new graphics engine. In itself that is a major issue and deserves and needs careful testing. This is supposed to be the solution of one of the fundamental problems of the game, after all.
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Old 03-02-2012, 11:31 AM
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The way I read it the current plans for the Beta patch are focused on and limited to field-testing the new graphics engine. In itself that is a major issue and deserves and needs careful testing. This is supposed to be the solution of one of the fundamental problems of the game, after all.
Spot on mate! You are 100% right here. This graphics rewrite performance patch will be the biggest change to the code so it deserves a run on its own to discover specific problems related to it. The idea of a more comprehensive 2nd beta patch before retail patch that B6 raised sounds more likely to me.
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Old 03-02-2012, 11:37 AM
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Spot on mate! You are 100% right here. This graphics rewrite performance patch will be the biggest change to the code so it deserves a run on its own to discover specific problems related to it. The idea of a more comprehensive 2nd beta patch before retail patch that B6 raised sounds more likely to me.
Sounds good to me but I hope they've included a CTD fix also, otherwise it'll be pretty useless. Think I read somewhere that the CTD problem was with the old graphics engine so by totally rewriting it the CTD problem would disappear per default...I think I read somewhere.
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Old 03-02-2012, 11:39 AM
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The CTD issue comes from the "old" gfx engine ... writing a new one wasn't done because the MG coders were bored or didn't like the writing style of the previous one.

EDIT: I hope they understand now, BlackSix. You could hardly be any clearer.
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Old 03-02-2012, 11:42 AM
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The CTD issue comes from the "old" gfx engine ... writing a new one wasn't done because the MG coders were bored or didn't like the writing style of the previous one.

EDIT: I hope they understand now, BlackSix. You could hardly be any clearer.
Well, to be fair, they re-wrote the graphics engine mostly because of the performance problems and other weird hick-ups of the old one.
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Old 03-02-2012, 11:44 AM
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Sounds good to me but I hope they've included a CTD fix also, otherwise it'll be pretty useless. Think I read somewhere that the CTD problem was with the old graphics engine so by totally rewriting it the CTD problem would disappear per default...I think I read somewhere.
Yes you are correct. It has been stated several times now that the new graphics engine effectively removes the code that was causing the CTD. Of course there may yet be other undiscovered issues in the new graphics beta which is why its a beta, and why they have painstakingly been working on it.

It shouldnt be forgotten that the engine will no doubt also require a number of adjustments to other areas of code in the game, like for example the last minute hitch they discovered with roundels etc that they talked about last week. This means they have to tweak other areas of the game before releasing what we perceive as "just" a beta graphics patch.

Please be patient we are all waiting anxiously and it should be worth the wait!
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Old 03-02-2012, 11:34 AM
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I dont know what to say? No other fixes ( FM, DM, AI) in incoming patch? Luthier start to think about 100 octan fuel performacne in CloD???



So after performacne beta patch we will be waiting another few months for other fixes???

It looks for me that 1C focus on future Russian Front addon or tanks battles in game and BoB is postponed to rest.

Actually i dont care too much about Russian Front casue i played it about 10 years in old IL2 but i really wanted to play good simulator in BoB scenario unfortunately it looks it will not happend soon.

Backing to play ROF.
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Old 03-02-2012, 11:38 AM
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I dont know what to say? No other fixes ( FM, DM, AI) in incoming patch?
No other fixes in first BETA
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Old 03-02-2012, 11:40 AM
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No other fixes in first BETA
Doesn't get any clearer then that! Thanks B6.
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Old 03-02-2012, 11:51 AM
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So you mean that first beta for graphic performacne fixes and official patch (or final) will include also other fixes ( FM, DM etc)?

I think people ( inculded me) are little confused about these things.
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