Friday Official Update, July 27, 2012

[tintifaxl]

Oh well, performance increase when turning down the grafics quality.

B6, can you please ask Luthier if the grafics engine rewrite is finished now and the devs can continue/start to work on the gameplay issues?

Good looking IL2 'though.

[Buchon]

What we are seeing now is the reaching of last stages by new texture manager introduced along with the rewritten graphics engine.

The screenshots are almost equal but if you look closely you will see how the clouds, reflections, smoke and tracers are more blurry (for example), that's because now the effects option is tweaking down the textures resolution from the effects.

This is an improvement because tweaking down the effects in the official build have almost no impact, so it solves nothing for low profile PCs.