Don't understand why you guys complain about frame rates, it's no big deal at all. Just turn the bloody slider down one. Just a bit of dust.

It's not just the dust that is affected, tracers and canopies look awful on medium.

You may need a 2GB card I think:)

I will honestly get one when CLOD's complete and sequal out.. hopefulyl more planes also on the way.

Rubbish, I could load a very memory light mission and I'd still see significant fps drops when the particle system kicks in, it's a rendering issue not memory.

But video memory. It is not related to a mission, but only to texture and effects quality.

Too high settings for given hardware = reason for poor performance.
I have 2GB vram and always had effects on medium in 1680x1050. As well as land shading and some other settings. Always solved stutters and low FPS for me.

So this is it, is the game finally finished?? If I update to the new beta, will the enemy planes finally try to shoot me down in single mission dogfights?

I remember your early versions and how your enhanced smoke effects hit frame rates, but in fairly quick succession and no doubt after much hard work each version improved and you ended up with brilliant smoke and particle effects with very little hit on fps ( compared with what you started with) - its that sort of improvement I'm sure everyone expected MG to achieve, but its not happened yet. I still marvel at what you 3 achieved with the 4.09 effects mods, so much so, its the reason it still gets plenty of play on my pc. Pity youre not able to work your magic on COD's smoke particle issues.

Sigh...

Nobody is saying the game is finished. It will always be WIP just like the original IL2. This is just a good step towards sorting out the major issues that stopped many from getting acceptable performance and is still a beta. I am sure there is plenty more to come from the developers.