Patch worked as advertised. The graphical see thru in the cockpit glitch in the Hurricane and the 109 is gone. No more tree popping and the shimmering shadows under the trees are less annoying. I'm getting the same 45-60 fps frame rate but at the highest setting instead of medium. Looking forward to the next patch.

"they put things in just to see how this patch performs" well that the whole point of a "beta" patch, you change things with the intention of making it perform better and have the community beta test the changes. Thats a good thing, not something you should hate.

"to busy with BOM" not likely, the beta patches are a much higher priority as they know full well no one will buy BOM unless the patches fix good portion of the performance and gameplay issues.

I realized while testing, that the only major impossible FPS hog is still the shadows. Even at low groun shading and no trees I get micro stutters (everything else low), whereas with shadows off I have totally smooth gameplay with everything high except trees. (SSAO off, AA2x original textures).

So, fix the shadows or let us turn off ground shadows and leave cockpit shadows on. Else performance wise it is great after this patch,

i5-2500K 4,7, GTX480, 4G ram

Edit: trees are also FPS hog, but they are usable at lower levels and they can be turned off if needed. But a slight rework would be also greatly appreciated.

i guess you're right Chivas

Visual Effects causes the big fps drop over Dover on ATAG. You have to set it to low. Medium is not enough.
The other issue is still clouds. Over cloud base the fps drops to half.
Please fix :)

Low = Off. Of course you'll get good FPS on that setting!

thanks.
but it is not normal that I look at England from big distance (french coast) and fps drops from 45-50 to 20? what visual effects could normally cause it? and distance is so big that nothing is visible.
I need fix :)

If thats your particular problem it sounds like you are reaching a Vram limit on your video card and it drops while it loads the textures back in.

I dont get any of these kinds of drops.

thanks
but it is not reduced by lowering texture quality :(

Agreed. Spits are badly underpowered now, especially the 2a which is no longer preferable to 1a. I couldn't catch a 110 today in a 2a and was easily outrunning red fighters in both E3 and E4 at every altitude.