Anyone tried this beta patch with SLI ? I'm sure they mentioned they would do something for SLI and or Crossfire in this one.

Cheers.

Dont place the file in the games root folder, extract it to the desktop and drag it over, then agree to replace any files that it asks.

In addition, folks that still have the previous mods installed to improve performance and trying to use them with the new patch you really need to remove all traces before applying the patch. Having the new in game texture manger reducing textures quality with reduced resolution and no mip maps could create all sorts of problems and artefacts'. What's more, you risk a VAC ban now if you attempt to play online, this permanently ban's you from playing any steam game online on your account.

I wouldn't be surprised too if some of the ctds and performance decreases are a result of conflicts with the custom .dll installed as part of the mod, this was written for a system that did not offer functions to remove ssao internally and a completely different texture management system.

Multicore seems better = #1 core does not even get to 100% and load spread across the other physical cores nicely - very smooth :-)

Very nice patch! Stuttering gone, fps on the ground is >20 with medium settings, models, damage decals on high, no shadows. Absolutly great looking and fluid now :)

This is exactly my experience with this beta too. Though it´s somewhat better than the previous patch, I think it´s because the strange absence of buildings with low & medium settings. With high & very high there are buildings accompanied with pretty much the usual stutter. Towns really look like a children´s wooden toy blocks scattered all over the place.

AMD Phenom X4 II 965 BE
Nvidia GTX 570
Win 7

I can now start Me109 without selecting magnetos using CEM difficulty setting. Just fuel cock, then ignition..

They havnt done sli crossfire in this patch, but said it will be in next one
I do hope so :)

Thanks, hope they do too, waiting until Monday for the final ver of this patch but its sounding like another good improvement.

Copy and paste from SIMHQ and I have had exactly the same experience. On some of the maps I am getting fantastic improvement but those industrial areas make my fps drop like a stop even though I am only looking at relatively few buildings compared to the large built up areas with houses.

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Originally Posted By: kilosierra
I noticed something strange, maybe someone else can try to confirm this.


In the free flight over France, I fly at around 400 m over the town. Whenever I have the industrial regions in sight, my FPS drastically drops, mostly around 11. It´s (for me easily) reproduceable. Position the plane in the mid of the town, so that in all directions the are many buildings. I pause the game and look into different directions, if there are houses only, I get around 53 fps, when I look into the industrial area, the fps drop to 11 fps. I never experienced that low fps, even over London.

I7 2600k @ 4,5 Ghz, GTX 570 btw.

You could before..the I key would do that automatically..