Running in 1920*1200 high/med settings and seems to play decently. Some odd hiccups here and there but much smoother experience now. Great work!

The same applies to the grass. It seems that fiddling with the advanced graphics options within the game will remove the animated grass.

No FPS change for me; if anything, a very miniscule decrease in overall performance. All settings on medium apart from Plane detail on high & buildings amount & detail on low. 2X AA (Grass & Shadows checked, Roads & Epilepsy Filter unchecked).
Before patch: Cross Country Quick mission Taxi, Takeoff & Quick Circuit gave me between 35-49 FPS (Average 31)
Latest Beta Patch with the same quick mission: Between 26-38 FPS (Av. 23).

My system.
Intel Core Quad Q8400 @ 2.66GHz 2.67GHz, 4GB DDR3 RAM, ZOTAC Nvidia GTX 580 amp! edition, Vista 64 with SP2, 32" LCD Display 1360 x 768.

Mixed bag of results for me too

Stutters are almost gone, wouldn'd mind, if there are nor further improvements in this area.

FPS are better if flying above 600-800m over towns but definitely worse if flying realy low, rooftop level. Perhaps only 4-5 fps down but going from 20 to 15 makes a noticeable difference. Also bad fps over industrial areas, but this might somehow linked to buildings quality/amount, it's better for me if those settings are lowered.

Surprisingly little difference in FPS if i change the building amount option from min to max, perhaps only ~4-5 FPS.

But shadows are a killer on my system! I can almost double my FPS if i disable shadows.
Please dev. look into this as it makes a huge difference in visual quality.

I'm now playing @1920x1200 fullscreen , everything maxed out with the exception of forrest set to medium and shadowsn and SSAO disabled and i get 30-40 FPS low over Boulogne, even over industrial areas. A little bit higher (600-1000m) and my FPS are up to 50-60.
With shadows enabled im in the range of 9-14 FPS low over Boulogne.

2600K stock speed
8GB DDR3
6950 2GB stock bios, Cat 11.3
Win7 64

Don't know why but i have worse FPS over some French cities, like Bolougne or Rouen than over London ?!?

Getting random atifacts, am using the nvidia beta 570 drivers, doesnt happen every flight, seems random. All settings high, shadows/ep/ssao off.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c9...416_195059.jpg

And you cannot replay tracks if the view control is selected, thx.

new bugs in patch
 

Hi there!

my firs post here and instantly a bug report :-)

as (maybe) posted before I noticed following new bug coming with this patch:

- no grass
- building amount doesn't change at all as altered in the detail settings, however "unlimited buildings" gives you the best fps - WHY? :-)

- AI planes behave like in time compression x4 or x8

beside the patch I noticed, that cpu usage is much higher in XP compared to W7.
In W7 I have 25-35% pre-patch and 35-45% post patch while constantly 50% in XP on a dual-core machine.

greetings zwiebacksaege

system:
Intel Xeon 2 core 3GHz @ 3.9GHz / 8GB RAM / GTX 260 896MB / W7-64

Curiously I'm getting no performance differences with the new SSAO checked or unchecked. It makes hardly any difference atall.

Have also checked that COD is running successfully on all 4 cores (which it is).
Have also tried this patch on 2 different Nvidia drivers; the latest 270.51 Beta & a rollback to 263.09 with no change in performance but the Beta drivers were "causing the display drivers to stop working2 (error code 4).


My system.
Intel Core Quad Q8400 @ 2.66GHz 2.67GHz, 4GB DDR3 RAM, ZOTAC Nvidia GTX 580 amp! edition, Vista 64 with SP2, 32" LCD Display 1360 x 768.

well it looks smoother play for me,when i play campaign i can finally,20-26 fps,its good,but i had some wierd bugs,its the mission with lonely 111 and we are pair od hurricanes,i had ammo unlimited and engine easy, external view, otherwise all full on. the he111 was unshootable, i spend 5x the ammo load of the hurricane into him,he was like a emental cheese,and still flying,i wasnt able to stop his engines although the oil and fuel was leaking big time.eventually he was slowing down untill he landed on the sea surface. its a bug or no?i was sure the shots went into him i recorded the game and the gunners were dead so i could really fly slow and was killing him :).
then one more things happended,when i was playing this track to check it out,it started tu stutter after while to a comlete freeze just with sound going on.
i had edit view and time on.

salute

ps:i forgot, when i was observing the He111 in flight i switch to autopilot on my plane,when i jumped back it was like a speed rodeo,the auto was flying crazy fast like time compression till i took over the plane.
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W7ultimate 64bit
q6600 OC 3.0ghz
GF 8800 gts 512 mb
4 gb ram
sound on board
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settings medium,grass,clouds off,very low building,low land,high texture,low forrest

the config.ini doesn't seem to save until the sim is exited from... so change your video settings, exit the sim and restart it - see that makes a difference to what you report

Edit: seems I can´t ammend my settings screenshot, so:
1920x1082x60
SSAO off
AAx8
Everything high except forest and buildings medium and landshading low, grass shadows roads on
epilepsy off, textures high

My patch report:

The FPS is even better than with the mods. I could up the settings somewhat. Huge improvement against old version. 60 FPS (D3Doverrider used to force vsync) almost everywhere with one a/c in the air. Low above terreain 40 - 60 FPS. From 50-100m height steady 60. Above london 25-40FPS. Land shading seems to have the biggest impact. Buldings detail level does not have big imppact. I could run very high for a small performance impact but opted for smoother flight. Generally the Flying is almost stutter free except when low oveer terrain where there is a certain amount of stutter even on low trees and buildings...not much difference to medium. Higher settings are unplayable in london because of too much stutter. Stutter in London is worst in a steep turn.

Up in the air in combat 6 hurricanes vs 9 he-111 around 35 -50 FPS close to bombers, no stutter at all, crisply smooth.

i5-750 oc 4GHz
4GB 1600/7/7/7/24 RAM
GTX 480 stock
2 SSDs for both Win 7 64b (ahci mode) and the simulator (ide mode)
Driver 270.51
Aero on - didn´t try now, but made no difference in the past
affinitymask unused, didn´t try

EDIT!!! OCCASIONAL LAUNCHER CRASH ON STARTUP
And communications are unusable in single player