This was an extremely useful comparison! Please continue to make similar videos when patches that affect graphics comes out!

Hi all,
After more testing with latest beta patch:
I went back to previous official patch!!!
C`mon guys,they fix the color of the ground ok,but this thing is a graphic glitch fest,haze is ugly, colors are washed out in cockpit,loss of fps and more stutters!
I really hope they`re going to fix the optimization(first) in this sim cuz is still not fun to play(at least for me)
We`ll see in the next official patch, I`ll wait before buy the english version!!!!!!!

Phenom x4 3,4hz oc at 3,8ghz
gtx 570 1280mb
8gb ram
win 7 ultimate

what are you talking about man, it's gorgeous, you're not helping whit that kind of whining, this looks better than FSX for cryin out loud :D, sure there's some stuttering but IMO all the flightsims have had some stutters. Believe me they're working on it, meanwhile you could buy the english version now and support the company ;)

agreed
the cockpits and the gauges look excellent now
also is a beta
they don't going to be always like a haze day

I'm feeling the same way about the haze. It'll be that way some of the time. Now 95% of the time, looking back at flying around the US and North Eastern Europe over the last 30 years, it'll be hazy in the BoB time frame. In the winter and sometimes summer after a cold front passage there's hardly any visible moisture or haze in the air. Those are the memorable 50+ mile visibility days.

If they ever get around implementing the dynamic weather we might see a hazy day one day and a 50+mile visibility the next. For now, especialy flying at the higher altitudes, it's almost photorealistic. When flying at 18000ft and looking down at the Cliffs of Dover it makes sense you can't see every detail on the ground.

Liked the dawn and dusk timeframes better in the older version. Less blinding sun and light effects. The sun is not that strong 30 minutes before sunset or 30 minutes after sunrise. We used the old fingers below the sun trick to see how much time before sunrise we had. 1 Finger equals 15 minutes of remaining sunlight. This never left me blinded while looking at the sun the last hour before sunset.

The program still freezes after about one or two quick missions. Quicker when it's a mission over land with more than a few aircraft involved. Might be the lack of graphics memory (8800gts 640m) or just the overall crapness of my system. Windows XP, 6600 duocore at 3.4 ghz with 4mb of ram. Anyone out there with a similar system that can run the program without crashing every 10 minutes? Over water the fps is around 20-25 and smooth most of the times. Sometimes I get the little stutter every 5 seconds. After a restart the stutter is mostly gone.

Yeah. I hope people see now that just desaturating does not improve. The problem with old colour set was the tendency to yellowish. The saturation level was right before beta patch. Just go out and see if things are really grey and desaturated.

But as with the Merlin cut out there is too much yielding to whining. Well, that's how it feels for me.

Got the Beta patch installed, and I've finally found the manual. :D

This sim is really realy complicated once you start reading the manual. Hopefully I can now set up my Cougar and the Realism settings.

Thanks for the info guys.

Grrr. I can never get COD to launch after using a beta patch. I extract the files directly to //Program Files (x86)/Steam/SteamApps/Common/il2-sturmovik cliffs of dover

Where am I going wrong?

UAC won't be an issue - folder is located in a secondary drive - G://

Kinda confused what could be causing an issue....

do you use 7zip???if not then do it!