This happened after I got shot.
The lower part of the instruments got DOS game style

Didn't try it out yet, but this

has been happening to me in all previous versions of the sim and regardless of the video drivers i use.

The affected areas were cockpits with a lot of textures (mostly in twin engined aircraft), plus the external surfaces of aircraft (both fighters and twins).

So for example, with my settings (aircraft on high, forests on low, everything else on medium) i never got to see the full resolution textures in the Blenheim cockpits and the bomb aimer position in all other bombers (it also takes a while to load them in the pilot cockpits of 111, 110 and Ju88 but they eventually render correctly), plus the stencils on the wings of fighters (like the "no step" lines and text on the 109 wings), always appear blurry, both when viewed from inside the cockpit and from external views.

The same happens with the Blenheim gunsight, all bombsights in all bombers and the magnetic compass in all RAF aircraft.

Up till now i thought this was because of my system not having enough RAM + video RAM up till now, but now that i see it mentioned specifically in the alpha patch notes maybe it's a different thing that merits reporting.

I'm running the sim on:

i7 920 @ 2.7 Ghz (no overclocking)
3GB RAM
Ati 4890 1GB
win7 x64

My graphics settings:
1680x1050
AA OFF
Vsync ON
grass, roads, shadows ON
SSAO OFF
aircraft models HIGH
forests LOW
everything else MEDIUM

I'll get to testing the new one and report if i see something else.

EDIT: The picture in the above post is pretty much what i'm describing, i just used to get it mostly in the situations i outlined above.

Just as a reminder console: fps SHOW START to track FPS.
Turn off vsync, otherweise the FPS will be limited to 60.
SSOA still hits the performance, so I turned it off.
Incresed performance.
The textures in cockpit look a bit ...is slugish the right word? Well washed sometimes. Much better landscape ....

I7 920@ 3.99ghz
HD6970
all maxed out!

Sry I guess I am in the wrong thread...:oops:

No FPS incrase. More stutters than before.

Flickering trees, floating horizon etc.

No mirror, only a frame.

Pop-up clouds - nice joke! First thought - AAA shot on me!

Colours are so pale..




My PC:

CPU : i5 750 2.66GHz @ 4.0 GHz s.1156
Mobo: MSI P55 GD-65
RAM: OCZ Platinium 2x2GB 1600MHz CL7
GPU: MSI 460 1GB DDR5 H.A.W.K.
HDD: Samsung SpinnPoint F3 500GB

Thank-you for all your hardwork but there still the major issue of Very low fps on take-off roll and landing, many people have been complaining about this.

turned your mirror off?

Hard to believe on your Uber rig! Think I'll wait a day or two to see what pans out. :confused:

interesting; low res cockpit when zooming in, high res when zooming out?

I think 777 studios needs to take this over. Build some Debug tools and get this thing cleaned up.

Good luck CLOD 1C, I'm done with this.

wating on 4.12 1946.

Never had CTDs before, now getting them after 10 minutes on multiplay
"restart" single player mission fails to load - it stalls at ~95%
No obvious change in FPS, mind you I was running on near max with good FPS already prior to this patch

Ok, while fps has increased for me so have stutters.

Couple of graphical bugs, first of which is that phantom contacts/aircraft still exist.

Second is grass in the air:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7721109/IL2%...505_185643.bmp

Third, hydraulic lines coming off the ROTOL Hurricane control column are transparent:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7721109/IL2%...505_190341.bmp