I haven't had a chance to fly with these yet to see if I have any image quality changes, but running TheBlackDeath with max in game settings plus those listed below, there was an ever so slight increase:

E6600 @ 3.3 GHz eVGA 8800GTS 512 (G92) 2048 DDR2 1000
8x AF 4X AA High Quality, no optimizations max driver quality settings, supersampling on, vSynch off, triple buffering on. Water=0 1600*1200 res

December 26, 2007 dlls:
Frames: 11880 - Time: 151947ms - Avg: 78.185 - Min: 29 - Max: 163

Feb 27 2008 DLLs:
Frames: 12023 - Time: 151807ms - Avg: 79.199 - Min: 29 - Max: 164

Same settings as above but with Water=2

December 26, 2007 dlls:
Frames: 10586 - Time: 152004ms - Avg: 69.642 - Min: 26 - Max: 131

Feb 27 2008 DLLs:
Frames: 10706 - Time: 151989ms - Avg: 70.439 - Min: 26 - Max: 131

For specifics see here: http://www.gozr.net/iocl/viewtopic.php?p=29875#29875

Can't view it I'm banned from that forum

I confirm this - spotted it also on desert map with bad weather. Coast lines can be seen from very long distance. Below an example:

Intel Core2 6600, Win XP SP2, Directx 9c, GeForce 8800GTS, Forceware 169.21

Conf.ini: http://lelv8.org/temp/conf.ini

http://lelv8.org/temp/coastline.jpg

~!S!~ Alle,
Tried to fly IL1946 today..
Drivers are the 1.6925 and I keep crashing ...
first it was a BSOD thenthe game itself " Vista just gives lame IL2fb.exe has stopped...)
I reinstalled IL21946 into C:\game\ubisoft\il2
Now game crashes to BSOD with DXGKRNL as a listed culprit...
please help

Beautiful 1946
 

What ever you guys do, I hope you do not destroy the colorization and game play of 1946. As it is now, the sim is drop dead beautiful. No Banding, deep rich colors, and smooth.

I noticed banding in a Pacific Map, and the colors did not look correct. Be very careful.

P4E 3.4E @ 3.51
AsusP4p800E Deluxe
2Gb Corsair PC3200
ATI x1950Pro 256 7-11 Cats
MAX settings 32AF 12AA all Quality
Sblive
HDTV 32" 1440x900
WD2500KS
Perfect settings w/Forest 3

gf

Is it possible to have effect on water like it was on DLL’s from 9. February? With nice changes in water colorization and with feeling of water depth? This flat, uniform color water with these last DLL’s are ridiculous and real step backwards

Please test new DLL set 130308!

* Fixed numerous visual artifacts.

* il2setup.ini changed (save old version before update)
Now it supports new video cards.
And turns on Anisotropic filtration for powerful cards.

* Improved rendering of buildings and other static
objects at far distance by reducing LOD switching
in LandGeom=3 mode (see conf.ini).

I keep getting an error message on attempting to unpack this rar file.
Is there only one file in it ?

No problems with unpacking the files. There should be 2 dlls and 1 ini file in there. Maybe you should try to download the file again?

Same thing every time I try to download it.