Alright, it seems for half of us the patch did nothing? No magical +50%. Do we log a bug report? Or shall we wait another couple of months for the stable release?

I have to revise my former statement about the performance at my rig.

Pre-Patch I played with settings mostly high (except Building details: very low; Trees: Medium, Texture: High; Anti Aliasing 2x; Epilepsiefilter/SSAO/Vsync: OFF) and got reasonable fps with some stutters inbetween.
For example BlackDeath Track test prior to patch installation: 118/41/2

After the Beta I got: 122/48/7, so there was barely a change.

BUT then I decided to just push the details to the Maximum and see what fps I get now just out of curiosity.
And I get nearly the same fps in Black Death: 120/45/4

I can now play with all settings max (except Vsync/Epilepsie/SSAO: OFF; Anti Aliasing 4x) with acceptable fps. Can play some demanding missions with more than 30 planes with an avg of 50. and it looks much better now with more AA und Texture to original :)

Sure there are still some stutterts as before but right now I'm quite satisfied!

I've found something rather interesting. I was at first disappointed by the meagre fps improvement of only 5-10 but I was stunned that maxing the graphics hardly diminished the fps at all, whereas before it quickly became unplayable!

Yes exactly, thats what I wanted to say in my post above :D
It is really a huge improvement. Before setting the graphics on maximum causes huge stutters und awful fps now it is totally playable!

Hi,

I've worse performance, tons of stuttering / micro-freeze (before the patch almost none), and lower FPS around less 10 FPS.

Had delete cache folder prior patch instalation.

I am on a quad core.

Edited: I am using TrackIR 5

I’ve had a similar experience – apart from a huge increase in frame rates, setting the graphics from my previous lower settings to everything on ‘High’ caused a loss of 4fps in Black Death (46 to 42). I wonder how many that have responded ‘Similar performance’ have not picked up on this?

Including me :D Thats only natural, first you do is to test the new version under the same conditions as the old one -> ergo runnging Black Death Track or sth. similar under the SAME settings. Therefore I didnt see much of a difference.

Try it out guys, just set the options a little higher, compare and you will see!

I am on windows 7 And I will download 12.4 today thanks :)

Just be very careful using the Black Death track, BlackDog suggested that it gives very erratic performances, because it has been recorded on a previous version. I had indeed worse performance and freezes with it after the patch.

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Cheers!

If what you say is a fact, then in my opinion that just shows that higher settings do not improve visual quality (another bug to fix perhaps). Quality must come at a cost. But then I appreciate the good feeling that comes with thinking you're running the sim at "high."