BETA PATCH v.1.08.18956 - August 3, 2012
 

Quick patch notes

Extensive investigation showed that crashes were often connected with the “not officially supported” weather module. Examining some user-made missions from some online servers showed that people were using the functionality extensively. We’ve temporarily disabled it which appears to resolve a large number of online crashes.

The investigation also shows that a disproportionately large number of crashes happens while a web browser with a flash video or audio (such as youtube) is open in the background. We recommend temporarily closing your web browser, or at the very least any tabs with open flash audio or video, while playing the game.

A Effects setting was thoroughly rewritten. Setting Effects to Medium will greatly increase average FPS on most machines without greatly affecting visual quality. Note that this setting also affects the visual appearance of clouds.

Many changes to the Flight Model were made, and the work still continues. Please note that the general performance of the British aircraft is much closer to desired envelope, but the information shown on the Boost gauge is scaled incorrectly at the moment.
Known issues: temporarily disabled cloud shadows again; hit decals may appear glitched; some steam effects like punctured water radiators and wing vortices also temporarily disabled.

The main goal of this version of the patch is, once again, to locate and fix any remaining crash bugs. Please continue sending in your logs and crash dumps to ishevchenko@1cpublishing.eu

Please enable logging in your conf.ini (Log=1). If the game crashes, send us the log file it creates in your [My Documents]\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover folder, and any .dmp files created in a cppdump folder under the main game installation.

We recommend installing the patch on top of a clean steam installation. To ensure your steam install is clean, please right-click the game in the steam library, and select Properties – Local Files – Verity Integrity of Game Cache.

International version:
http://www.easternskies.eu/downloads/IL2COD_18956.rar
http://www.easternskies.eu/downloads...956.md5sum.txt

http://www.il2develop.ru/files/patch/IL2COD_18956.rar
http://files.mail.ru/NMZ6WE (press red button)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7721109/IL2...56.rar.torrent
http://airwarfare.com/sow/index.php/...tional-version

Russian version:
http://depositfiles.com/files/xk95vh355
http://www.fayloobmennik.net/2091904
http://www.rapidshare.ru/2859664
http://rusfolder.com/31957108
http://webfile.ru/6063930
http://narod.ru/disk/58835434001.67e...56_ru.rar.html
http://www.speedyshare.com/HX9rV/IL2COD-18956-ru.rar

Thanks to all who have created an additional mirrors!

This is from Capt. Doggles

I'm mirroring the latest beta patch for CLOD, but my server's bandwidth (2.4 Gb/s) is maxed out at the moment. Gamekeeper just put up a mirror at AirWarfare but it's the middle of the night in Moscow so B6 won't be on to update his post, which means nobody's going to see Gamekeeper's mirror and everyone's download speeds are going to be super slow.

Here's the thread: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=33610

Here's a link to Gamekeeper's mirror: http://airwarfare.com/sow/index.php/...tional-version

Also here's my mirror for the Russian version: http://www.easternskies.eu/downloads...D_18956_ru.rar

Thanks!

yeay!

woot

THANK YOU B6 and TEAM

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!!!!

Cheers, looking forward to this ^^

clickity click :grin:

Damn i was hoping the patch would be delayed till next week as i am painting the house this weekend. Well looks like it'll have to be a rush job.....

Black6,

thanks for the update and new beta patch, looking forward to trying it out this WE

Please, put the files in mirrors!

link not working for me

I'll have a mirror up in about 20 minutes for the International version, and about an hour for the Russian version (russian server is slow).

Thx Black6 and Team

Will kick off a torrent again as soon as my download completes, hope my severely degeraded performance issues have been rectified.

yeah , 503 error service temporarily unavailable. looks like every man and his dog is trying to download.....

Please waiting, I'm making mirrors

i can make a mirror for the international version, but can download it to the rootserver ... Service Unavailible:evil:

Well what do you know...I just log in here and see this. Interesting. Waiting for the mirrors. :3

I believe it's over welmed , we need some mirrors thanks

Thank you B6. This will make the ladies on red very happy!

Torrent for Int version: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7721109/IL2...56.rar.torrent

Its overloaded just be patient or wait for a another mirror to be posted.

Only took about 8 mins to download. :-D

thanks!

And you guys thought this game has been abandoned! There are almost 300 people online and the patch has only just gone live. :)

http://files.mail.ru/NMZ6WE
(press red button)

English or Russian mirror?

edit never mind.. checked front page.. its English

:)

Thx....

lets play !

Dont worry, be happy !:grin:

Thanks for the patch, do not unchain the clod team from their desks just yet though!

;)

Seeding at my maximum upload, sorry it's only 1 megabit in that direction but it should speed up nicely as others start seeding.

Thanks Chaps downloading now.:grin:

lol from 33 to 111 people dling torrent in 5 minutes time. I will try to resist stopping seed once I have it to try online for some hours.

The last hot fix had a lot more downloads than I thought possible. Lot of lurkers out there waiting for finished product. "If you build it they will come."

Mirror online.

International version 18956
MD5 checksum

Russian version coming soon.

I'm currently downloading one of the links and the torrent (which I shall seed)... so it's a matter of seeing which one downloads first. :D Ah the joys of fibre-optic broadband. lol

Thank you very much. coming down at 1.3Gbps.:grin:

Done. thank you. :)

Thanks BlackSix,

nice week end!

~S~

First quick impression is all good. Trees working well and view to horizon seems better. No step backwards detected yet.

Awesome patch! Thank you Luthier, B6 and whole team. Keep up your nice work, we love you !

:mrgreen: Yeah it's a good server.

Great patch thanks

Thanks for the mirror. Very quick download! :)

Yes and I am one. Downloading now. I will not post unless I have a problem that can not be fixed by following instructions or by reading through the forums to solve any problems I may be having. :) If I find a fix for a problem I would post it, but most of the time the fix has already been posted by some one else. By the time I finish the download, go out to lunch with my son, there will be many who have installed the beta and reported back, for that I thank you.:grin:

It ought to be. It's connected to an OC48 line, and the server itself was forged in the fires of Mt Doom. One server to rule them all.

Trees fixed, Hurricane startup fixed, fps - back at pre performance patch levels, so still no where near what they were but significantly better than the last beta, will do a detailed fps comparison later once there are plenty of seeders in the swarm so I can drop out for benchmarking.

I suppose after reverting to the clean install (verifying game) we should also delete cache, and let the new patch create a new cache file? Just curious, want to install properly. Many thanks.

Verify game files, delete cache, install patch, run game once to build new cache, then re-launch game and enjoy.

Verify game files, delete cache, run game/mission, delete cache, install patch run game/mission, re launch enjoy....

Thanks B6 and team!!

Thx Captaindoggles, both for the d/l link and the explanation above, but sorry, I am very thick when it comes to this installation process, could you specify it further?

1) I go into Steam, games library, CoD, properties, local files and then "verify integrity of game cache".

2) I delete the cache how?

3) Install patch by unpacking the .rar into which folder exactly?

Thanks!

PS: Atag is already running their server with the new patch!

Thanks B6 and team.

And thanks to those of you, who put up Mirrors online. Great stuff.


Cheers

I foresee some Lofte testing in my immediate future. Thanks for the fixes and keep up the good work ;)

thats what i wanted to ask....are the bombers fixed now?

For those who are still asking how to install the patch correctly, I will quote what B6 said on other thread:

If you do the integrity check, you will go back to the last official version (before all the recent betas).

If you uninstall everything, download and reinstall, it will also get you to the latest official version.

So, they do the same thing, but the integrity check takes less time. I prefer the integrity check

My checklist:


1) Verify integrity of local files (to get back to last official version)


2) Go to your documents\1c softclub\IL-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover folder and
go into the cache folder. Delete everything in there
(the game will rebuild it based on the new version next time you run the sim).


3) Extract the beta patch in the game folder
(c:\whatever_you_named_it\steam\steamapps\common\I L-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover) and let it overwrite anything it wants to overwrite


4) Run the sim one to force it to rebuild the cache.


5) Start a free flight quick mission to force it to add anything else it
might need in the cache.


6) Exit the sim.


7) Restart the sim.

Now you can test your frame rates with a clean install of the latest beta,
as well as a correct cache folder for your version. If you skip
steps 5,6,7 you might see that initially you get worse performance,
because the game might still be adding files to the cache. However,
the next time you start it, it will be better and you will get the true
performance.

2) Visit Documents/1C SoftClub/IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover/cache and then delete the entire contents of that folder.

3) Unpack the patch into Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover and it should overwrite some files within the 'parts' folder.

First quick and dirty bomb drop with ju88 straight after airspawn, from 2000m, I got the salvo about ten meters from the aiming point.:-P

Good times ahead.

Russian mirror/зеркало русский: http://www.easternskies.eu/downloads...D_18956_ru.rar

MD5: http://www.easternskies.eu/downloads..._ru.md5sum.txt

Thanks for the patch - even with a direct download mirror supplied! :-P

I guess uploading another mirror isn't needed this time. :cool:

That's very encouraging, however to really test it you have to go a bit higher.

The main bug in the bombsight was that it didn't adjust for the trail effect in bombing: over time, bombs lose their forward speed due to air friction and increase their downward speed due to gravity.

This is almost unnoticeable at low altitudes (that's why many people could bomb even with the bugged bombsights from 1-2km), but gets more pronounced the higher you go (bombs end up going almost straight down, so they lag behind the target if dropped from high alt)

If you really want to be sure, spawn a loaded Ju88 in the France free flight mission, set it up on autopilot with a slight climb and engage some time acceleration until you get to 4-5km of altitude, level out, pick an arbitrary target point and see how it goes. I'll also be testing this way soon.

P.S. I'm not sure, but i think that in the real Lofte one needs to input IAS and altitude (the bombsight would use them to calculate TAS automatically). In any case, it pays to test both ways: one run with IAS and one with TAS inputs in the bombsight, just to be sure.

Do we have any confirmation that adjustments have been made to the operation of the Lofte? I'd like to try a He-111 mission but don't know where to go with the settings; do it the old way or do it by the book?

Thanks Black Six and dev team.

when beta testing its helpful to have a full read me to know all of the changes...something they changed could go reported as a bug for all we know....when its a new or changed feature....

thx for the update and patch :-)
wow 64 players on ATAG right now... come on guys lets stress-test this beta and lets try to reach the 99 player limit of this server ^^

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...8-03_00001.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...8-03_00002.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...8-03_00003.jpg

framerate wise a pretty good patch ( although I haven't yet flown over London) Fm wise I hope the pictures show that your comment about them needing work is spot on as I managed to bring that Hurricane back.

Yes a readme should be a plus but thanks to the dev team of 1c! :grin::-P:o:cool::eek::-)

hey you did deliver after all; happy to be wrong on my doubts.

Thank you guys for continuing to support us with CLoD

So far so good as far as crashes go for me. No longer seem to have the singleplayer crashes anyways, haven't been online as I'm still working on the flying part offline!

Plenty of wing left on that aircraft to give it lift on the port side. I doubt it flew like a brand new aircraft. If you tried to fight in that condition you'd have spun out like a top, but you should be able to land that aircraft with difficulty.

Nice popped tyres by the way ;)

VERY Nice Beta Patch! FPS Better, Comms vastly improved, all planes called in to land responded & landed! No contact to leader was made though, so I just landed after everyone else. Amazed with performance on my LAPTOP!!!!:)

Don't forget ATI guys to delete your UBI splash screen file after verifying the game on Steam. It will reload it in there.

And turn off that epilepsy filter!

Good to know you're happier mate!:)

I'm having probs downloading it at all. :(

Patch downloading very slow any good links? MAYBE A TORRENT?

Using Dano's torrent, will seed for a while after download.

Also to note, the transparent lines coming from the hurricane control column are now fixed and craters no longer show through aircraft :)

I just downloaded it from link in B6's post. No problems. Good speed.

I'm pretty sure I've seen photos of aircraft near that state that were landed under control (or at least crash landed under control).

But then again, I've never flown a badly damaged hurricane in real life, so maybe you're right.

Looking forward to the patch. Thanks B6.

Edit: Quick search brought up this one.. http://www.topdesignmag.com/wp-conte...1_G.sized_.jpg

I'd be interested in seeing those.

A whopping 13.5kb a second lol

Try the Eastern Skies mirror. It's a 2.4 Gigabit line.

THATS WHAT IM USING :s

Yikes. Must be a lot of people pulling data down, then. Sorry!

Download mirror
 

BETA Patch v.1.08.18956 International Version download mirror
BETA Patch v.1.08.18956 Russian Version download mirror

Thx for the install advice guys!

I can pretty much confirm that the Lofte bombsight is working perfectly in the HE-111. I just finished a bombing run on ATAG and found the following.

-Bombsight altitude now displays the more accurate data.

Instead of,

4200m
4200m
4300m
4300m

in now reads,

4280m
4290m
4300m
4310m

-You need to convert IAS to TAS

-Crosshairs track perfectly

-Bombs fall behind the crosshair


I was too high to see the order of the bombs going off so I'm not sure if they're still exploding backwards. I was jumped by a fighter just before drop, and he either responded to my pleas to leave me alone until I got my bombs off, or my AI gunner hit him hard enough to scare him off. Either way, I was just so excited to see the Lofte working this well!

here's one for ya doggles :D

http://www.uss-bennington.org/pics/phz-nowing-f15.jpg


Thanks for the patch b6 and MG crew, look forwards to giving it a good thrashing once its installed :)

Wonderful! I hated counting the sight altitude and rechecking it over and over. Now you can easily get this setup. Good job guys! Nice fix for the bombers!

Dano's torrent link was very fast for me 2.mbs/sec....Cheers Dano. Seeding now (Virgin connection though with a 20mb download, but relatively slow upload).

I've set "bandwith allocation" to "unlimited" but I'm not a pro with these things and not sure how or if I can make it any faster. Suppose every little helps though.

Keller, you say the bombs hit behind the crosshairs. Are they pretty close now? I.e. the altitude 'corrections' not necessary now? Travelling at the moment so can't test.

See my edited post for one :) I know I've seen more. I think a kittyhawk did the same in the pacific, coming back with massive damage to structure of the wing.

I don't count the modern aircraft photos (like the other one someone posted) since they've got all kinds of computery stuff to help with stabilzation.

Doesn't really matter. It may be that the aircraft in CloD are too controllable with that much wing off, but there should be a degree of damage that still allows you to control the aircraft reasonably (unable to dogfight or do anything else but struggle with it home).

Can't wait to start testing! Patch just finished dl'ing. Woo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_EXtBEaBbs

They managed to return to the fleet and crash landed there in this one.

Thank you
 

Thank you very much, downloaded in 1 min 34 seconds @ 3.44MB/sec

This is my first impression of the patch:

AMAZING PATCH!!!

60 constant FPS! very fluid combat! bomber sights working!!!

I love you guys.

Dang I said I was going to wait until a final released patch through Steam, now you guys are really tempting me... I have yet to install any of these beta patches.
Nice to hear some positive words, I have been waiting for this before really delving into the sim.

Cripes!

Wing Slats!

that is all ;)

This was 8 x 250kg bombs set with 0m delay.

Indicated airspeed was 270 km/h, Altitude 4210m.

Bombsight inputs were "True airspeed" 350 km/h and 4210m.

Since this target was right on the coast so I didn't deduct any altitude to allow for target elevation.


This image should explain it. Bombs also seem to stay closer together from high altitude; not as much natural spread.

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/7042/lofte7.jpg

same here! Exactly 3.44MB/sec :)

Seems to really help with fps/smooth/fluid gameplay .Thanks all!

PC is E8600@4.3GHz / GTX295/3GB RAM

Wow, thanks Keller (and 1C of course). That's exactly what I have been waiting for.

I am getting an error message when I extract the file.

"CRC failed in parts\bob\bob_update05.SFS. The file is corrupt"

I am using Winrar.


**Never mind all good now, I downloaded directly from a link in this thread. Previously I had downloaded the patch from Airwarfare, which was giving me the errors.

CTD is fixed when exiting a SP mission!
FPS is about the same.