Il-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs Of Dover BETA Patch v 1.03.15527

[Fall_Pink?]

Thanks for the patch and some observations:

The good:
- New colors and lighting look very nice and more real
- Sound has much, much improved and hope to hear more

The bad:
- Voice sound level is too low
- gun sounds are too low I think
- still too many sound echo's from other planes when they use the radio.
- Performance wise this beta patch is however not very good. Despite having a high end system, it has dramatically dropped my avg fps. Stuttering on landscape loading has increased and disk IO (constant small spikes on my SSD) has also increased during flight. This most definately must be looked into. Stuttering is not caused by cpu starvation because my cpu usage remains remarkably low on all cores; too low in my opinion.
- AI warping and very rapid movement changes of AI still there. Either caused by the game engine

New command structure is being worked on and that's nice to see. I really hope to see a fully working AI command menu in the final patch and please look into the - for me much - worsened fps (~ 26 avg fps with only a couple of planes in the game). It cannot be related to any CoD settings afaik. I still use the same settings as before I installed the beta patch.

Regards,
FP