Il-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover: Patch 1.0.13954

[Schuetz]

Originally Posted by Fergal69

where do I find out what version I have?

First menu screen, rightdown.

[Fergal69]

Originally Posted by Schuetz

First menu screen, rightdown.

found it now, thanks - wasn't looking on main screen as assumed it would be somewhere on the initial loading screen (the one with the pilot & epilepsy warning as per 1946), then was looking through game details on Steam.

[Ala13_Kokakolo]

Increase of FPS noticeable. I have set a mission with a fighter on ground and a three bombers formation flying around the field (doing nothing) I have also set a flock of seagulls fliying on the area (I wanted to see how do they look like). The sim is flyable now. Good work. But is far from perfect still some minimal stutters and a decrease of frames when I fly over the buildings. I have lowered the quality and amount of buildings but leave everything else. Grass and all that on. The anisotropic filter set to x4.

I have found some visual glitches. On the coast there are some flickering of artifacts and I found one road which was moving sideways while I was overfliying it. This road was on the south coast of Englans.

Response of the joy was quicker now, flying in general was smoother. Also thanks for the slider added to the sound.

By the way, when I am in the ground with the engine off the plane makes a horrible sound loke metalic and it moves sligthly, probably due to the wind.


System:
Amd Phenom II x4 940 3.0 ghz
Ram 8 GB
windows 7 64 bits
Radeon HD 4870

[Skoshi Tiger]

Game runs very well in multiplayer but I think The Blue team is cheating



Wonder Woman must have sold out to the Axis!

Cheers!

[Flanker35M]

S!

Tried Luthier's tip on cleaning the shader cache. No joy on my system. The stutter down low near houses is dreadful. I lowered resolution to 1440x900 and all to low or off except model detail to High. Sure got +100fps but stutter was there still. The fps fluctuated some 10-25fps during stutters, at times even more.

With the previous beta I could play at my native 1920x1200 resolution acceptably, even more so at 1650x1080. Luckily there is an AMD driver beta tester that also has CoD an has been running it for testing purposes. Seems that there are not many issues with AMD this time, but I think those sould be rooted out AFTER the game engine runs as it should.

Back to testing..

PS! Did a fresh install of Windows 7 last night so everything is up to date and nothing cluttering the HDD etc.

[iceblink_luck]

The patch installed via Steam – but I really see no difference. The colours are still garish – almost to the point of hurting my eyes! The sound/s are absolutely appalling – certainly not worthy of a £150 soundcard and good speakers. For example – the cannon sounds are not good, even compared to IL2 1946. When you increase the throttle, the engine sound hardly changes – no ‘meaty’ sounds like its predecessor.
I tried to go online, but that proved difficult – and when I did manage it, my plane was ‘flailing around’ on the ground, undercarriage up and doing nothing!
I tried, I really did, as I have spent many hours on the original, both online and off – but as I work full time (and then some), I really have no desire to be a beta tester for a full priced game – I know many good folk on here don’t mind, and have a lot more free time than me – but this is no ‘fun’ and is far from ‘immersive’ – at least for the time being. I guess I am still in a state of shock as to how bad this release is – the patch hasn’t really changed anything for me. I really do fear for the future of developers if this is the accepted state of released games.

And there is still a greyed out box to the left of the screen when on high settings!

Intel Core i7 2600K @ 4.6GHz /Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7 B3 / Corsair Vengence 2x4G 1600/ 2 x 1536MB EVGA GTX 580/Corsair 850W-850AX PSU/ Crucial C300 256GB SSD/2TB 64MB SATA3 6GB/s HDD/ 2TB SAMSUNG HD204UI SATA3 HDD/Asus Zonar Essence STX souncard/Corsair 600T case/Corsair H70/Samsung BR drive/Win 7 Ultimate 64bit

[Insuber]

Patch installed smoothly; game runs OK. Fps seemed to increase from 19 average on sea to 22 average (mission "Bomber intercept", 6 bombers and 3 hurricanes). Still a lot of freezes down to 1 fps on my low-end machine, when approaching other planes or buildings. Freezes and low fps on land.
ClOD is not playable on my machine, atm. But the few that I can see is beatiful ... tried the G50, it is gorgeous ... easy handling, maneuverable, stable fire platform ... beautiful cockpit ... I am considering an HW upgrade just to play this sim. Tried to disable aero desktop thing, no effect whatsoever apart from a warning of incompatibility when launching ClOD.

Settings:
1280*800
AA 2x
shadows off
grass off
roads off
models high
buildings very low
terrain low
forest very low
effects high
damages high
terrain shadows low

BUG-1: the sound of the Fiat G.50 guns continue for a couple of seconds after releasing the trigger.
BUG-2: the AI tend to crash into the sea/land by their own, when dogfighting at low alt. All of my AI G.50 mates died this way ... and a couple of enemy planes as well.
BUG-3: under negative g the Merlin never shuts down, it just sputters and turns low revs. No way to turn it off by neg G.


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Windows 7 32 bit
ASUS P5K-E
3,00 GHz E8400 Intel Core2 Duo
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB
2 GB DDR
INTEL SSD 80 GB
Maxtor HDD SATA 7200 rpm 250 GB
SAMSUNG HDD SATA 7200 rpm 1000 GB
SAMSUNG HDD SATA 7200 rpm 500 GB
SAMSUNG HDD SATA 7200 rpm 500 GB
Iiyama PLE2607WS