Im glad to report that:

And about 1,000,000 other things

yeah and fix fullscreen it still isnt working

[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

Last official update/hotfix fixed stuttering/pausing. No more CPU dropouts affecting GPU performance.

Full screen works great on my system. I was surprised by true widescreen. After benchmarking the Black Death track hundreds of times - I never released that I was not seeing true widescreen - until I saw it while benchmarking this version.

S!

Gunny

[HamishUK]

Agreed game is very smooth now....Still a long way to go but it's a massive improvement over release!

[Wolf_Rider]

Devs may need to redo the Blackdeath track... I get a message in console that a shader file can't be found

[HFC_Dolphin]

With latest patch I had my firct CtD, but I hope it's just a random incident.

In general I agree, that things seem to get better.
Hopefully beta period will end in a couple of months and we'll start playing latest by Autumn!

[Seeker]

It's a mixed blessing.

There were six guys on my squad night last night, and all could get on the SYN server (and off again!) with no problems, and while we saw either some amazing warps (or blatant print screening, does that still work?), by and large the flying was the smoothest so far.

But we all had sound problems, every one of us having to restart the game a couple of times through out the evening.

Now, most of my Squad are far from being Black Viper when it comes to Windows tweaking, it has to be said, but when such a wide range of HW, OS and config are hit by the same phenomenon then I think it's fair to say Clod is the culprit, and not some esoteric sound card driver issue.