New Graphics Engine

[furbs]

They alluded that it is "almost finished" at Christmas.

[Jaws2002]

Originally Posted by Chivas

The graphic engine had to be rewritten to provide the necessary performance and stability to allow people to actually play the sim. It appears the rewrite has succeeded in its main objective of the performance increase and fixed CTD's etc, but there are still enough graphics bugs to delay the release. Not sure how you figured a major rewrite of the graphic engine would be a quick fix, the developer certainly never alluded to that.

Actually it was advertized as a quick fix. They said we'll have it by Christmas.
Also remember, this bad patch, we are stuck with for six months, is part of that "new graphics engine. The online crashes were introduced with this "primer" for the new graphics engine. My game was looking a lot better, runing faster and was a lot more stable before this last messy patch.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Jaws2002

Actually it was advertized as a quick fix. They said we'll have it by Christmas.
Also remember, this bad patch, we are stuck with for six months, is part of that "new graphics engine. The online crashes were introduced with this "primer" for the new graphics engine. My game was looking a lot better, runing faster and was a lot more stable before this last messy patch.

No part of the Performance/graphic engine rewrite has been released. They did release tweaks to the old graphic engine, but found it wasn't going to work, and then decided to do the total rewrite of the graphic engine to fix the performance and CTD issues. There is no such thing as a quick fix major graphic engine rewrite.