Saturday, May 12, 2012. Patch Alpha – Report 2 + mini-fix

[chris455]

Originally Posted by SiThSpAwN

Clouds are not working as intended, I dont think that has changed since the release of the Alpha patch as stated in the patch notes. Where I can I turn them off.

What about explosions/fire/smoke? Do they cause slow downs for you?

A very large explosion, such as the one when the airstrip is being hit early in the Black Death track, will choke me out for sure. Other ancillary explosions do not have a great effect at all.
Fire and smoke do not have a noticeable effect on my rig.
I believe you can disable clouds in one of the options screens before a QM; in the Mission Builder it is a rather obscure setting, but it is there.

[gonk]

hmm.... something here is not adding up.... One week they say the patch is almost ready and they have had no crashes for weeks... now they say thanks for the crash logs as they have BEEN having crashes they cannot fix... ??? What is it ? No crashes or crashes ??

Total graphic engine rewrite of 200+meg ? Lucky there is currently no competition for this genre' .

[GraveyardJimmy]

Originally Posted by gonk

Total graphic engine rewrite of 200+meg ?

The engine rewrite is code, not texture files etc. There is no reason for it to be a very large file. 200MB is the equivalent of 50,000 pages of text. Obviously there are sound files added amongst other things so it is not literally 50,000 pages of code!

[AKA_Tenn]

yep yep... textures, sounds, maps/models, and movies are the big bits...