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05-06-2012, 06:23 PM
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So..... one totally fresh install later.....
Installed beta patch.... Now have to fly with settings less than I was using before the patch... some improvement (To be expected considering so much is actually turned off by this patch! Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.) coupled with terrible stutters.... and then what happens? My first ever offline CTD. My biggest concern about this mess is: People complained as trees, clouds, particles etc were causing performance issues. The team patched it up. People continued to complain as trees, clouds, particles etc were causing performance issues. The team patched it up. People continued to complain as trees, clouds, particles etc were causing performance issues. The team say they are working on it...... Shock horror! The team have "discovered" that there are problems with trees, clouds, particles etc! (Who would have guessed, eh?) The team continue..... announce the patch is pretty much finished when.... Yegads! An unimaginable horror has occured! They have fixed everything but suddenly these bugs have turned up out of the blue: There are performance issues caused by trees, clouds, particles etc! Who could have predicted that, eh? The team release a pre-beta patch and proudly announce that performance has increased! But........ clouds have been cut back for now until they can figure out what the problem is....... Oh..... and there is still a problem with trees, clouds, particles etc..... Is it any wonder people are losing faith? What have they been doing all this time? Sure... some new sounds and some snazzy shockwave effects on the explosions.......... and, may I suggest, some really unpopular videos of tanks? Battle over Moscow? I predict Battle with Redundancy. 
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05-06-2012, 07:39 PM
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Better you than me...  Sorry - BAD, BAD JOKE! (too difficult to resist...) I saw Radeon HD 6770 1gb, I am so afraid that it is the VRAM issue. Have you installed something to monitor your available VRAM? I am sorry I am an NV guy thus can not offer advice on SW for ATI. The fact that it played well in the beginning and crapped out 24hrs later is still unexplicable. It can ofcourse be the famous bug that switches your card in power saving mode... (again you need a SW to monitor this as well as your VRAM usage...) ~S~
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05-07-2012, 12:19 PM
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 My biggest bugbear which, I suppose, led to me blowing my top somewhat is that, throughout the majority of this wait, I have been supportive.... though not to the degree of utter fanboy. lol I have held a lot of faith in the development team, always certain that the miracle patch would arrive sooner than later yet I have also always said that I fully understand the rage of some on here and have always tried to see things from their point of view as dissatisfied customers. As has been explained in this thread, and elsewhere, this is just an alpha test and an opportunity for the player base to help with testing and squashing of bugs and is not the patch we are looking for.... and that makes me think I knee jerked slightly.... but...... I am having trouble shaking the horrible feeling we are being led up the garden path slightly inasmuch as the development team was well aware of the various problems and have been for some time and yet, throughout this time, they keep "Discovering" the very problems we have been reporting since day one. One minute they claim they are close to fixing everything and the next it is scuppered due to some unimaginable and horrible surprise....which, the majority of the time, is actually one or more of the very things they claimed they were fixing in the first place!  I wasn't expecting the cure.... but I was expecting some signs of the ongoing treatment... if that makes sense? I get the image in my mind of someone going to see a doctor because their leg has somehow mysteriously gone missing.... being put through hundreds of tests only for them to be told, months down the line, that the problem is.... their leg is missing. "We shall fit the prosthetic soon, good sir!" ...a few months pass.... "Unfortunately we are unable to fit the new prosthetic limb as unforeseeable circumstances have arisen. We regret to inform you that you are missing a leg" ...a few months pass.... "We have great news, sir! We are giving you the chance to hobble around on your stump for awhile so you can tell us what may be causing the hobbling. We warn you now that there will be a lot of hobbling involved, mind, as we have not fixed the prosthetic limb yet and...erm... we've cut off your other one. The great news is that, those who have had the other leg removed are reporting as much as a 50% gain in performance due to the new ability to shuffle along on stumps of equal length!"
Last edited by Volksieg; 05-07-2012 at 12:33 PM.
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