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[d.burnette]

Well as for myself, my wait has not been quite as long as many of you.
I was heavily into IL2, first with FB, then with the AEP followed by PF. Then eventually I got 1946 to make it easier to have it all together. Most of my flying was done offline, but man did I ever have many, many enjoyable hours with it. I remember quite well, it was the reason I purchased Track IR - never will forget that first flight in IL2 with my new Track IR device...

I followed the development of the sequeal with great anticipation. Then time kept going by and going by, and nothing. Then a change of my position at work took me away from simming much for a while. Then I got more back into it, and started checking out what then was knows as CLOD. This was after the Russian release but before the release in the states.

After reading up on the forums, I decided to hold off. Then after the release here in the states, and reading up some more, I decided to hold off longer. Then about 7-8 weeks ago, reading about this new patch, I decided to go ahead and pull the trigger and purchased it through Steam. The first couple of weeks I spent off and on mapping my controls, building a joystick file for it , for my Cougar HOTAS. I have only flown about 3 hours in it, mainly in the quick missions, then I decided to hold off and wait for this new patch. Performance was "ok", but I decided to just wait and see what the patch brings before really getting into it heavily.

I can certainly understand the frustration many must be feeling. I have to admit, after seeing an update a couple of weeks ago, I fully expected the patch that would be released , to be much further along than apparently what it is now, based on what I have read here. I myself, just do not have the time to spare to go through the efforts of testing this alpha patch release and providing the feedback to help, if I did I certainly would. But it will remain in a holding pattern for me, until probably it is an official patch updated through Steam.

I really don't view it as I have anything to lose. I would love to have the glory of the sim available to me that most hope CLOD will be. Yes, I paid full price on Steam, but it is not really that much money - I have certainly spent more and gotten far less. I do hope they get it to where the majority would like to see it, and if the sequel proves to be very good I will not hesistate to get it as well, but I will wait like I did with CLOD to be sure it is.

In the meantime I have other good flight sims to entertain me while I wait, granted not a good WWII sim like I want more than anything, but I will patiently wait to see the end result of this latest patching process, and hope for good things for all...

[TonyD]

Is it just me, or does the misspelled title of this post seem somewhat ironic? The actual truth, if this poll is anything to go by, is that the vast majority of users have seen a performance increase, which was the purpose of this update. I also believe that a lot of those that voted ‘Similar performance’ had good frame rates to start with, and haven’t noticed that increasing graphic settings has a minimal impact on performance (which would result in them voting ‘Better performance’ if they had a chance to vote again).

B6 stated that there were some known errors in the patch that they were working on, and hopefully they will be addressed soon, but for most users the promised performance increase is a reality.

[SiThSpAwN]

Originally Posted by furbs

Do you think maybe the FPS increase could be anything to do with them chopping the clouds out, the textures being lowered and people turning tree's and grass off?

Perhaps, but if they can pinpoint the issues they can update those features and optimize them.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Well Alpha or beta,

Well it looks like the penny finally dropped?

I guess your statement above is as close as you can come to admitting you were wrong?

That being BS post referred to the patch as 'alpha' from the start and that you just 'missed' it when you read it.

So with that said everyone should take note that all your posts prior to this moment stemmed from you having the wrong impression of the 'purpose' of this patch..

That is to say people should now be able to understand why you were so upset, because you didn't realize the purpose of this patch.

For those that are still confused see my sig.

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

its still a patch that as broken as much as its fixed like all previous patches,

For some yes and for some no..

That is the nature of dev provided public alpha patch testing..

Which was explained clearly in BS initial post!

Based on your responce it appears you are still a little confused as to the purpose of this patch!

Thus people should STILL disregard your comments on this patch

Feel free to read my sig again..

Because we all know now how you tend to 'miss' things the first time you read them.

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

very shoddy work.

That would be the impression someone would get if they didn't understand the purpose of a dev provided public alpha test patch..

But that is not the impression someone would get if they understood the purpose of a dev provided public alpha test patch..

[Pudfark]

Uh...anybody know the

[CaptainDoggles]

1.06.17582

[TonyD]

Originally Posted by furbs

Do you think maybe the FPS increase could be anything to do with them chopping the clouds out, the textures being lowered and people turning tree's and grass off?

No. I’ve run the ‘Black Death’ track a number of times in both versions, and haven’t noticed anything missing. There are some minor graphic differences (the explosion’s concussion for eg.), and one or two errors (bomb craters seen through the BF109), but the engine’s rendering speed has been greatly enhanced, for me anyway. I am one of the lucky few (?) who have experienced a huge improvement in frame rates, 70% in terms of the BD track at the same settings. I have been able to increase the detail level since with almost no reduction in performance .

I also test by flying around at low altitude over Dover, blowing up the fuel depot and checking frame rates with the effect in view and not. With VSYNC enabled the frame rate stays almost constantly at my screen’s refresh rate, only dipping to the low 30’s when getting very close to the fire.

I am currently flying the ‘Operation Sealion’ missions with all graphic settings on ‘High’, and it runs flawlessly. I do have to put up with the ‘blue lines’ error (due to my particular gfx card, which is annoying), but I notice them less when involved in the game.

I must admit to being very surprised and impressed with the performance improvement, if not by some of the more irritating errors, but have hope that these will be addressed soon. All things considered, a large step forward in my opinion. (Although I have wondered whether one of AMD’s recently ‘released’ staff members has ended up at 1c, and slipped some Bulldozer optimisations into the code )

[Pudfark]

Originally Posted by CaptainDoggles

1.06.17582

Uh..

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by Pudfark

Uh...AOA's sig says that's the Beta Patch #

Poor pud.. Seems you and Tree have the same reading problems.. Read what BS wrote in his inital post again and I think you will see the word 'alpha' twice.. Note not talking about the 'title' of the thread, the 'content' of the thread

[CaptainDoggles]

Originally Posted by Pudfark

Uh...AOA's sig says that's the Beta Patch #

It just says Beta in the title. If you read BlackSix's post, you'll see it's an alpha patch.