Il-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs Of Dover BETA Patch v 1.03.15527

[DoolittleRaider]

Originally Posted by BigC208

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The program still freezes after about one or two quick missions. Quicker when it's a mission over land with more than a few aircraft involved. Might be the lack of graphics memory (8800gts 640m) or just the overall crapness of my system. Windows XP, 6600 duocore at 3.4 ghz with 4mb of ram. Anyone out there with a similar system that can run the program without crashing every 10 minutes?...

I have a very similar system...built in 2007!

8800GTX 768Mb on card memory
Intel duocore E6700
4GB Ram

I'm actually quite surprised that I have not had the insane problems reported and discussed on the Forums by people with 2011 State-of-the art Rigs, which I find very very odd and counter-intuitive. When COD works, it's superb....the cockpit lighting, shadows, for example...and the new Sounds in the patch (although they do sometimes seem to occasionally cut in and out randomly). I haven't committed yet to upgrade my 2007-era Rig, so I thus far have been flying only scaled down Quick missions...no more than 12-15 acft. The frustration is that sometimes I can fly a full mission, say 15-20 minutes in duration, but probably after 3-4 missions, give or take, I get the 'stopping' of the "Launcher" mid-mission after maybe 5 minutes for no apparent reason, or I get some weird 'memory Crash message' during the loading of a new Quick Mission. In both cases, COD locks up and I have to Ctrl-Alt-Del out of Steam/COD and re-start COD from scratch. I've also lost my Options/Controls profiles several times, and have had to go through the tedious process of again manually entering my keys/axes selections. At one point, my patched version of COD (the latest 6 Sep Patch) seems to have gotten overwritten/rolled-back almost assuredly by Steam, though i don't know how or why. I had to download the full 512 Mb patch and re-install again. I hate Steam.

One question for anyone: When one "applies" a profile, what is the file name? Is it confUser.ini?? Also, when I "Save As" a profile, and i give it a name such as JoeBlow.ini, later if/when I want to re-apply that profile (after Stream has screwed me up again) do I just simply click the Load button in the Options page, select "Joeblow.ini", then hit the Apply button?

[Thr0tt]

The sounds in the beta have taken the game up from Alpha to Beta, if only the devs could realise that not the entire audience for this game are sim experts or want to spend hours trying to get into MP and the casual player will not try here for tips.

Look at the GUI, its the worst I have ever seen and the way the game seems to exit and enter the 'game' mode i.e from main menu to campaign to fly its 1990's material, saying that Black Shark has a similar pos gui.

They need to employ an designer who understand tactile menu systems, exApple employee or something as that would put a commercial slant on things rather than this niche user population.

Get those FPS up or at least let me select options that give me better fps and no stutter ? EVen all low is still poor very poor...

Sounds are the only thing that has given this game a better light but that will be short lived with the over game being a poor unpolished turd currently.

Lol @^ !

[pupo162]

Originally Posted by Ali Fish

Lol @^ !

dispite being lolable, he was a point. GUI is awfull, PErformance is not goog. and putting stuff on low doesnt bring performance up

[robtek]

Performancewise i wouldn't expect a actual flight-sim to run fluid with all settings on max. or even at high on even a good system!
Normally it would be as it was for Il2 in 2001, not even the best machines could run it with all the bells and whistles turned on.
That CoD runs on good settings on mediocre machines is a little wonder by itself!
Anybody who expected something like that shoud be ridiculed, imo.
If it runs good now on max settings, how can it get better in future years?
If CoD needs the computing power of the machines 12 to 18 months in the future to run maxed out,
and there are enough tasks that could use the power, as dynamic weather, better ai and so on,
then we could look in a amazing future for CoD.
Rambling off, too much wine

[No601_Swallow]

Originally Posted by robtek

Performancewise i wouldn't expect a actual flight-sim to run fluid with all settings on max. or even at high on even a good system!
Normally it would be as it was for Il2 in 2001, not even the best machines could run it with all the bells and whistles turned on.
That CoD runs on good settings on mediocre machines is a little wonder by itself!
Anybody who expected something like that shoud be ridiculed, imo.
If it runs good now on max settings, how can it get better in future years?
If CoD needs the computing power of the machines 12 to 18 months in the future to run maxed out,
and there are enough tasks that could use the power, as dynamic weather, better ai and so on,
then we could look in a amazing future for CoD.
Rambling off, too much wine

More or less what I've wanted to say, but I've usually had too much wine to actually type it. So thanks Robtek!

[HurricaneDriver]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

Don't any Program File (x86) folders still have the UAC regardless of what drive their on? I could be wrong here, but windows might still be blocking certain files from being overwritten.

The files are being overwritten - UAC is only a pain for C:/ drive files. Besides, I can confirm the files as having been overwritten as COD won't launch!



I'll give 7ZIP a try - thanks for the advice.

*Later* - 7ZIP worked beautifully. Now patched! Great advice!

[Neil Lowe]

Nice patch, Thank you.

Cheers, Neil

[HurricaneDriver]

COD keeps crashing when I exit a flight. Not sure I like the opaque plexiglass either - I liked the canopies as they were, as you could see all the details of the cockpits of the other a/c.

Think I'll wait for the official patch.

[klem]

Originally Posted by Thr0tt

The sounds in the beta have taken the game up from Alpha to Beta, if only the devs could realise that not the entire audience for this game are sim experts or want to spend hours trying to get into MP and the casual player will not try here for tips.

Look at the GUI, its the worst I have ever seen and the way the game seems to exit and enter the 'game' mode i.e from main menu to campaign to fly its 1990's material, saying that Black Shark has a similar pos gui.

They need to employ an designer who understand tactile menu systems, exApple employee or something as that would put a commercial slant on things rather than this niche user population.

Get those FPS up or at least let me select options that give me better fps and no stutter ? EVen all low is still poor very poor...

Sounds are the only thing that has given this game a better light but that will be short lived with the over game being a poor unpolished turd currently.

System Specs?