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My god, the slowest link ever :P

Can you copy the message here mate? Too many of us have been banned from their forums for not dripping sycophancy all over the game.

Here you go:

No problem Verner ,but their is NO readme with this patch for now



[quote]Default Beta Patch � and we mean BETA!
It's here! There is no readme yet. The patch addresses a lot of small things, which will all be listed in the readme included with the patch once it goes live.

Main areas of improvement are performance and FPS. We�ve also updated sounds, fixed some minor bugs around aircraft etc.

We�re still optimizing some things as I write this, so the final patch should offer slightly better performance.

Before installing the patch, make sure that your game version is up to date. If you have disabled automatic updates in steam, re-enable it and allow steam to update the game to the most recent version which is 1.00.13820.

The patch will not work with an earlier version of Cliffs of Dover.

Download the patch and manually extract it to your main game directory which by default is
(Program Files)\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover

Your new game version will be 1.00.13915. This patch will later be overwritten by an automatic update.

Note that while this version will allow you to play online with the older version, they are actually incompatible and you will run into issues. You do not have to report them.
http://www.1cfiles.com/IL2_CliffsofDover/IL2COD_13915.rar


What to look for:
1. Changes in performance � please report whether it�s gotten better, and if so, by how much.
2. Any graphical bugs or glitches, especially with landscape, buildings and trees.
3. Any other unforeseen glitches and bugs.

PLEASE keep this thread ONLY for the discussion of the beta patch. Please do not re-report previously reported issues. Please do not use this as a Q&A thread or a flamewar thread or a feature request thread or a lamentation thread. Please keep it purely utilitarian. That�s what this beta patch is � a quick way to see if it does what it should without doing something it shouldn�t.

Thank you all for your support!

NOTE: This is the international version of the patch. It will not work with the Russian version. If you have purchased a Russian version of the game, download this instead:
http://www.1cfiles.com/IL2_CliffsofDover/IL2COD_13915_ru.rar

I hope someone sets up a mirror or two. This link is painfully slow.

Goody, goody gum drops!

Downloading at 4KB/sec... 1940 speed...the realism has no ends

Thanks guys, downloading now. 6kbs so it looks like it's going to take a few hours.

2hrs left @ 11kbs lol

I've got hotfile and filesonic accounts I'll upload when its finished

Mirrors:

Eng
http://uploading.com/files/m21m18d1/IL2COD_13915.rar/

Rus
http://uploading.com/files/a21736c7/..._13915_ru.rar/

From Nike-It on 1C:

Here are two mirrors, hope they will be faster:

Eng
[/url] http://uploading.com/files/m21m1..._13915_ru.rar/] http://uploading.com/files/a21736c7/..._13915_ru.rar/


If you know any faster place please let me know.

More mirrors:

English!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0B7RW3N5

Russian!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O294JUXV

Quick test in freeflight over england. No change at all in perfomance in my system (Q9550, 4GB ram, GTX460).

I like the topic-headline:

"Beta Patch � and we mean BETA!"


Maybe it would be a good idea to create a torrent for this file?



Argh!



EDIT: The English-version download in Jim's post really flies for me. 600+KB/s, downloaded in less than a minute.




S.

Brilliant. Applied the patch, re-started the PC, launched the game, black screen. I hear the Ubi logo but that's it. Hit Task Manager after waiting five minutes, that gets the game into the menu ok. Launched Quick Mission and Single Mission, in both cases I get a window in top-left corner of screen that occupies about 50% of my monitor's real-eastate. Ran fps START SHOW anyway, not a jot of difference in FPS. I checked video options, the game is still set to run full-screen.

Maybe they made a patch for the xBox version by mistake.

But yeah, it's only a beta. You couldn't make it up, ay guys?

First impression is its quite a bit smoother - tried it with trees on low and buildings on low and it ran although took a while for the game to settle down - but then just as it had got all smooth I got this error and the program crashed completely:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: launcher.exe
Problem Signature 02: 1.0.0.0
Problem Signature 03: 4d6e3d08
Problem Signature 04: core
Problem Signature 05: 1.0.0.0
Problem Signature 06: 4d9d52a7
Problem Signature 07: e26
Problem Signature 08: 0
Problem Signature 09: System.AccessViolationException
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Now I had been getting this before when I had a lot on screen (for example over London) but this test was just over a normal countryside airfield (actually the Blenhiem flight to France mission but using a Hurricane instead of he Blenheim). Crash occurred within a couple of minutes of flying around after increasing the forest to low (from none) and the buildings to low (from very low). Will do some more testing over the water see if thats got better with a few bombers around.

Change the resolution in conf ini to match your desktopresolution. In official forum i read that other than desktopresolution results in strange behavior of the gameresolution. Maybe setting ingame to desktop resolution or vice versa helps?

just a suggestion!

Winger

Two mirrors for the English version:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0B7RW3N5

http://uploading.com/files/m21m18d1/IL2COD_13915.rar/

Yeah, I already found that by choosing max rez in options (my native rez of 2560 x 1600) the game will go full-screen. And FPS shows an increase from 6fps to 9fps. At 1650 x 1050 I see fps increase to 25fps from 20fps but game is windowed (full-screen on in options so not a proper window). This is with trees and buildings on LOW. And I have to go through Task Manager to get the game to appear at all.

They're clearly well out of their depth at this point and the body will be recovered later. Yes, it's a beta, but of a patch they thought they had nailed but just needing a general public test before putting it out through Steam. What's it's actually done is bust the game worse than it was before.

I'm pretty much done with this POS. God help the game when they start trying to implement multicore support...oh my god...can anyone imagine?! If somebody **admin edit**