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Now able to turn forest on and it has very little effect on p[erformance. It is the buildings popping up that seems to be causing the problems. Small hamlets and villages are barable but large towns like the one on the Hawkinge mission slow the system down and I see the micro freezes when the buildings are popping up.

Actually I am now able to run CLOD with much nicer settings, still keeping the low resolution of 1280x720 buit with forests on it looks really nice. Effects on high is a massive killer for me but model and damage details not.

Definately an improvement.

ANyone having that problem when the game is run at a different resolution tot he desktop, try changing you desktop resolution before playing the game to the same. This worked for me and is a quick fix.

Emil yes, I have just tried 1280x768 along with desktop res the same and at least I can get back to full screen. May be able to do so with other res' too. I probably overreacted a little with my previous post, (knee jerk) its just that if they had been working in any other trade/industry/profession they would be out on their arses before they knew what had hit them, and that's the truth. Lucky they have the 'muggins brigade' who can roll with the punches.

Ho hum. Back to the 'delights' of reassigning every single frikkin key and axes. What fun.

The game running in a window thing doesn't surprise me. i was wondering what was going on with that. On windows 7 the game launches and you can still see the task bar until you click on the game window. Was trying to figure out why the hell the game was running in a borderless window.

I just did a test after applying the Russian patch to the Russian games version and the big surprise on my config (quad 3GH, 8 gig ram, 6970 2 gig ram, win7 64) the game (1680x1024 resolution) is fluid all options to max, almost no micro saccade, smooth over the countryside and villages, some delays on towns and it's 200 to 300 above ground! I have not tested on London.
The paradox is that now on my config the game is more fluid with options at max with shadows that with medium settings and no shadows where I have no gain from the game unpatched!

Could this be the missing link between the "alternate universe" the team is playing their game in and our world? This could be a huge discovery actually. Anybody else know what the Russian version is performing like post patch?

Yep thats similar to what I was thinking

Does Oleg know this guy has pinched his machine?


Bryan.

You guys are cracking me up. If you change your desktop settings to this, maximize then minimize the screen, twist my monitor at a 45 degree angle to the sun, put 5 extra video card coolers in my machine, play only between 10 and 11 pm at night, and run my LCD monitor at half the size of its native rez I can get playable framerates.

At what point does the community just STOP and say "hey, fix your product and give me something that works without having to turn running this game into an algebraic equation.

do not laugh please just make a test at full setting please ! thank you

*Shakes fist towards Russia"

I hate to say it but I agree with Mr. Voss.


Saying a high end machine wont notice a difference is the biggest steaming pile of poo I have ever heard. "Your PC is to badass to run it on the lowest settings man" Really? Really guy? I was all with the support them and wait crowed but if you cant see the run around right now, you must really think we are in Libya to save civilians too.

They don't. The flight sim community is filled with people that will take any garbage and make excuses for it no matter what since there are so few sims.

What i don't get though is WoP is given no leeway whatsoever and it works and works well. is it a pure sim? No.

This game barely runs at all, is buggy to all get out and gets every excuse in the book about how we're supposed to support the devs and throw our money away on a sim that might never work right.

Ponderous.

I've just tested the first training mission with the tiger moth with my settings on more or less medium settings with forest and grass off, buildings low..

Re ran the same mission with all set to high apart from forest and grass off, plus buildings low, (same as before) and there was literaly no difference in my fps!.. amazing?

Yeah, there is no big difference bethween different graphics options, that's why i think there is something really broken in the code

My this younger generation is soft!

Why back in my day I used to pull down >200mb patches on my 28.8k modem. I'd put them on at supper, let them run all night and hope for a complete download in the early afternoon of the next day. To make matters worse my ISP at the time had a tendency to cut the connection every few hours - so, I'd end up having to try the download every night for the better part of a week (scheduling in phone calls around it).

In effect, it took me four to eight days to get a patch correctly downloaded (and pity poor if the archive was corrupted)...

You know that you can save your controls.In control menu go "Save as" and then back up that file somewhere on your PC .btw I'm having problems with controls after the patch too.I have wheel break assigned to my G940 pedals but it does nothing ingame.

I copied out my CoD install folder before trying this beta patch.
Just as well because it seems to have broken more than it fixed for me.

Black screen at start-up.I have to bring up Task Manager and bring CoD to the front.(Alt-tabbing won't work).
Go to video settings,select 1680 x 1050 (same as desktop).
Apply,screen goes black,use Task Manager again.
Go to training,game exits.
Launcher 32 is still running,have to close it with Task Manager.

Groan....

+1

I have to agree. If it was a washing machine it would be sent back as not fit for the purpose. I don't know why this is treated any differently. I am glad I waited.

I look at it like this.. while I haven't got a polished product, and the reasons for that I don't care about, and I don't care for all the conspiracy theories on why I haven't got a polished product because I can't do anything about it..
Whilst the game isn't living up to what its supposed to do, I'm still learning an awful lot getting my head around the full realism settings in flying the aircraft.. as someone who flew 'full real' in IL2 I realised very quickly that most people who did will now be on a very big learning curve with the new game.
Even with all the games faults, I am actualy 'learning something new' each day I practice in my spit and Hurri.. and its a pretty rewarding experience, and I'm enjoying it to boot.
I'm no blind fanboi who is defending the game no matter what, because I understand the flippin faults and want them rectified, but that doesn't mean I can't get alot of enjoyment out of the game as it stands..
Have I wasted my money?.. no, not yet, because I don't know if the game will be fixed.. Being an optimist, I hope it will be, but until then I'm learning new skills in the game and doing something useful with it..

This game needs to fail, and it needs to fail hugely. To send a message to both developers and publishers that the line has been finally crossed. They have pushed it and pushed it and then pushed it some more, and this final transgression is a push so far beyond the pale as to beggar belief.

I really wanted this patch to work, genuinely. I wanted to be able to come back here and post "Yes! More fps and fluid too! Now we can really do some work!" Not that we were obliged to, or should have to, but to see some small ray of hope and gut it out.

But to be told FPS would markedly improve, and the stutters would be gone, and then be told after nothing promised was forthcoming that "Oh, only older machines would have seen any benefit anyway" is breath-taking chicanery, on top of breath-taking chicanery, too far.

I say the game needs to fail, when that is now an absolute certainty. They had a week to provide a fix for the first level of many levels of issues and they have failed miserably. This isn't diamond code in the rough, just needing a polish, it's deeply flawed and un-fixable code that will never be put right. Somewhere, somehow, the writers went badly wrong. And without entirely writing the code absolutely critical requirements will not be provided. Multicore functionality, that cannot be bolted on after the event, it needed to have been incorporated right from the start. SLI, I suspect the same is true of that also. 64-bit .exe, to make proper use of system RAM, not even mentioned.

And those who predicted all these things, banned. For speaking the truth as it happens, though they were banned because they were perceived as 'trolls'. Now we know, with certainty, that they weren't. Though their motives cannot be definitely known, they spoke true none the less.

This isn't an experiential smear where the edges cannot be discerned, it is a clearly defined set of components that can be clearly analysed upon the basis of events that have now passed. It is laid out before us like a crystal-clear image. See that image for what it is and stop trying to focus upon it through a rose-coloured filter. This game is DOA.