I've held off buying this sim because of all the reported issues, like crashes, stutters and freezes. I understand there have been patches released dealing with some of the issues.

My question is: how is the game doing now since the patches? AND -- do the patches install automatically through Steam?

Thanks,
Crockett12

Check out my two latest videos to see how it looks now. Yes, it uploads automatically through steam.

http://www.youtube.com/user/wwwDOTdalsgaardDOTeu#p/c/981CBC682E928D2A/0/ajFK6B0atvo

http://www.youtube.com/user/wwwDOTdalsgaardDOTeu#p/c/981CBC682E928D2A/1/mhkWGst5Rd4

Wow, that second video looked absolutely great!

Runs fine on my modest gaming laptop. My biggest complaint has been the AI, but I've found the tweaks that work for me...

- never use 'ace' setting, this setting causes the most unrealistic AI behaviour like the F16 snap rolls and constant barrel rolling.
- best choice is veteran.
- if you are the kind who likes to look 'under the hood' in the mission builder, use custom AI. Choose veteran, and then adjust vision to max, gunnery to max, bravery to max and (strangely) discipline to zero. This will give you a competent AI with good situational awareness and aggression. Setting gunnery to max does not seem so much to improve their aim (they don't become snipers) but rather gives better conservation of ammo, which means they don't hose their target, like they do at lower settings.

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Glad you liked it. More will be coming along over the coming weeks... I am having a blast on-line. Absolutely the best online playing ever. A dream come true: that of vicariously flying in the BoB...

The game's in a pretty good state right now. Steam handles all the patching automatically.

It's still not perfect, though. Some people (not all) report frame rate issues, and there's a bug where the game has a tendency to crash after long flights. The work around is to simply restart the game after 2 hours or so, which isn't really a problem at all for multiplayer.

Frey, when you attacked with speed advantage in the second clip, why didn't you go vertical (to keep speed and advantage of position) and roll back towards him? Now you put yourself in harms way?

what server Frey...i might come looking for you?

has FSAA been fixed yet?
has crossfire been fixed yet?
has the texture memory requirements been reduced to levels that'll allow todays video cards to not stutter with texture swapping?
does the sound still cut out?
online crews still floating in mid-air?