No, its a beta patch.You have to download and install it.

ok, thanks

Sorry to hear that, what are your specs?

Thanks, but thats the way it goes sometimes

Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI, AMD 64 4800+ 2.41GHz x2, 4GB..DDR Super Talent, raptors x2, EVGA GTX560 2GB 865MHz x1, SB Audigy 2 ZS, CH line, OCZ 700w, Planar SA 2311W..120HZ-2ms, Microsoft anti-virus, Win 7..64b, 4x16gb flash Ready boost

Slight FPS increase, maybe 5-10FPS.
More stutters low down than before but smoother dogfighting at alt.
Land textures "seem" less detailed.
Dials blurry in 109E

Particles still causing MAJOR FPS drop, down to single figures.


Not tried online yet...but so far its *Debbie Downer* not great, now remember they have taken out the medium and long range clouds, so that may explain the FPS increase, particles still causing the FPS drop, plus stutters...im not sure this has been a "major graphic rewrite" and more a tweak and stall tactic.

Still smoke and mirrors from Luthier for me, oh and the mirrors still dont work, no AA or AF.

I hope the retail doesn't take another 6 months to fix the multitude of problems from before and the new added ones.

That seems to be a strong rig, good card as well. I don't know that CPU off the top of my head, is it a dual or quad core? If it's a dual core Maybe its down the way they've optimized it for multicore cpus by dedicating one core to grass and trees, and another to landscape geometry etc.
It seems to me (having not tried this out by the way) that they have put this beta out to give us something to do while they finish ironing out the bugs they know are still there.
Maybe I'm being a bit too cynical, they may get some good data to find the last remnants of the CTD problems. Who knows?

Yea its 2 core...I have no real problems with the pre patch, so I went back to that till they square things away.

Yes the land detail, absolutely

I'm not getting any FPS increase, but mine was satisfactory anyways, so no complaints there.

Is it just me, or did the sound get really wierd? Didn't think I was in a 109 until I went to outside views.

Tracers seem a lot thinner, so thanks for that.

Not trying to be the sphincter bois of the universe....
My initial impressions of other folks and their posts about the "new patch"?
It seems that the release is mostly things "taken away or turned off or down" to get a perceived improvement?
I have down loaded the patch, not installed it.....yet.

So.....when Furbs, Force10, Tree_UK or even CheeseHawk....say folks should go ahead and install it....?
Only then, will I.

It just seems.... a little fishy atm.