I'm just here for the entertainment value...
I've actually completely stopped caring about ClOD; I can't even muster any indignation anymore. Steam indicates I've "played" just over an hour of this sim... in fact 80% of that time was tweaking.

I bought ClOD because I gave them the benefit of the doubt that they would/could fix it. Then I stopped caring... In all those years of playing IL2 while waiting for BoB/CloD with bated breath I never thought it would come to this: complete apathy!

I don't know how they are going to convince anyone to buy BoM after this fiasco.

Oh well... Back over the Somme in my n.11 I go

Good news, I've managed to get 14,500 frames per second using the following options:

All: off

Obviously there are few things to tweak:

- Not happy with the landscape color obviously - a work in progress, and will be calibrating with 1940 photos.

- The altimeter goes from 10 to 10, but good enough for fast frames!

- Keep your resolution under 256 pixels for maximum performance

Bonus: Print this out and run around the house with it infront of your face - you get a really cool shadow effect.

Hence alpha

Well Fearless the shadow effect thingy is compelling, might have to give it a go

Still testing on my end, no CTD's yet except for a system freeze which appears to be caused by a corrupt mirror patch download. A few on the ATAG server say things have greatly improved regarding their CTD problems. Quite a few people on the forums seem to be having a multiude of problems, for a miriad of reasons. This is all part of the process. We will see how it all shakes out after the patch testing period, log file checks, code adjustments, and the offical release of the patch on Steam. I'm not jumping to conclusion yet, even though first impressions look bleak for some. I do hear some odd sounds from the new sound code.

Funniest yet.

I love the bonus, and guess what, it works.

We have been in alpha for 14 months now.

It's worrying that some problems might be caused by a dodgy mirror download site. Not being able to provide a reliable download Is really weak. I'm not jealous of the poor blokes trying to triage the defects being reported.

Personally I'm running the seelöwe campaign and so far no crashes. Biggest problem for me is the ever rolling enemy, those guys must have cockpits stacked with pukebags. Tailgunners letting rip while inverted is equally (non)-impressive.

As a side note, I'm having serious problems making out the radio communication. Is there any way to fix this? I found a setting for voice volume but that didn't do diddly.

-C-

Please Furbs, that's annoying taking what I say out of context and then making a statement that suggests you're challenging my statement that is presented out of context. You're expecting me to justify 14 mnths of alpha state? Don't think so.