patch 7

[texastc316]

Looks like a lot of fixes to make us even happier.

[Motherland]

The shadow texture size is really nice, if you're like me the normal shadows work fine but smooth shadow gives a major FR hit, and under the default (1024) setting not using self shadow was pretty much not an option (IMO)... with the higher settings, the shadows look nice even with smooth off, and they're surprisingly soft on frame rates.

[Wobbly]

also fixed my sticky mouse curser that I got when the game loaded so I don't have to tab out and in again 

[Kazaa]

I'm happy that HTC changed the ground textures around.

[moot]

Wobbly, I got that sticky cursor and would unstick it by pressing H twice.  Just in case it ever happens again..

[Lazerr]

Im getting horrible texture load time, and my frames have dropped when otd.  Nothing was wrong with the game before?

Its literally taking 20 minutes to get objects to show texture.  Not a whine, an observation.

[stephen]

Ive lost the depth perception the older patches had given me, and turning the detail range up makes the game stutter again like before...
The ground looks like dodo again in low res, and this was my primary complaint...I cant seem to tell how closss to the ground I am, I think, and alot of other people in MA think this was a step back instead of forward.

Please restore the ground so it gives some sense of depth, because its like flying over the ocean right now, and once again im grounded because I cant see to fight.
The patch before this one set up some wierd grid system, or dark areas that allowed me to tell how hi I was, but now im litteraly smashing into the ground again because it looks like a few trees dotted on a see of mauve ocean.
Its unplayable, please help.

And ive taken every step possible with my hardware guys, This is an issue with low res, thank you.

[moot]

DxDiag dump + screenshots... Show what's wrong

[yb11]

thanks htc guys now i can use bouth of my video cards

[Easyscor]

Very nice update for the terrain eye candy. I like! 

[whels]

Im getting horrible texture load time, and my frames have dropped when otd.  Nothing was wrong with the game before?

Its literally taking 20 minutes to get objects to show texture.  Not a whine, an observation.

same here Lazer, 20+ mins in tower and textures still loading.

[PFactorDave]

same here Lazer, 20+ mins in tower and textures still loading.

Add me to this list also.

[Lord ReDhAwK]

same here Lazer, 20+ mins in tower and textures still loading.

+1 

20 minutes flight in 17s and the puffy clouds never textured (just white squares in the sky.)  Also, after that 20 minute flight to kill the cv, the cv group was not textured in the bombsight at 10k.

Frustrating.  patch 6 was perfect for me

ReDhAwK

[Plazus]

I wonder if HTC is going to add some more objects on the ground? IE: beach obstacles, fences?

[thndregg]

Patch 6 ran great. Patch 7 stuttered more while in Titanic Tuesday. Will test this tomorrow.

EDIT: To add to this, I noticed other players aircraft skins took an inordinantly long time to load, as did textures in general.