And it WAS a typo!!  LOL

 

Vic

 

 

The proble3m is

 

Love it!

 

 

So that makes me a little worried that other files is not updated as well. For instance shadow.fx is dated 11.07.14. Terrain.fx is dated 11.07.14 and water.fx is dated 05.08.14

 

Am also wondering about this. I had to DELETE my old modified cloud.fx file and run the patch again to install a new one. 

 

So why is the patch not updating files that have not been modified?

 

Me thinks a full reinstall is required?

I would conjecture the "calculating space requirements" step which takes an eternity is checking file date/time/size stamps. But you're right - LM should improve their patch process to update/overwrite core files automatically (especially ones that aren't cfg or settings).

So can you guys help with the dates and time for the updated patchfiles? Is it only in the shader folder the updates is regarding 2.3 to 2.4?? I could then check with my reinstalled 2.4 on top of a 2.3 folder. Maybe we can have a shaderfolder to share for the 2.4?

 

Michael

So can you guys help with the dates and time for the updated patchfiles? Is it only in the shader folder the updates is regarding 2.3 to 2.4?? I could then check with my reinstalled 2.4 on top of a 2.3 folder. Maybe we can have a shaderfolder to share for the 2.4?

 

Michael

Hope this can help you a bit Michael.

Directory of F:\P3D2\ShadersHLSL

29-09-2014  21:58    <DIR>          .
29-09-2014  21:58    <DIR>          ..
18-09-2014  06:38            18.509 Cloud.fx
08-03-2013  12:10             8.417 Cloud2.fx
09-07-2014  20:53    <DIR>          Common
19-06-2014  11:26            12.971 ConstantBuffers.fxh
09-07-2014  20:53    <DIR>          FixedFunction
11-07-2014  10:38            14.874 FuncLibrary.fxh
09-07-2014  20:52    <DIR>          General
18-09-2014  06:38            32.289 General.fx
12-06-2014  16:29             4.076 General.fxh
18-09-2014  06:38            47.110 GPUTerrain.fx
18-09-2014  06:38            12.171 GPUTerrain.fxh
04-08-2014  08:13            31.004 GPUTerrainStaticData.fxh
19-03-2014  12:59             7.209 InstanceIndexing.fxh
19-03-2014  12:59             7.353 IRSim.fxh
09-07-2014  20:53    <DIR>          misc
19-03-2014  12:59             2.762 Particle.fxh
02-06-2014  09:11             9.559 ParticleCS.fx
18-09-2014  06:38            22.307 ParticleDraw.fx
29-09-2014  21:58    <DIR>          PostProcess
05-03-2014  16:00             1.763 RadarConstants.hlsl
11-07-2014  10:38             6.614 RadarGauge.hlsl
02-06-2014  09:11             3.879 RadarProjection.hlsl
19-03-2014  12:59             3.413 Rain.fx
05-08-2014  09:45            14.640 ShaderMacros.h
11-07-2014  10:38             7.252 Shadow.fx
02-06-2014  09:11             9.204 Shadow.fxh
19-03-2014  12:59            15.290 ShadowCS.fx
19-03-2014  12:59             3.203 Stars.fx
09-07-2014  20:53    <DIR>          Terrain
11-07-2014  10:38             6.803 Terrain.fx
19-03-2014  12:59            16.902 TerrainTess.fx
05-08-2014  09:45            17.333 Water.fx
02-06-2014  09:11             2.516 Water.fxh
              27 File(s)        339.423 bytes
               8 Dir(s)  120.742.457.344 bytes free

Only file that I can see has been changed in the ShadersHLSL subfolders is \PostProcess\HDR.hlsl, dated 2014-09-18 06:38 (same time stamp as the other updated files).

My default flight aircraft is the F22 Raptor, and I have confirmed that my P3D.exe file is now version 2.4.11570.0.

Thanks for posting that penz - similar dates in my folder also.

 

Are you getting the weird vertical clouds? And how are your terrain shadows? Fixed?

 

This is what I'm seeing with any significant weather. Vertical slivers of cloud. If you view from the cockpit they have no width. They look slightly better from this angle but not right.

 

Thanks for posting that penz - similar dates in my folder also.

 

Are you getting the weird vertical clouds? And how are your terrain shadows? Fixed?

Yeah, I have seen the "new clouds" too. :smile:

 

Haven't tried terrain shadows yet, sorry.

Seeing a lot of these vertical cloud formations I have never seen before - I am running ASN real weather when I see this - need to test without

The more that I have looked at the "vertical clouds", the more that I think that they are isolated cloud sprites (the "layers" that make up a cloud and give it volume) that have been rotated 90 degrees. When one views them edge on, you see a collection of adjacent but disconnected sprites with virtually no thickness. I have noticed these before version 2.4 and at least one person has posted here that they have seen the same bug in FSX, but I don't recall ever seeing it anywhere except P3d.

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If you follow Rob's directions (and some of that is overly detailed and may not apply to your setup at all), the 2.4 patch works without issues. But the improvements  in 2.4 must be "under the hood", because I sure didn't see any. I'd say that if you look over the 2.4 release notes and you don't experience any of the issues that were fixed in 2.4, you probably shouldn't bother. Of course, you are setting yourself up for a complete 2.3 uninstall and full install if there is a version 2.5. I have a feeling that with a number of people pointing out the "vertical cloud" issue in 2.4, there will be some kind of statement about that from the LM team. It's either caused by directly by version 2.4 or by an incompatible add-on.

 

BTW, does everyone realize that ASN alters the shader source code in SwarmCloud.fx?

BTW, does everyone realize that ASN alters the shader source code in SwarmCloud.fx?

 

Actually build 5386 for v2.4 doesn't do that.

 

EDIT: I was wrong, if you uncheck "Cloud pop fix" in settings it still does, sorry.

 

 

Are you getting the weird vertical clouds? And how are your terrain shadows? Fixed?

 

That's at 0.3 zoom.

What's it like at zoom 1.0 which is much more realistic for spot view?

 

gb.

 

 

So why is the patch not updating files that have not been modified?

If nothing has changed then no new file is needed. Easy.

Spirit