the fix brings somehow longer loading times I guess to pre-load into memory some of the assets that were being decompressed by the problematic process before, also there is now a bit of regular stuttering in certain parts that run perfectly fine before, small bugs since you need to pan the camera slowly around to notice, also they are far apart and do not affect gameplay, at least as long as I have been able to test... as for the tweaks, I tested the patch with and without the tweaks and it works better with them, so don't discard them, at least try first.
one thing I noticed is that depth of field seems less apparent, anyone else? and another issue is that this latest patch needs the game to run on "Maximum performance" on Nvidia cards since adaptive power is messed now with the patch, it causes a lot of stuttering whereas before the patch it worked great, so as we said it's not possible to 100% fix the game being UE3 on PC and streaming large, open areas with ultra quality textures... but for sure I'm surprised and I deserve to eat some crow since the guys at Irrational managed to make the issues way, way less apparent ant intrusive and the small (you need to be a huge nit-picker as I am) things the patch break might be fixed in the future. Good news, and you can always roll back to the previous patch just in case.
one thing I noticed is that depth of field seems less apparent, anyone else? and another issue is that this latest patch needs the game to run on "Maximum performance" on Nvidia cards since adaptive power is messed now with the patch, it causes a lot of stuttering whereas before the patch it worked great, so as we said it's not possible to 100% fix the game being UE3 on PC and streaming large, open areas with ultra quality textures... but for sure I'm surprised and I deserve to eat some crow since the guys at Irrational managed to make the issues way, way less apparent ant intrusive and the small (you need to be a huge nit-picker as I am) things the patch break might be fixed in the future. Good news, and you can always roll back to the previous patch just in case.