Operation Flashpoint: Red River Pc Patch Improvements

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I had found some notes from a number sites on Operation Flashpoint: Red River Pc Patch. This patch is released for the game and it is auto updating. There is no download file provided for the same. The patch is provided on the base of bug report send by the users around the world. The patch is for the pc version of the game which provides an better fix for the bugs in comparison to the console version. The patch is automatically updated as you log in GFWL and Steam. So there is no need to look for the manual download of day-1 patch.

Here are the list of improvements you will get after updating the patch. The patch has number of fixes for graphical errors, control improvements, online chatting, game stability, save game issue, audio and networking issue, and other osd bugs. So this Patch can help you in lot way to fix your game issue if you are facing any. The patch is based on various bug report updated by the users over codemasters community. Below is indepth details about the patch fixation.

Improvements in Game Stability

• The game becomes much more stable after applying the patch. The performance also goes much smoother.
• The client system freezes when the co-op host loads in the game. This is fixed. The same happens when you restart the Breakthrough FTE mission. It is also fixed to an great extent.
• Before when users sign in and out in the game, it causes constant freeze. Now the game does not freeze on that section.
• During the gameplay when the host team which has joined the game kills the client many times, the game freezes in between. The same is fixed.

Mission Improvements

• Avoiding of Trigger Zone is Mission 8 is disabled.
• You will face difficulty in triggering the most correct points.
• In order to improve the game experience there is improvement done inthe Mission 2 logic
• In Mission 8 mostly the players gets over run by the Humvee which is being fixed to an extent.

Graphics Fix

• In the game you can now see support for some older gpu's in advance options which was not present before.
• For high end gaming PC the support for Occlusion culling is being disabled to increased to the graphical performance
• Many of users had faced graphical bug on Radeon x1900 series GPU which is being fixed to an extent.
• Before it was not possible to set the resolution of the game above 1280x1024. This was not with all gpu but only with those Radeon 5870 graphics cards which have Xfire enabled over it. This was mostly a issue with those cards who have eyefinity support. Now this has been fixed to an extent.
• You can now play with a number display settings in the game which does not automatically set the game to window mode.

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Improvements in OSD

• The Start/stop convoy is being disabled fo the the non-Rolling Thunder FTEs
• The damage and bleed out meter provide an proper information in the game when you load the game back from last checkpoint.
• It is now not possible to pause the game in co-op mode. The option is removed.
• When you refill the ammo box you cannot have this time around 16 Mags of ammo
• You can see a Open Lobby tip on the screen when your mission is completed or when you loose the mission. This has been removed.
• The Squad leaders can now view differently out of thermal scope screen.

Improvement in Keyboard/Mouse Controls

• The Return key issue related to duplicate button is fixed.
• When you press Escape you will need to go through two menus to reach towards the main menu. This has been fixed. From the controller options you can browse two menu back to the main one.
• You can use mouse on Sign in status which was disabled before.
• You can now pick up the SMAW weapon when the player press the scroll button.

Save Game Improvements

• When a player finishing an FTE mission or when he quits the mission checkpoints are not lost. So that the player can begin back from where it was ended.
• Mostly it has been noticed that the Humvee is destroyed with the players when you are playing the same from the gunner seat. This is not fixed that it is correctly rendered from the last checkpoint.
• When a player in out of ammo in the last check point and if the player is loading the game from there the Type 2007 is no longer available.
• The Mines in the game will not kill your units when you reload your game from the last checkpoint.
• There are various checkpoints which are fixed by the patch for Mission 7

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The Game Lobby Improvements

• Invite Friends goes off automatically when your game list is full.
• You can see the Menu Tooltip over the spectator screen. But for that you will need to play the game at 800x600 Resolution.
• Now you can have a list of correct errors in the game by using the button Alt.

Improvement on LAN

• In Mission 2 players can see floating dead bodies which has been removed.
• When the player who has joined restart the mission the client camera does not remain locked on a fixed area. Client can move that independently.

Improvements in the Game Audio

• There is an support made for Audio optimizations which has simply reduced the audio dropout.
• After updating the patch you can see new audio support for Humvee and helicopters.

Improvements in Game Animation

• In Reload the players does not get support for reloading an empty splash weapon.
• A proper walk and run animation is displayed over the clients screen without moving around the terrain with no purpose.
• When you shoot an bunch of enemies with the grenade launcher the dead bodies does not float in the air now.
• That all for now. You can run the patch and get all this improvements in your game. If you want you can continue with the old mode also but this patch is being recommended for all. There are other several things which is not easy to mentioned but can be fixed by the patch. Just login in your GFWL or Steam and let the game auto-update the patch.