The new feature of that the TIS needs manually adjusting the depth of field, is a real game changer. The all-seeing eye of God that TIS was before, is gone. Great feature, making things more difficult at times!

Flower power!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOt5vQbs0Ug

New features and details on parade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDp9DQMNxr4

Hotpatch released, bringing SBP to version 4.004.

P.S. Announcement ^ withdrawn, an even newer version is about to be released any day this week.

One of these days I have to get back into SB.

On beefy systems, this is what the new bloom effects can do:

http://www.steelbeasts.com/uploads//...411ea8ea7b.jpg

Pic by Captain Colossus.

Neal,

your notebook has the same CPU like mine, but a slightly more capable graphics card, since mine is not designed to be a gaming notebook. However, you may want to wait with getting 4.0 until they have implemented the new terrain engine later this year - hopefully - and then see the feedback what it will do to frames. And that frames will suffer a drop from this new smoothness, I take for granted. If it is too much to handle, it might be better to stick with an older version, say 3.x .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4YBxGDSg5o

Their internal testings are inconsistent, some systems that are strong on the paper do not do much better than weaker configurations they have tested.

I assume that SBP 4 - as it is right now, v4.004 -, can be run on your/my notebook if reducing graphics to minimum. (However, I run it on a PC with a weaker CPU, but a stronger gfx card.)

http://www.steelbeasts.com/topic/105...comment-155118

SBP v 4.010 has been released.

Files: http://www.esimgames.com/?page_id=1390

Readme: http://www.steelbeasts.com/updates/SBProPE_4-009_RN.pdf

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http://www.steelbeasts.com/uploads//...4f7af57d9b.jpg
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http://www.steelbeasts.com/uploads//...95e975bd0b.jpg
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