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There is some difference, see the full sized screenshots here: viewtopic.php?p=89442#p89442
The main advantage of the higher resolution is that the encoding artifacts' relative size gets smaller I think.

Yeah, relative, personally I don't see real difference on full HD screen...

whats the point of releasing beta 5 and 6 at the same time whats the point of releasing them a day apart why couldn't u have just waited well thanks for taking up useless space on my hard drive aand 30 minute sout of my life for downloading beta 5 didn't even get to play a mutliplayer game on it

brakenfur, such things happen, do not blame developers as they also want to release stable ASAP.

so why did u just just wait a day to relase it instead of releasing to 2 versions a day apart

Don't ask me, since I'm only user.
There was accidental breakage in essential game mode so it was needed to fix that issues and release new build ASAP (since b5 had other important fixes).
Also if you don't play MP then read changelog before downloading, it is linked from news page.

why was wouldn't you even release it? if its messed up?

brakenfur wrote:whats the point of releasing beta 5 and 6 at the same time whats the point of releasing them a day apart why couldn't u have just waited well thanks for taking up useless space on my hard drive aand 30 minute sout of my life for downloading beta 5 didn't even get to play a mutliplayer game on it

Bugs were found in the beta 5 release thanks to the folks that test it.
Its pretty hard to test a release if you don't release it. So you have 5 release = bugs found..then you have the dev's working on those bugs and releasing the fix ...which = beta6

Thanks for giving us your free time dev's

You know you dont have to store beta5 just delete it and bingo you have your hard drive space back.

brakenfur wrote:why was wouldn't you even release it? if its messed up?

Because it was found after it was released, not before, as Berg stated.

brakenfur wrote:so why did u just just wait a day to relase it instead of releasing to 2 versions a day apart

Because broken multiplayer was a pretty serious problem for the people wanting to play multiplayer games. The more important the problem, the quicker the next release (given a fix). The broken savegames from beta4 and before were a pretty serious problem for people wanting to save their games, and have been around for quite a while already, so maybe beta5 was a bit rushed, sorry about that.

But the broken multiplayer was a known bug in beta 5.

However, I understand the eager to get a new version.

I think some mechanism of "nightly build" or weekly build (with zip, and only the essential files) would work well in these situations, only if it's not too much overhead, off course .

brakenfur wrote:whats the point of releasing beta 5 and 6 at the same time whats the point of releasing them a day apart why couldn't u have just waited well thanks for taking up useless space on my hard drive aand 30 minute sout of my life for downloading beta 5 didn't even get to play a mutliplayer game on it

why don't you try reading the beta 5 thread to know that it was broken so they had to release another version. nobody told you you must download a release as soon as it is out.
beta 5 was needed it fixed a major fault. beta 6 was needed it fixed a major fault. if you can't understand that then

iap wrote:But the broken multiplayer was a known bug in beta 5.

However, I understand the eager to get a new version.

I think some mechanism of "nightly build" or weekly build (with zip, and only the essential files) would work well in these situations, only if it's not too much overhead, off course .

it was only known after release

cybersphinx wrote:Because broken multiplayer was a pretty serious problem for the people wanting to play multiplayer games...

Can I take that to mean that there will be less breaks in multiplayer?

Thank you to all who worked on and tested this release.

iap wrote:I think some mechanism of "nightly build" or weekly build (with zip, and only the essential files) would work well in these situations, only if it's not too much overhead, off course .

Like viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8361 you mean? Since nobody merged the bugfixes branch between introducing the problem and beta5 that wouldn't have helped though...