Make sure your hard drives are performing up to par

[Psycho78 10]

In spite of much tweaking my ARMA2 still suffered from a lot of stuttering. With the HDTune benchmark program I found the hard drive that I installed ARMA2 to was only transferring about 10MB per second. My C: drive was transferring 90MB per second! I also had the page file on my ARMA2 drive, the slowest drive in my system. Here is a link to HDTune so you can judge your HD speed: http://hdtune.com/download.html

This is how I fixed the problem in XP, got the drive to run in DMA mode instead of slower PIO mode: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/245379-31-help-slow-sata-performance#t1768630

Not sure what good numbers are for various motherboard/OS/hard drive combinations, but my 90 MB/s would be a good starting number to aim for. I know our Intel SSD at work gets 200 MB/s.

[polar bear 10]

I get 200 MB/s on my Intel SSD according to that tool, and 130 MB/s from my Seagate drives. The Intel SSD is awesome I'm going to buy another one for my laptop soon. My Seagates are set up in a RAID1 I don't know what sort of performance the RAID array gets--the hdtune tool won't recognize it.

[xman1 10]

I wish it would just eat more RAM instead. On my tests, I have yet to see it eat more than 2GB, regardless that it is supposed to be LBA aware and 64-bit aware.

I haven't done a lot of testing with the latest patch, but so far I had it up and I had some tach's on the 2nd monitor and it was still eating only about 2GB.

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