Optimal settings?

[wingnut1186 10]

I notice a moderate amount of lag when turning quickly and when there's a higher volume of activity going on. I felt like my rig should have been able to run things fine with everything on Normal and Low settings but I still stuttering and pop ins. I'm currently using a radeon 5770 HD. I've seen people on youtube using lesser comp specs obtaining better fps and less pop-ins. Do i just need a GPU overhaul?

All settings in Arma OA At Normal or Low...no anistrophic filter or antilising

resolution for screen and 3D @ 1920x1080 (at a lower res it looks jagged and fuzzy)

Also view distance is set between 1000-2000 can't remember off the top of my head

Edited January 12, 2011 by wingnut1186
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[pooroldspike 129]

Try clicking the 'Default' vid settings and leaving them alone as much as possible.

I use them myself and the only tweak I do is to 'Disable' the postprocess effects to get a crisper picture.

My rig-

Intel Core2 Duo E8500@3.16GHz

RAM 4.0GB Dual-channel DDR2@400Mhz

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1024Mb

WinXP Home SP3

HannsG 28" widescreen

[Leopardi 0]

u need to disable vsync with ati tray tools

[EDcase 87]

An SSD will help with the texture loading but I still have my textures set to NORMAL and DEFAULT.

I seem to get smooth gameplay when I leave Vsync ON in game (OFF in CCC) and turn ON TrippleBuffer in ATI CCC

Sys:

Win7-64

i7 920 @3.25

HD5870

30Gb Vertex2 SSD just for ARMA

EDIT: Yeah, VERY important what Polecat mentions below. Make sure to defrag your drive.

Also if you only have one physical drive its better to install ARMA to its own partition.

Edited January 15, 2011 by EDcase

[polecat.uk 11]

Try defragging your hard drive.