Is Arma 2 and OA still being developed, etc?

[Defunkt 431]

Antialiasing is a killer, greater than 100% 3D resolution is more efficient, particularly with your screen resolution, you could easily do 150% and not even notice any loss in performance. I presume this is why AA wasn't even an option in the original A2 release.

...non of you are named Zipper5; so thanks for your replys but the question wasn't directed at you.

Then send him a PM, posting in a public forum is inviting replies from all and sundry.

[Steakslim 1]

As Defunkt said, kill the Anti Aliasing. In ArmA it kills your performance with very little visual gain. Use 3D Resolution settings higher than 100% in it's place. Additionally the Post Processing settings changed a bit in OA, however since you don't use PP that's a non-issue. If you can't run Arrowhead smoothly enough on a gtx280 (I previously had a 260) then I'm at a loss.

[SPC.Spets 21]

they added transparent something in the last patch that is activated with the antialiasing setting, and it could be the performance reduce issue (?)

I want an Arma3, that looks close to the BF3 graphics

[Steakslim 1]

No, AA can drag down performance in general. That new vegetation effect activated by AA in the recent beta patches is an additional performance killer if you wish to turn it on.

[NoQuarter 0]

...and the OA's settings that i had on the OA/CO were different:

- Texture Detail: High.

- Video Memory: High.

- Anisotropic Filter: Normal.

- Antialiasing: Normal.

- Terrain: High or Normal (don't remember).

- Objects Detail: High.

- Shadow Detail: High and Normal (tryed booth).

- Post Processing: Off.

- Interface Res: 1280x1024.

- 3D Resolution: " " ".

- View Distance: 2500m.

...

If these were your settings for :OA/:CO, then there should be entries for both HDRI (HDR quality) and Vertical Sync (Vsync). Check your NCP to make sure you are not over-riding (or disabling) in-game settings with a "global" value.

[Zipper5 74]

wipman - Any info on what graphics card you have? Because I have a very similar system to yours:

Operating system: Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit Service Pack 1

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.00GHz

Graphics card: Gigabyte nVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 1GB

RAM: 2GB DDR2 RAM @ 800MHz

If you have a graphics card in the same-ish range as mine, I can fully guarantee OA performs at the level you wish it to because that's what it does for me on the following settings:

And these are a few examples of how it performs:

Main menu on Desert: 60 FPS

Alone on Takistan: ~50 FPS

"From Hell" mission in the OA campaign: 20 - 40 FPS

Benchmark: ~30 - 40 FPS

For reference, I'm running Arma 2: Combined Operations at 1.58.78967 with both the BAF and PMC DLCs and no mods.

If you have a graphics card similar to mine, I'm sure you'll notice a (good) difference provided you're like me and regularly virus scan/defrag/clean registries & temporary files/format. ;)

Edited March 20, 2011 by Zipper5

[wipman 1]

Hi, i've a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 1Gb, i don't remember if i had the HDR on Low or Normal too, but the Vsync was enabled, and the View distance was 2800 or 3000m, from time to time i step in a tank and like to shoot the AI before they shot to me; the PP was Off for sure and the AA was set to Normal, and yeah man.. i defrag the HD after install anything. Still don't know how it performed so bad back on the v1.54, the 4fps thing offended me very much; i may give it another chance once the v1.59 be an Official Patch and not a Beta or RC. Let's C ya