Why do my trees moving and changing how they look ?

[blurgh 10]

Im standing still, im looking at some trees, hold down right click to zoom view and all of a sudden they all start moving/morphing like the leaves move position or something. Its bizarre...

How do i fix this ?

[PuFu 4591]

how about your PC specs, game version, and ingame settings used for starters!

[Cyteless 10]

It's the models changing their LODs (Level of Detail). All games do this, to save performance over distance. But like PuFu said, we can't help you until we get some specifications. :)

[xxbbcc 6]

There's nothing that you can do really. It's how the LOD switching is implemented - instead of being immediate, the trees morph into the new shape. It's one of the more annoying things of Arma - learn to live with it.

There are a few mods out there (I believe by Kju) that make it a little better by eliminating the most detailed LOD so the game needs fewer switches. This also helps performance and frame rate a bit since the game doesn't have to render so many objects.

Having a more powerful computer may improve this a bit but not much.

[Sosna 0]

I find the LOD morphing distracting also. An instant switch would be better in most situations. The A2 world looks so busy already with flickering, z-fighting, etc. the last thing needed is more unnecessary motion on screen IMO.

[Castun66 10]

It doesn't seem nearly as noticeable running the game on an SSD, I'd imagine because it can read & load the textures a heck of a lot faster.

[Zorg_DK 10]

It doesn't seem nearly as noticeable running the game on an SSD, I'd imagine because it can read & load the textures a heck of a lot faster.

agreed. imo it's not bad at all. setting details to very high also helps.