ARMA 2: OA beta build 81921

[Scott_NZ 10]

Ever since I went from 79600 to 81921 I have been getting occasional flickering of the game. Is it just me, has anyone else been getting this too?

[Rough Knight 9]

In Sick1's new Devgru campaign I noticed that I shot a pilot in a helicopter in the second mission and he didn't change animation state. I think the chopper has a UH1Y.

The mission completed so the pilot was dead, but more so the point it may be a beta bug. I'll have another look in the editor tonight to see if I can replicate it with the new beta. It may well be a coincidence.

Great initiative with the developers blog project BTW BIS. This is an important step forward if you can nail it.

[maddogx 13]

Great initiative with the developers blog project BTW BIS. This is an important step forward if you can nail it.

Indeed! :)

I tested this yesterday, looking at a couple of AI infantry 2km away through a sniper scope and their movements were smooth. Very nice!

Now all we need is for AI (and player) movements in MP to be smoother aswell. I haven't tested this beta in MP yet, so I'm not yet sure if this fix has had a noticable effect there too, but even if it hasn't, I'm confident that BIS is looking at that too. Especially rubber banding is something that needs to be fixed to improve the multiplayer experience. If they can nail that, I'll be positively ecstatic. :D

[suma 8]

1. I couldn't kill a Humvee gunner. I shot him many times but he didn't die, he turned around and wanted to shoot me. So I took a M136 and destroyed the whole vehicle.

This should be already fixed a while ago (in 81172). I definitely cannot reproduce it with a current build. I have tried firing at various crew positions, incluing HMMV and UAZ gunners and drivers, I have always hit and killed them.

If you can reproduce it, please attach a repro mission.

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In Sick1's new Devgru campaign I noticed that I shot a pilot in a helicopter in the second mission and he didn't change animation state. I think the chopper has a UH1Y.

The mission completed so the pilot was dead, but more so the point it may be a beta bug. I'll have another look in the editor tonight to see if I can replicate it with the new beta. It may well be a coincidence.

Which beta was this? This issue should be fixed in 81847.

[gnear 0]

oh just playing it, seems like the AI running animations are sped up/like the players when moving? looks really good to me :D

[dmarkwick 261]

REGEDIT > MAIN @:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\BattlEye

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2 OA\BattlEye

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Bohemia Interactive Studio\ArmA 2

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Bohemia Interactive Studio\ArmA 2 BAF

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Bohemia Interactive Studio\ArmA 2 OA

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Bohemia Interactive Studio\ArmA 2 PMC

Find out by a search in regedit. Maybe more locations, search through your system registry for arma.

Thanks GM, I reckon that must be it :)

[f2k sel 164]

Ever since I went from 79600 to 81921 I have been getting occasional flickering of the game. Is it just me, has anyone else been getting this too?

Yes I'm getting that too, a sort of black object flashes over the top part of the screen.

I think it started when they first played with the animations.

[Hanzu 10]

Ever since I went from 79600 to 81921 I have been getting occasional flickering of the game. Is it just me, has anyone else been getting this too?

Not tested 81921 yet, but completed Badlands mission with 81867 last night and saw only one place that flickered: Wooden floor of Novy Sobor main bunker (probably same with all other main bunkers too). It flickered really bad and completely disappeared when looking it at certain angle. I may link a screenshot of it if it helps.

[Rough Knight 9]

Which beta was this? This issue should be fixed in 81847..

This is with current beta. The animation does slightly change but it looks wrong to me, he's not hinched over when dead and his eyes creepily follow you if you move to the front of the chopper : P

I changed the chopper to a taki offroad with m2 and the anim works properly. The bug might be specific to the uh-1h [i tested the uh-1y and the anim works properly].

Please find link to repo test mission.

Is that ok or do I send mission some other way?

Thanks

Rough knight

Edited June 16, 2011 by Rough Knight

[OMAC 254]

Not tested 81921 yet, but completed Badlands mission with 81867 last night and saw only one place that flickered: Wooden floor of Novy Sobor main bunker (probably same with all other main bunkers too). It flickered really bad and completely disappeared when looking it at certain angle. I may link a screenshot of it if it helps.

I saw the same flickering of wooden bunker floors in A2 way before these post-1.59 betas, I think in 1.58 + pre-1.59 betas, so that flickering is nothing new.

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I just tried installing 81921 beta, and the installer told me that the whole game would have to be uninstalled to remove the beta patch, which was not true for previous betas. Is that true?

Edited June 16, 2011 by OMAC

[.kju 3244]

OMAC you need to remove the beta folder first. Rename it for example.

[Derbysieger 11]

With the last beta-patches I noticed signifcantly lower fps (up to 10fps les) when I look at those brown trees on Chernarus. It's odd because apart from that I generally get better fps with the new betas, It's only when these trees are visible that fps drop.

[suma 8]

Please find link to repo test mission.

Great. I have reproduced the issue and I hope to have it resolved shortly.

[c0nse-0n3r 19]

Played 1-2hrs MP/SP last night...im getting good FPS and didn't notice new bugs or crashes yet

Dropped 79600 for this beta as its being good to me so far. :D

That DevBlog is great to see too! :cool: Thanks BIS

Excited to see what you guys can do with the new tech

Hope it leads to new possibilities and improves on MP banding issues... that would be game changing

Cheers

[birtuma 28]

This should be already fixed a while ago (in 81172). I definitely cannot reproduce it with a current build. I have tried firing at various crew positions, incluing HMMV and UAZ gunners and drivers, I have always hit and killed them.

If you can reproduce it, please attach a repro mission.

Couldn't reproduce it again. I'm actually pretty sure that I couldn't kill him, I just saw "sparkles" on his body (he was not covered) like I was hitting metallic stuff (as seen on cars, tanks, etc in the game). But maybe it was fault of one of the mods needed by the mission or maybe the mission itself. I don't know...

[fruity_rudy 16]

Ever since I went from 79600 to 81921 I have been getting occasional flickering of the game. Is it just me, has anyone else been getting this too?

i have flickering only on the fences, like the ones arount rasman airfield on takistan. looks like the texture of the fence is popping up white for a really short moment, can't capture that.

Like Ginger, i wanted to stresstest in warfare. Found strange issue:

I was commander, tried to attach the hq, but it didn't work . Other guy tried, it worked. So today i found out that it works with beta BUT, you cannot see it. the vehicle stays on the same position ( you get detach option in action menu) and as soon as you release the vehicle, it appears under the heli and falls to the ground.

Not happening on vanilla 1.59 . I tested without addons, cause i thought it may cause an issue. Also with addons same result.

Just an info..

Also another thing, that i can't reproduce right now (like always if u wanna see it) , after i died and respawned , the warfare building, where i respawned at, changed its direction and somehow aligned itself new with the surface...looked really weird..

I try to cap it on video so you understand better...

EDIT : if somebody could go to the editor, place truck or tractor and another vehicle to attach? I just wanna know if something's broken on my end. thx

Edited June 16, 2011 by Fruity_Rudy

[kuss 10]

ARMA 2 or ARMA 2: OA ? this beta is for ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead and RFT (unless someone forgot add the RFT registry location with path into installer :( )

lol looks like it

i got ARMA 2 REINFORCEMENTS

[SaOk 112]

FPS leak seems to be fixed, but with this 81921 the game feels noticeable heavier in my test mission (with much AI) than with vanilla 1.59. With just a feel, I also noticed around 5 lower fps during intense battles.

Edited June 16, 2011 by SaOk

[nobrainer 0]

Had huge problem with a mission and beta 81921, but we can't repoduse it.

Must be the missions

[Alwarren 2767]

When playing videos like the cutscenes in PMC, the videos flicker while playing, some frames are black. I tried without the beta, and the picture is stable. Can anyone reproduce this?

[OMAC 254]

OMAC you need to remove the beta folder first. Rename it for example.

Hi Pvpscene,

Thanks for the info. I already uninstalled 76900 beta, so there is no beta folder. If I install the latest beta, will I have to remove the whole game just to remove the beta (obviously this has never been the case before)? I think not, but I want to make sure.

Cheers,

OMAC

[domokun 515]

No you don't. The quickest, simplest and cleanest way of removing a beta is to delete the folder marked "beta" from your OA directory.

[Rough Knight 9]

No you don't. The quickest, simplest and cleanest way of removing a beta is to delete the folder marked "beta" from your OA directory.

Which is in the 'expansions' directory of your ARMA2 installation folder by the way if you were not sure.

Great. I have reproduced the issue and I hope to have it resolved shortly.

Excellent smithers. Glad I wasn't mental : )

[OMAC 254]

No you don't. The quickest, simplest and cleanest way of removing a beta is to delete the folder marked "beta" from your OA directory.

Excellent. I installed the new beta. All good so far. Got 49 FPS on Benchmark 08 using NVIDIA 275.33 driver and these settings:

video resolution=1680x1050

visibility=3405m

texture detail=high

vid mem=default

AF=high

AA=low (atoc=0)

terrain detail=norm

object detail=high

shadows=high

HDR=norm

PP=low

vsync=on (+threaded optimization in nvidia CP)

As per BIS suggestion to improve bloom and other PP effects:

brightness=0.8

Gamma=1.1

Basically just a hair slower fps than with vanilla 1.59 (that could be the new driver tho). There have been no changes to ATOC since 1.59, right?

I always use the beta uninstaller executable accessed from "Uninstall Arma2 OA Beta Patch" shortcut - works perfectly.

Edited June 17, 2011 by OMAC

[Rough Knight 9]

I always use the beta uninstaller executable accessed from "Uninstall Arma2 OA Beta Patch" shortcut - works perfectly.

In saying that, it hasn't for me. I manually have to go delete the beta folder even after running the 'unistall arma2 oa beta patch shortcut'. The uninstall program says it has completed the job correctly, but it doesnt remove the shortcuts or the beta folder in the expansions folder. Not sure about the files inside the folder, but definitely not the folder. I think it is supposed to however.

Edit: I just confirmed this with the current beta. For me the uninstall shortcut fails to do anything apparently. It says it has done the job, but the folder size is the same after the uninstall is apparently complete. Anyone else care to try...maybe it's just me somehow? Probably not a game bug as such...but it perhaps could cause issues if you install the next beta overtop of an old beta expecting all files have been removed when in fact they havent?

Edited June 17, 2011 by Rough Knight
test of beta uninstall -> Problem!