ARMA II Free LAG

[Hydrome 10]

I saw ARMA II on youtube and it looked good so i went on the ARMA II website to see that there is a free version out so i thought i would give that a try before buying the game but I cant even try it out it is actually unplayable the menu of the game is laggy I managed to move the arrow which was very laggy to start Single player. Once in the single player the map loads up which is fine no lag at all once I click continue and get to move my character the lag is insane moving is basically impossible. so i press esc and on that menu it lags bad i try and change the video settings. and after messing around with that i have found if i put everything on the lowest setting and disable the ones you can. It is then playable. But i dont want to play with it looking that bad.

I have reinstalled graphics card drivers no luck i installed beta drivers no luck i have tested my CPU, Graphics card, RAM, Video RAM, and it says its all fine.

i then tried Can you run it site and it was rather interesting

ARMA II Test

ARMA II OA

I emailed the support about 3 days ago but have had no reply from them so i thought i would do this instead.

thank you for taking the time to read this :) hope someone can help :bounce3:

[pendragonuk 0]

You will discover that there are a great many posts devoted to performance of the game on this and several other forums.

You may wish to read some of them but in general you have to turn your setting down.

There are people happily running this game with computers less powerful than yours. This would lead me to believe that there is something wrong with your setup or you are simply trying to run the game at way too high. We may be able to give more detailed help with more informations...

Edited July 4, 2011 by PendragonUK

[ArmAriffic 10]

turn down the game and 3d resolution

[Hydrome 10]

the only way i can play the game around 15 fps is if every setting is the lowest it can be. very low/disabled seems to be the cure. which is kinda annoying because it looks terrible then. if i do put the settings up from like very low to normal on one or two things then my fps goes to around 4-10.. i have looked at ways to boost the performance. i even tried game booster.. and i Forced off VSYNC, made arma start high priority for the CPU i have edited the CFG file but it has not made no difference at all. never had problems with any other games i have played garys mod, battlefield bad company 2, APB, there all recent games i have played on which worked fine. it says i failed for my video card in the can you run it test for ARMA II OA but if you look at the details of it.. it shows i have the requirements just like in the ARMA II and that one passed.

anyone got any ideas on what to do ?

[domokun 515]

What you should do is:

a) Tell us what your in-game Video Settings are? e.g.

Visibility: 1500m

Interface: 1680x1050

3D res: 1680x1050

Tex: normal

Vid mem: default

Anisotropic: normal

Antialiasing: disabled

Terrain: normal

Objects: normal

Shadows: high

Post-proc: low, possibly disabled

Interface: Small

Aspect: 16:10

b) Clean out the crap - I recommend CCleaner as it's free, light and efficient

c) Defrag what's left - I recommend Defraggler as it's free, light and efficient

d) Minimise your services - Gamebooster is your friend

[pendragonuk 0]

I'm trying to remember the type of settings I used when I was running a similar setup. I had a Q6700 Overclocked to 3GHz 4Gb Of 800MHz DDR2 RAM and an aged 8800. Thing is the game did run and run well enough to have fun with. This leads me to think there is something wrong with your computer or we are missing something.

I did upgrade my GPU to an ATI 5770 some time after.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gotKIMV-u7g

This short video was recorded at that time using Q6700@3GHz, 4GB of RAM and an ATI 5770. You can pick up an ATI 5770 for less than £70 these days.

[xman1 10]

Never mind.

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