weird ArmA issue

[wizbomb 10]

After buying ArmA 2 and realizing my computer cant play it, i decided to play ArmA. When i first bought ArmA as i always did i go to the editor to play around and i got around 50 - 70 FPS, then i put it through a big stress test (Massive amounts of AI and tanks all bundled into one battle) i got around 30 FPS and thats not bad but when i decided to play some of BI's missions including the campaign i can only seem to get 19 FPS!? why!?!?!?! there doesn't seem to be more than a handful of AI involved in the first mission yet i cant play it! only 19 FPS! i dont get it, and then i turned the graphics down to crap and still only got about 25 FPS.....is there something wrong with single player? help explain this plz! :(

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[ajax420 0]

Don't buy HP!!!!! Anything HP!!!! Period!!! Pure Crap!!!!!!!!

Next time have a system built to your specs (or build it yourself). You will spend less and get more.

[wizbomb 10]

Don't buy HP!!!!! Anything HP!!!! Period!!! Pure Crap!!!!!!!!

Next time have a system built to your specs (or build it yourself). You will spend less and get more.

I was just thinking THAT exact thing lol! is there anything i can do?

[wizbomb 10]

so theres nothing i can do? i dont understand how i can play new games but not ArmA......

if it helps, i have version 1.18 and i noticed some texture loading problems....had the same issue in ArmA 2 but was able to fix it.....can i fix it in ArmA?

---------- Post added at 10:47 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:55 AM ----------

i tried using the command line "C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA\arma.exe" -mod=@HIFI -winxp -cpuCount=4 -maxmem=2047 -world=empty

people say some of those commands don't work in ArmA but i seem to be getting a small boost

is there anything else, there has to be a way....i hope i didn't waste my money

Edited August 6, 2011 by wizbomb

[wizbomb 10]

i am also having texture loading issues, it doesn't bother me much because it only lasts for a few seconds but i wonder if that could be slowing it down

heres a picture: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/153/arma2011080612443846.jpg/

[ajax420 0]

texture load probs is due to a slow HHD streaming data on demand... That's why a really fast HHD is important!

Arma is so much more powerful of a game with massive capabilities that have big resource demands. Other games don't have A.I. for flys (that are atracked to dead bodies) sheep that heard like real sheep, cows and all the other wildlife all have there own A.I. As well as the A.I. troopers and the amount of 3d objects that the game has to compute and the hundreds of rounds fired tanks exploding planes flying and all of this in an environment on a VAST SCALE. It's allot for any PC to handle and impossible for a console to run....

You system is comparable to a console in its over all capabilities. sorry mate!

You can upgrade your hard drive and video card(More processing cores, even if its and older card is better). CPU speed would be your next thing. I doubt you can overclock that HP. Look for a faster chip that will fit that motherboard socket and slap that in there. 2.4ghz is not gonna cut it. Arma2 really runs well with a quad core with at least 3.2ghz. Any higher and only the better.

[wizbomb 10]

no offence taken about my computer but man i just upgraded this thing :eek:

do you think SLI would help? two GTS 450s?

but i would like someone to answer this. why is arma so laggy in the campaign, is it cuzz it has scripts to load and specific stuff to calculate?

thanks for the help

Edited August 8, 2011 by wizbomb

[ajax420 0]

Scripts, A.I., Tons of 3d objects(tanks,trucks,planes,choppers,houses,trees,grass,etc...). Your CPU really needs to be running at 3.2ghz or higher to calculate all the stuff and still maintain decent frames. The campaign can suck down a powerful rig and was and has been a complaint of the community since release.

2 gpu's in sli will help a little but you are better off with one card not two cause sli gives a wierd full screen studder that can be annoying once noticed... I suffer from it running a single card with two gpu's running in sli mode. I would prefer one card with at least 250+ or more processing cores.

CPU, CPU, CPU! this game is massively CPU hungry.

I have a X6800 2.93ghz Intel extreme CPU... If I run it at stock speed Arma2CO unplayable for me. I run it Overclocked at 3.4ghz and it's night and day difference, runs pretty great!

Your chips at 2.4ghz... that's your weakest point. Sorry mate, try and swap it out if possible.

3.2 is truly minimum for a decent game.

[wizbomb 10]

Decent this game is and i am looking forward to the day i can finally play the ArmA series and enjoy it instead of watching my FPS counter every three seconds