General Discussion (dev branch)

[chrisb 196]

So wow devs, to be on a more positive note: a very short list of great things

Getting into a helicopter anim is great, no, its even better than that

The mouse speed seems better in the latest build, nice and fluid, for me anyway.

Congratulation on the fps rate and the stable hold when spinning around, no loss at all for me, great

Also on the fps rates themselves, far better than I could ever have thought possible, running on my little old A2 pc

No thanks for the fact I had bought a nice big new pc for A3, now don’t need it, or may do I suppose for Altis, who knows;)

The look of the game is beautiful, no other word for it

Flying around is a dream really, better than ever

The actual movement anims and variety, great

The sea, what can you say other than beautiful, but I don’t use it much, might later, still wonderful

Thanks for the very hard work your all putting in, its much appreciated

I am just now going to put soo much hope into the new purge your having on the AI behaviour. I really am keeping my fingers crossed, that at the end of this purge a more realistic sensible AI will emerge. Doesn’t have to be perfect, hope some mod/addons might help that later, but just a lot better.

Because without a decent AI, well nevermind, but I appreciate the fact that its been recognised and is maybe now being thought of in a new light.

We need great AI, to match your game.

Everything is crossed for the AI, really hope now..:)

[Anachoretes 10]

ChrisB

This is just question of time, i hope.

[sqb-sma 66]

I've been finding that with the comanche guns for a while now

Keep in mind that zeroing will be off if you shoot at extreme angles. For testing this please demonstrate on level ground. (Rounds will fly high when shooting down at an enemy using exact zeroing, rounds will fly low when shooting up)

[chortles 263]

ChrisB, I wouldn't get your hopes up (I personally suspect that it's going to end up being a "lifetime of the game" thing no matter how good it is at the Q3 release) but as in the other thread, I say that you should go and try to break said AI... BI needed the community at large (read: not just "a select few long-timers") to "push" things on the sheer scale that they needed for proper testing, and you might as well help "push" the AI to be as better as can be in time for said Q3 release. ;)

[pettka 694]

Are the task notifications bugged in latest patch? When task is completed or assigned there is no text and the background area does not fade away. Anyone else seeing this?

Sorry, missed the dev post about this. disregard.

It has been borked, team of specialists has been dispatched and it should be fixed soon :icon_twisted:

[Tyl3r99 41]

if you remember playing on 0.50 to the most updated branch --- there is actually a huge difference! just had a little think about it... I don't think we appreciate the work these guys have done.

the dev branch is getting a lot better too :) bigger updates! and more things added, tweaked.

I guess a majority of the crash, buggy related things are fixed now?

[DarkDruid 96]

vehicle seems broken. only returns unit name in or out of vehicle, unless vehicle is named previously in editor.breaks condition vehicle player != player

Condition vehicle player != player works for me in current dev build.

[becubed 24]

Keep in mind that zeroing will be off if you shoot at extreme angles. For testing this please demonstrate on level ground. (Rounds will fly high when shooting down at an enemy using exact zeroing, rounds will fly low when shooting up)

I haven't tried it ingame but in real life you will shoot high in both cases.

See here

[punisherITA 1]

POSSIBLE MAJOR BUG since latest DEV branch - VIDEO MEMORY LEAK?

HW:

Cooler Master HAF X NVIDIA EDITION Asus Crosshair V Formula + AMD FX-8350 + Asus/Zotac GTX580 SLI + 8GB of Samsung 30nm DDR3 | Caviar Black 3TB SATA III RAID0 | Win7x64

Latest NVIDIA driver available.

Suddenly (more if you open and close map fast) one GPU (usually during gameplay they are at about 60% usage each) goes like hell to 100% usage (I have seen through MSI Afterburner) and game freezes. I tried also to switch the cards, same result (of course in the other card this time). No other problems in other games of course.

Thanks.

Goodbye.

Edited July 24, 2013 by punisherITA

[alx 20]

My issue might be related. Since a week ago or so, I keep getting Windows 7 warning boxes appearing telling me my system is critically low on memory. I have 8Gb of fast RAM and have closed down any resource-intensive applications. ATI 7970 with 3Gb of RAM, 13.5 beta 2 drivers. It was never a problem during the alpha or the early beta. Last night the whole game just went black and froze the entire system, although I could still hear the multiplayer game going on around me.

POSSIBLE MAJOR BUG since latest DEV branch - VIDEO MEMORY LEAK?

HW:

Cooler Master HAF X NVIDIA EDITION Asus Crosshair V Formula + AMD FX-8350 + Asus/Zotac GTX580 SLI + 8GB of Samsung 30nm DDR3 | Caviar Black 3TB SATA III RAID0 | Win7x64

Latest NVIDIA driver available.

Suddenly (more if you open and close map fast) one GPU (usually during gameplay they are at about 60% usage each) goes like hell to 100% usage (I have seen through MSI Afterburner) and game freezes. I tried also to switch the cards, same result (of course in the other card this time). No other problems in other games of course.

Thanks.

Goodbye.

[punisherITA 1]

My issue might be related. Since a week ago or so, I keep getting Windows 7 warning boxes appearing telling me my system is critically low on memory. I have 8Gb of fast RAM and have closed down any resource-intensive applications. ATI 7970 with 3Gb of RAM, 13.5 beta 2 drivers. It was never a problem during the alpha or the early beta. Last night the whole game just went black and froze the entire system, although I could still hear the multiplayer game going on around me.

It seems quite a bit the same.

[RuecanOnRails 10]

My issue might be related. Since a week ago or so, I keep getting Windows 7 warning boxes appearing telling me my system is critically low on memory. I have 8Gb of fast RAM and have closed down any resource-intensive applications. ATI 7970 with 3Gb of RAM, 13.5 beta 2 drivers. It was never a problem during the alpha or the early beta. Last night the whole game just went black and froze the entire system, although I could still hear the multiplayer game going on around me.

That issue is windows running out of virtual memory. Nothing to do with your ram per-say. Turn on, or increase the size of your PageFile. Windows 7 gets a lot of use out of the pagefile, even when it's disabled windows still reserves a small amount when needed. It's likely you have it set very low or turned off. Turning it on and increasing it to 8gb (same size as your ram) should solve your issue. If not, feel free to make a post in the troubleshooting section of the forums.

Of course, you may have also stumbled into a memory leak, if you can repeat the problem watch task manager to see if the memory usage starts to climb without falling.

While the game is causing windows to require more virtual memory, I don't think it's an issue of the game. Even though the issue didn't occur awhile back, the game is ever changing and newer features/content may be requiring more resources.

[Tyl3r99 41]

I had the blue screen memory dump a couple of days ago too.

and I have 16gb ram lol somethings not right

[twisted 128]

This seemingly little tweak has just got even more stubborn :D

In fact it is, only the update name of the function somehow didn't make it onto Steam.

The "Lock" (still with the obsolete name "Lock or zoom"), lockTarget, is no longer zooming in your view and by default is assigned to [T]. Together with "Reveal Target" ,revealTarget.

The former zooming function of "Lock or zoom" is separated into "Zoom temporary", zoomTemp, which you will find in the View section and which is assigned [RMB Hold] by default.

Note: Not to be confused with (zoomIn) which provides slightly different functionality, e.g. zooms in also in optics. (We'll see if a merge of those two is feasible.)

Bind the new keys manually or use the default preset for ARMA 3 to see the change.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to spam me :)

thanks, i was wodnering how to lock onto a heli now.

one question, while you guys are tweaking keys, could you make it so that zoom in to weapon sights (usually hold RMB) can also be assigned as a toggle? i often find it hard to see figures in the distance and so once in combat always are holding RMB down. a toggle here would be nice to have if it's trivial implementation to do, if not then just keep up the good work you guys are doing. thank1

edit - doh. it already works. thanks anyway. though setting double rmb as toggle irons sigths closer does result in a funny kind of gun jig. and untoggling the sigths zoom out is a hit an dmiss affair.

Edited July 24, 2013 by twisted

[petek 62]

Is anyone finding as the commander of any of the IFV's you cannot make the gunner engage a designated target? I've tried all 4 and seem to only fire with the guided AT rockets when commanded.

[blackjacktom 10]

Is anyone finding as the commander of any of the IFV's you cannot make the gunner engage a designated target? I've tried all 4 and seem to only fire with the guided AT rockets when commanded.

If you play as a gunner with an AI commander they will only assign targets when you switch to rockets.

[petek 62]

If you play as a gunner with an AI commander they will only assign targets when you switch to rockets.

Thanks - so it seems by design? I thought part of the commanders job is to call out targets for the gunner?. I've done a bit more research and you do seem able to designate a target (they're just pretty bad at engaging. Land vehicles also seem unwilling to fire on an empty vehicle - which again seems wrong.

[das attorney 858]

My issue might be related. Since a week ago or so, I keep getting Windows 7 warning boxes appearing telling me my system is critically low on memory. I have 8Gb of fast RAM and have closed down any resource-intensive applications. ATI 7970 with 3Gb of RAM, 13.5 beta 2 drivers. It was never a problem during the alpha or the early beta. Last night the whole game just went black and froze the entire system, although I could still hear the multiplayer game going on around me.

I got that when I installed the game back in Alpha. I need to check, but I think pagefile is 6 Gig. I solved it by switching off Windows Aero when I'm playing - I think there's an option somewhere (disable desktop composition or something similar).

[petek 62]

I got that when I installed the game back in Alpha. I need to check, but I think pagefile is 6 Gig. I solved it by switching off Windows Aero when I'm playing - I think there's an option somewhere (disable desktop composition or something similar).

Used to have a similar thing - windows 7 - Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\System\system properties\advanced\performance options and select "adjust for bet performance" Desktop looks not as pretty but it will help a little I think.

[runekn 3]

New 205,6 MB update. Let's see what wonders we'll get this time.

[dale0404 5]

Roadcone and Road barrier lights are now operational. Gonna load up Arma to see what they look like in the dark :)

[runekn 3]

When I'm on the runway, there's something towards east that make my fps go from 60 to 30 instantly. Anyone else getting this?

EDIT: hmm, when I went back into the game after writing this, the fps drop was gone :confused: weird.

[GranolaBar 10]

Maybe a day .. light of vehicules were solved (show under in my signature) , maybe ....... but since the beginning only the normal hunter and the new APC don't have problem.

People, no problem with LOD of lighting on the road between Agia Marina and the airfield ? or arround the gate in Agia Marina.

Lighting was on or off when I move or back with a middle range (200-300m) and also since the beggining of the beta.

[pillpopper123 10]

With the latest update I cant hear the heli weapons from inside the cockpit, anyone else confirm?.

[roberthammer 582]

With the latest update I cant hear the heli weapons from inside the cockpit, anyone else confirm?.

Yes same - i cant hear weapons even in tanks , thats very weird