Hardware Issues: Tips/Tricks/Solutions

[Binkowski 26]

Thought I'd get mine in here. Whenever I play ArmA my fps peaks at about 30fps. No higher, when playing some missions it will drop to nearly 1 - 3 FPS and the LODS take a while to load. Here's my specs.

NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT 512MB VRAM, Driver version 182.08

3GB DDR3 RAM

AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core 2.7GHZ

WinXP Pro SP3

ArmA Game Settings:

Res : 1680x1050 @ 60Hz

Aspect Ration : 16:10

View Distance : 2000M

Terrain Detail : High

Objects Detail : High

Texture Detail : High

Shading Detail : High

Postprocess Effects : Low

Anisotropic Filtering : High

Shadow Detail : High

Anti aliasing : High

Blood : High

My ArmA Mark score with these settings is

2222.2

[868 0]

Problem VOIP/Sound/In-game voice Issues.

The game runs well, however when transmitting voice using ingames feature. I encounter a visual stutter.

Other players say that my voice comms are broken up. Never had this problem before until few days ago. I didn't install any other softwares nor any windows update as well.

My PC specs are:

E7400@stock

RAM 4GB (used @3.2GB)

HD 4850 512

Spinpoint F1 640GB

Windows XP Pro SP3

Onboard sound realtek 7.1

ArmA version 1.15

Anyone else here having similar issues?

Any help would be much appreciated.

[vilas 477]

what should i do to run this game :/

http://www.armaholic.eu/vilas/scr/116a.jpg

http://www.armaholic.eu/vilas/scr/116b.jpg

now in 1.16 it looks like 1.05-1.07 versions

i havd:

AMD dualcore called 6000+ (3GHz)

Corsair Extreme 2*1024 MB ram (i suppose DDR2 ? it is from 2006 when i was buying PC specially for Arma1)

VGA is Asus 8800 GTS 512 memory

MB is ASUS M2NESli or M2ENSli..

system is Win XP SP2

what the hell, it is strong PC, many other games run suuuper, without single problem

only Arma has problems

since patch 1.05 for me it was unplayable, cause looked like screens above

when i will put in editore more than 30 soldiers and 6 vehicles i have horror problems

screens that you see on top are from missions with 8 tanks and ca. 50 soldiers in North Sahrani

game runs well for first 15 minutes, after it memory stops and pictures shows all

what the hell is wrong with that game

i played on my PC all SOF3, COD2, COD3, You Are Empty, Ubersoldier, Stalkers, etc. games and all was super, never single problem

Arma - screens above :/

PC is strong, OFP "benchmark" shows over 8000 points, maybe 8800 points

i wanna simply run this game without problem

ONLY working without any problems version was for me Arma 1.08, it was super, i could play 100 soldiers few hours and never had single problem

since 1.14 i had some problems

now , even not runing "beta", game looks like above

for me Arma is unplayable (not only for errors like taks colliding each other when moving in convoy)

only 1.08 was working good, but i cannot turn it back to 1.08

before patching to 1.16 i had on north sahrani 28-42 FPS with 20-30 soldiers and 4 tanks

now , even not runing 1.16, i have those pictures above

i will delete "beta" directory, but does 1.16 influenced "main" game ?

1.15 runned good for me i think

or what ?

Edited May 8, 2009 by vilas

[meX0r 0]

ive got a problem. Everytime I try to install the 1.08 patch i get a popup from windows saying "wrong cd-key" I used it to install the game and it worked fine... ?

[Binkowski 26]

@Vilas, did you try the FLUSH command? That usually fixes many problems like that for me.

[vilas 477]

what is this FLUSH ?

i have "....arma.exe - memory 512" or something like that , what was told year ago to put in shortcut

[Lou Montana 101]

Shift+Minus and type F L U S H ,

it will flush (oh, really ? ^^) a bit of your RAM. It works only for a time, at least for me.

[xmongx 0]

Id consider either changing the -maxmem=512 to 1024 or removing it completely.

I only run maxmem on my system as i have sometimes seen an out of memory error message and to stop bad lag encountered when tripping over into pagefile.

[Yoma 0]

what should i do to run this game :/

now , even not runing 1.16, i have those pictures above

i will delete "beta" directory, but does 1.16 influenced "main" game ?

As far as i know installing the beta changes NOTHING for the main arma installation. Most likely you are having GPU driver issues, or maybe even disk issues. Did you install any VGA driver updates? Try rolling back to the driver that used to work for you.

Be sure to remove the maxmem command, it caused me nothing but trouble in the past (CTD's). Allso check the amount of diskspace available and do not load any addon before testing.

Defrag the disk containing the arma files (after all LOD issues can also come from slow diskspeeds) and make sure your whole system isn't running low on diskspace.

Especially on 1.16 the screenshot you show is NOT normal behaviour (at least it isn't on my system)

You didn't turn textures/other visual settings all the way up or something like that?

Do post a screenshot of your ingame settings + screenshots of Nvidia driver settings.

Yoma out.

[vilas 477]

edit: woow i had old DX9 and drivers :(

now all works good :D

37-52 FPS on CWR Kolguyev with 100 P85 soldiers and 8 tanks in actions

stupid me

stupid me

stupid me

stupid me

stupid me

stupid me

stupid me

stupid me

stupid me

and MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGA THANX TO WOLLE FOR HELP

PUBLICALLY I SAY - I WAS IGNORANT ABOUT DRIVERS

STUPID ME :( shame on me , etc.

i thought that "fast CPU and new VGA" are enough, but without newest drivers, newest patches are not enough

i have now stable version that i can use for 2 hours without CTD, previously 30 minutes and frozen screen

Edited May 21, 2009 by vilas

[SWAT_BigBear 0]

WoW vilas, maybe you need to get out more often:butbut:

It's like changing your car oil, keep up to date with updates.

(With some pc's, it as often as filling up with gas)

[vilas 477]

game is from 2006 right ? so if i used drivers from VGA disc, bought in 2008 i thought all will be good, and really in 1.08 patch all was good and without single problem

i have changed VGA in 2008 and i used than drivers from disc given with card

[W0lle 1050]

Glad it's still working stable for you. Well most important part is that you now can finally enjoy the game longer than 30 minutes. And by doing so you maybe also change your "angry" behaviour a bit and see things more positive. ;)

And you learnt a lesson now also: Always keep your drivers up2date.

Here is another driver you maybe should install, if you haven't already:

AMD Dual-Core Optimizer Version 1.14

[cenkcnk 0]

monitor goes brighter and brighter , and flashes may be cause of HDR

it makes head aches and unplayable

screen becomes almost white.

i am trying to change config file

hdr 8 to 16 but it returns 8 again.

sorry crappy english.i hope i have succeded to explain my problem

[baddo 0]

Don't be too worried about updating video card drivers.

If there is no problem then you don't need to update. If you have a problem then trying different driver versions, also older, is necessary.

For example, I can't use the newest NVIDIA drivers with my 6600 GT. I get graphical glitches in more than one game if I do.

This is the kind of s**t we need to deal with when using personal computers. It's a good advice, often ignored, that if it works then don't try to fix it. Consider yourself lucky if it works.

[Leonski 10]

Windows XP pro x64, Version 5.2.3790

MSI K9A Platinum

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+

4.00 GB RAM

320 GB, Samsung HDD

2x ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 512MB (CCC 9.8)

So my rig is passed for using the game

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q68/leonski_1/Pass1.jpg

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q68/leonski_1/Pass2.jpg

And these are the settings for the game I'm using

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q68/leonski_1/ARMA-1.jpg

So I was thrilled to start the game all settings on high so it has to look awesome!!

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q68/leonski_1/ARMA-3.jpg

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q68/leonski_1/ARMA-4.jpg

NOT!!

It looks like it's running on LOW setting.

Why is that?

What do I do wrong?

Edited August 26, 2009 by Leonski

[Penfolde 1]

hi all

Is there a way to make arma1 run across two core processer?

Pen

[Guest Jannah]

you may want to try sorting out your PBO files by date, to recognise the addon files that where left over when you did the re-install. Try removing it.

[DJGlock 1]

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Edited July 18, 2012 by DJGlock