UK Release Version

[opf12345 0]

I would get this game if my woolwoths in my yorkshire town had it

you have heard of online shopping, haven't you?  

lol yeah, i could go to the nearest city, but im lazy

Edit: im just wondering how the performence is compared to the other versions.

[moricky 211]

DELETE

[max power 21]

Contrary to what I thought was going to be on my mind at this point in time, I most want to know if the tracers have been changed at all.

[Fred DM 0]

This is because, in my opinion, both Starforce and SecuROM are worth avoiding.

i can understand avoiding StarForce, but if you're avoiding SecuROM as well, i think you're gonna have a real hard time playing games on the PC...

what's so bad about SecuROM? it has nowhere near a disastrous reputation as SF does.

[Garbol 0]

I think that SF thing is BS i'm using it for what? 2 yers now i difrent games and nothing bad ever happend :P

[l mandrake 9]

Got my pre-ordered UK copy from Amazon this morning

Fired it up, a touch disappointing to see that (a) the menus are identical to the demo (I always like to see a whole new experience when I buy a full game after playing a demo) and (b) watching the fly-by intro shots of ordinary life on Sahrani I saw two US soldiers walk right through each other as if they were ghosts  

Ah well this is all superficial crap, the real fun starts now, can't wait  

[Ironsight 1]

Just ordered my copy. Hope to get it this weekend

[R3MF 0]

i got mine through the post about an hour ago.

installed fine.

played the intro fine.

played the first level fine.

second level got this weird effect:

graphics go into a weird black overlay, with cascades of bright coloured pixels defining the characters on-screen in a strange kind of bas-relief effect.

C2D 6600

2x 1GB PC6400

XFX7950GT

Gigabyte P965 DS4 m/b

24" Dell 2407 (playing game at 1680x1050)

WinXP Pro Buld 2600

Dx 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)

nVidia 92.91 drivers

cheers

http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....1;top

[ck-claw 1]

try alt tabbing out and in mate?

has help some ppl?

got mine today aswell,had to keep czech version installed aswell-as most of clan + our dedi server is still on 1.02 versions!

[Jackal326 1181]

@R3MF: Check your shader settings, and/or your post-processing settings within ArmA.

@Mr. Reality: You ain't heard nothing yet, after the two CTDs I had in quick succession of each other (crash, restart game, play for 10mins, crash again), I noticed my system was acting very sluggish and not responding immediately to my commands, so I checked Task Manager. To my great annoyance Task Manager showed two arma.exe processes still running - When they crash, they don't shut down properly. HOWEVER, I've played it solidly since and haven't experienced any further CTDs, so maybe (read as: HOPEFULLY) they were mere flukes and won't be repeated.

[R3MF 0]

cheers both.

i will try yoiur suggestions.

[Fred DM 0]

I think that SF thing is BS i'm using it for what? 2 yers now i difrent games and nothing bad ever happend :P

just consider this: the russian company that is responsible for StarForce suggests that the game publishers remove StarForce after the initial sales. unfortunately, only a few publishers have actually done that, yet.

that alone should be reason enough to avoid it.

i've never had a problem with SF, either, but there's a large number of people everywhere that claim they had problems with SF. and then there's the whole "boycott starforce" movement. and the fact that several publishers (UbiSoft, Frogster) that used to protect their games with SF dropped it in favor of other, less aggressive protection solutions.

i must admit, i currently have SF installed on my precious system ; i bought Colin McRae Rally 2005, knowing it had SF. i expected to be able to work around it, but none of the solutions i've found worked. so SF will remain on my PC until i'm done with CMR05, then it will have to go - for good.

i sincerely think i will not buy another SF protected game again.

[hughesy627 0]

Where in the options can you turn the grass off as i cannot find it. Thanks in advance

[TiGGa 0]

Does the Su34 Bomber have a laser designator on board? And what's its top speed/ takeoff speed/ landing speed. How many bombs does it have? Does the cockpit ladder come down automatically after you have stopped the engine?

*Can't wait for the patch*

EDIT: Does it really have a toilet and a small kitchen on board? ^^

[december 0]

Quote[/b] ]saw two US soldiers walk right through each other as if they were ghosts

AI do that all the time they also walk thru many buildings.

Quote[/b] ]Where in the options can you turn the grass off as i cannot find it

This maybe available in the patch at the end of the month, not sure.

[Fred DM 0]

This maybe available in the patch at the end of the month, not sure.

i thought somebody said it was already available in the demo (v1.03)?

[moricky 211]

Where in the options can you turn the grass off as i cannot find it. Thanks in advance

I think it could be disabled if you set the lowest Visual quality (ore by command setTerrainGrid 50)

[hoz 0]

I added the 1.04 Change Log to the Biki this morning.

[Easy_tiger 0]

Well im pissed off!

spent my lunch hour battling thru town to get to PC world and they HAVENT EVEN HEARD OF Arma LET ALONE HAD IT IN STOCK

WHATS THE CRACK 505??

[R3MF 0]

i got mine through the post about an hour ago.

installed fine.

played the intro fine.

played the first level fine.

second level got this weird effect:

graphics go into a weird black overlay, with cascades of bright coloured pixels defining the characters on-screen in a strange kind of bas-relief effect.

C2D 6600

2x 1GB PC6400

XFX7950GT

Gigabyte P965 DS4 m/b

24" Dell 2407 (playing game at 1680x1050)

WinXP Pro Buld 2600

Dx 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)

nVidia 92.91 drivers

cheers

http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....1;top

after updating to:

Feb 07 DX9

93.71 nVidia drivers

stopped the above problem.

however, after playing perfectly for a while i know get weird LOD glitches where various objects such as buildings, trees and people can be less than 10 yards away and will still display the absolute minimum Level of Detail, as if they were over a kilometre away...

[Maddmatt 1]

I added the 1.04 Change Log to the Biki this morning.

Thanks .

[Jackal326 1181]

...spent my lunch hour battling thru town to get to PC world

I wouldn't be pissed off at 505, I'd be pissed off at PC World. They BUY games to sell, they aren't given to them, so its PC World's choice to sell, or in this case to not sell newly released titles. Once they review the sales figures from rival companies and see ArmA is selling else-where, they will most likely start stocking it.

On another note, I still haven't encountered any further crashes, so I'm beginning to think it was more a bug with my system, than with the game itself. And for all you people complaining about the patches etc, just remember OFP was FAR from perfect when it was first released, and it took until the v1.46 Patch to get a fully stable and in my opinion enjoyable game...

[Rofflecopter 0]

spent my lunch hour battling thru town to get to PC world and they HAVENT EVEN HEARD OF Arma LET ALONE HAD IT IN STOCK

Well there your issue right there don't buy games from PC world they are really crap at stocking latest games, well mine local one is

[Fred DM 0]

however, after playing perfectly for a while i know get weird LOD glitches where various objects such as buildings, trees and people can be less than 10 yards away and will still display the absolute minimum Level of Detail, as if they were over a kilometre away...

welcome to ArmA .

i guess there isn't anyone who doesn't have that problem, to some extent or another. it's the engine, not your system.

[neildood 0]

spent my lunch hour battling thru town to get to PC world and they HAVENT EVEN HEARD OF Arma LET ALONE HAD IT IN STOCK

Well there your issue right there don't buy games from PC world they are really crap at stocking latest games, well mine local one is

Yea i agree PCworld is the wrong place to go for new releases, go get Arma at your local GAME shop